New Music DC 2019 Welcome to the 2nd annual New Music DC conference, organized by District New Music Coalition! We’re thrilled to gather together again almost exactly one year after our inaugural event showed just how vibrant — and how warm — DC’s contemporary music community is. Like last year, New Music DC 2019 features performances of recent compositions selected through professional and student calls-for-scores that were open to DC- area performers and composers. Unlike 2018, this year’s concerts have been arranged so that call-for-score selections are represented on all three of the concerts. Similarly our “spotlight” performers, Meraki and Fuse Ensemble, are Presents… spread out across two of these concerts, and the third offers a non-traditional staging and seating experience designed by Alec Davis of the Green Stairwell Concert Series. Also new this year, most of the panels and presentations you’ll see were selected through an open application process, yielding a fresh slate of topics proposed by your colleagues and friends. For the first time, we’re hosting a “town hall” meeting. September 14-15, 2019 It’s an opportunity to voice your ideas, suggestions, and concerns about the opportunities and challenges that you’ve identified as a member of this The Catholic University of America community, and we hope you’ll plan to be there when this conversation kicks off Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art an expanded second day of conference activities. Department of Music, Ward Hall Thank you for attending New Music DC 2019. With your help and support, the DC new music community will continue to thrive and grow, and we look forward to future concerts, conferences, and events! Including professional development opportunities, concerts of DC-area composers and performers selected from District New Music Coalition DNMC’s 2019 Call for Scores, presentations and workshops Founded in 2017, District New Music Coalition promotes the performance and selected from DNMC’s 2019 Call for Program Participation, and appreciation of contemporary music by connecting performers, composers, institutions, and audiences located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area spotlight concerts featuring Meraki and Fuse Ensemble. through concerts, conferences, and active community building. In all of its concert and conference programming, DNMC is dedicated to the inclusion of Presented by compositions, performances, and presentations by musicians and industry District New Music Coalition professionals from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the classical in partnership with and new music fields. The wealth of musical, organizational, intellectual, and community-minded strength in the DC area gives it the potential to become a The Catholic University of America driving force in the creation and advancement of contemporary classical music in and sponsored by America. At DNMC, we are determined to help DC fulfill that potential. The Friday Morning Music Club and Marlow Guitar International, with concert recordings sponsored by Read more about District New Music Coalition on our website, districtnewmusiccoalition.com, and follow us @DistrictNMC Arts Laureate on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and conference booklets sponsored by UMBC Department of Music New Music DC Committee Members Bradley Green Elizabeth Hill William Kenlon #DNMCon19 Dave Molk Michael Oberhauser Ross Wixon NEW MUSIC DC ‘19 – SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE NEW MUSIC DC ’19 – SCHEDULE AND EVENT DESCRIPTIONS Saturday, September 14 Saturday, September 14 9:00am Registration Opens 9:00am — Registration Ward Hall Lobby Note: Registration will open at 9:00am and continue all day. 10:30am Introduction and Welcome Session LOCATION: Ward Hall Lobby Ward Recital Hall 11:30am* Advice from Commercial Music Industry Pros 10:30am–11:15am — Introduction and Welcome Session Room 127 Please join us in Ward Recital Hall for brief opening remarks and a participatory 11:30am * Practical Concerns in the Business of Choral Composition and performance of a work by Pauline Oliveros. Publishing Room 139 12:30pm Break for Lunch 11:30am–12:30pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 1 2:00pm New Music Concert 1, with Green Stairwell concert experience Ward Recital Hall Advice from Commercial Music Industry Pros Learn how to build an audience with advice from mainstream music industry 3:45pm New Music Speed Dating managers, composers, and a gogo celebrity drummer; all of whom work with the Ward Recital Hall GoGo Symphony. 5:15pm* Music Performance Anxiety: Treating and Working Through a Moderated by Ross Wixon. Biopsychosocial Condition PANEL: Liza Figueroa Kravinsky, Bo Sampson, and Juju House Room 127 LOCATION: Room 127 5:15pm* Theodor Billroth is Alive and Well and Living in Washington, DC Room 139 Practical Concerns in the Business of Choral Composition and Publishing 6:15pm Break for Dinner Dr. Joshua Fishbein and Dr. Stephen Caracciolo will outline practical issues relevant to composers seeking to write and distribute choral music. They will 8:00pm New Music Concert 2, with Meraki spotlight performance discuss copyright laws related to text setting, accessible choral writing, Ward Recital Hall commissioning, and choral publishing, including traditional versus self- Sunday, September 15 publishing, how to get published, and techniques for promoting choral compositions. 1:00pm Welcome & Town Hall Moderated by William Kenlon. Ward Recital Hall PRESENTERS: Joshua Fishbein and Stephen Caracciolo 2:30pm* From Britches to Witches: The rebranding of the countertenor voice in LOCATION: Room 139 st 21 century English opera Room 127 2:30pm* Performance/Discussion of Two Virginian Ballads on Themes of 12:30pm — Break for Lunch Human Sedulity for solo guitar Room 139 Please see the back of this booklet for a list of restaurants within walking distance of Ward Hall. 4:00pm New Music Concert 3, with Fuse Ensemble spotlight performance Ward Recital Hall *Asterisk indicates conference sessions that occur at the same time. 2:00pm–3:30pm — New Music Concert 1, with Green Stairwell Concert 6:15pm — Break for Dinner Experience Please see the back of this booklet for a list of restaurants within walking The first concert featuring selected compositions from DNMC’s 2019 Call for distance of Ward Hall. Scores, including a talk from Alec Davis, the artistic director of the Green Stairwell Concert Series. Please turn the page to view the concert program. 8:00pm–9:30pm — New Music Concert 2, with Meraki Spotlight LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall Performance The second concert featuring selected compositions from DNMC’s 2019 Call for 3:45pm–4:45pm — New Music Speed Dating Scores, also featuring a spotlight performance by Meraki. Please turn the page to Come socialize and find like-minded future collaborators! This event is open to view the concert program. anyone interested in new music, whether you are a composer, performer, LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall theorist, producer, engineer, etc. Even if you just consider yourself an enthusiastic new music listener, you are welcome to join us for this fun Sunday, September 15 icebreaking event! Moderated by William Kenlon. 12:00pm — Registration LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall Note: Registration will open at 12:00pm and continue all day. LOCATION: Ward Hall Lobby 5:15pm–6:15pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 2 1:00pm–2:15pm — Day Two Welcome and Town Hall Kick off the second day of New Music DC with an opening meeting to talk about Music Performance Anxiety: Treating and Working Through a the opportunities and challenges present in DC’s contemporary music Biopsychosocial Condition ecosystem. What do you need to succeed, what possible directions excite you, Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects amateur and professional musicians and how can we work together to move our community forward? and is the top reason promising musical careers are ended prematurely. Until LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall recently, research has considered only single interventions for this multi- dimensional issue. This presentation will address how a biopsychosocial approach to treating MPA can lead to lasting symptom reduction, in addition to 2:30pm–3:30pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 3 ways attendees can begin managing their performance-related anxieties. Moderated by Michael Oberhauser. PRESENTER: David A. Heilman, Psy.D. From Britches to Witches: The rebranding of the countertenor voice in st LOCATION: Room 127 21 century English opera th The roots of the countertenor voice have drastically changed since the 17 century. Works by contemporary composers shed light on how versatile this voice Theodor Billroth is Alive and Well and Living in Washington, DC type can be, and a range of characters give this voice type a new life. Today, their Washington is an especially active hotbed of amateur chamber music making, otherness aligns with contemporary archetypes which make them ideal for the but this community may be new to composers in, or recently graduated from, portrayal of the misfits, marginalized, and magic. conservatories and universities. Good amateur players can provide an alternate Moderated by Michael Oberhauser pathway to commissions and performances, in addition to the more typical “new PERFORMERS: James Brown (countertenor) and Jonathan King (piano) music” opportunities. This presentation will focus on what this community looks LOCATION: Room 127 for in new scores. Moderated by Ross Wixon PRESENTER: Jonathan Newmark LOCATION: Room 139 (Please turn the page to view the other 2:30pm session) 2:30pm–3:30pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 3 (cont’d) NEW MUSIC