WOMENSING Information

WomenSing and River of Words, Center for Environmental Literacy at St Mary's College of California), in special recognition of WomenSing's 50th anniversary season, are offering young female composers the opportunity to create new choral music, mentored by teaching artist Alice Parker. Up to two winners will be commissioned to write a treble choral work based on the highly inspired children's poetry from the River of Words project, which will be premiered by WomenSing on June 5 and June 8, 2016. Works will be part of a season-long celebration of WomenSing's 50th, and should reflect our theme, "Giving voice to women for 50 years. Each commissioned composer will receive a commissioning fee of US $1,000 and a recording of the work. Mentoring will include public composer's workshops in conjunction with WomenSing's Treble Voices Now new music festival on April 15 and 16, 2016, six weeks prior to the premiere. Founded in 1995 by former US Poet Laureate and 2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Robert Hass, and writer Pamela Michael, River of Words has energetically enlisted youth from around the world to compete annually in both art and poetry on the subject of the environment.