"Phoenix-Trabant" 2020/21
Ensemble Phoenix Basel is launching the call for entries for its biennial competition. Applications can be submitted until June 30.
Ensemble Phoenix Basel is organizing a biennial Swiss composition competition between November 2020 and November/December 2021. The competition starts in June. Together with Michael Jarrell (Professor of Composition at the Geneva University of Music), the selected composers will develop short pieces that will serve as "satellites" to the piece Vortex Temporum for piano and five instruments. This, a major work by Gérard Grisey, will be performed at the Gare du Nord in Basel at the end of 2021.
First, composers will be selected for a three-part work phase between November 2020 and June 2021 based on the dossiers submitted. Ensemble Phoenix and Michael Jarrell will then commission two musicians to each write an ensemble work, which will then be performed together with Vortex Temporum be performed in the "Trabant Concert". The deadline for submitting dossiers is June 30. For admission requirements, submission details and exact procedure, see:
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