Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble Announces its Composer Search 2012

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Inc. (MCCE) announces its Composer Search 2012, the second year of its energizing initiative. The program’s focus is to highlight compositions by an emerging, classically trained, post-collegiate professional composer. Applicants will receive a $750 stipend towards the commissioning of a new work to be premiered by MCCE on Sunday, June 3, 2012 at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, NY.

Applicants must be age 35 and below, on February 15, 2012; classically trained as well as versed in at least one additional genre of music (ie: jazz, rock/pop, world, folk, etc.) and must hold a college degree in music and be a post-collegiate professional musician or graduate student.
The selected composer must attend the dress rehearsal and performance in New York City and will need to submit a photocopy of a Passport or Driver's License indicating proof of age and American citizenship or Permanent Resident status. Non-permanent residents may not apply.

Guidelines and application are attached and are available for download at www.mcensemble.org.

For further information:

call: 718-907-3488

email: info@mcensemble.org

visit: www.mcensemble.org

- MCCE is currently the chamber ensemble-in-residence at the Staten Island Museum & has been since 2004.

- MCCE is Staten Island’s only performing ensemble to receive NEA awards.

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Inc. is a consortium of primarily young, high-caliber musicians dedicated to the craft of chamber music. With wide-ranging presentations of both classical and contemporary chamber music, combined with consummate artistry, we believe in serving two goals - entertaining audiences and exposing them to the valuable literature that is seldom heard elsewhere. Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Inc. represents the next generation of emerging artists who are reshaping all that you thought you knew about classical music.

MCCE has implemented the creation of multiple commissions and premieres including works by featured composers: Laura Kaminsky, Andrew Sterman, Dr. Mathew Fuerst, Mick Rossi, Octavio Vazquez, Sanchie Bobrow and Andrew Rosciszewski.

MCCE Members:

Tamara Keshecki – flute

Clarice Jensen – cello

Maria Antonia Garcia – piano

Joseph Kubera – piano

Wen-Yi Lo – piano

J. Brunka – bassist

Ann Cecil-Sterman – flute

Anthony Turner – baritone
Sandra Pace – organ
Elizabeth McCullough – soprano
Lucille Corwin – viola
Amanda Romano - harp

MCCE’s 2011-12 Concert Season and programs are made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; The Staten Island Foundation; Meet the Composer’s Cary New Music Fund; NYC Councilmember Deborah Rose; Northfield Bank Foundation; Richmond County Savings Foundation; Con Edison; the Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation; the JPMorgan Chase Residency Re-grant in partnership with the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI); Holy Child Church; Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art and the Staten Island Museum. Leadership support for New Music USA’s MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation. Additional support is provided by ASCAP, BMI Foundation, Inc., Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd. and The NEA’s Challenge America Fast-Track grant program.