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After being positioned on hiatus in 2023 owing to funding points, Cheltenham Music Pageant’s extremely regarded Composer Academy is returning for 2025, the pageant’s eightieth birthday yr.
The expertise improvement programme for early-career composers will happen over an intensive five-day course at Syde Manor in Gloucestershire, alongside the Pageant itself. Underneath the supervision of award-winning alumnus of the Academy, Daniel Kidane, composers will take part in workshops, performances, periods and talks. The programme gives key showcase and improvement alternatives for its individuals.
In addition to attending premieres and world-class recitals on the Pageant itself, Composer Academy individuals may have the chance to jot down a brief work for efficiency earlier than a dwell viewers by the Carice Singers and conductor, George Parris. This showcase live performance can even characteristic Q&A periods, providing composers the possibility to obtain first-hand ideas and suggestions on their music.
Jack Bazalgette, the pageant’s creative director feedback, “It’s a extremely distinctive alternative for brand new composers to fulfill like-minded individuals, expertise outstanding music and study an incredible quantity – all within the house of per week and within the context of one of many world’s most revered festivals.“
The Composer Academy will happen from 7-11 July 2025. Functions open on-line on 25 April and shut at 5pm on 12 Could. Early-career composers fascinated by making use of ought to go to the Cheltenham Festivals web site for extra info.
