Composer’s Sandbox

June 1 - 13 | 2020

The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Composer's Sandbox Summer Intensive is an opportunity for composers in the early stages of their career to study with a renowned faculty of composers. Students selected for the program will have the opportunity to work with musicians from the acclaimed Society for New Music. The two-week-long Intensive will culminate in a performance and recording of their work by the acclaimed Society for New Music All Stars.

Submission Deadline: Friday, April 24 (midnight EST)
Tuition: $1,500 - includes room and board.

Program

• Daily meetings with composition faculty to discuss works in progress.
• Faculty led group composition seminars to facilitate discussion of student works and provide evaluative and critical feedback.
• Improvisation Workshops.
• 48-hour composition challenge.
• Composition seminars to look at seminal works and works by historically disenfranchised/marginalized composers—particularly focusing on compositions germane to the works of student composers.
• Orchestration seminars.
• A seminar on entrepreneurship: building marketing skills as a composer.