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8 Ways to Broaden Your Musical Horizons thumb

8 Ways to Broaden Your Musical Horizons

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   It’s probably far enough into the New Year now for some of our good intentions and resolutions to have fallen by the wayside.  It is exactly at this point, then, that we should remember that we […]

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Getting your works performed Part 2: 11 Golden Rules of submitting your work to performers thumb

Getting your works performed Part 2: 11 Golden Rules of submitting your work to performers

In Part 1, I mentioned some of the ways a composer can get their music heard.  In this article, I want to highlight the 11 Golden Rules of submitting your work to performers, either through a Call for Scores or as an unsolicited approach. My ensemble, rarescale, has an open Call for Scores, and I […]

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Carla Rees

Music Tutor, and soon to be author of the OCA’s second Level 1 Music Course: From The Present To The Past, Carla Rees talks to Gareth Dent about her work. I have many associations with the OCA; I came to the College initially as a photography student, and then later became a tutor on the […]

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