Call for new work

Arditti String Quartet with Wolfgang Rihm

Composition workshops

• 8-10 March 2010 at Coombehurst Studio, Kingston University London

Concert

• 12 March 2010 (19:30) at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Lukess, Old Street, London

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 as part of Total Immersion: Wolfgang Rihm - the BBC Symphony Orchestra's celebration of the music of Wolfgang Rihm.

Composers of any age and of any nationality are invited to submit works for workshop rehearsal with the Arditti Quartet at Kingston University London on 8-10 March 2010. The workshops are designed for postgraduate students, postdoctoral composers and composers at the beginning of their professional careers. Wolfgang Rihm, Professor of Composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, will guide the workshop sessions.

Some of the selected works will be performed in a public concert at the Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke's on Friday 12 March 2010 at 19:30, together with quartets by Wolfgang Rihm as part of Total Immersion: Wolfgang Rihm, the BBC Symphony Orchestra's celebration of the music of Wolfgang Rihm. The concert will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on the Hear and Now programme.

Works must be written for string quartet (with or without electronics) and be of 8 to 12 minutes duration.

The selection committee will include:

• Prof. Wolfgang Rihm
• Members of the Arditti String Quartet
• Paul Archbold (Kingston University)
• Andrew Kurowski (Editor, New and Specialist Music - BBC Radio 3)

Please submit a bound copy of the work and a curriculum vitae to the following address. If the score is available in digital format, please also email a pdf file.

Dr Paul Archbold
Department of Music
Coombehurst House
Kingston University
Kingston Hill
Kingston upon Thames
KT2 7LB

Email: p.archbold@kingston.ac.uk

If the work requires electronics, please give a detailed description of the requirements, and send any required computer patches.

The deadline for submissions is Thursday 7 January 2010 (date of receipt). We regret that submitted scores cannot be returned.