Music-COMP - Music Composition Online Mentoring Program

	Opus 26 selections announced! Rehearsal schedule is now posted. View the list of selected pieces and more info here. Congratulations to all 104 students who submitted their original work for mentoring by our professional composers. Did you know the our May 1st Opus 26 concert location, the Haskell Opera House, is the only concert hall in the world that sits on an international boundary. Come join us for this unique event in a truly unique location. Vermont Public Radio Classical's new feature, Student Composer Showcase, began on Monday, April 1st in the 4 pm hour with host, Joe Goetz. The program is also available on the web. Read the press release. Each month will feature a different Music-COMP student. We've met our goal on Kickstarter - the online platform for funding creative projects. Thanks to all backers!
	Course info for the Annual Music & Multimedia Summer Institute for Teachers. July 15- 19, held at Champlain College, Burlington, VT. Choose from: Learning and Teaching Composition, Digital Audio, Notation Software in the Cloud, or Independent Projects. See all course info and a link to registration here. iPads in the Music Classroom - a one-credit fully online course runs April 25th through June 8. Topic- ipads in Music Classrooms. Instructor - Molly Dubois. Register here. Also offered this summer, Conversational Solfege^TM with instructor Betsy Greene. Dates July 15-19 at Edmunds Middle School, Burlington VT. Full details and registration here.
	Newly released recordings are now available from the String Quartet Project in collaboration with the Burlington Ensemble. Hear What Doesn't Kill Us by David Fischer and Chapter 1 Bar 60 by Jacob Morton-Black. Both were performed at the 90/10 concert on Saturday, April 6th. Burlington Ensemble - Michael Dabrowski and Sofia Hirsch, violins; Liz Reid, viola; Ariana Falk, cello. Register for the String Quartet Project Summer Workshop in Composition here. The workshop is sponsored by Music-COMP with Erik Nielsen, instructor, and in collaboration with the Burlington Ensemble. July 22- 26, 2013 from 1-4 pm at the Shelburne Town Hall, Shelburne VT.
	Visit Music-COMP's blog with Opus 23, 24 and 25 student works, Sponsor List, Podcasts for compostion and more.
	Jacob's SQP piece, Chapter 1 Bar 60, was also performed by a string ensemble from Hartt College of Music at the Young Composer's Showcase on Friday, April 5th as a selected composition for the NAfME Eastern Division Conference held in Hartford, CT last week.
	The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra performs Music-COMP student Nathan Chan's new work for orchestra, Melody to an Unheard Story, at their concert at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, VT on June 9th.
	Seven Days feature: Vermont's Female Composers Slowly Gain Ground in a Predominantly Male Field Read here and note all the Music-COMP associated composers and staff who are quoted. Congratulations Cece, our high school senior from Harwood Union High School.

	RECENT PERFORMANCES OF STUDENT COMPOSITIONS
	The Champlain Philharmonic included Life, a brand new composition by Martin VanBuren III from Poultney High School. Martin's a tenth grade student and experienced Music-COMP composer on April 6th and 7th in Rutland and Middlebury.
	String Quartet Project with the Burlington Ensemble All concerts held at the College Street Congregational Church, Burlington. We're pleased to collaborate with the Burlington Ensemble in our new String Quartet Project that promotes students composing for string instruments. Students work with professional musicians from the BE in rehearsal, have their works performed at a concert and learn about "making music with a social mission". Read more at the Burlington Ensemble website. Performed at the Sept 15th concert - Justin Gates' What I Knew Would Come and Daelan Roosa's A Cello with Attitude Performed at the Nov 10th concert - Cecelia Daigle's Via Dolorosa and Beetle Juice Overture by Forest Elliot and Ryan Mahany. Performed at the Jan 5th concert - Noah Marconi's String Quartet in E Minor and Gawain Usher's String Quartet in A-flat Minor Performed at the Feb 9th concert - Nico Salas The Green Potion and String Quartet in G Minor by Adele Woodmansee. Performed at the Mar 23rd concert - Oscar Felcan's Joyful Wind and Jackson Macor's Fantasia alla Scherzo. Performed at the April 6th concert - David Fischer's What Doesn't Kill Us and Jacob Morton-Black's Chapter 1 Bar 60.
	Student works were performed in the Windham Orchestra Concert on Thursday, April 21st at 9:30 am and again on Sunday at 3 pm. from Dover School, The Grammar School, Putney Central School, Green Street School and Oak Grove School. Congratulations to the students and their teachers - Andy Davis, Alli Lubin, Jim Kurty, and Dan Seiden.
	Congratulations to Jacob Morton-Black on three outstanding performances of Danse Slav et Valse by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. The halls were packed at the Barre Opera House, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Main Stage, and Paramount Theater, Rutland earlier in December. Photo shows Jacob and renowned conductor, Robert DeCormier. Hear the recording from the Rutland performance.
	Hear Ivan Voinov's The Harpy and the Griffin, featured in two performances by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble on Nov. 10 and 11, 2012. Sarah Geller - violin, Steve Klimowski - clarinet, Bonnie Klimowski - cello, Mary Jane Austin, piano.

Membership form for schools for 2012-2013
Membership form for Independent Study for 2013

Music and Multimedia Summer Institute 2013 - July 15-19th
Champlain College, Burlington VT. Register here.

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We've changed our name from Vermont MIDI Project. Some useful older info is still linked there.
The old project title just didn't work for us anymore. Students and schools from outside Vermont have been full-fledged participants since 2008. We no longer use midi files as our primary file sharing protocol. As a program, we've been in existence since 1995. "Project" denotes short term and we certainly expect to continue for years to come.


Supporting Students & Schools Music Composition	Professional Composer mentoring most online, sometimes in person	Live Performance of Original Student Compositions link to Opus concerts prior to Opus 23	Professional Development for Teachers