We want to hear from you! CU composers have priority, but we occasionally program other works as time allows.
2010-2011 dates are: 9/29, 10/27, 12/1, 1/26, 2/23 (atlas), 3/30, 4/13
Download the submission form.
Our program is made possible by the support of our donors. If you're interested in sponsoring a Pendulum concert, please contact Hsing-ay.Hsu@colorado.edu.
CU students:
1) Participate as performer - receive media opportunities, coachings with Hsing-ay and other faculty, professional recording
a) Initiate a composer-performer collaboration
b) Individualized coachings on performance issues and rehearsal communication
c) Talk to your teacher, and get in touch with Hsing-ay Hsu at cupendulum@gmail.com
2) Participate as audience - receive convocation credit
a) Monthly concerts on Wednesday nights at Grusin, including works by all composition majors, artists' reception follows concert
b) Sign up for monthly email at cupendulum@gmail.com
Download information for CU composers here.
Download information for CU performers here.
APPLY AT CU
The new music community at the University of Colorado at Boulder is thriving, and we would love to have you join us in any of the degree programs offered at the College of Music.
Download information for CU performers here.
APPLY AT CU
The new music community at the University of Colorado at Boulder is thriving, and we would love to have you join us in any of the degree programs offered at the College of Music.
For composers studying at CU, the Pendulum New Music series offers a guaranteed outlet for highly publicized and well attended performances of their works, often along side works of their faculty mentors and visiting composers such asMark-Anthony Turnage, and seminal pieces from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Performers interested in new music often receive coachings from world renowned interpreters of contemporary music, such as pianist Ursula Oppens and violinist Todd Reynolds. We also attract a large and enthusiastic following from our Boulder community - our Grusin Hall concerts typically attract as many as one-hundred and fifty audience members, and our experimental electro-acoustic concerts in the state-of-the-art Alliance for Technology Learning & Society (ATLAS) Black Box theater are almost always standing-room only.
Collaborations between composers, conductors, instrumentalists, vocalists, dancers, and film makers are common at CU, often with facilitation from the supportive faculty of the various performing arts. The atmosphere of collaboration is particularly strong between ensembles and composers, with new works written specifically for and performed by the CU Collegiate Chorale, Wind Ensemble, graduate sting quartet and graduate woodwind quintet in the 07/08 season. Through the help of the faculty and graduate conductors, CU composers have also acquired residencieswith several area high schools and youth symphonies, producing works for young ensembles. More diverse and unusual collaborations are also encouraged, and in the past have included engineers, computer scientists, dancers on stilts, and even psychologists, in interdisciplinary performances of epic proportions.
Composers interested in writing either traditional acoustic concert music or electronic and experimental works will find equal opportunities at CU. The facilities for music technology include two computer labs in the Imig music building, equipped for digital audio sequencing, software notation, algorithmic composition and other general tasks, and two more specialized labs (the ATLAS Experimental Music Lab and the infamous Imig CRuNCh Studio) equipped with vintage analog synthesizers, high-end digital-audio and video production programs. Furthermore, with the support of the Center for Arts Media and Performance in the ATLAS building, composers have created outstanding works that explore the capabilities their cutting-edge black box theater.
Many CU composers are also returning to explore thecomposer/performer paradigm, with groups of dedicated composers tackling difficult contemporary works in performance, such as Louis Andreissen's Worker's Union during the 06/07 season. Experimental bands and improvisation groups have formed up in the last few years among CU musicians and composers, often taking art music out of the concert hall and into galleries and spaces typically associated with popular music.
If you would like to receive information from the College of Music on scholarships, applications, and auditions, please fill out our online interest card. Additionally, you can download the College of Music brochure here.
The friendly College of Music staff is also available to answer your questions personally:
Please visit the official College of Music site for more information on the application process.
