Opportunity

The Miami Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) at Florida International University (FIU) is pleased to announce a call for works for video and electronics with or without instruments for possible performance at the New Music Miami ISCM Festival Series being held in the spring of 2010.

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Requirements

The call is open to all composers and video artists without restrictions. Possible instruments include one or more of the following: Flute picc/alto, Bb Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Bb Trumpet, Percussion, Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, Classical Guitar, soprano or tenor voice.

Up to 2 works may be submitted with a processing fee of $20 US for the first work and $10 US for the second (foreign currency will not be accepted). Please make checks payable to the FIU SCHOOL OF MUSIC (do not send cash). Note that submissions with missing checks or checks NOT made out to the FIU SCHOOL OF MUSIC will be rejected. Credit card payment is acceptable. Please make sure to include a signed statement authorizing the use of the card for the amount specified, the type of card, card number, and expiration date (incomplete authorizations will be rejected).

In addition to a DVD of the work please include a score if instruments are employed. Please include a bio, program notes, and contact information including name, email address, postal address, and telephone numbers, in word format on a CD. Please note that no materials will be returned so please do not send originals. If you wish confirmation of the receipt of your materials please send a stamped self-addressed postcard to be returned upon the posting of your materials. Since blind judging is employed, please make sure that your name does not appear on the score or recording (please DO include the title of the work on both). Your name may appear on the CD with the bio and notes. These will be handled separately with your check/credit card information. Submissions must be postmarked by November 15, 2009. Selections announced in December via email. The number of works selected will depend on the submissions. Please send materials to:

Orlando Jacinto Garcia, ISCM Miami Section
Florida International University
School of Music WPAC 145B
University Park
Miami, Florida 33199 USA
Email: garciao@fiu.edu

Contact

Orlando Jacinto Garcia, ISCM Miami Section
garciao@fiu.edu

Opportunity

Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory is actively seeking a piano teacher (not necessarily jazz) for the academic year 2009 - 2010.

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As a professor at Nepal’s leading music conservatory, you will have the chance to learn Hindustani Music (Ragas), perform at venues throughout the capital and share your knowledge with talented students who are eager to learn.

We also offer you furnished room in our apartment for your stay, one meal a day, your non-tourist visa and air ticket.

The fall semester begins at the end of August.

Requirements

For an application, please email a cover letter and a resume to:

mariano@katjazz.com.np and sunita@katjazz.com.np

Contact

www.katjazz.com.np

Opportunity

This Fellowship is a wonderful opportunity for students to enhance their professional standing, aid their pursuit of an advanced degree, or finance a special project within the field.

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The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship is open to graduates of the College of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and to graduates of similar institutions of equal educational standing whose principal or major studies have been in the fields of art, architecture, dance, landscape architecture, music, theatre, and urban and regional planning.

Three major Fellowships will be awarded:

-one of approximately $20,000 in any field of music.

-one of approximately $20,000 in architectural design and history, art and design, theatre, dance, or instrumental or vocal music.

-one of approximately $9,000 in art, architecture, dance, landscape architecture, theatre or urban and regional planning.

Requirements

Submission Deadline: December 3, 2009

Application requirements and submission forms can be found in the Kate Neal Kinley Application Form

Contact

Robert Graves, Dean and Chair, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship Committee

T: 217 333 1661

E: rewilcox@illinois.edu

Opportunity

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation annually supports regional artists in residence at The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

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Residencies support writers, composers, and visual artists. The visiting artist is provided with a private studio, room and board, and the company of other artists from around the nation, for an intensive period of self-guided creative exploration and development.

In addition to sponsorship support, a small travel subsidy is awarded to the selected artist. Artists must apply directly to the appropriate colony. More information and application materials are available online.  
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Admission to the VCCA is highly selective, based on a review of applications by panels of professional artists in each discipline. There are 11 panels (poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights, performance, film and video artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, and composers), with a total of 48 panelists. The basis for admission by an application is professional achievement or promise of achievement.

Requirements

Application Deadline: September 15, 2009 and Janurary 15, 2010

To apply, artists submit an application form, curriculum vitae and samples of their work. Artists in Delaware, Maryland, the US Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia may apply to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. www.vcca.com.
  

Contact

email: karen@midatlanticarts.org  
web: www.midatlanticarts.org

Opportunity

Seventh Point invites artists to apply for an event in Richmond.

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We are working on an upcoming event in Richmond with an arts based theme, and are looking to hire entertaining performance artists. Not the traditional definition of performance art, rather artists who while in the process of creating their art are entertaining to watch or incorporate entertainment into his or her process. This includes dramatic painters, musicians who bang drums with paint spattering to create art, etc.

Requirements

Application Deadline: July 1, 2009

Contact

Angela Prezioso
4752 Euclid Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
757.473.8152
aprezioso@seventhpoint.com

Opportunity

Henley Middle School is searching for a choir teacher.

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While this position is currently 0.33 FTE (one-third time), the morning schedule allows for maximum flexibility.  Moreover, there are hopes that the position will grow in scope over time.
Specifically, the position entails three classes on a daily rotating (“orange/blue”) basis (see schedule details below):
·       Morning Singers and Jazz Choir, which will meet on alternating days during “zero period” before school
·       7th and 8th grade choir class
·       6th grade music class
Orange Days
8:00-9:00–Morning Singers
9:06-10:32–Choir 7/8
10:36-12:02—Music 6 (This class would meet first semester only)
Blue Days
8:00-9:00—Jazz Choir
9:06-10:32—no class
10:36-12:02—Music 6 (This class would meet second semester only)

Requirements

Appropriate teaching licensure is needed, but qualified candidates who are eligible for provisional licensing will also be considered.

Contact

To apply, please contact Dr. Patrick McLaughlin, Henley Middle School Principal, at pmclaughlin@k12albemarle.org or 434.823.4393.

Opportunity

The Women’s Project of TheatreVCU will be producing “The Vagina Monologues” for this year’s V-Day.

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We are looking for actors, directors, musicians, and artists of all
mediums. We are interested in using a collaboration of mediums to produce this
play.

Contact

Anyone interested in being a part of this collaboration, please contact
Elizabeth Popp at poppem@vcu.edu

Please visit vday.org for more information

Opportunity

The VCU AmeriCorps Program is sponsoring a program to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 19.

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The event will feature several performance interpretations of his life and legacy

Contact

Individuals or groups interested in performing at this event should contact Koohkanriznt@vcu.edu.

Opportunity

An opportunity to build your future working for orchestras.

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The League’s Orchestra Management Fellowship Program is amongst the League’s most durable and successful initiatives. Now in its 29th year, this prestigious year-long leadership training program is designed to launch executive careers in orchestra management. The year-long Orchestra Management Fellowship Program of the League of American Orchestras provides: full-time, hands-on experience working within the senior management of three different orchestras, professional seminars on leadership, finance, development, marketing, negotiation/mediation, public relations, and board relations and governance, and professional mentoring and job placement. Fellows are selected through a competitive interview process that seeks individuals who aspire to be leaders in the field. Successful candidates have relevant work experience as well as skills and abilities in organizational management. Above all, they are deeply committed to America’s orchestras and to a career in orchestra management.
To fill out an application, visit the League of American Orchestras website at, http://www.americanorchestras.org/

Requirements

Contact

Allison Ball, Director of Leadership Training and Recruitment
aball@americanorchestras.org
646.822.4027.

Opportunity

Opportunity to receive up to a $5000 scholarship.

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One of the greatest opportunities the Virginia/ North Carolina Chapter
of the National Society of Arts and Letters has to assist young
artists achieve professional status in Voice and in Art is through our
Winston Scholarship Program now in its fifth year.

The $10,000 Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship in Voice and the $10,000
Naomi Winston Scholarship in Art have been established to allow young
artists the opportunity to receive advanced training in either voice or
art.

Applicants in NC and VA(south of Fredericksburg) are required to
demonstrate proficiency in their art through submission of the required
materials (DVDs for vocal applicants and CDs or DVDs and prints for art
applicants) to the VA/NC NSAL Chapter.
The scholarship funds are only for private study, for special training or for personal
advancement in the applicant’s art medium. They can be used for workshops, museum programs,
summer programs, etc. The funds are not for college tuition, housing or travel.
The maximum amount awarded to an applicant is $5000.
For additional information and to print a copy of the application, visit www.arts-nsal.org

Requirements

Deadline to apply: February 1, 2009
a) must be a citizen of the United States.
b) must be between 16 and 22 years of age by February 1, 2009. Proof of age must be submitted (a
copy of current driver’s license, birth certificate or passport) with the application.
c) must submit a CD and printout of their works or a vocal performance on DVD to a chapter of the National Society of Arts and
Letters (NSAL) or
d) must demonstrate a serious commitment to their art by stating in writing their career plans for
the future.
e) must specify the mode of further study: private study, special training, or for personal
advancement in their art.

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