1995-2010 Vermont MIDI Project marks 15 years of infusing music composition into the curriculum.
The purpose of the Vermont MIDI Project is to encourage and support students in composing and arranging music. A community of professional composers, teachers, pre-service educators, and students engage in mentoring and online discussion of student work. Learn more.
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OPUS 20
Opus 20 further info
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Latchis Theater, Brattleboro
Instrumentation - strings and woodwinds
First posting date - February 5th, 2010
OPUS 19
Opus 19 Flash Files
Opus 19 Scores
** New Resource: **
Podcasts by composer mentor
Erik Nielsen
Announcing a collaboration with:
Noteflight Learning Edition
All VMP participating schools will receive a year's subscription to the exciting online learning system that incorporates Noteflight - an online notation editor. Teachers organize their own classes in a private space with assignments and assessments. Students can work from any computer in the school, the community library and at home!
Contact Sandi for more information and how to get started with your own Noteflight Learning Edition subscription.
Vermont MIDI Project
Participation Agreements
Now Available!
2009-2010
School Participation
includes the new Noteflight Learning Edition
subscription
Independent Study Student Participation
contact sandi@vtmidi.org
for details and application
Welcome to our new sponsor:
Noteflight -
and thanks to Joe Berkovitz for his recognition of our ground-breaking
work. Noteflight Learning Edition will bring new tools for composition
to many more students.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES - INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS:
The Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble selected Nicolas Chlebak’s composition, The Consuming Bog for violin, bass clarinet, piano.
Concerts:
Friday, February 5, 2010
Unitarian Church, Montpelier, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 6, 2010
McCarthy Arts Center Recital Hall, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm
Other works on the same program are by composers, David Feurzeig,
David Ludwig, György Ligeti and Thomas Read.
Tim Woos is a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist and will be featured on From the Top as a composer in Burlington at the Flynn Center for the Arts on Friday, February 12. A bassoon quartet from Portland, ME, was selected to play two Movements from Tim’s Suite for Bassoon Quartet. The Portland 3rd bassoonist is unable to come, so Tim will play 3rd bassoon with the group. For tickets, contact: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Concert:
Friday, February 12, 2010
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Concert: 8:00 pm
The Vermont Philharmonic: The Youth Concert will perform One More Look by Tim Woos who will also conduct his work for full orchestra.
Concert:
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Barre Opera House, Montpelier, Vermont
Concert: 3:30 pm
Vermont MIDI Project Alumni Performance:
Zach Sheets is the winner of the Bach Society Orchestra's Composition Competition. The full orchestra piece will be performed on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Paine Hall, Harvard University where Zach is a first year student.
Live Performances of Student Compositions :
Tim Woos' string quartet was played by the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival on Saturday, August 29th in a Young Composer's Workshop. Performers were: Soovin Kim, violin I; Jennifer Frautschi, violin II; Hsin-yun Huang, viola; Alisa Weilerstein, cello. Listen to a recording of the performance.
Tim, a homeschooled senior from New Haven, was one of four young composers selected to participate in the festival this year. The others are college students from across the country. The LCCMF was highly acclaimed for the line-up of performers and the connections made with young people in master classes, composer workshops and listening groups. Their return next summer is already anticipated.
Memories, a solo violin work composed by Nathaniel Todd Long, a sixth grader from The Grammar School in Putney, VT was performed by Willie Docto at the Montgomery Historical Society on August 1st and at a house concert on August 2nd in Waterbury Center. Congratulations to Nathaniel. Hear his Opus 18 performance.
NEW GRANT FUNDS
Receipt of a competitive Arts Jobs grant of
$5000 was announced by Governor Douglas at a press conference on August
5th to support the position of project coordinator. The money is from
the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ) funding secured by
the Vermont
Arts Council through the National Endowment for the Arts. This grant will
assist the project to focus on upcoming initiatives and communication
among participants.
Also received is a $5000 Community Arts Grant from the Vermont Arts Council with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. This grant directly supports mentoring by professional composers and the Opus concerts - live performances for December and April that showcase student compositions performed by professional musicians.