Welcome to SICPP: 8 days and nights of explosive new music!
The SICPP experience is intense and demanding – each day is filled with masterclasses, colloquia, concerts, and rehearsals. Nearly every day is topped off by an incredible evening concert given by SICPP faculty, Guest Artists, and the Ensemble-in-Residence, the Callithumpian Consort, featuring works by our 2021 Composers-in-Residence, Prof. Chaya Czernowin and Dr. Ann Cleare.
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SICPP was started in the late 1990s by Artistic Director Stephen Drury as an intensive performance seminar on music of the 20th century. For many years, enrollment was open only to advanced pianists, but since 2005 the program has also been open to percussionists, and further expanded in 2009 to include vocalists and all other instrumentalists. SICPP is now a full-blown annual chamber music festival focused on works of the 20th and 21st centuries, which also features an Electronic Workshop and New Works composer fellow program.
Here’s what some past “Sick Puppies” have to say:
Past Guest Artists and Composers-in-Residence
- 2019
- Composer-in-Residence: Michael Finnissy
- Guest Artists: Mark Dresser and Joseph Kubera
- Electronics Workshop Guests: Andrea Pensado and Elainie Lillios
- 2018
- Composer-in-Residence: Julian Anderson
- Guest Artists: Allen Otte and Mark Menzies
- Electronics Workshop Guests: Susanna Bolle, Davide Ianni, and Brian Riordan
- 2017
- Composer-in-Residence: Georg Friedrich Haas
- Guest Artists: Kim Kashkashian and William Winant
- Electronics Workshop Guests: Judy Dunaway and Christopher Bailey
- 2016
- Composer-in-Residence: Vinko Globokar
- Guest Artist: Marilyn Nonken
- Electronics Workshop Guests: Elainie Lillios and Katarina Miljkovic
- 2015
- Composer-in-Residence: Rand Steiger
- Guest Artist: Mark Menzies
- Electronics Workshop Guests: Sasha de Koninck and Rand Steiger
- 2014
- Composer-in-Residence: Roger Reynolds
- Guest Artists: John Tilbury and Nino Jvania
- Electronics Workshop Guests: Jed Speare and Roger Reynolds
- 2013
- Composer-in-Residence: Rand Steiger
- Guest Artists: Winston Choi
- 2012
- Composer-in-Residence: Christian Wolff
- Guest Artists: Steffen Schleiermacher, Joseph Kubera, and Louis Goldstein
- 2011
- Composer-in-Residence: Tristan Murail
- Guest Artists: Ursula Oppens
- 2010
- Composer-in-Residence: Chaya Czernowin
- Guest Artists: Steffen Schleiermacher and Mathias Reumert
- 2009
- Composer-in-Residence: Jonathan Harvey
- Guest Artists: Francesco Dillon, Emanuele Torquati, and Aki Takahashi
- 2008
- Composer-in-Residence: Jo Kondo
- Guest Artists: Aki Takahashi
- 2007
- Composer-in-Residence: Water Zimmermann
- Guest Artists: Heather O’Donnell
- 2006 Composer-in-Residence: Michael Finnissy
- 2005 Composer-in-Residence: Frederic Rzewski
- 2004 Composer-in-Residence: Christian Wolff
- 2003 Composer-in-Residence: Lee Hyla
- 2002 Composer-in-Residence: Linda Dusman
- 2001 Composer-in-Residence: Paul Elwood