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CHROMA Composition Institute

Composition Institute

Under the direction of Andrew Rindfleisch, the CHROMA Composition Institute welcomes up to seven collegiate and young professional composers for a full schedule of concerts, workshops, masterclasses, and individual lessons.

What Participants Receive

The Institute emphasizes creative exploration, practical craft, and professional development in a supportive international environment.

Portfolio Requirements

Festival performances of compositions by participants will include one solo piece (solo violin, solo clarinet, or solo piano) and one duo piece (any duo combination drawn from violin, clarinet and piano).

Applicants should submit two original scores in PDF format. Submitted works should be examples of your best chamber works for any instrumentation. Selected applicants will be asked to provide existing and/or compose new works to be performed on festival concerts for the available instrumentations (see application form).

Fees and Tuition

Eligibility

Composition Faculty

Andrew Rindfleisch

Andrew Rindfleisch

Composition Faculty

American composer Andrew Rindfleisch has enjoyed a career in music that has also included professional activity as a conductor, pianist, vocalist, improviser, record producer, and radio show host. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aaron Copland Award, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission from the Library of Congress, and a Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Additionally, his music has been honored with over forty other prizes and awards throughout his career. He has participated in dozens of renowned music festivals and has received residency fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Czech-American Institute in Prague, the June in Buffalo Contemporary Music Festival, the MacDowell Colony, and the Pierre Boulez Conductor’s Workshop at Carnegie Hall.

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Composition Institute Performing Artists

Collaborate with distinguished performers and artists who will bring your compositions to life during the festival.

Brendan Shea

Brendan Shea

Violin

Brendan Shea is a sought after soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. By the age of 11, he was performing with orchestras and had performed at Carnegie Hall. He continues to perform regularly with Orchestras and in recitals nationally and internationally, and has competed in many major international competitions including Queen Elisabeth, Carl Nielsen, Sendai, Sibelius, Isang-Yun, and Seoul. His awards span three continents and include Bronze Medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, Gold Medal and Audience Award at the Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition, Grand Prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, and 1st place with Honors in the Glazunov International Competition in Paris.

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Clarinetist yet to be determined

Details will be announced soon.

Dr. Shuai Wang

Dr. Shuai Wang

Artistic Director, Piano Faculty

Dr. Wang is recognized as an accomplished soloist, recitalist and chamber musician and has performed extensively in major venues such as Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, and Symphony Space in New York, the Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, and the Gardner Museum in Boston. She has toured regularly throughout China and Europe, and has been regularly featured in radio broadcasts throughout the country.

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Dr. Robert Saterlee

Dr. Robert Saterlee

Piano Faculty

Pianist Robert Satterlee has developed a reputation as an accomplished and versatile solo recitalist and chamber musician. He plays regularly throughout the United States, delighting audiences with his incisive and imaginative performances. He has appeared on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Music Teachers National Association national conferences, the Quad Cities Mozart Festival and many colleges and universities.

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Dr. Geoffrey Burleson

Dr. Geoffrey Burleson

Piano Faculty

GEOFFREY BURLESON has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America, and is equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and jazz performer. The New York Times has hailed his solo performances as “vibrant” and “compelling”, and has praised his “command, projection of rhapsodic qualities without loss of rhythmic vigor, and appropriate sense of spontaneity and fetching colors”. And the Boston Globe refers to Mr. Burleson as a “remarkable pianist” and “a first-class instrumental presence” whose performances are “outright thrilling.” His numerous acclaimed solo appearances include prominent venues in Paris (at the Église St-Merri), New York, Rome (American Academy), Helsinki (Sibelius Academy), Athens (Mitropoulos Hall), Mexico City (National Museum of Art), Rotterdam (De Doelen), Chicago (Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series), Boston, Washington, Switzerland, England, Spain, and elsewhere. He has also appeared as soloist in many international festivals, including the Mostly Modern Festival, Bard Music Festival, Monadnock Music Festival, Other Minds Festival, Mänttä Music Festival (Finland), Santander Festival (Spain), the Talloires International Festival(France), the International Keyboard Institute & Festival (New York), and the Interharmony International Music Festival (Italy).

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Dr. Yerin Kim

Dr. Yerin Kim

Piano Faculty

Praised by the International Piano Magazine as “pianist of beautiful finesse and golden tone”, pianist Yerin Kim is a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. She has given concerts in various festivals and recitals in major venues internationally, including The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York, Place Flagey in Brussels and Rolston Hall at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada.

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