Limited Edition of 300 Ghosts of Our Former Selves deluxe vinyl LP, cover art by Joseph Wardwell.
All proceeds will be donated to benefit the New Music New Communities Initiative of the Composers Conference (read about it below).
(200 available) Deluxe LP, $25 plus $7 domestic shipping
(100 available) Deluxe LP, cover autographed by the composer and the artist is $35 plus $7 domestic shipping
please ask about international shipping
A central aspect of the Composers Conference's mission is to cultivate an environment that allows for the exploration, invention, performance and education of the new music medium not only at the highest levels, but also with a wider range of inclusivity and greater awareness towards benefiting the community-at-large. With the New Music New Communities Initiative, we are looking to use our role as an arts education organization to actively seek out young students from underserved communities in the greater Boston area, and provide them with the opportunity to learn to become composers and musical creators. By partnering with local Boston-area music education organizations, we hope to identify and actively recruit students who are interested in learning about composition, regardless of their musical background or previous instrumental experience.
Each year (Sept-Aug), a number of students from partner community music organizations will be selected as “mentees” for the program. Each student will be paired with a Composer Fellow “mentor” selected by the Artistic Director, and receive monthly one-on-one virtual composition sessions (February-July), as well as several group sessions of instrumental demos led by selected CPI students. The goal is to be able to create a short, playable work by the summer Conference using instrumentation available from CPI and CMW programs. During the annual Composers Conference at Brandeis, students will have the opportunity to have their pieces workshopped, rehearsed and premiered in a public performance by a combination of faculty members, CPI and CMW participants of the Composers Conference. Our long term goal is to be able to provide students who have already completed the initiative, with the opportunity to continue with regular online, tuition-free composition workshops with selected former Fromm Composer Fellows, until they reach the end of high school.
Through utilizing all three areas of the Conference collaboratively (Composers, CPI and CMW) in the mentorship process, we hope to lay the foundation for creating greater representation, diversity, inclusion and opportunity for future generations of musicians in the new music community, while serving as a model of conscientious musicianship for our current Conference participants.
--
Jessica Tong, violinist
Assistant Professor of Violin at SUNY Fredonia