INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SCORES
Kaleidoscope is a conductorless orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through exhilarating concert experiences, artistic excellence, musician leadership, and connecting with the diverse communities of Los Angeles.
Thank you again to everyone who applied to our 2020 call for scores, which received almost 8,000 applications from composers in 86 countries!
Our annual call for scores has become one of our major programs, and most of the new music we have performed and most of the composers we have commissioned have been a part of this program. The primary goals of our call for scores are to build relationships with composers, to get to know new music that we would love to perform, and to amplify awareness of new music so more musicians and organizations will consider programming more new music.
Our committee rotates each year and we greatly appreciate the 27 people that carefully reviewed works in multiple rounds:
Andrew Nogal, oboe
Ann Miller, violin
Anthony Trionfo, flute
Benjamin Mitchell, clarinet
Chirstopher Cerrone, composer
Cristina Montes Mateo, harp
Derek Tywoniuk, percussion/composer
Douglas DeVries, flute
Elizabeth Linares Montero, horn
Gabriel Anker, violin
Grace Takeda, viola
Javier Iglesias Martin, cello
Jeff Stern, percussion
Jessica Maxfield, saxophone
Jordan Brokken, bassoon
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Levi Jones, bass
Lucas Lipari-Mayer, trumpet
Niloufar Nourbakhsh, composer
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, composer
Pierre Jalbert, composer
Roslyn Black, horn
Saad Haddad, composer
Sara Hershkowitz, soprano
Tim Weiss, conductor
Viet Cuong, composer
Zoë Martin-Doike, viola
We are very happy to announce 189 works selected for our final round from 172 composers:
Aaron Houston • Midway to Midtown
Adam Dippre • Scream for trombone and electronic recording
Aitana Kasulin • Do, saudades
Alan Hankers • Coalescence
Alexander Tovar • Radio Champagne
Alisson Kruusmaa • Three Miniatures for String Quartet
Amos Elkana • Glass Churches
Amy Nam • Accession
Ana Krstajic • MARKO - Robinje (Enslaved Women)
András Gelléri • Burst of Evidence
facebook.com/Andr%C3%A1s-Gell%C3%A9ri-composer-826472217733217/
Andrew Burke • Frame
andrewburke.us
Andrew List • String Quartet no. 5 "Time Cycles"
Andrew Tholl • every moment is another opportunity to shine
Anna Korsun • sottilissime
Anna Pidgorna • The Three Woes
Antoni Schonken • String Quartet No.2: A 29 year old security guard
Ashley John Long • Lunea
Ayala Asherov • Nocturnal Dialogues
Ben Rieke • Shards of Glass
Benjamin Webster • Paraphrase
Benjamin P. Wenzelberg • Ultrathing
Bobby Ge • Metastable State • Minutes Between
Brad Balliett • The Fauvettes
Brian Nabors • Onward • Pulse
Brian Prechtl • A Child Said, What is the Grass
Brooke Herndon • Caged Fragility
youtube.com/channel/UCIEUnL0EY27mBnAk-WBFK2Q/videos
Carl Schimmel • Vasilissa the Invincible
Caroline Mallonee • The Butterfly Effect
Cathy Milliken • BRIGHT RING
Cecilia Assalini • Detrás del Brillo (Behind the Brightness)
ceassalini.wixsite.com/website
Cem Oslu • Suite For Chamber Orchestra
Chatori Shimizu • fiddle
Cheryl Frances-Hoad • Between the Skies, the River and the Hills • The Whole Earth Dances
Chih-Yun Wang • Pastel Reflections
Chris Neiner • Infinite Spinning
Chris Rogerson • Constellations
Christian Drew • more lines and ballads
Clare Elton • Till time shall cease
Clifton Guidry • How to Breathe While Dying
Conrad Winslow • Virgin Soil
Corey Dundee • act like you know
Dai Wei • Samsaric Dance
Dani Howard • Coalescence
Daniel Lee Chappell • Epiradyalis
Dante Luna • Architectures I
David Hamilton • 30,000 Feet
dbhmusic.co.nz
David Nunn • push / pull
Derek Charke • Water Flows Serpentine
Devon Osamu Tipp • Pale Blue Dot
greengiraffemusic.info
Douglas C. Aguilar• Solo for Trumpet in Bb
Emma O'Halloran • Constellations • Dying is a Wild Night • Points of Infinity
Eric Nathan • Double Concerto • Omaggio a Gesualdo
Erika Vega • The love song
Estreilla Besson • L'homme à l'âme de bois (The man with a wooden soul)
Ethan Wickman • Relics from the Conquest
Filip Holacky • Quartet for flute, violin, cello, and piano
Francisco del Pino • Decir
Garrett George • Rhapsody for String Quartet
Geoff Li • A New Era of Immigrant Stories
Gilad Cohen • Firefly Elegy
Grace-Evangeline Mason • Upon Weightless Wings
Gregory Emfietzis • The Black Art of Obscurantism
Gustavo Garabito • Prelude for two cellos
youtube.com/user/garabito77/videos
Harriet Steinke • Contrasting Movements
Harry O'Connor • Fantasy for Piano Solo
Horacio Fernández Vázquez • Prelude & Bossa Nova #2 "Pizzicato etude"
Igor Santos • anima • ploy, pivot • through thoughts of a different kind
inti figgis-vizueta • Talamh (land)
Iván Enrique Rodríguez • 3 Visiones
J.P. Redmond • 9x9: Nine Pieces for Nonet
Jaelem Bhate • Aura
jaelembhate.ca
James Primosch • Five Poems
James Romig • Bridges
Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven • Spleen
Jiyoun Chung • Scissors Fantasia Toccata
John Kreitler • Poets End Up Living Their Madness
John Liberatore • A Very Star-Like Start
John Plant • Concerto for Orchestra
Jonas Baes • Tatlong Tagulaylay (Three Lamentations)
composers21.com/compdocs/baesj.htm
Jonas Jurkūnas • Robots and Petals
jurkunas.info
Jonathan Bingham • Violin Concerto
Jordan Nelson • Tender Buttons
Joseph Klein • Interstices
josephklein.music.unt.edu/biography_standard
Juan Pablo Contreras • Musas Mexicanas
Juan Pablo Navarro • Candombass
facebook.com/juanpablonavarrosepteto
Judith Lang Zaimont • A STRANGE MAGIC, String Quartet No. 2
Jules Pegram • CRUSH for Eight Cellos
Kai-Young Chan • Echoes of the Autumn Night
Kate Neal • Permission To Speak • What Hath II
Kelley Sheehan • Talk Circus
Kevin Day • Ecstatic Samba
Kevin March • Sea Blue Bird
jamesrhetor.wixsite.com/kevinmarch/about
Kevin Volans • Chakra for 3 percussion and orchestra • Seven Bass Winds
Kevin Wilt • Out in the Storm
Kirsten Milenko • Duets
Krista Connelly • Shadows
Kyle Sanna • Sequence for Minor White
Kyriaki Gkoudina • The Furies for Duo Saxophones
johnnyandthesaint.wixsite.com/website
Leah Reid • Cranberries
Liliya Ugay • Scenes from the Motherhood
Lisa Robertson • the inimitable brightness of the air
Lorenzo Gioco • Connections
Luna Pearl Woolf • But I Digress…
Maciej Balenkowski • Sinfonietta nr 2 "Polonia" - hommage à Wojciech Kilar' for string orchestra
youtube.com/watch?v=ysJFiPedklY
Marcus Norris • Dance Suite (I Tried So Hard For You)
Márk Csernovszky • Elmepalota
Markku Klami • FUME – Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Marta Kornelia Kowalczuk • Improvvisazione per violino barocco
soundcloud.com/martakkowalczuk
Martin Herraiz • cubist dances
Mathew Fuerst • Broken Cycles
Matt Browne • Writers' Room
Matt Frey • lean
Matthew Peterson • Hyperborea
Max Addae • Sometimes
Meng Wang • All the best times I can remember (2019)
Michael Gilbertson • The Beautiful & The Good
Michael Ippolito • Smoke Rings
Mikel Urquiza • Ars memoriae • Cinq pièges brefs
Molly Joyce • ABC
Nadeem Majdalany • Phoenix of Atlantis
Nathaniel Heyder • Amplify
Ned McGowan • Cycle Games 1
Nick DiBerardino • Caladrius
Nicky Sohn • Bird up
Nicolas Mazmanian • Variations on a theme of Lalo Schifrin for mandolin and Orchestra
Noëmi Haffner • Miniatures for Saxophone-quartet
Patricia Martinez • Barely the breath
Patrick Soluri • Continuum
Paul Frucht • Rhapsody
Peter Nagle • tightrope walker
Peter Van Zandt Lane • Chamber Symphony
Peter Wilson • Three Preludes
Petra Varallyay • Stringception
facebook.com/PetraVarallyayTrio
Piero Niro • NOTE PER I MUSICI
cidim.it/cidim/content/314619?db=bdci&id=242325
Piet Jozef Swerts • Interaction
pietswerts.be
Rain Worthington • Resolves for cello
Raven Chacon • The Journey of the Horizontal People
Reid Merzbacher • For Just a Moment
Reinaldo Moya • The Way North • Vestida de mar (A Violin Concerto)
Richard R. He • Transcendental Beats
Rob Smith • Chaw • Spin
Robin Haigh • Grin
Rodrigo Bussad • Atlas Vocalis I
Roger Zare • Escher Triptych • Fractal Miniatures
Sam Perkin • The Copy and The Original
Saman Shahi • Songs of a Wandering Soul
Sami Seif • La'ib an-nard (The Dice Player)
Scott Wollschleger • Meditation on Dust
Simon Phillips • SKEIN
Soosan Lolavar • I am the spring, you are the earth
Steven Snowden • Appalachian Polaroids
Takuma Itoh • Arrow of Time • Wavelengths
Theo Chandler • Oboe Concerto
Theodoros Lotis • Seven spaces of ether
Timothy Peterson • Talk It Out
Tomi Räisänen • Portal (Marimba Concerto)
Trevor Weston • Juba
Uxío Domínguez Darriba • Berceuse
Uğurcan Öztekin • Aks-i Mülevven
Valéria Bonafé • A terceira margem do rio
Vera Ivanova • Children Games
Victor De La Cruz • El espejo de agua
Victor Rangel • To Dream of Jasmines
Vitalii Vyshynskyi • fOrest
youtube.com/channel/UCgVzvIWuDO-3Uk8sAYUa33Q
Vivian Fung • Birdsong for Violin and Piano
Will Rowe • [paused]
soundcloud.com/willrowecomposer
William Susman • CAMILLE
Yanchen Ye • Xizi for Orchestra
Yintong Liu • Shanhai Fortress
Yohanan Chendler • Jo Ha Kyu
Yuting Tan • Ashes and Embers
Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena • Haizorratz
What does it mean to be a finalist from our call for scores? In addition to being the works our committee advanced to our final round, we are planning to program as many of these works as possible in the coming months and throughout our 2021-22 season. We recently received a grant from the Clarence E. Heller Foundation to support the costs of recording works from our 2020 call for scores and we are actively raising money to program more music and support more artists in the coming months. If you would like to make a contribution, you can do so through our website: www.kco.la/support
Applicants also had the opportunity to have their music published open-access by the UCLA Library. This collection now includes over 5,500 works from our 2020 call for scores and has created the world’s largest open-access catalog of new music, receiving over 38,000 unique visitors so far to UCLA's Contemporary Music Score Collection in eScholarship. This groundbreaking work at UCLA has been led by music librarian Matthew Vest.
We are planning to announce our next call for scores towards the end of 2021, with selected works to be performed in our 2022-23 season. This will give us more time to program as many of the above works as possible, in addition to programming works from our 2019 call for scores that were scheduled to be performed in 2020, on concerts canceled due to the COVID-pandemic.
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