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Young Composers Project 2025
Do you know a child who is creative, who loves music, who likes to sing or dance? Maybe they are already taking music lessons. But even if not, would they enjoy a musical adventure? Maybe they have a story to tell with music. Children in grades K-7 are eligible to participate in this unique and exciting opportunity.
Voices Chorale NJ (VCNJ) is pleased to announce our award-winning Young Composers Project (YCP) for spring 2025. In 2017, VOICES and its founder, Dr. Lyn Ransom, received the Chorus America Education and Community Engagement Award for the Young Composers Project which had enabled over 500 children to compose their own music and experience the excitement of having it performed!
Since 2019 the program has been under the direction of composer Kenneth K. Guilmartin, founder/artistic director of Music Together. Ken and assisting musicians/composers provide mentorship through in-person workshops to encourage the children to create their compositions and then develop and refine them for the final program concert.
It might be difficult to imagine that a child with limited or no ability to read or write music can create an original composition that can be performed. However, it is possible and is part of the wonderful experience of participating in the Young Composers Project!
Voices Chorale NJ (VCNJ) is pleased to announce our award-winning Young Composers Project (YCP) for spring 2025. In 2017, VOICES and its founder, Dr. Lyn Ransom, received the Chorus America Education and Community Engagement Award for the Young Composers Project which had enabled over 500 children to compose their own music and experience the excitement of having it performed!
Since 2019 the program has been under the direction of composer Kenneth K. Guilmartin, founder/artistic director of Music Together. Ken and assisting musicians/composers provide mentorship through in-person workshops to encourage the children to create their compositions and then develop and refine them for the final program concert.
It might be difficult to imagine that a child with limited or no ability to read or write music can create an original composition that can be performed. However, it is possible and is part of the wonderful experience of participating in the Young Composers Project!
- Mentoring Workshops
- Monthly workshops will be held Tuesday February 25th, Tuesday March 18th, and Tuesday April 22nd at Music Together Headquarters, Hopewell, NJ – younger children 4:30-5:30pm, older children 5:45-7pm.
- The final May workshop-rehearsal will be on the evening of Monday, May 12, 2025.
- Monthly workshops will be held Tuesday February 25th, Tuesday March 18th, and Tuesday April 22nd at Music Together Headquarters, Hopewell, NJ – younger children 4:30-5:30pm, older children 5:45-7pm.
- The Young Composers Project Concert with Voices Chorale NJ
- This culminating concert to celebrate the children’s accomplishments will be held at Music Together Headquarters, Hopewell, NJ on the evening of Monday May 19, 2025.
- Compositions/songs
- Must have a vocal element, which may be performed by VCNJ or the child or both.
- Children will be mentored to create new works or develop pre-existing ones as part of the project. Compositions should be primarily the child’s creation, with facilitation by parents and/or music teachers, as needed.
- Compositions may include piano accompaniment, which will be provided for the concert performance (children may choose to play but that is not required). Compositions may include other instruments, and that must be arranged for by the young composer.
- As a learning experience, children are encouraged to invent their own notation, with traditional notation for performers supplied as needed by the children’s music teachers, parents, or YCP mentors (at minimal cost).
For more information about YCP 2025: contact Carole Moore, VCNJ Young Composers Project Administrator
[email protected] or 609-658-2636
[email protected] or 609-658-2636
Location: 225 Pennington-Hopewell Road; Hopewell, NJ 08525
