Some previous CoMA allcomers workshop projects
Oct 2002 Liverpool Tate British Art Collection project Forthcoming
July 2008 SoundWaves Festival, Brighton
Sep 2008 Rotherham Festival (BMIC Curring Edge Tour)
May 2009 Limerick, Ireland
May 2009 Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival, Canterbury
May 2009 Corsham Festival, (BMIC Cutting Edge Tour)
Nov 2011 Samensleelweekend, Mastricht, Netherlands
July 2011 Late Starters Summer School, Doncaster
July 2012 Late Starters Summer School, Bangor, North Wales
Jan 2013 Allcomers Mid-winter Composer Masterclass, Oxford
May 2013 Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival (Canterbury)
May 2013 Derry City of Culture:Singing the Bridge Community Conference
Making contemporary music exciting and necessary
CoMA helps schools, festivals, amateur orchestras and choirs get started with contemporary music. CoMA is committed to quality participation led by inspiring professional musicians, using a flexibly scored repertoire which includes works emplying graphic notation and aleatoric elements as well as standard notation. These works all share the characterstic of being suitable for use by ensembles of all types of instruments, size and ability.
CoMA's approach is to provide bespoke service based for
Workshops for festivals, conferences, and school and amateur orchestras and choirs
INSET for teachers, music teachers and directors
Repertoire packs providing PDF's of scores, parts in all transpositions and a CD.
CoMA workshops - an example
Aims: to
- provide a thoroughly enjoyable day of music-making with a rich variety of contemporary music that is fun to play, effective in performance and of interest to audiences
- inspire players to meet up again on regular basis to continue working with such music and in so doing to
- establish a locally-based contemporary music ensemble
- present the scores and sets of parts of the repertoire used and other works as a resource for the new ensemble.
The workshop concludes with an informal
- playthrough concert to an audience of friends, relatives and other interested people and also could include
- discussion on ways of taking the initiative forward as an ongoing, self-funded organisation led by the workshop leader, workshop coordinator and relevant members of the local organisers of the workshop.
CoMA input includes outlining how it could support such an initiative through its contacts with composers and performers and as part of CoMA's network of contemporary musicensembles in the UK and in continental Europe.