Flute & Percussion Creative Workshop
Mit Marcos Balter, Claire Chase, Jennifer Torrence & Håkon Stene
Workshop with application process
Tutors: Marcos Balter, Claire Chase, Jennifer Torrence, Håkon Stene
Who: Open to flutists, percussionists, improvisers, composers, and any combination thereof!
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
After having been selected for the workshop, participants must register regularly for participation in the Darmstadt Summer Course (either for composition or for one of the instrumental studios). Online booking for composition will be opened afterwards to the chosen participants. For instrumental studios, the respective conditions of participation apply.
Marcos Balter (composition tutor), along with Claire Chase (flute tutor), Jennifer Torrence and Håkon Stene (percussion tutors), invite participants to apply for a workshop intended to animate collaborative co-creation between flutists, percussionists, and composers working at the crossroads of performance, improvisation, and composition. Up to 15 participants will be selected. From that cohort, mixed subgroups of 2-3 participants will be assigned by the tutors with the aim of creating new collaborative works over the course of the two-week workshop.
Composer-performers are very much encouraged to apply! Even if you don’t identify as a composer-performer, composers may be asked to perform as part of the workshop and performers may be asked to compose. Previous experience with this kind of collaborative work is not required; what is required is an open mind and a desire to experiment with new processes, new creative roles, and new forms of collaboration.
Timeline
15–20 May TBD: Zoom meeting with all participants and tutors
15 June: Announcement of subgroups
20 July, 2-5pm: In-person meeting with all tutors & participants
20-24 July: Subgroup independent work (individual coachings as requested)
25, 2-5pm July: Work-in-progress meeting with tutors & participants
26-31July: Subgroup independent work (individual coachings as requested)
1 August: Group workshare on OPEN SPACE
(Subject to change!)
Application
To apply for this workshop, please submit One PDF file (LASTNAME_Firstname_FlutePercussion2025.pdf) containing the following texts:
- Briefly describe your creative practice. (100 words max)
- What excites you most about collaboration? What have you always wanted to try in a collaborative situation that you haven’t had a chance to try? (100 words max)
- Please include two 5 to 15-minute work samples of your choosing. These can be solo or collaborative, audio or video, score PDFs or other descriptive media. Only hyperlinks to samples will be accepted. If you are submitting a link to a longer work, please include specific timestamp for your selected excerpt.
- Anything else you want us to know about you? (100 words max)
and e-mail it by 10 February 2025 to:
flute-percussion@darmstaedter-ferienkurse.de
Please note that we cannot consider any remarks, links, or information outside the PDF!
Applicants will be notified in March 2025.
Important: Please take note of our data protection policy and the conditions for participation for the Darmstadt Summer Course before submitting your application.