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Wanna DJ at Underage Festival 2010?

If you’re a DJ, Producer or Remixer aged 14-18, Youth Music is offering you the chance to DJ live on stage at the Underage Festival!

How to enter:

STEP 1: Download the track from the Youth Music site link below
STEP 2: Create your own remix
STEP 3: Upload your work of genius

A panel of experts will shortlist the best entries and winners will receive the full VIP treatment, getting the chance to share the Underage Festival stage with top headline acts on August 1, 2010.

Visit www.youthmusic.org.uk/underage to find out more.

Our second e-bulletin is now available, outlining our exciting developments so far this year and looking forward to the months ahead.  If you have not already received a copy you can download a pdf version by clicking on the following link:

CYMAZ e-bulletin No 2- Apr 2010

If you would like to receive future e-bulletins via e-mail, please send an e-mail to robin@cymaz.co.uk and we will add you to our mailing list.

In an exciting new venture, South West Music School is now managing the Dartington Summer Youth Programme.   This year the programme has moved to the University of Exeter campus where not only is international quality tuition offered but now for the first time accommodation is available to enable more young people from around the UK be able to participate.

Courses include Chamber Music, Gospel Choir, Piano Masterclasses, Songwriting, Folk Music, Jazz, Music Theatre and Composition.  These courses also range from first access to advanced levels and are open to young people from 11 – 18 years old.  

For more information please visit the website www.dsyp.org

Click here to check out the first two online podcasts on our Radio page.

These two programmes were made at the Port Eliot Festival and the Extreme Voltage Celebration in July 2009 and were commissioned by The Works and Voltage respectively.

If you are interested in commissioning CYMAZ to create a programme for you, please contact Emily Foulkes or, if you are 19 or under and would like to be involved in CYMAZ Internet Radio station, contact our Radio Station Project Manager, Moss.

Hollaboxx have extended the deadline for their Battle of the Bands competition until the end of February.  The winners will be playing at a gig at the Livewire Youth project in Saltash, where the winner of this will get to record their demo!!!

For more info go to http://www.hollaboxxtv.com/blog/battle-of-the-bands-deadline-extended——–

Just a quick reminder to anyone wishing to apply for CYMAZ Partnership Funding for 2010-11 that the deadline for applications is this Friday, 22nd January.

If you need any assistance with applying or have any other questions, please get in contact with us and we’ll be happy to help.

Young Composers’ Competition

Now in its twelfth year, the prestigious BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition gives young composers aged 12-18 a chance to get their music heard by a wider audience. Young composers will need to enter their own, original piece of music – no more than five minutes long – to the BBC Proms judging panel, who’ll choose the winning compositions, which are then performed at the Young Composers’ Concert during the BBC Proms season and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

If they win, they’ll also receive a commission to be performed and recorded by BBC musicians at the 2010 Inspire events, and get to work with top composers and musicians in a series of workshops to develop thier commission. Last years winners were commissioned to write for the last night of the Proms!

Anyone who enters the Young Composers’ Competition or attends a lab can attend Inspire Day, a day of workshops that will challenge and inspire them to compose in ways they’d never thought of, in London on 2 August 2010.

BBC Proms Composer Labs

As part of the scheme, we offer composer labs throughout the UK. These labs help young people meet other composers, share ideas and discover new ones, develop a deeper understanding on how to use use rhythm, harmony, melody and form and how to make them their own.

Composer Labs are a unique chance to join professional musicians from the UK’s top orchestras and the BBC Singers, top composers and the BBC Proms team in a day of music making, exploration and discovery.

Labs will be held at locations around the UK between February and April.

Composer Lab Date in Cornwall 

Truro High School for Girls, Falmouth Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2HU
14 March 2010, 10.30am to 4.30pm
In partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers

How to get involved

All you need to do is contact promslearning@bbc.co.uk or call 020 7765
5575 or visit www. bbc.co.uk/proms if you would like to attend any of the Labs.

How to enter the Young Composers’ Competition

Send in two musical scores of your composition, along with two CD recordings and an entry form to:
BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition,
14 Lakeside, PO BOX 105,
Rochester, Kent ME2 4BE.

Entry forms are available from bbc.co.uk/proms, by calling 020 7765 5575 or emailing promslearning@bbc.co.uk

The closing date for entries is 28 May 2010. Any entries received after this date will not be entered in the competition.

All of us at CYMAZ would just like to take this last opportunity to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

The CYMAZ offices will be closing on the afternoon of Wednesday 23rd December until Monday 4th January 2010.  If you do need to contact us, please either call and leave a message on the answerphone or e-mail us and we’ll deal with your query when we return in the new year.

Thanks to everyone who has been involved in our activities in 2009 and we look forward to even greater things in 2010!

Nadelik Lowen!
Happy Christmas!

We have just produced our first e-bulletin, a regular newsletter to keep you informed of what we are doing.  If you have not already received a copy you can download it by clicking on the following link:

CYMAZ e-bulletin No 1- December 2009

If you would like to receive future e-bulletins via e-mail, please send an e-mail to robin.leah@cymaz.co.uk and we will add you to our mailing list.