Submission Guidelines
Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Thomas Piercy and Lish Lindsey to be premiered online in 2025
Compose a bold, one-minute masterpiece! Fifteen Minutes of Fame seeks miniatures for hichiriki and low flute (alto, bass, or contrabass flute) for the dynamic duo Thomas Piercy and Lish Lindsey. Explore rich timbres and unique sonorities in just 60 seconds of music. Submit now and let your creativity shine!
Only works one-minute in length for hichiriki and low flute (alto, bass, or contrabass flute) will be considered.
Guidelines:
- Works are for the duo of hichiriki and low flute only (low flute is either alto, bass, or contrabass flute)
- Works should be composed specifically for this call and performers.
- Deadline for submissions is June 30, 2025
- All pieces must be premieres and not previously written or performed.
- No works over a minute will be reviewed.
- Multiple submissions are not accepted. Send your best work!
- Works need to be submitted online at http://www.musicavatar.org
- You will need to register with Music Avatar for free to submit your work online.
- After logging in to Music Avatar, select the opportunity named "Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Thomas Piercy and Lish Lindsey" and press the "submit" button to start the submission process.
- You will need to provide a maximum 50 word biography and 50 word program notes.
- You will be able to upload a score as a PDF file (You may also upload an audio file; however it is not required.)
- Must include the dedication to Thomas Piercy and Lish Lindsey on the score.
- Performance notes should be included in the score.
Results will be announced via the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame website and the new music newsletter: NM421
More can be found be found at: http://www.voxnovus.com/fifteen-minutes-of-fame/
About the Hichiriki:
Composers can visit Thomas Piercy’s website Hichiriki page which has playing samples and instructions for composing for Hichiriki.
http://www.thomaspiercy.com/hichiriki.html
About Thomas Piercy:
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His performances have been described by critics as "passionate," "pulling out all the stops," "the best Piazzolla in NYC," and by the New York Times as "brilliant," "playing with refinement and flair" and "evoking a panache in the contemporary works." He studied at the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music. He studied clarinet extensively with the English clarinetist Gervase De Peyer; additional studies were with Kalmen Opperman and Leon Russianoff. Hichiriki studies were with Hitomi Nakamura in Tokyo. A versatile artist defying categorization - the clarinetist on the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby CD and DVDs; performing Mozart with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; playing Broadway songs with Raoul Julia; working with the composer Leonard Bernstein; appearing in a KRS-ONE rap music video; performing concert improvisations with jazz pianist Donal Fox; premiering new works; recording with members of Maroon 5 - as an instrumentalist, he has performed and recorded for Broadway and Off-Broadway, commercial recordings, television, radio, videos, and movie soundtracks. Mr. Piercy has performed at many acclaimed concerts halls including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (Chicago, Illinois), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Wigmore Hall (London, England), Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy) and Tokyo Opera City Hall (Tokyo, Japan). He has performed and premiered over 200 compositions written for him, including works from emerging composers to composers that have won such prominent awards as the Takemitsu Prize, the Geneva Composition Prize, the Grammy Award, the Latin Grammy Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. He has had arrangements and transcriptions published by Boosey & Hawkes, and contributed to clarinet study books and clarinet compositions published by Carl Fischer, Inc., and Baron Publishing. Recordings available on such labels as the Albany, Capstone, Changing Tones, DGA, NJSF and Tonada labels.
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About Lish Lindsey:
Flutist Alicia "Lish" Lindsey was born in South Korea and grew up in New Jersey, 15 minutes outside of Philadelphia, PA where jimmies and sprinkles are considered two different confectionery toppings. She currently resides in the heart of New York City's Theater District. As a freelance musician she enjoys collaborating with some of the most engaging and vibrant musicians in the United States, Japan, China, Belgium, Italy, England, and Wales. Lish is a member of the Capital Philharmonic Orchestra (principal piccolo), Eastern Wind Symphony (principal flute, former principal piccolo), Garden State Symphonic Band (principal piccolo), Random Access Music (resident flutist/ryūteki player), Queens New Music Festival, the Endless Mountain Music Festival, UpTown Flutes (contrabass flute), Centre Park Flute Ensemble (contrabass flute), Exit 4 Wind Quintet, and Badger.Mantis; a flute/clarinet duo with her husband, Broadway multiple woodwind musician and Grammy winner, Todd Groves. She regularly performs with Riverside Symphonia, New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra (principal flute), East Brunswick Symphony Orchestra (principal piccolo), and Composer's Voice (MNN TV Network). Lish is the director of The Gagaku Ensemble of New York at Columbia University (ancient Japanese court music) and has performed/studied with the Tenri Gagaku Society in Queens. Current teaching appointments include Columbia University, American Composers Orchestra (teaching artist), Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and is a monthly guest teacher for the Pocono Flute Society. Past university applied flute/music lecturer positions include CUNY Brooklyn College, New Jersey City University, Wilkes University, Montclair State University, The College of New Jersey, Mercer County Community College, and Camden County Community College. Lish taught for four seasons in Sarteano (Italy) with Summer Music in Tuscany, was a clinician at the Pocono Flute Camp in East Stroudsburg (PA) for six summers, and presenter for Midori and Friends.
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame is 15 one-minute works written by different composers specifically for a musician or ensemble.
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame gives a variety of new music by living composers to audiences hungry to hear what is being created in today's music scene. The Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project has featured more than 75 musician/ensembles premiering the works of over 1000 composers in New York City. The project has presented works across the United States and 10 other countries.
More about the project can be found on the website: