Wildflower Lab: ReRoot with the Relâche Ensemble in February 2025
The Wildflower Lab is a true workshopping space for works-in-progress, sketches, ideas, and/or completed drafts of compositions. (Works may be previously premiered; any piece that the composer wants to workshop is welcome.) We invite submissions from composers who meet the following criteria:
- Reside within a 30-mile radius of Philadelphia
- 18 years or older by February 1, 2025
- Would like to compose a new work for the Relâche instrumentation (below) or have a sketch, work-in-progress, or completed work for the Relâche instrumentation
- Available February 2 and 9, 2025 for in-person workshops in Philadelphia at Temple University
- Identify as part of the female, transgender, nonbinary, and/or genderqueer population
During each of the two lab sessions, each composer will receive a reading and feedback from the performers on their piece. After the first reading on February 2, composers will have the chance to revise their composition for the second reading on February 9, which will be professionally recorded.
This is a free opportunity. There is no cost to apply or participate. Selected composers are responsible for their own travel.
We invite submissions or proposals that use at least three of the following instruments:
- Flute or piccolo
- Oboe or english horn
- Clarinet or saxophone
- Bassoon
- Viola
- Double bass
- Piano (without preparation)
- Percussion (vibraphone, 4.3 octave marimba, glockenspiel, toms (2), snare drum, bongos, crotales, bass drum, suspended and crash cymbals, small handheld percussion)
Please keep in mind that each bullet point above represents a single person; therefore, your piece could not include flute and piccolo played concurrently.
The Wildflower Lab is intended for early-career composers who are actively seeking feedback and advice on a recent piece, work-in-progress, or compositional idea. We are actively seeking applications from composers who do not have regular access to performer feedback, and who are female, transgender, nonbinary, and/or genderqueer in the early stages of their professional careers (defined as having not received a commission of more than $5,000). Although there is no maximum age to participate, we expect that the majority of participants will be between the ages of 18 and 35.
We invite submissions of works-in-progress, sketches, and/or completed pieces. Submissions must be clearly notated and copy-edited (see example works here). We ask that you submit a maximum of 10 minutes of music. If you would like to submit a longer piece, please specify an excerpt that you would like to focus on for this session.
Apply by November 10, 2024.