College-Conservatory of Music Summer Programs presents:
New Works and Masterworks of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Music10 is a unique and intensive new music festival which will take place at the prestigious Hindemith Foundation Music Center in Blonay, Switzerland. The festival welcomes the premiere American ensemble eighth blackbird, which will be joined by principal composers Martin Bresnick, Stephen Hartke, Joel Hoffman, and guest artist Lisa Moore. These renowned artists will be working with an invited group of young composers and instrumentalists. Upon acceptance, composers will be assigned specific ensembles and will write pieces for the festival which will be rehearsed, performed and recorded in Blonay by a variety of ensembles. Each ensemble will consist of a member of eighth blackbird along with a carefully selected group of young instrumentalists. Concurrently, the instrumentalists will prepare and perform works by the three principal composers. This repertoire will be performed in a series of concerts throughout the festival in Blonay and surrounding locations.
Blonay is a beautiful village, located between Lake Geneva (Lac Leman) and the Swiss Alps. Nearby cities are Montreux and Lausanne. The Hindemith Foundation is a fully-equipped music residence center, whose purpose is to present short-term international festivals and workshops on the highest level.
Daily blog posts covering the activities at last year's Music09 festival are available at Kyle Werner's blog.
Above: A short video detailing last year's festival. Below: Beautiful Blonay, Switzerland
