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You are invited to participate in the 2012 Early Music Scholars Competition ( http://www.chaliceconsort.org/emsc.html) which is hosted by Chalice Consort (www.chaliceconsort.org). The winners of this competition will be recognized at the Chalice Consort Early Music Conference (CCEMC, formerly called Early Music Mining Conference - http://www.chaliceconsort.org/ccemc.html) in San Francisco on April 14, 2012.

The Early Music Scholars Competition (EMSC) is a competition presented by Chalice Consort to foster the discovery and reconstruction of early music choral scores.

Chalice Consort is honored by the participation of our distinguished Panel at the CCEMC including early music specialists and Artistic Director of Chalice Consort, Davitt Moroney (UC Berkeley); David Trendell (King's College, London), Jeremy Summerly (Royal Academy of Music, London), Kerry McCarthy (Duke University) and Peter Poulos (University of Cincinnati).
Each scholar participating in this competition is asked to submit his/her editorial work of reconstruction of incomplete work (at least one voice part is missing) or a piece that is unpublished (either online or offline in modern edition), has never been publicly performed, and that complements the focal piece of the subsequent Chalice Consort Early Music Conference (CCEMC) (http://www.chaliceconsort.org/ccemc.html): Reges Tharsis by the 16th-century John Sheppard (c.1548-1611). From the submissions received, up to five pieces will be presented at the CCEMC, and from those, one will be selected for performance by Chalice Consort at a future concert.

At the conference, there will be a moderated discussion by the panel of early music specialists and directors after each piece has been sung. The presenting scholars will be invited to discuss their submitted piece and their editorial work at the conference. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you will be able to submit a 20-mins video of your editorial work and argument as to why your piece should be the winning piece.

The attendees of the conference will vote for their favorite piece to be performed by Chalice Consort at a future concert.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact me at puretoneosprano at yahoo.com.

Rebekah Wu
Founder of Chalice Consort
(415) 875-9544
puretonesoprano at yahoo.com
http://www.chaliceconsort.org
Chalice Consort is a project of Community Initiatives (www.communityin.org).