Young Artists Residency - Call for residency

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.
This program 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 best selected ensembles will benefit from the Cultural Encounter Center's privileged support : they may have the opportunity to come the following year for a second period of residency and to record a first disc with the label Ambronay Editions. The Young Artists Residencies are part of a european network including 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 in 2013. 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.

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 (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 2013 program.

The ensemble commits to:

• Welcome 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 : October 15th, 2012

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 3rd and
the 13th of December in 6 cities. Please indicate a selection of 3 major european cities for a possible audition on the registration form.

Conditions:

• Musicians specialising in early music
• The ensemble must be formed for less than 3 years

Please send applications and registration forms via e-mail to:
chloe.theveniaud@ambronay.org
+33 (0) 4 74 38 91 98
Please ask for a return-receipt.