Thank you for your patience.

Brian Bice

Saturday, June 29, 2013 – Trinity Chapel, Berkeley, CA
Saturday, July 20, 2013 – Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, August 17, 2013 – Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

Attendance at the concert in which your piece is being performed is highly encouraged.  However while it is not mandatory, preference will be given to composers who can attend the Festival.

Submission of pieces for the Festival of Contemporary Music is an online process.  The submission packet should include score, recording (if available), short bio, brief program notes and contact information.  The preferred file formats are PDF for the score and documents and MP3 for the recording.  Your contact information should include your address, phone number, email, your attendance at the Festival and preferred performance date.  Please note that selecting a preferred performance date does not guarantee that your piece, if selected, will be programmed on that date.  However, every attempt to accommodate this request will be made.

We request that you use a service such as yousendit.com to send your submissions to the email address below.  Please do not email the score and recordings directly to us.  Links to scores and recordings on your website are an acceptable form of submission.  These links must contain downloadable files and in your email to us you still need to include the information requested above. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Composers must provide performers for their work if selected.   The FCM staff can provide names and contact information of performers; however, it will be the composer’s responsibility to make all necessary arrangements for performance and compensation.  The FCM staff will not be responsible for arranging performers.

Composers selected to participate in the Festival will be required to pay a registration fee of $20. This registration fee helps to offset costs incurred in producing the Festival.  For more details about the three concerts or the online submission process please visit www.newmusicforum.com or send an email to the address below.

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2013, 11:59 p.m.
Selected composers will be notified around March 21, 2013 via email.

Please send submissions or questions to:  fcm.submission@gmail.com

Festival of Contemporary Music Artistic Staff:

Brian Bice, John Bilotta and Davide Verotta

So far this has been an amazing concert season. The first two concerts were tremendously successful and tonight’s is shaping up to be just as good! Tonight’s concert will feature three vocal pieces as well as four composer performed works.

It is crazy to think that tonight marks the 17th concert in the Festival’s history. Over this time each year and each concert has gotten better and better.

I am proud of the FCM. When I started it ten years ago I could not imagine it would transform into the event it is today. I want to thank John Bilotta and Davide Verotta for all of their hard work and dedication. The FCM is a success because of them!

The concert will take place at 8 pm at the Community Music Center located at 544 Capp Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are available at the door and are just $15 adults and $10 students and seniors.

We hope to see you there!

In addition to this being the 10th year of the Festival of Contemporary Music, July 28th marks the 10th concert hosted at the Community Music Center.  We are proud to continue to host the Festival at their venue since 2007.

Please join us this Saturday as New Music Forum continues to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Festival of Contemporary Music.

Program – July 28, 2012
Brian Bice – Flit
John Bilotta – Brain Freeze
Mei-Fang Lin – Mistress of the Labyrinth
James Sproul – Le Long du Chemin
Chin Ting Chan – Fantasy for Clarinet
Davide Verotta – Midday
Mark Zimmer – Legends of a Distant Land

June 23rd program:
Ulf Grahn – Nostalgia
Ted Moore – do you?
Helena Michelson – Frozen Reminiscences
Luke Schwartz – Atlas
Greg Steinke – One by One
Davide Verotta – In Flight
Stephen Yip – Echo of Basho’s Voices

Click here to view the details of the Call for Scores.

Jennifer Higdon – Pale Yellow and Fiery Red for piano trio
Albert Roussel – Duo for bassoon and double bass
Jennifer Stevenson – Distances for oboe and piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Vocalise for bass and piano
Ian Munro – UNstasis for oboe, bassoon, violin and cello

The performance of Ian Munro’s work UNstasis will be a world premiere performance.  Munro, a composer based in New York, is the winner of Definiens 2010 composition commission competition in the young composer category and wrote this piece specifically for Definiens.

Members of Definiens include Diana Morgan (flute), Ryan Zwahlen (oboe and English horn), Jennifer Stevenson (clarinets), Michael Kreiner (bassoon), Sakura Tsai (violin), Lars Hoefs (cello), Stephen Pfeifer (double bass) and Jeanette Louise Yaryan (piano).

Definiens will present numerous programs in Culver City over the course of this year, made possible in part by a grant from the Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program. The concert is also supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment and the LA County Arts Commission.

Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door with cash or credit card.  Please call (310) 897-4111 or visit www.definiens.org for more information.