International Open Call for Composers | PASS – Promoting Accessible Shows

PASS – Promoting Accessible Shows is a European cooperation project funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The project involves the realization of a multidisciplinary and transnational show and training workshops for cultural workers, teachers and musicians taking into account high accessibility practices and involving, as a priority, artists with disabilities in the 4 European countries belonging to the 4 partner institutions (Italy, Greece, Czech Republic and Finland).

This call is published for the selection of a composer under 35 with disabilities or a group of composers under 35 including persons with disabilities to be included in the artistic team of the PASS Project.
The call aims to create an opportunity of growth, comparison and professional employment to enhance the artistic talent of emerging composers with disabilities. The intention, through this call, is to select an artist or an artistic collective to be entrusted with the commission of one or two original pieces for symphonic orchestra (to be arranged also for chamber ensemble – instrumentation to be defined), which take into account the presence of the Sign Language in choreographic form during the musical performance and, therefore, is able to integrate and harmonise it.
The pieces – that can be realized or developed also during the artistic residencies envisaged by the project in traditional and/or digital form – must be unpublished.
The reference theme is the celebration of life and the joy of living.
The composer or artistic team identified through this call may also be asked to arrange pieces/excerpts from the symphonic or traditional/folk repertoire.
The call is reserved for composers under 35 years old of any gender and nationality, with disabilities of any kind.
Composers under 35 with disabilities of any kind who are included in artistic groups, also informally formed, may participate in the call.