OREGON BACH FESTIVAL
OREGON BACH FESTIVAL
COMPOSERS SYMPOSIUM
– 30th Anniversary Celebration Year –​
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OBFCS 2025 Theme:
LIVING IN HARMONY WITH NATURE
THE ENVIRONMENT
AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
or a theme of your choice
SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2025 [date of arrival]
through
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025 [date of departure]
University of Oregon
School of Music and Dance
Eugene, Oregon
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APPLICATION DEADLINE:
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Compose, Perform & Hear Your Music Premiered
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• Project #1: Compose a New Work on the theme of "Living in Harmony with Nature: The Environment and Global Climate Change"
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• Project #2: Compose a New Work on any theme of your own choosing
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• Project #3: Submit several previously composed works for us to consider for performance in an OBFCS concert
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• Project #4: New Intercultural Composition for Shakuhachi
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• Project #5: Intercultural Composition & Performance for Balinese Gamelan ("Pacific Rim Gamelan")
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– Collaborate with guest artists-in-residence:
• Compose music for them
• Perform with them as a member of ACE
(Artists Collaborative Ensemble)
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– Compose for and perform in the
(No previous experience necessary)
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– Give a presentation about your music
to the entire symposium
– Participate in the Composers Film Festival:
• Present your film music
or films/videos you have created
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– Improvise as a member of the
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Composers
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Robert Kyr, OBFCS Director
[Balinese Gamelan (gong kebyar)]
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Daniel De Togni, shakuhachi
[vertical end-blown Japanese flute]
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Conductor
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New Music Ensemble
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James Shields, Director of Chatter PDX,
Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
Zachariah Galatis, Flute & Solo Piccolo
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Alicia Paulsen, Flute
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Will Pyle, Saxophone
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Andrew Brown, Bass Clarinet & Clarinet
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Emily Cole, Violin
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Ronald Blessinger, Violin
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Trevor Pitzpatrick, Cello
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Ian Kerr, Percussion
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New Music Ensemble
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David Felberg, Director of Chatter ALB,
Violin & Conductor
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Luke Gullickson, Piano
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Melissa Peña, Oboe & English Horn
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Laura Steiner, Viola​​​
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