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We seek ways to assure the continuation of the imperiled Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
To Andrea Kalyn, President, NEC:
We – the undersigned – have recently heard about the New England Conservatory’s decision to withdraw support from the essential Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP).
This decision strikes us as most unfortunate for this moment in time, for your esteemed institution, for Boston and its environs. Indeed, it would bring about a devastating loss for the global and inclusive community of new music makers of all kinds.
SICPP has been the place where young people of all persuasions, both inside and outside academia, come together to explore and to make new music. This extraordinary course, planned and guided by Stephen Drury, invariably generates great enthusiasm and energy for participants from all over this world, especially in the larger Boston music community.
The inclusive and open atmosphere of the SICPP course, together with its inventiveness and artistic breadth, creates a truly extraordinary spirit — it is among the most important occasions of its kind in the world — a creative intensity and a spirit of inquiry and adventure that is precious for the long-term health of our art, of our profession.
We urge you to find ways to continue this widely honored and deeply meaningful program.
Sincerely, Hopefully,
1) Roger Reynolds, University Professor Emeritus, University of California San Diego, Pulitzer Prize-winner
2) Chaya Czernowin, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University
… with …
3) George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Columbia University
4) Du Yun, Professor of Composition, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University,
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Pulitzer Prize-winner
5) Kevin Puts, Director of the Minnesota Composer’s Institute, Pulitzer Prize-winner
6) Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Harvard University
7) John Luther Adams, Freelance composer, Pulitzer Prize-winner
8) Claire Chase, Professor of the Practice of Music, Department of Music, Harvard University
9) John Harbison, Institute Professor, Music and Theatre Arts, MIT, Pulitzer Prize-winner
10) Richard Carrick, Chair, Composition, Berklee College of Music
11) Julian Anderson, Professor, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
12) Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition, Columbia University
13) Lewis Spratlan, Emeritus Professor, Amherst College, Pulitzer Prize-winner
14) Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Professor, Head of Composition. Stanford University
15) Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
16) Evis Sammoutis, Professor of Music, Ithaca college.
17) Joshua Fineberg, Professor of Music, Boston University
18) Edmund Campion, Professor of Music Composition Director, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies UC Berkeley; Visiting Slee Professor, State University of New York Buffalo
19) Hans Thomalla, Professor of Music Composition Director, Institute for New Music Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music Northwestern University
20) Lei Liang, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor, Music Department, University of California, San Diego
21) Pamela Madsen Professor, Head of Composition, California State University, Fullerton
22) Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Artistic director and conductor Riot ensemble, London, UK
23) Scott Deal, Professor, Music and Arts Technology Director, Donald Louis Tavel Arts and Technology Research, Indiana University-Purdue
24) Patricia Alessandrini, Assistant Professor Department of Music/CCRMA, Stanford University
25) Felipe Lara, Assistant Professor in Composition, Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University
26) Aaron Larget-Caplan, Associate Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Boston
27) Robert Kirzinger, Director of Program Publications, Boston Symphony Orchestra
28) Michael Daugherty, Professor of Composition, University of Michigan
29) Rand Steiger, Conrad Prebys Presidential Chair, Department of Music, University of California San Diego
30) Michael Theodore, Associate Professor of Music Composition and Technology, College of Music University of Colorado, Boulder
31) Ben Carson, Professor, Chair, Department of Music, University of California Santa Cruz
32) Elisabet Curbelo González, Assistant Professor, Electroacoustic Music Composition; Director of Electroacoustic Ensemble, University of Utah
33) Joseph Waters, Professor of Music, San Diego State University
34 ) Chinary Ung, Distinguished Professor of Music, University of California San Diego
35) Anahita Abbasi, University of California San Diego of California San Diego
36) Mark Applebaum, Leland & Edith Smith Professor of Composition, Stanford University
37) Thomas DeLio, Professor of Music, University of Maryland, College Park
38) Linda Dusman, Professor of Music, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
39) David Gompper, Professor of Music, University of Iowa
40) Marcos Balter, Professor of Music, University of California San Diego
41) Judith Weir, CBE and Master of the Queen’s Music, London, UK
42) Karola Obermueller, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory, University of New Mexico
43) Ashley Fure, Associate Professor of Music, Dartmouth College
44) Evan Johnson, Freelance Composer, Boston
45) Gloria Cheng, University of California Los Angeles
46) John Pickford Richards, Violist, JACK Quartet
47) Vimbayi Kaziboni ,Assistant Professor, Boston Conservatory at Berklee School; Music
Director, Composers Conference at Brandeis University
48) Ian Power, Assistant Professor Klein Family School of Communications Design.
49) Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Associate, Music Department, Harvard University
50) Katty Nez, Associate Professor of Composition and Music Theory, Boston University
51) Michael Finnissy, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Southampton, UK
52) Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Assistant Professor, School of Music, Arizona State University
53) Sivan Cohen Elias, Visiting Assistant Professor, Electronic Music Studio, Director School of Music, University of Iowa
54) Xavier Beteta, Professor of Music, Wheaton College
55) Rebecca Saunders, Professor of Composition Hannover Hochschule, Germany
56) Stephen McAdams, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
57) Christian Karlsen, Conductor, Stockholm, Amsterdam director of Gränslandet – Symfonisk Fest in Stockholm a festival with classical music for young adults
58) Oscar Battison Professor and Chair, Composition Department Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
59) Olga Neuwirth, Professor of Music Composition, Vienna university of music and performing arts MDW, Austria
60) Jessica Bodner, Grammy Award winner with the Parker quartet, Blodgett quartet-in-residence,
Harvard University
61) Eric Chasalow, Irving G. Fine Professor of Music, Brandeis
62) Zosha Di Castari ,Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Composition, Columbia University
63) Erin Gee, Associate Professor of Music Composition and Theory Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
64) Thomas Schaefer, Director Darmstadt Summer courses, Darmstadt Germany.
65) Tiffany M. Skidmore University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
66) Sky Macklay, Adjunct Lecturer in Composition, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
67) Frank Epstein, (formerly) BSO and NEC faculty
68) Mary Kouyoumdjian, Assistant Professor of Composition, Boston Conservatory
69) Ann Cleare, Assistant Professor of Music and Media Technologies, Trinity College, Dublin
70) Miya Masaoka, Associate Professor of Visual Art (Sound Art) Director, Sound Art Program MFA Columbia University, School of the Arts
72) Trevor Bača, Lecturer Department of Music, Yale University
73) Timothy McCormack, Assistant Professor in Composition, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
74) Judy Lochhead , Professor of Music History and Theory, Department of Music, Stony Brook University
75) Mauricio Pauly, Assistant Professor, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver,Canada
76) Correy Hamm, Professor of Piano, Chamber Music and Piano Literature School of Music University of British Columbia
77) Robert Hasegawa, Associate Professor of Music Theory, McGill University
78) Michael Hersch Composition Professor, Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University
79) Alley Stoughton, Host/Producer "Not Brahms and List" on WMBR Cambridge