call for proposals (quilts)
Castle of our Skins (COOS) is pleased to announce our 2018-2019 Call for Proposal winners!
Commissioned premieres will be featured in the 2020-2021 season.
RenÉE C. BakerVisual artist, film artist, composer, conductor and recontextualist, Renee’ C. Baker is a true engineer of multidisciplines. Layering movement, film projections of real and imagined things, she creates an exquisite arena of surrealistic activity within sonic arenas.
Ms. Baker is founding music director and conductor of the internationally acclaimed Chicago Modern Orchestra Project (CMOP), a polystylistic orchestral organization that grew from the plums of classical music, as well as jazz. Her compositions are crafted from her many talents with carefully constructed environments that also allow indeterminacy, experimentalism, classicism, subjectivity, and objective interpretations to co-exist. Intense but rewarding for both performer and listener/viewer, all parties are cast into unknown roles upon encounter, to be radically inside a temporary environment of limitless inhabitation. Ms. Baker is an award winning composer, both for innovative concert pieces but also as one of the most celebrated black female filmmakers, as well as a creator of over 200 film scores. |
Ms. Baker is a member of the world renown collective Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Critical acclaim for her graphic scores novels has come from performances in Berlin, Poland, London, Scotland and as far reaching as Vietnam. As a disruptive composer and visual artist, there are few barriers to the creative turns of this composer, conductor, artist, and instrumentalist. Pushing all boundaries, Ms. Baker reinvents herself and each ensemble with each score, effortlessly transforming the way reality is accessed for that time. An expert at ensemble development and training, Renee’ developed the Mantra Blue Free Orchestra (Chicago), PEK' Contemporary Project (Berlin), the progenitor of Bleueblue Walkers/Bass Kollektief, Twilight Struggles (Berlin) as well as being involved in starting over 20 cutting edge new music ensembles. Among them: TUNTUI, Wrinkled Linen, Chocolate Chitlin' Caucus, Red Chai Watch, FAQtet, Project 6, Renee' Baker's AWAKENING, Baker ArTet, a Butoh ensemble BODY STRATA, and Strings Attached. Ms. Baker has performed globally from Bimhuis (Amsterdam) to Symphony Center (Chicago) and was a founding member as well as Principal Violist of Chicago Sinfonietta for 26 years. Ms. Baker has composed over two thousand works for ensembles ranging from pieces for solo instruments, ballet, opera (9), to large orchestral works that bridge the classical, jazz and creative music genres. Her ability to embrace traditional compositions as well as various creative parameters in her work has led to commissions from the Chicago Sinfonietta, numerous commissioned pieces for the Chicago
Sinfonietta Chamber Ensemble, Berlin International Brass, PEK’ Contemporary Project, Joffrey Ballet Chamber Series, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and DanceWright Project, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Indiana University Black Film Center, among many others.www.reneebakercomposer.net
Sinfonietta Chamber Ensemble, Berlin International Brass, PEK’ Contemporary Project, Joffrey Ballet Chamber Series, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and DanceWright Project, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Indiana University Black Film Center, among many others.www.reneebakercomposer.net
elizabeth brownElizabeth Brown combines a composing career with a diverse performing life, playing flute, shakuhachi, and theremin in a wide variety of musical circles. Her music has been heard in Japan, the Soviet Union, Colombia, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam as well as across the US and Europe, and includes many compositions for traditional Japanese instruments. Recent activities include Tokyo performances ichigenkin player Issui Minegishi; premiering Dialect, for solo shakuhachi, at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2018 in London; playing theremin with the Boston Symphony; and playing flute with the New York City Ballet orchestra. She will perform A Bookmobile for Dreamers, a collaboration with artist Lothar Osterburg, at Portugal's Vivarium Festival in March.
A Juilliard graduate and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Brown has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Newband, Asian Cultural Council, Japan/US Friendship Commission, Japan Foundation, Music from Japan, NewMusicUSA, and NYFA. She was a Fellow at Bellagio and at the MacDowell Colony, and Artist-in-Residence at the Hanoi National Conservatory and in Grand Canyon National Park. Her CD Elizabeth Brown: Mirage is available from New World Records. http://www.ElizabethBrownComposer.com |
Lauren McCallLauren McCall is a composer and musician from Atlanta, Georgia. She studied music education and science education at the University of Georgia, and currently she is a master’s student in music composition at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has had compositions performed in places including Morehead, Kentucky at Morehead State University’s Contemporary Piano Festival; in Eugene, Oregon at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium; in Lakeland Florida at Florida Southern College for the Grady Rayam Prize in Sacred Music; Montreal, Canada; and in Munich, Germany.
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Lauren actively participates in the Atlanta 24 hour Opera Project as a composer and librettist, and recently Lauren was a composer in residence for the Grady Rayam Prize in Sacred Music. In 2012, Lauren was an AmeriCorps volunteer on the Lakota reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota where she taught middle school science at Red Cloud Middle School and enjoyed listening to Lakota music. Along with composing Lauren also enjoys playing classical and jazz music on the clarinet and piano, along with nature, spending time with family and friends, and traveling.
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2018-2019 Call for Quilts
2017-2018 Call for Composer-in-Residence 2015-2016 Call for Strings 2014-2015 Call for Art Song Proposals 2013-2014 Call for Piano Solos by Black Composers |