2022 Festival: Week 1 Recap

Check out the first week of our 2022 festival!

We had a wonderful first week of our 2022 festival. Between seminars with our guest presenters, our core composition faculty, and student work shares (and a craft night!), we have been busy making music and community together.

Here are just a few highlights of our first week:

Workshop with Performers

On Wednesday, our amazing performers came for a workshop session with our students. Jessica Beebe (soprano), Hanchien Lee (piano), Emmalie Tello (clarinet), and Andrew Yee (cello) played through each composer’s piece, exchanged feedback, and shared ideas. These pieces will be premiered next Friday, July 22 at our free festival concert.

Wildflower Composers Festival Concert
Friday, July 22 at 3pm
Temple University Rock Hall, 1715 N. Broad St.

This performance will also be live-streamed and archived on our YouTube page.

RSVP to watch the livestream here

Tip: you must be signed into YouTube to sign up to be notified when we go live!

Guest Presenters

We are thrilled to have welcomed the following amazing guest presenters to speak with our student in our first week:

Melissa Dunphy discussed making money from our music, networking with composers, and publishing pieces.

Rene Orth shared about her compositional process, what to ask singers when writing for their voice, and how to compose using texts.

Josh Quillen explored the nature of collaborations and the fostering of relationships amongst artists and composers.

Seminars with Core Faculty

Flannery Cunningham explored capturing and manipulating field recordings and performative electronics.

inti figgis-vizueta shared about unique notations, eccentric sounds, and writing with the rehearsal process in mind.

Rajna Swaminathan shared about intercultural and hybrid music with a focus on rhythm and temporality, especially within improvisation.

New Music Ensemble

Core faculty member Rajna Swaminathan has also been leading our students in a New Music Ensemble. During this, the students experience performing together and making music together in new and unique ways. This week, the ensemble played The Tuning Meditation and 13 Changes by Pauline Oliveros, Spur 6: Blazes by Anna Webber, Origins by Rajna Swaminathan, and ensemble forecast and Form the fabric by inti figgis-vizueta.

Students were also encouraged to write their own compositions for the ensemble in small groups.

Faculty Concert with Arcana

On Thursday night, Bowerbird and Arcana hosted a wonderful concert, featuring six works by Wildflower Composers faculty composers and founder, Erin Busch. Check out some pictures from the concert!

Photo credits to Ryan Collerd @ryan_collerd