Wild Rumpus Commissioning Project

Deadline: September 1, 2012

Wild Rumpus is a new music collective dedicated to collaboratively developing works with emerging composers. We’re looking for submissions of portfolios for our second annual Commissioning Project. Commissioned composers will be invited to write a piece for our 2013-2014 season.

For us, the process of developing new work is just as challenging and fun as the final performance. Our members are available to consult with composers while they work, and in the months leading up to a concert’s deadline for scores, we hold monthly reading sessions for the works-in-progress. We hope that selected composer(s) will be up for talking about the creation of their piece(s) on our website (in writing, audio, or video), helping us make the collaborative process something in which others can share.

In the spring/summer of 2013, we will set up a Kickstarter project to raise commissioning fees, tentatively set at $1000/piece for winners and (possibly) $500/piece for additional finalists. (Please see note below.) Commissioned composers will be given a choice of concert dates in 2013-2014, and deadlines and reading dates will be set accordingly.

Eligibility

Composers who fall under at least ONE of the following categories are eligible to apply:

• (a) Composers under 40
• (b) Composers of any age who are not regularly commissioned by ensembles of national or international prominence

Application Materials

• Scores (PDFs) and recordings (MP3s) for 2-3 pieces (any instrumentation). (MIDI is accepted, but discouraged.)*
• Bio (PDF)
• Resume (PDF)

* For pieces that do not have a conventional score, a written description of the piece is perfectly acceptable.

Notes

• Please look over our FAQ before applying, and feel free to contact jen@wildrumpusmusic.org if you still have questions. If you’re relatively new to applying to calls for scores, you may also find this blog post with tips for applicants helpful.
• Kickstarter is a site that enables artistic projects to solicit donations. The project funding is “all-or-nothing”: pledges to donate are initially collected, and if the fundraising goal isn’t met, then no donations are collected/disbursed. No Kickstarter project is guaranteed to succeed, although we will make every effort to help ours do so.
• We will definitely select at least one winner. We reserve the right to select multiple winners, and/or additional finalists.