The Composers Conference is a two-week program that provides young, emerging composers with the opportunity to showcase compositions in live concerts, which are free and open to the community. Wellesley College hosts the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Workshops annually; this year's program will take place from July 21 through August 4, 2013.
“This is a unique environment for the performance of contemporary music by the top performers of that repertory in the country,” said Martin Brody, Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music at Wellesley College.
The program brings together a select group of fellows, professional musicians (including some of the finest performers from New York and Boston), along with amateur musicians and singers. Additionally, for the first time, a trio of local seventh-graders from Project STEP, a program for musically talented children from underrepresented Boston communities, will participate in the first week of the conference.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Mario Davidovsky has guided the conference for nearly 40 years. Joining him this year are senior guest composers Melinda Wagner and Brandeis University’s Eric Chasalow, as well as the recently appointed Chamber Music director Christof Huebner. Over eight hundred composers and many more amateur chamber musicians have participated in this event since its inception.
Faculty members perform concerts Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturday nights featuring traditional works and the works of the composer fellows. More information about these concerts is available at: http://www.composersconference.org/composers-conference/concerts/. Concerts take place at 8:00pm in Jewett Fine Arts Center Auditorium at Wellesley College.
