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| Suzi Digby at ORA Singers’ Graduate Composer scheme |
ORA Singers is searching for younger composers as their 2025 Graduate Composers scheme and their 2025 Younger Composers scheme are each open for purposes.
The 2025 Graduate Composers scheme is designed to kick-start the careers of younger professionals, providing the prospect for 5 Graduate Composers to turn out to be professionally commissioned by ORA Singers. Every Graduate Composer will obtain a fee charge of £1,000.00 to jot down a brand new quick piece which ORA Singers will carry out and report in live performance in entrance of trade company on the Royal Welsh School of Music and Drama in October 2025.
Graduate Composers can even obtain knowledgeable video recording of their piece to assist construct their portfolios. Through the composing interval, Graduates may have alternatives to satisfy with Director, Suzi Digby , and the ORA Singers group over session periods, the place they will obtain steering on their queries.
Full particulars from the ORA Singers web site.
The 2025 Younger Composers can be welcoming 50 college students from non fee-paying colleges to obtain free, first-class teaching in composition with skilled composers. College students are enrolled as both Younger Composers or Apprentices. Younger Composers obtain one-to-one composition teaching with skilled composers, probabilities to attend a workshop and are invited to write a brand new piece which ORA Singers carry out and report in live performance.
“Nothing else I’ve accomplished this yr – together with college! – has taught me, impressed me and moulded me as a lot as this programme. Thanks a lot to everybody at ORA, it’s been unimaginable.” – Emily Pedersen, 2019 Winner
Apprentices obtain mentoring by a course of on-line Zoom workshops with composer, Rory Wainwright Johnston in addition to alternatives to satisfy with skilled composers and undergraduates to be taught concerning the music trade, and acquire tips about making use of to College/Conservatoire.
Full particulars from the ORA Singers web site.
