Opportunity: Carnegie Hall Workshop for Young Arts Journalists
Are you interested in arts journalism? Carnegie hall is offering a multi-day workshop (tuition-free!) for young arts journalists (ages 18-35) in November. Click here to view the workshop flyer. The deadline to apply is October 15.
About the Workshop
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, 2013–2014 holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, leads a uniquely structured workshop in which young composers and ensembles will work together on new works commissioned by Carnegie Hall. He is joined by Claire Chase and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble to coach the young artists through this dynamic process of collaboration. Composers applied together with a chamber ensemble, and four works have been commissioned to be premiered in Zankel Hall at the culmination of the workshop. During the week, participants will be coached by the workshop leaders, and will explore some of the larger questions of
advocating for new music—how to present themselves and their work on stage and in the media, how to connect effectively with audiences, and how to build a career entrepreneurially.
As a complementary strand of this workshop, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute invites young arts journalists (ages 18-35) to apply to participate. The workshop aims to promote dialogue between and among composers, performers, and writers, and to explore the different but intersecting means through which each group communicates about music and their artistic work. The selected arts journalists will work closely with Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, and will observe/participate in the full range of workshops during the week. Writers will be strongly encouraged to participate musically (along with composers, performers and faculty) in readings of open-scoring works and will have the opportunity to showcase writing about the workshop or related topics on the Carnegie Hall blog.
