Date: 25 April 2024
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern
Location: Zoom Meetings
Cost: Free
Bilingual Session: French-English simultaneous interpretation is available at this event.
Accessibility: Simultenuos AI-generated closed captions will be available via Zoom.
Recording: This session will be recorded.
People always have great ideas, and finding the right collaborators is no easy feat! Commissioning a new work, for example, can work better when splitting the financial cost with orchestras. John Estacio’s Trumpet concerto is a great example where 19 orchestras came together and made this new music happen on a large scale.
Come hear various brilliant ideas from your colleagues from across the country, and ask questions to see if one or more ideas might be a good fit for your orchestra. All are welcome! Come and let’s make great things happen!
Pitches:
- Oakville Symphony wants to commission a piece about the life of Amice Calverley, a composer who lived in Oakville and had a fabulous and exciting life.
- Lethbridge Symphony Association is Requesting interested/Ontario orchestra partners to support a funding application to have an early 1900s piano work in ragtime style, composed by an Ontario composer, arranged for a full orchestra.
- Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra is looking for collaborators to create a suite of orchestral works inspired by various National and Provincial parks across Canada.
- Fredericton Symphony Orchestra is interested in a collaborative commission of new work by a Canadian composer for a family-oriented work suitable for a Christmas concert or any concert setting.
- Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra is seeking letters of support, programming commitments, and commissioning opportunities for a new violin concerto.
- Orchestre Philharmonique de la Relève du Québec seeks partners to create a support network for the next generation of professional musicians.
- Orchestre symphonique de Laval is looking to submit a grant proposal defining a new collaboration mode between Canadian regional orchestras. The project would focus on managing artistic resources and marketing the Canadian repertoire through a commissioned work.
If you have questions or have an idea you’d like to pitch, please reach out to [email protected]
Who this is for: Executive and Artistic Directors, Programming Professionals and other orchestra professionals interested in collaborating with other orchestras on programming, commissioning new works and beyond.