Join us for Berkeley Symphony's groundbreaking new music series, Under Construction, as composers hear their work come to life for the very first time! Each informal evening features different works by our group of Emerging Composers in Residence, led by each of this season's guest conductors. A Q&A with the composer follows the reading/performance of each work. It's like open mic night... with full orchestra!

2008-09 Under Construction Events:

• Sunday, October 26, 2008, 7 PM – William Eddins, conductor
• Sunday, November 16, 2008, 7 PM – Paul Haas, conductor
• Sunday, December 14, 2008, 7 PM – Joana Carneiro, conductor
  

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2008-09 Emerging Composers in Residence:

Congratulations to the following four individuals chosen to participated in Berkeley Symphony's 2008-09 Under Construction series: Jean Ahn, David Graves, Patricio da Silva, and Clark Suprynowicz. Read about these composers in our press release.

Application guidelines for the 2009-10 class of Emerging Composers in Residence will be published here by April 1, 2009, with a deadline for receipt of materials of June 1, 2009.

2007-08 Emerging Composers in Residence:

Berkeley Symphony thanks the following three composers who shared their work with us during the 2007-08 season of Under Construction:

San Francisco resident David Graves is a composer in multiple genres, including ambient, jazz, and rock. As a recipient of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship, his large-scale ambient piece tree/sigh was installed in a redwood canyon during the Djerassi Resident Artist Program’s 2003 Open House. His large-scale multimedia work Deciduous was presented in San Francisco’s SURROUND>SOUND series in 2006, and he has scored works performed by the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. He has studied composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the City College of San Francisco.

Sue-Hye Kim is a Ph.D. student in composition at UC Davis. She obtained her Master of Music in Composition from Seoul National University in South Korea. She then studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, during which she participated in an exchange program in composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. She has had works for chamber groups and small orchestra performed in numerous countries, most recently by the Empyrean Ensemble at the Mondavi Center in Davis.

Walnut Creek native Elizabeth Lim is a graduate of the American School in Japan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Preparatory Division. She is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree in music at Harvard University with a secondary focus in East Asian Studies. She is the recipient of numerous composition awards, including the Harvard Hugh F. MacColl Prize, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Youth-to-Youth Commissioning Project, and the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition. From 2003-2007, she was a member of the Young Composers Guild in the Music Teachers Association of California, and in 2006, she was commissioned to write a chamber orchestra piece for the New York Youth Symphony as part of the Making Score program.