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Since I am not in school in the past few years I have been getting 1- 3 performances per year.

Very impressed Morivou - 5-10? What are you doing?

Well, first off: my friends are performing this stuff. Like, they always ask me to write them "voice/piano" songs to sing. I have to church those out monthly to keep up with that. And, they don't perform them at the school. At Jacobs, this far, I have only had one performance. But, I have three scheduled for next semester. A Wind Quartet, I am doing my own song cycle of Rumi poems (v/p), and a set of piano etudes.

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I have to have a work performed at least 2 times a year to stay in music school (for composition degree... that's not nearly my only major, though).

So. hahah. At least twice. But, I have been averaging 5-10 performances of my works a year.

What school do you go to?

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yes, Graham will have more symphonies than Haydn and Mozart together


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  • Favorite Composers:György Ligeti, John Adams, Graham Cohen, Игорь Стравинский, Michael Nyman, Anton Webern, 武満 徹, Stockhausen, Brett Dean, Olivier Messiaen

Oh that's nice of you frog.

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yes, Graham will have more symphonies than Haydn and Mozart together


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  • Favorite Composers:György Ligeti, John Adams, Graham Cohen, Игорь Стравинский, Michael Nyman, Anton Webern, 武満 徹, Stockhausen, Brett Dean, Olivier Messiaen

Oh that's nice of you frog.

His music is awesome. As Schönberg once said: "I wish I could write music like that" (referring to Grieg's piano concerto though)

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It's not so easy in America. Over here, we have SO many musicians that are doing professional works that there isn't a market for emerging composers to just get stuff performed.

How it works here: In general, you have to get lucky, or you have to win competitions.

Competitions aren't too bad. I have won a couple. I got 40,000 dollars for my Toccata and it was performed by professional musicians. I consider that pretty good for a 17 year old at the time. But, then again, it's the only composition I have ever entered into a competition. hahaha.

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I don't know how this will read, but anything I compose will get performed... The frequency of when something comes out is a mildly complicated issue that cannot be explained right now, but my goal for a few years now is to NOT compose unless it will be performed (and paid one way or another)...

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I don't know how this will read, but anything I compose will get performed... The frequency of when something comes out is a mildly complicated issue that cannot be explained right now, but my goal for a few years now is to NOT compose unless it will be performed (and paid one way or another)...

If you're doing it for a living... it only makes sense. haha.

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If you're doing it for a living... it only makes sense. haha.

Yes, true that. But I wasn't always making a living from composing directly (for example when studying)... So it wasn't only for making a living... (it was trying to make a living perhaps... hehe).

However, I was thinking about this thread since yesterday and I realised that this attitude has led me to a very specific path: That where I have not composed for reall big forces... I knew, until recently, that I wouldn't be able to get a piano concerto performed and thus I skipped composing one. Same goes for big orchestral forces. Recently this seems to have changed and thus I will be entering the field of composing for orchestra... For better or worst... :P

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Don't worry. Composing for orchestra can be fun. I like to explore the different tone colours I can get by doubling specific instruments. I just finished my 8 pieces for orchestra to enter in the SSO's competition to celebrate 80 years together. If it wins, then I would get it performed ant the Sydney Opera House concert hall in march next year under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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Don't worry. Composing for orchestra can be fun. I like to explore the different tone colours I can get by doubling specific instruments. I just finished my 8 pieces for orchestra to enter in the SSO's competition to celebrate 80 years together. If it wins, then I would get it performed ant the Sydney Opera House concert hall in march next year under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Careful, Froggy.

This guy has an advanced degree. ;)

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