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RBC Bridges Program Dates: February 21 – 27, 2025
With Mentor Composer: Tarik O’Regan
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Application Deadline: Monday October 14, 2024 (11:59pm EST)
Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges: Emerging Composers Program is an annual week-long tuition-free program that brings together celebrated mentors, a professional resident ensemble, and six emerging composers from around the world to each develop and premiere a new work, presented as part of Soundstreams’ main stage concert series in Toronto, ON.
Each participant will receive a $1,000 honorarium and free accommodation in Toronto for the duration of the workshop.
The program week includes workshops, seminars, networking events, rehearsals, 1-1 mentorship sessions, and professional development activities that foster new connections, artistic development, and lifelong career building.
The 2025 edition of Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges Program will feature British/American composer Tarik O’Regan as our composer/mentor-in-residence. Invited participants will compose a short piece (maximum of 5 minutes) for our resident ensemble, which this year, we are thrilled to announce, will be the Vancouver Chamber Choir. The Vancouver Chamber choir is a 16-voice SATB choir. Composers must write for the full voicing of the choir, either SATB or SSAATTBB and may include possible solo voices from within the choir. Works can be written either as a cappella (non-accompanied, voices only) or as accompanied works with piano.
The final performance will be part of Soundstream’s mainstage concert featuring the Vancouver Chamber Choir on February 27th, 2025, at Christ Church Deer Park, Toronto ON.