Accent09 Alive and well at CCM

The good news is that Accent 09, the chamber music and new music festival for college and advanced high school students held annually in conjunction with Music X at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, will take place on campus as usual.

   (The bad news is that MusicX itself --now Music09 -- CCM’s major new music festival, has been re-located to Blonay, Switzerland.  This was done, said artistic director Joel Hoffman, in the wake of budget cuts at CCM.  There is ongoing support and commitment to MusicX by CCM, he said, and it is hoped that, like the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy and Charleston, S.C., it may eventually have a presence in both places.)

   Dates for Accent09 are June 14-20 and the program and faculty assembled for the event are impressive, thanks to director Dorotea Vismara Hoffman and those who have helped her keep it going.

   Crescendo09, the young musicians division of Accent09, open to high school and middle school students, will take place concurrently.

   There will be master classes, classes in conducting, improvisation, composition, music history and music theory, orchestra, concerto and chamber music competitions and concerts, which are free and open to the public.

The Accent09 Advanced Orchestra will be conducted by Irwin Hoffman, former music director of the Vancouver and Florida Orchestras, acting music director of the Chicago Symphony from 1968-69 and now music director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogota, Colombia.  Hoffman, a protégé of the legendary Serge Koussevitsky of the Boston Symphony, will teach conducting at the festival as well.

   The Accent09 Orchestra will be led by Kypros Markou, professor and director of orchestral studies at Wayne State University in Detroit and music Director of the Dearborn (Michigan) and Westmoreland (Pennsylvania) Symphony Orchestras.

   The Accent 09 faculty is a distinguished one, including Martin Bresnick, composer and professor at Yale School of Music, CCM faculty members and members of the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestras, among others (see below).

   Pianist/composer Joel Hoffman, artistic director of MusicX, will teach improvisation.  Violinist Jennifer Roig-Francoli will introduce the Alexander Technique, a widely used method for improving ease and freedom of movement for musicians, actors and other professionals.

   Admission to Accent 09 is by application and audition, with students admitted in the order applications are received.

   Deadline to apply is April 30, though late applications will be accepted if space is available.  Applications can be downloaded at www.ccm.uc/musicx/accent/

   Audition requirements are a scale of choice and two short pieces or movements of contrasting styles.  Recorded auditions will be accepted on CD or DVD only.

Applicants for the solo competition should prepare a short piece (12 minutes maximum) for solo instrument or voice with orchestra.  For chamber music, one or more movements up to 15 minutes in length, is required.

    Participation fee is $500, payable upon acceptance or by May 12.  There is a non-refundable application fee of $50.

   For rules, deadlines and application materials, see www.ccm.uc/musicx/accent/

   To schedule an audition and for further information, contact Dorotea Hoffman at accent09uc@gmail.com

  

Faculty, Accent 09

 

Composition, Martin Bresnick, Yale University

Flute, Randolph Bowman, principal flute, CSO

Oboe, Christopher Philpotts, oboe/English horn, CSO

Clarinet, Ronald Aufmann, CSO

French horn, Karen Schneider, Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra

Trumpet, Philip Collins, former principal trumpet, CSO

Voice, Alison Acord, Miami University

Piano, Michael Chertock, CCM, CSO

Percussion, Allen Otte, CCM

Guitar, Rodney Stucky, CCM

Violin, Paul Kantor, Cleveland Institute of Music

   Kypros Markou, Wayne State University

   Christina Merblum, Azmari Quartet

   Anna Reider, CSO

   Jennifer Roig-Francoli, Apollo’s Fire

   Won Bin Yim, CCM

Viola, Hugo Boschweiler, Azmari Quartet

   Dorotea Vismara Hoffman, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

   Deborah Price, The Chamber Music Connection

Cello, Rebecca Merblum, Azmari Quartet

   Paul York, University of Louisville

Advanced Orchestra, Irwin Hoffman, Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogota

Accent 09 Orchestra, Kypros Markou, Wayne State University, Dearborn and Westmoreland Symphony Orchestras

Improvisation, Joel Hoffman, CCM

Strings (orchestra excerpts), Paul Kantor, Anna Reider

Crescendo 09

Composition, Ellen Harrison

History of music, Leah Branstetter

Percussion, Erica Drake

Music theory, Jennifer Jolley, Wenhui Xie

 

See also  http://www.musicincincinnati.com/site/news/A_is_for_Accent_W_is_for_Wow.html