Boston University Tanglewood Institute

855 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02215 T 617.353.3386 F 617.353.7455 bu.edu/tanglewood

May 10, 2019

Dear YACP Composer,

Welcome to the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Composition Program! For a short six weeks, you will work hard and experience a great deal of music. Our associate director, Justin Casinghino, and I will do our best to provide you with a challenging and rewarding summer.

On Sunday, August 4 at 6:30 p.m. we will present a concert of your works at BUTI’s West Street Theatre. In addition to this, we will have reading and recording sessions each week with a different instrument or ensemble. There will be classes in ear training, harmony, and analysis, and events with visiting composers as well as with the composition Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center. At some of the classes we will share our own music, so be sure to bring scores and CDs of your works to present.

If you have written music for full orchestra, you will also be given the opportunity to have a piece read and recorded by the BUTI Young Artists Orchestra. If you wish to take advantage of this, you should bring a piece of approximately five minutes maximum duration that is performable by a standard orchestra of 100. There is the potential for one of these pieces to be performed as part of the BUTI concert season, so we encourage you to give thought to what orchestral piece(s) you might have to bring along with you.

As a student at BUTI, you will have free access to concerts and rehearsals of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. There will be many opportunities throughout the summer to hear a great variety of pieces and performances.

We will have a computer with Sibelius software and networked printing for making scores and parts. However, I strongly urge you to bring your own laptop computer with notation software (preferably the latest version of Sibelius) installed. Please also bring manuscript paper for sketching and for musicianship classes. You will want an umbrella, sunscreen, and insect repellent, and be sure to bring a few warm clothes which you may need for some evenings in the Berkshires, particularly in August.

We’re looking forward to meeting all of you and to an exciting and productive summer!

Sincerely,

Martin Amlin Director, Young Artists Composition Program, BUTI

Justin Casinghino Associate Director, Young Artists Composition Program, BUTI

Martin Amlin is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Composition and Theory in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. His compositions have been performed throughout the world and are published by the Theodore Presser Company. He has won the National Flute Association’s newly-published music awards for both Sonata for Piccolo and Piano and Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano. A versatile performer, Mr. Amlin has appeared many times as piano soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and has been featured on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude concerts at both Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. He has been pianist for the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio, the New England Ragtime Ensemble, the American Vocal Arts Quintet, and the FleetBoston Celebrity Series. He has given the world premieres of many new works and has often performed live on Boston’s WGBH radio station. Martin Amlin studied in Fontainebleau and Paris with Nadia Boulanger and received his masters and doctoral degrees as well as the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, ASCAP, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. His recordings as both pianist and composer may be heard on the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Hyperion, MSR Classics, and Wergo labels.

Justin Casinghino composes in a variety of genres, striving to create works that are lyrical, rich in harmony and posses a sound structurally integrity. Dr. Casinghino is a Lecturer in the Department of Composition and Theory at Boston University and Brandeis University, is the Associate Director of the Young Artists’ Composition Program and Director of the Electroacoustic Composition Workshop at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and teaches on the faculty of the Rivers School Conservatory in Weston, MA. He has also held positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Keene State College, and is regularly recruited as a guest speaker on a variety of topics including composition, popular music and music education. His studies of composition include work with, amongst others, Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou and Richard Cornell. Dr. Casinghino has had pieces requested and performed by groups including the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Family Concert Series, Boston Musica Viva, the Rivers Symphony Orchestra, ALEA III, the Longy Chamber Orchestra, the Lorelei Vocal Ensemble and Vento Chiaro. His music has been commissioned via the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Free for All Concert Fund, has been featured on programs of the Rivers School Conservatory’s Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young, the International Trumpet Guild and the North American Saxophone Alliance, and has received recent premieres and performances in venues such as The Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, multiple appearances in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Concert Hall, the Symphony Center in Chicago and D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He also performs throughout the New England area on piano, Hammond organ, SATB saxophones and as a vocalist with a number of “popular” genre groups. Justin lives outside of Boston with his wife and four daughters.

Samples of Casinghino’s music can be heard at www.jdcas.com.

DMA, Boston University; MM, Longy School of Music; BM, Hartt School of Music