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Composer Residency - Chamber Choir

June 22-25

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The Green Lake Festival of Music welcomes Reena Esmail for the 2023 Composer Residency. This four-day immersion in Esmail’s choral music begins the morning of Thursday, June 22, culminating in an afternoon performance on Sunday, June 25. All rehearsals and the performance will take place at Ripon College’s Rodman Center for the Arts in Demmer Recital Hall.

This select chamber choir works at a high artistic level, equivalent to that of a graduate-level or professional ensemble. Participants are expected to have advanced reading and vocal skills and to arrive at the first rehearsal with all the notes and rhythms completely learned.

Previous composers in residence with the Green Lake Festival of Music are Ola Gjeilo, Shawn Kirchner, Morten Lauridsen, and Elaine Hagenberg.

2023 Composer-In-residence

Reena Esmail

Learn more about Reena

Cost and Registration

By auditioning to participate in the 2023 Composer Residency, you are committing to participate if accepted. To audition, make a short video consisting of the elements listed below. Your audition video must be in the order listed. You may pause the recording between sections or record each item at different times, but there must be no editing, splicing, or video enhancements in the audition video outside of piecing the components into one continuous video. You may not wear headphones while recording. When you are satisfied, label the file and upload it as an unlisted video to YouTube.

ALL AUDITIONS ARE DUE MARCH 15, 2023 at 11:59 PM

Cost is $150 ($125 if also participating in the Choral Institute). Participants are responsible for meals, housing, transportation, and music purchase.

more information and application

preliminary schedule

Thursday, June 22

  • 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Rehearsal
  • Lunch
  • 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Rehearsal

Friday, June 23

  • 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Rehearsal
  • Lunch

Saturday, June 24

  • 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Rehearsal
  • 3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Composer Talk with Reena (with autograph signing and photo-op)
  • Dinner
  • 7:00 p.m. – 9:00pm – Rehearsal

Sunday, June 25

  • 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – FINAL Rehearsal
  • Lunch
  • 2:15 p.m. – Call Time
  • 3:15 p.m. – Composer Residency Concert

GREEN LAKE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC

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Reena Esmail, Composer-in-Residence

Indian-American composer Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and brings communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. 

Esmail’s life and music was profiled on Season 3 of PBS Great Performances series Now Hear This, as well as Frame of Mind, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Esmail divides her attention evenly between orchestral, chamber and choral work. She has written commissions for ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale,  Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, and her music has featured on multiple Grammy-nominated albums, including The Singing Guitar by Conspirare, BRUITS by Imani Winds, and Healing Modes by Brooklyn Rider. Many of her choral works are published by Oxford University Press.

Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2020-2025 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and was Seattle Symphony’s 2020-21 Composer-in-Residence. She also holds awards/fellowships from United States Artists, the S&R Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Kennedy Center.

Esmail holds degrees in composition from The Juilliard School (BM’05) and the Yale School of Music (MM’11, MMA’14, DMA’18). Her primary teachers have included Susan Botti, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Christopher Rouse and Samuel Adler. She received a Fulbright-Nehru grant to study Hindustani music in India. Her Hindustani music teachers include Srimati Lakshmi Shankar and Gaurav Mazumdar, and she currently studies and collaborates with Saili Oak. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Finding Common Ground: Uniting Practices in Hindustani and Western Art Musicians explores the methods and challenges of the collaborative process between Hindustani musicians and Western composers.

Esmail was Composer-in-Residence for Street Symphony (2016-18) and is currently an Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting music traditions of India and the West.