Chamber Consortium Project
Current Project Stage
Closed: The pieces for this consortium series have been completed!
Meet our 2024-2025 composers and review the full consortium details below.
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2024-2025 Composers
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Kincaid is a writer and composer. They like dinosaurs, roller coasters, romance bookstores, craft cocktails, houseplants, and macaroni and cheese. Kincaid writes about childhood memories, fantasy worlds, and little epiphanies that inspire the everyday extraordinary. After Kincaid completes each project, they go to Disneyland, their natural habitat.
Kincaid identifies as queer, transgender, nonbinary, neurodivergent, and autistic, and uses they/them pronouns. Kincaid is exclusively published by Trevco Music. Kincaid splits their time between Tucson, Arizona and San Diego, California.
Kincaid is a member of the Millennium Composers Initiative.
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Noelia is an Argentinian composer, conductor, pianist, and singer. She is the former orchestra director at the National Program of Orchestras and Choirs of the Ministry of Education of the Argentine Nation, and has been invited as a lecturer on Argentine music for trombone at the 2024 International Trombone Festival in Texas. Her works have been premiered in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Italy, and Germany, and she is currently working on music for symphonic band, various recording projects, and international premieres.
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Amber Sheeran (she/her, b. 3 June 1999, Denver, Colo.) is an American composer and music teacher.
Ms. Sheeran began playing clarinet in fourth grade and expanded her musical skills by picking up choir, guitar, and string bass. She began arranging and composing in high school as a part of her band, orchestra, and choir finals. She continued her studies in composition at Colorado State University under Dr. James David, and has written for ensembles such as the Middle School Outreach Ensemble at CSU, the Mile High Freedom Band, the CSU Trombone Choir, and Mann Middle School.
While much of her inspiration started from literature, she also focuses on pieces surrounding the beautiful nature of her home state of Colorado, along with the folk songs found in elementary music. In addition to composition, Ms. Sheeran teaches K-3 elementary music, assists with the beginning and intermediate bands for the Colorado Honor Band Association, and serves on the board of the Colorado chapter of the American Eurhythmics Society.
Membership Details
Commission completion: October 1, 2024
Duration: Each of the three pieces will be between 6 and 8 minutes in duration.
Exclusivity: To provide flexibility and accessibility to all our co-commissioners, you will have 12 full months from the October 2024 completion date to make your own premiere and record live performances. Studio recording exclusivity is held by the lead commissioners until October 2025, at which point you may record and release professional recordings.
Cost: Membership is available at professional and student level pricing tiers.
Additional Information: Download the membership details.