PICTURES 2008 - New Jersey students explore the intersection of music and visual art

Becoming one of New Jersey's premiere Composition Contests,
NJ students are asked to compose music inspired by visual art exhibited in the Montclair Art Museum. 
Guest artist, The Halcyon Trio (clarinetist, Andrew Lamy, violist, Brett Deubner and pianist, Gary Kirkpatrick)
will perform duets written by the students.  In addition, the Halycon Trio will premiere the
2008 Ionisation Commission, Innesscapes, a new work by New Jersey's own Christian Carey.
 

Become a financial partner with the NJAC and help support the Pictures 2008 program:
Click on the link above, press the BEGIN YOUR ORDER button and choose the appropriate price level.

$100 DONOR
(Includes 2 Tickets and listing in the Concert Program)

$200 SUPPORTER
(Includes DONOR benefits plus passes to private Museum Tour and Reception with performers and contest winners)

$500 ANGEL
(Includes SUPPORTER benefits plus role in onstage Awards Ceremony)
 

Westminster Choir College Composer's Forum – Friday, April 4
2:00-4:30pm
Removable Classroom 1 and Talbott Library Classroom 1
(This event is free and open to the public.)

FOR DIRECTIONS to Westminster Choir College
at Rider University, CLICK HERE.

Winning composers are invited to attend a reading of their work by THE HALCYON TRIO.  The Composer's Forum is hosted by Westminster Choir College Theory and Composition faculty member, Dr. Christian Carey.  In an intimate workshop setting, Dr. Carey will discuss each piece and will facilitate a dialog between student composers and THE HALCYON TRIO.

Students will receive a professionally recorded CD of their piece.

Pictures 2008 – Friday, May 9
8:00pm Concert
(7:15 pre-concert panel)
Montclair Art Museum

Tickets are required for this event,
CLICK HERE to purchase tickets.

FOR DIRECTIONS to the Montclair Art Museum, CLICK HERE.

Pieces by Michael Mikulka, Thomas Oltarzewski, Rachel Chastain and Ian Vogler will be performed at the PICTURES 2008 CONCERT at the Montclair Art Museum along with the Ionisation Pictures 2008 Commission, Innesscapes by Christian Carey.

Pre-concert lecture will feature Grand Prize Contest Winners (Michael Mikulka, Thomas Oltarzewski, Rachel Chastain and Ian Vogler), Dr. Christain Carey (Pictures 2008 Commissioned Composer) and Adrienne Baxter Bell (Inness scholar and author of George Inness and the Visionary Landscape).
 

3rd annual New Jersey Arts Collective
Student Music Composition Contest Winners
 

College Grand Prize Winner – First Place
Michael Mikulka, Sunset, 1892
(Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts – New Brunswick, NJ)
Undergraduate Student in Music Education
Hometown – Sandyston, NJ

College Grand Prize Winner – Second Place
Thomas Oltarzewski, Sunset, 1892
(Montclair State University – Montclair, NJ)
Undergraduate in Music Education and Music Composition
Hometown – Toms River, NJ

College Honorable Mention 
David Zas, Sunset
(Rider University, Westminster Choir College – Princeton, NJ)
Undergraduate in Music Education and Composition
Hometown – Parlin, NJ


Pre-College Grand Prize Winners
Rachael Chastain, Aborior ut Emergo: Ad infinitum
 Senior at Pennsville Memorial High School – Pennsville, NJ

Ian Vogler, Sunset
Junior at Lakewood High School – Lakewood, NJ


Pre-College Honorable Mention
Tim Vorderstrasse, Sunset, 1892
Junior at Midland Park High School – Midland Park, NJ

Daniel Konstantinovsky, Sunset at Montclaire
8^th grader at Tenafly Middle School – Tenafly, NJ

Sam Skinner, Sunset Glow
8^th grader at Glenfield Middle School – Montclair, NJ


All pieces will be performed at the COMPOSER’S FORUM at Westminster Choir College on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 2pm.

Pieces by Michael Mikulka, Thomas Oltarzewski, Rachel Chastain and Ian Vogler will be performed on Friday, May 9 at 8pm at the PICTURES 2008 CONCERT
at the Montclair Art Museum along with the Ionisation Pictures 2008 Commission, Innesscapes by Christian Carey.