June 30 - July 8 at Hidden Valley Music

104 W Carmel Valley Rd, Carmel Valley, CA 93924

Meet the class of 2023!

Come and Experience ECI

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Connoisseur's Special - 9-Day All-Event Pass

A great way to support Emerging Composers Intensive. The Connoisseur's Special includes admission to all 9 days of events during the 2023 Emerging Composers Intensive. Events include performances, lab classes, open rehearsals, seminars and more. (A $25 discount!)
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Open Rehearsal #1 “First Encounter”

Friday June 30th 11am-12:30pm & 1:30-5:30pm at the Hidden Valley Theater (FREE)
Performing faculty members of ECI, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Eunice Kim, David Samuel, Mihai Marica, Drew Petersen and Catherine Gregory rehearse the 10 new works by the emerging composers for the first time. In this rehearsal, the emerging composers will be experiencing hearing their pieces come alive in the hands of the professional performers and observing what happens “behind the scenes” in a rehearsal. It is an equally intense and enlightening experience for the composers as they will find out if they like what they hear, whether it sounds like what they had envisioned, and whether what they intended for the performers to do came across in their notation.
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Lab Class #1 “Emerging Composers Lab”

Saturday July 1st 2pm-6pm at the Hidden Valley Theater ($15)
Following the first rehearsal hearing their works rehearsed for the first time, emerging composers gather with the performing faculty to ask questions, experiment, exchange thoughts and play with ideas that could improve their pieces for more successful performance as well as to become closer to their visions in this Emerging Composers Lab.
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Seminar #1 Cindy’s Charm School of Community Building

Saturday July 1st 7pm-8:30pm at the Hidden Valley Theater ($15)
An important career training class where Cindy introduces to the emerging composers why they should and how they can support the professional music industry to thrive by being a charismatic bridge to the community they serve.
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Lab Class #2 “Emerging Composers Lab Lead by Faculty Wang Jie”

Sunday July 2nd 10am-12:30pm at the Hidden Valley Theater ($15)
After the first lab class where the emerging composers experimented with ideas and asked questions on their own, faculty member Wang Jie leads a lab class where she demonstrates and proposes solutions and edits that she envisions could aid the emerging composers to improve their pieces’ performance and delivery according to the questions and issues they were having.
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Discovery Concert: “The ECI Barnburner”

Sunday July 2nd 3pm at the Hidden Valley Theater (FREE)
The ECI Barnburner is an ice breaking concert + banter that introduces the entire ECI crew and its opinion-shifting mission to our community. Expect a program of barn-burning music performed by our faculty members from Beethoven to works composed by our own faculty members. A meet-and-greet with our young composers moderated by Fred Child will close the event.
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Seminar #2 Shaping Your Narrative and Engaging Beyond the Music with Performance Today Host Fred Child

Wednesday July 5th 2pm-3:30pm at the Hidden Valley Theater ($15)
Performance Today host Fred Child shares with our emerging composers in a special seminar about the art of shaping your narrative as a composer and engaging deeper with the public beyond the music. Medias to be covered include one’s biography, interview skills, what would make one’s story compelling for Performance Today, and more.
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Panel Discussion – What are the "programmers" thinking? Creating mutual interest with people who program and commission

Wednesday July 5th 7pm-8:30pm at the Hidden Valley Theater ($15)
As avid artistic planners as well as people that regularly offer programming suggestions, performing faculty members share from their experiences what makes a work easy to program, interesting to speak about, and are huge hits that keep audiences engaged and coming back. With short performances by performing faculty members.
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Open Rehearsal Day #2 Mozart’s Flute Quartet and Turina’s Piano Quartet; Emerging Composers’ Final Draft Rehearsal

Thursday July 6th 10am-12:30pm & 2pm-6pm at the Hidden Valley Theater (FREE)
The performing faculty members put some final touches on the programs of the final concerts: the two Western canon, Mozart Flute Quartet in D Major, Turina Piano Quartet and the 10 premiering works by the emerging composers.
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Main Concert #1: When Mozart Meets the Magic Flute

Friday July 7th 7pm-9pm at the Hidden Valley Theater ($25)
Five world premieres of chamber music works written by the emerging composers of ECI paired with Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D Major K 285. (By attending both concert programs of ECI, you will receive a Performance Today Prize ballot to vote for your favorite emerging composer’s work to be featured on Performance Today* in the 2023-2024 season. Ballots will be collected and calculated right after the concert on July 8nd. Results will be announced at the reception after the concert on July 8th in the theater.)
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Main Concert #2: Every Note Turina to the T

Saturday July 8th 3pm-5pm at the Hidden Valley Theater ($25)
Five world premieres of chamber music works written by the emerging composers of ECI paired with Turina’s Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 67. Followed by a reception with the public and the announcement of Performance Today Prize winners. (By attending both concert programs of ECI, you will receive a Performance Today Prize ballot to vote for your favorite emerging composer’s work to be featured on Performance Today* in the 2023-2024 season. Ballots will be collected and calculated right after the concert on July 8nd. Results will be announced at the reception after the concert on July 8th in the theater.)
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The 2022 Intensive is a wrap

The inaugural Emerging Composers intensive was a great success. Eight young composers collaborated with four world-class musicians to debut milestone pieces.

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ECI Faculty

The ECI faculty come from leadership roles at music institutions nationwide. From conservatories such as Curtis, to the performing stages of the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, to the airwaves that reach millions of classical music listeners across the country at Performance Today. The ECI faculty brings an unparalleled depth of experience to emerging composers.

Meet the Faculty

About ECI

Learn about why ECI was created and the gap we fill in classical music composition.

About

Check out our 2022 Premieres!

8 brand new pieces from our amazing class of 2022

Meet our Faculty

Read Full Bios Here

Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu

Program Director and Performing Faculty - Violin

Nick DiBerardino

Composition Faculty

Wang Jie

Composition Faculty

Fred Child

Media and Public Presentation

Catherine Gregory

Performing Faculty - Flute

Eunice Kim

Performing Faculty - Violin

Mihai Marica

Performing Faculty - Cello

Drew Petersen

Performing Faculty - Piano

David Samuel

Performing Faculty - Viola

Mission

The Emerging Composers Intensive (ECI) at Hidden Valley is an important extension to the conservatory education that aims to complete a young devoted composer’s skill set on the path to a professional career. ECI’s environment and teaching focus on the crucial connection between individual creativity and effective collaboration by having young composers work closely with both composition and performing faculty throughout their writing process to strengthen the necessary foundations of instrumental understanding, notation, and communication skills. The program builds a basis for young composers to form a lifetime of successful synergistic collaborations through writing, interaction, and relationships.

Read the 2022 Proceedings of the ECI here

Contact Us

To contact Emerging Composers Intensive, please email:
ECI@hiddenvalleymusic.org