Composition Course with Jesper Nordin

2-7 July

Timeline

Submission period

Wed Jan 31 at 05AM UTC

End of submission period

Wed Feb 28 at 10PM UTC

Results date

Sun Mar 31 at 04PM UTC

Entry or Course Fee

Course fee 350 € - 390 €

Restrictions

For composers born after 1.7.1991
Time of Music, Viitasaari, Finland

Advanced students and young professionals are welcome to apply for the Summer Academy’s Composition course.

You can apply for either
- Composing a new piece to be premiered during the festival
- Participating without premiering a new piece.

Age limit: Born after 1.7.1991

Course language: English

Deadline: 28 February 2023, Midnight EET

Jesper Nordin

Jesper Nordin (born in 1971 in Stockholm) is a leading Swedish composer, and one who has garnered considerable international acclaim in recent years. His music, with its powerful emotional impact and traces of traditional Swedish folk music, rock music and improvised music, is broadcast and performed throughout the world. His music is performed by conductors like Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding and Kent Nagano and musicians like Martin Fröst, Pekka Kuusisto and Malin Broman. His orchestral pieces have been played and/or commissioned by such orchestras as the San Fransisco Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish and Finnish radio orchestras.

He is also included in the repertoires of several of the world’s foremost contemporary music ensembles, amongst them Ensemble Intercontemporain, ensemble recherche, L’Itineraire, Quatuor Diotima, Talea and The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

His iOS apps Gestrument and ScaleGen are used by musicians and amateurs in many different genres and forms the base of the company Reactional Music.

The Composition course

The composer course consists of public lectures and private student lessons. It is possible to apply for the course with an option to compose a new piece for an unconducted chamber ensemble formation (available ensembles will be International Ensemble Modern Academy and decoder ensemble ) these pieces will be premiered during the last days of the festival, or without the option of that. The exact instrumentation available will be notified to the accepted applicants .

The age limit for the course is 33 years (born after 1.7.1991). The course is taught in English.

The course fee :

350 without a piece, 390 with a new piece, includes participation in the course, open lessons and workshops, and free entrance to all of the festival concerts.

Details are available at web pages:
https://musiikinaika.org/en/composition-course/