{"id":281,"date":"2015-07-24T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2016-04-07T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:19:04","slug":"nell-awarded-composers-the-voice-fellowship-by-aop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/nell-awarded-composers-the-voice-fellowship-by-aop\/","title":{"rendered":"Nell Awarded Composers &#038; the Voice Fellowship by American Opera Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/operaprojects2.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/22\/aop-awards-fellowships-to-ten-composers-and-librettists-for-free-training-in-opera-composition\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/4cb5cb83e61e2ff4c679fc7f1\/images\/cbc27047-7df1-4b52-a38f-509ce8980d7e.jpg\" alt=\"Composers &amp; the Voice 2015-17 Training Fellows\" width=\"100%\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a> <em>Graphic by American Opera Projects<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am absolutely thrilled and honored to have been selected by American Opera Projects to participate in\u00a0the eighth season of their renowned\u00a0<strong>Composers &amp; the Voice<\/strong> fellowship\u00a0program!<\/p>\n<p>Directed by conductor\u00a0<strong>Steven Osgood<\/strong> (The Metropolitan Opera,\u00a0Beth Morrison Projects, et al), this program gives emerging composers and librettists experience working collaboratively with\u00a0singers on writing for the voice and contemporary opera stage.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year fellowships, made possible through a generous grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, include a year of working with the company&#8217;s Resident Ensemble of Singers and Artistic Team at AOP&#8217;s home base in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, followed by a year of continued promotion and development through AOP and its strategic partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to hear my work in May 2016 at <em>First Glimpse<\/em>, AOP&#8217;s bi-annual concert of songs written in the C&amp;V workshops. A second concert in September 2016 will showcase full opera scenes created by the composers over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/operaprojects2.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/22\/aop-awards-fellowships-to-ten-composers-and-librettists-for-free-training-in-opera-composition\" target=\"_blank\">AOP&#8217;s official announcement<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about C&amp;V and the accomplished group of artists I&#8217;ll have\u00a0the privilege\u00a0of joining this fall. I look forward to sharing the products of this program with you over the coming months and years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic by American Opera Projects I am absolutely thrilled and honored to have been selected by American Opera Projects to participate in\u00a0the eighth season of their renowned\u00a0Composers &amp; the Voice fellowship\u00a0program! Directed by conductor\u00a0Steven Osgood (The Metropolitan Opera,\u00a0Beth Morrison Projects, et al), this program gives emerging composers and librettists experience working collaboratively with\u00a0singers on writing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/nell-awarded-composers-the-voice-fellowship-by-aop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nell Awarded Composers &#038; the Voice Fellowship by American Opera Projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}