1995-2011 Vermont MIDI Project marks 16 years of infusing music composition into the curriculum.
The purpose of the Vermont MIDI Project is to encourage and support students in composing and arranging music. A community of professional composers, teachers, pre-service educators, and students engage in mentoring and online discussion of student work. Learn more.
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Opus 24
tentatively scheduled for Wed., May 2, 2012
Ludlow Town Hall
Submission of first ideas must be posted to the
online mentoring website no later than
Friday, Feb. 9, 2012
Any combination of the following instruments:
flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon,
violin I, violin II, viola, cello, bass
Submission Details
Opus 23
Opus 23
Monday, December 5, 2011
Elley-Long Music Center at St. Michael's College
Colchester, VT
New Membership Details for 2011-2012
contact Sandi for information
or call 802-879-0065
School Participation or
Independent Study students
BENEFITS: live performances, online mentoring,
professional development for teachers,
composition resources,
discounts on software and services
New school members and Independent Study students welcome to join now.
Independent Study students are homeschooled or students without a program at their school.
Contact Sandi for IS member details.Workshops and Presentations:
Florida MEA - Tampa FL
January 11-14, 2012
Sandi will be at the Inside Music:
Exploring Composition booth during the conference.
MTNA National Conference, NYC
March 25-27, 2012
Matt Podd will be at the Inside Music: Exploring Composition booth during the conference.
NAfME, St. Louis, Missouri
2012
Biennial Music Educators
National Conference
March 28-31, 2012
Sandi will present a session:
Music Composition in the Cloud: Access for All and serve on a panel for Composing Our Future.
She will also be at the Inside Music exhibit booth during the conference.
NAfME Composition Academy, Baltimore, MD
June 23-24, 2012
Sandi will present a session.
Ontario Music Educators Assn.
Huntsville, ON November 3-5, 2011
NYSSMA - Rochester NY
December 1, 2011
Showcase Presentation with
Inside Music
** New Resource: **
Podcasts by composer mentor
Erik Nielsen
21 podcasts now available
Announcing a collaboration with:
Noteflight Learning Edition
All VMP participating schools will receive a year's subscription to the exciting online learning system that incorporates Noteflight - an online notation software. Teachers organize their own classes with assignments and assessments. Students can work from any computer in the school, the community library and at home!
Contact Sandi for more information and how to get started with your own Noteflight Learning Edition subscription.
Opus 22
OPUS 22 Flash Files
OPUS 22
Congratulations to all
for an outstanding
Opus 22 concert!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Audio CD's and DVD of the entire concert available
ORDERING INFO
OPUS 21
OPUS 21 Flash Files
OPUS 21 Selections & Scores
Mon, Dec 6, 6:30 pm
Audio CD's and DVD of the entire concert available
ORDERING INFO
NEWS
Alumni Spotlight:
New feature!
Alumni Spotlight
featuring Zach Sheets
Read about Zach Sheets who began composing with VMP as a fifth grader. Now he's a junior at Harvard University and continues to receive recognition for his compositions.
Thanks to Jody Woos for organizing this new section.
We're looking for more alumni who would share how composing with VMP has influenced their lives. Contact Sandi if you are an alumni or have contact info for one of the thousands of young composers from the project.
Upcoming Performances
Jacob Morton-Black's composition for orchestra, Overture, was performed as part of the Vermont Youth Orchestra's First Night appearance at the Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT at 1:00 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2011. Read an article about Jacob in the Burlington Free Press.
Jill and the Beanstalk, a fractured fairy tale written for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra by Burlington High School 9th grader, Eileen Kocherlakota will be presented in three performances with the VSO's Holiday Pops Concerts.
Dates:
Friday, December 9th, 7:30 pm at the Barre Opera House
Saturday, Dec 10, 7:30 pm at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington
Sunday, Dec 11, 3:00 pm at the Paramount Theater, Rutland.
This new work will delight all audiences. Get your tickets now.
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Twelve out of some 150 or more Vermont composers gathered in the Ceremonial Office of the State House on February 17th to celebrate Governor Shumlin's signing of the proclamation declaring 2011 the "Year of the Vermont Composer". See the article by Jim Lowe in the Times Argus.
Performances of Student Compositions:
The Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble performed Cecelia Daigle's two movement piece titled Mortal Fools in two concerts: the Unitarian Church in Montpelier on Friday, April 1, 2011, and the Flynn Space in Burlington, VT on April 3, 2011.
Joshua Morris' "Suite for Solo Viola" was performed in concert by Elizabeth Reid on Saturday March 12th at Radio Bean in Burlington. Liz performed this piece at the Opus 20 concert as well.
Joshua Morris, a homeschooled senior from St. Albans, entered the winning score in the annual Call for Compositions by the Vermont Youth Orchestra. In the Night was performed at the First Night Burlington celebration at the Flynn Theater on December 31, 2010.
Colin and Bastien Gliech arranged a song about Alternative Energy called Wind, Water and Sun for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's One Green Earth concert as part of the Flynn Students Matinee Series in two performances on December 2, 2010. The song was created by 4th graders with their teacher Aurie Thibault from the Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler in Burlington VT.
Seven Vermont MIDI Project composers had compositions performed in a reading session with eighth blackbird in connection with a master class/reading session held on Friday, December 3, 2010 at Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael's College. Students are: Gawain Usher, Eileen Kocherlakota, Anne Sutton, Nicolas Chlebak, Kate Sheeser, Josh Morris and Aaron Gould-Kavet.
Joshua Morris from St. Albans, VT participated in the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival as one of four invited young composers. His cello piano duet was included in the Sounding Board reading session of new music, performed by Colin Carr and Matan Porat. The Northeast Kingdom Community Orchestra performed Eamon Roosa's Opus 20 piece, Melody for Flute and Oboe, on April 29th, 2010. Eamon is an 8th grader from Barnet School.
Welcome to our new sponsor:
Noteflight -
and thanks to Joe Berkovitz for his recognition of our ground-breaking
work. Noteflight Learning Edition will bring new tools for composition
to many more students.