APPLICATION  INFORMATION & FORM

Step II: Before filling out your application, please familiarize yourself with the list of application materials and the instructions below.

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1) APPLICATION FORM: all participants, including auditors

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The online application is linked below. Please be sure to mark ALL of the categories in which you plan to participate. No additional application materials or prior experience are required to participate in Category V (Improvisation).

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2) BRIEF RESUME (at least 1-3 pages): all participants, including auditors

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Your resume must be uploaded as a PDF to Dropbox, Google Drive, or another similar file hosting service, and entered into the online application via a link. Please include a list of works (composers and composer/performers) and information about your performing experience, especially in new music ensembles (composer/performers, performers and conductors).

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3) SCORES & FILMS:

Composers (Category I) and Composer/Performers (Category II)

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All scores must be uploaded as PDFs to Dropbox, Google Drive, or another similar file hosting service, and entered into the online application via a link.

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A) Instrumental Music

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If you wish to write new music for one of the three Global Composition Projects, then you must submit at least 2-3 representative works, preferably scored for 1-6 players. It is to your advantage to send as much music as possible in several different instrumental combinations.
 

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B) OBFCS Vocal Fellows Program

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At the symposium, composer/performers in the Vocal Fellows Program will perform their own music in one or more of the following scorings: a solo song (unaccompanied), a self-accompanied song (new or previously composed), or a song for solo voice with accompaniment provided by the vocalist. If you are a composer/vocalist, you will compose a work for yourself to sing, and if you wish, you will also perform music by other symposium participants in the previously mentioned genres.

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If you are a composer/performer interested in participating in the OBFCS Vocal Fellows Program, then for your application, please submit at least 1-2 pieces in any vocal genre, primarily solo voice with accompaniment (piano and/or other instruments), but also music for more than one voice with accompaniment or a cappella. It is to your advantage to send as much music as possible.

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C) Composers Film Festival

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If you would like to show a film or film(s) at the symposium, then please apply in any or all of the following sub-categories:

 

1) films or videos for which you have composed music;

 

2) films that you have created yourself as a filmmaker, for which you may or may not have composed music. 

 

You may provide links to more than one film; you will have the opportunity to provide a link to your film(s) on the application form. Please submit a link to your film via a streaming platform such as Youtube or Vimeo, and note its duration, genre, and any honors received. You may submit as many entries as you wish.

 

For 2020 applicants attending the 2021 festival, we encourage you to present the film(s) that you already submitted to the 2020 OBFCS, and hope that you will also submit any new films that you have worked on during the past year, including films that you have made as a filmmaker.

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PLEASE NOTE: Participation in the Composers Film Festival does not exclude you from having your music performed in the other categories of the symposium as described above.

 

4) AUDIO and/or VIDEO RECORDINGS: all participants, except auditors

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All audio and/or video recordings must be uploaded to a streaming platform such as Youtube or SoundCloud and entered into the online application via a link.

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A) Original Music: Composers (Category I) and Composer/Performers (Category II)

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If available, please provide a recording of each of your submitted scores (or a MIDI representation if you do not have a live recording).

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B) Performing Audition: Composer/Performers (Category II) and Performers (Category III)

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Please provide two representative works in contrasting styles (solo and/or ensemble music) that reveal your abilities as a vocalist and/or instrumentalist. It would be helpful if at least one of the pieces that you include is a performance of your own music, but it is not mandatory.

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PLEASE NOTE: You may apply as a vocalist, instrumentalist, or both.

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Step III: Please Fill Out the Online Application Form and Submit Your Application Materials

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Please complete the GoogleForm linked below. If you need to report any trouble completing the online form, please contact Joanne Na, Webmaster, at obfcomposers@gmail.com.

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Please submit all application materials by:

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APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED:

Friday, June 11, 2021

(Receipt Deadline)