Call for residency 2012

The Ambronay Cultural Encounter Centre continues its innovative policy of aiding the professional insertion of young musicians. Initiated in 1993 with the European Baroque Academy, to bridge the gap between the final years of education and the beginning of a musical career, it developed further with the professional training courses. To this we have now added a further dimension: Young Artists Residencies.

The program is aimed at ensembles including at least one musician who has already participated in courses at Ambronay or in the European Baroque Academy. It emerges from a recognition that newly formed ensembles often have the need for time and rehearsal space to work on their first projects. It is the ambition of the Cultural Encounter Centre to be able to facilitate, with its Young Artists Residency, the well-founded emergence of the new talents from all over Europe.

The Young Artists Residencies are organized in partnership with the Collegio Ghisleri in Pavia which will host 2 residencies.

This program benefits from the support of the European Commission, which awarded it the title of European Cultural Ambassador until 2013.

6 ensembles will be selected this year for 1 week of residency, between January and July 2012. This residency will take place either in Ambronay or in an associate organization in Europe.

The Ambronay Cultural Encounter Centre offers:

Rooms and materials:
• One or two practice rooms at your disposal.
• Provision of a positive organ, two harpsichords (the instruments will not be tuned) and a digital piano.
Accommodation and meals will be provided over a period of 8 days (in rooms of 2 occupants).

A programme of à la carte training:
• Administrative advice on: creating an association, contracts and performers' rights, preparation of invoices and an introduction to accounting.
• Communications advice: putting together a presentation portfolio, a press pack, communicating with online audiences.
• Advice on seeking financing, putting on a production or organising a tour.
• Advice on organizing events: development of cultural activities destined for school groups (workshops, public rehearsals etc.).

These sessions can involve either all members of the ensemble or individual musicians. They can take place either during the period of residency or beforehand, according to a schedule established with members of the Ambronay training team.

Distribution:
• The selected ensembles will be invited to perform as part of Ambronay Cultural Encounter Centre's and/or Collegio Ghislieri's 2012 program.

The ensemble commits to:

• Welcome school groups during the residency period (a 2-hour session) for musical performance, public rehearsal, presentation of instruments, workshops.
• Mention the support of the Ambronay Cultural Encounter Centre on documents produced by the ensemble and on concert programs for a period of 2 years following the end of the residency, according to the residency contract.

Deadline for applications: November 5th, 2011

The selection will proceed in two steps :

1. Selection by written application:
• Presenting the ensemble, the musicians
• The artistic project and approach that the ensemble will follow through during the residency
• Long-term projects
• Audio or video recording

2. The pre-selected ensembles will participate in european auditions organized between the 8th and the 14th of December in :

Ambronay (France)

Pavia - Collegio Ghislieri (Italy)

The Hague (Netherlands)

Barcelona (Spain)

Berlin (Germany)

Warsaw (Poland)

Riga (Latvia)

Conditions:
• Musicians specialising in early music
• At least one of the musicians must have already participated in projects with the European Baroque Academy and/or courses at Ambronay.
• The ensemble must be formed for less than 5 years

Please send applications and registration forms via e-mail to:
julie.robert@ambronay.org
+33 (0) 4 74 38 74 09

Please ask for a return-receipt.