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Ping Pong Commissioning consortium
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About the piecePing Pong is a 5-minute, up-tempo, rhythmic duet for oboe and bassoon or clarinet & bassoon. Commissioners will receive both versions of the piece. The two performers will interact in a dynamic, surprising, conversational manner to bring a game of one-on-one ping pong to life. The music will illustrate the tapping paddles and bouncing balls of the game, including various stroke maneuvers such as offensive hits, loops, flips, and smashes, defenses chops, blocks and lobs, and the quality of the ball movement such as backspin, topspin and corkspin. Ping Pong will primarily use standard techniques with a handful of creative extended techniques including: double trills, multiphonics and bisbigliando This piece serves to broaden the repertoire of quality, imaginative reed duets by women and to introduce performers and audiences to extended techniques in an engaging and approachable way.
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Consortium Details
Composer: Lisa Neher
Lead Commissioners: Margaret Fay, bassoon, Graham Mackenzie, oboe
Deadline to Join: July 31, 2024, 11:59 pm Pacific
PDF Score Delivery: August 1, 2024
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Length: Approx. 5 minutes
Rates: $100 Professionals, $50 students
Note: Only 1 member of your duo (ie, the oboist, clarinetist, or bassoonist) needs to join the consortium. Both are welcome to join, but it is not required. All commissioners will receive both versions of the score: oboe & bassoon version *and* clarinet & bassoon version.
Lead Commissioners: Margaret Fay, bassoon, Graham Mackenzie, oboe
Deadline to Join: July 31, 2024, 11:59 pm Pacific
PDF Score Delivery: August 1, 2024
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Length: Approx. 5 minutes
Rates: $100 Professionals, $50 students
Note: Only 1 member of your duo (ie, the oboist, clarinetist, or bassoonist) needs to join the consortium. Both are welcome to join, but it is not required. All commissioners will receive both versions of the score: oboe & bassoon version *and* clarinet & bassoon version.
Member benefits
PDF of score and parts (hard copies available for an additional printing & mailing fee), delivered by August 1, 2024
1 year exclusivity window to premiere the piece August 1, 2024-July 31, 2025
Handwritten card from the composer
Your name and institution (if applicable) listed in score and program notes
Right to list yourself as consortium member giving premiere of the work in programs and announcements
Short video introduction to the piece recorded by the composer
1 year exclusivity window to premiere the piece August 1, 2024-July 31, 2025
Handwritten card from the composer
Your name and institution (if applicable) listed in score and program notes
Right to list yourself as consortium member giving premiere of the work in programs and announcements
Short video introduction to the piece recorded by the composer
Student tier: Lisa Neher Young Artist Competition
Submit a video recording of your performance by February 1, 2025
Winners will be announced by March 1, 2025
Winner will receive a $50 prize, their choice of a signed print copy of one of Lisa’s works for bassoon and one of her works for oboe or clarinet, and their video will be featured on Lisa's website.
Honorable Mentions will be awarded
Adjudicators: Lisa Neher, Margaret Fay, and Graham Mackenzie
Both performers (the oboist or clarinetist and the bassoonist) in your video must be registered students to participate. Duos are eligible if at least 1 performer is a member of the consortium. Both performers are welcome to join the consortium, but it is not required.
You may submit either version of the piece (oboe & bassoon or clarinet & bassoon)
Winners will be announced by March 1, 2025
Winner will receive a $50 prize, their choice of a signed print copy of one of Lisa’s works for bassoon and one of her works for oboe or clarinet, and their video will be featured on Lisa's website.
Honorable Mentions will be awarded
Adjudicators: Lisa Neher, Margaret Fay, and Graham Mackenzie
Both performers (the oboist or clarinetist and the bassoonist) in your video must be registered students to participate. Duos are eligible if at least 1 performer is a member of the consortium. Both performers are welcome to join the consortium, but it is not required.
You may submit either version of the piece (oboe & bassoon or clarinet & bassoon)
About the composer
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Dr. Lisa Neher (she/her, “NEER”) is an award-winning composer and new music mezzo on a mission to transform audiences through sound, story, and vulnerability. With a voice praised as “full and rich” and “especially alive” (Oregon ArtsWatch), Neher’s performance credits include Third Angle New Music, Really Spicy Opera, Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Opera Theatre Oregon, New Music Gathering, Resonance Ensemble, Experiments in Opera, Renegade Opera, and Big Mouth Society. She is a member of Portland Opera Chorus.
Described as a “supremely talented,” “visionary composer” (Willamette Week), “maestro of beautifully wacky noises” (Oregon ArtsWatch) and author of “liquid, impressionist piano writing and fluent melding” of voices (New York Classical Review), Neher’s compositions are inspired by the climate crisis, the tender love of family and friends, and the eerie mystery of deep ocean life. She is Composer in Residence for the Beaverton Community Band. She has been commissioned and performed by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Third Angle New Music, FearNoMusic, Dinosaur Annex, New Opera West, Mirror Visions Ensemble, Alma Ensemble, Opera Elect, and Opera Santa Barbara, among others. Her awards include the Flute New Music Consortium Competition, ICDA/ICF Choral Competition, Mirror Visions Ensemble Young Composer Competition and the Celebris Ensemble Choral Competition. www.lisanehermusic.com. |
About the Lead COmmissioners: Reed Minders Duo
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The Reed Minders Duo is comprised of husband-and-wife team Dr. Margaret P. Fay (bassoon) and Dr. Graham Mackenzie (oboe). They have been performing as a duo since 2006 and are known for presenting dynamic, engaging, and innovative concerts in concert halls, universities, churches, and elementary schools across the United States and Canada. Most recently, they performed at West Virginia University, Penn State University, and Indiana University, and they have also presented together at conferences of the International Double Reed Society, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, Ohio Music Education Association, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, and Texas Music Educators Association.
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A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dr. Margaret P. Fay is Assistant Teaching Professor of Bassoon at Penn State University. Before joining the faculty at Penn State, Margaret taught at Stephen F. Austin State University, Western University in London, Ontario, and the University
of Guelph. Margaret holds a Doctor of Music in Bassoon Performance from Indiana University and master's degrees in both bassoon performance (Ithaca College) and music theory (University of British Columbia). Margaret has conducted guest master classes at the Ohio State University, West Virginia University, Western University, the University of Victoria, and Kenyon College, and was the guest bassoon artist at Georgia State University's Double Reed Day in September 2023. A composer herself, Margaret has had two of her compositions performed at International Double Reed Society conferences. When Margaret's arms get tired from all her bassoon practicing, she switches to her tenoroon, a.k.a mini bassoon, for a while.
Dr. Graham Mackenzie is principal oboist of the London Symphonia, Niagara Symphony, and Windsor Symphony. He has been a member of the Tanglewood Music Centre, Music Academy of the West, National Repertory Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. A frequent concerto
soloist, he has performed concertos by Bach, Marcello, Martinů, Mozart, Strauss, Vaughan-Williams, and Vivaldi. A passionate teacher, he has served as oboe instructor at Stephen F. Austin State University and Wilfrid Laurier University. Graham holds a Doctor of Music from Indiana University, studying with Linda Strommen and Roger Roe. He also has a Master of Music from DePaul University, studying with Eugene Izotov, and a Bachelor of Music from Wilfrid Laurier University, studying with James Mason and Richard Dorsey.
When The Reed Minders aren't playing their instruments or making reeds, they enjoy fierce ping pong matches, board games, and spending time with their seven-year-old son, who enjoys playing the piano and all sports.
of Guelph. Margaret holds a Doctor of Music in Bassoon Performance from Indiana University and master's degrees in both bassoon performance (Ithaca College) and music theory (University of British Columbia). Margaret has conducted guest master classes at the Ohio State University, West Virginia University, Western University, the University of Victoria, and Kenyon College, and was the guest bassoon artist at Georgia State University's Double Reed Day in September 2023. A composer herself, Margaret has had two of her compositions performed at International Double Reed Society conferences. When Margaret's arms get tired from all her bassoon practicing, she switches to her tenoroon, a.k.a mini bassoon, for a while.
Dr. Graham Mackenzie is principal oboist of the London Symphonia, Niagara Symphony, and Windsor Symphony. He has been a member of the Tanglewood Music Centre, Music Academy of the West, National Repertory Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. A frequent concerto
soloist, he has performed concertos by Bach, Marcello, Martinů, Mozart, Strauss, Vaughan-Williams, and Vivaldi. A passionate teacher, he has served as oboe instructor at Stephen F. Austin State University and Wilfrid Laurier University. Graham holds a Doctor of Music from Indiana University, studying with Linda Strommen and Roger Roe. He also has a Master of Music from DePaul University, studying with Eugene Izotov, and a Bachelor of Music from Wilfrid Laurier University, studying with James Mason and Richard Dorsey.
When The Reed Minders aren't playing their instruments or making reeds, they enjoy fierce ping pong matches, board games, and spending time with their seven-year-old son, who enjoys playing the piano and all sports.
Works for reeds by Lisa Neher
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Members
Professional Tier:
Kathleen and Conor Bell, The Bell Double Reed Duo, Amarillo, TX
Erin Brophey, Oboe Path, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Michael Burns, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Dr. Margaret P. Fay, Penn State University, State College, PA
Heather Killmeyer, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Martin Van Klompenberg, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Graham MacKenzie, Reed Minders Duo, Greensboro, NC
Albie Micklich, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Courtney Miller, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Douglas G. Moran, Denver, CO
Angela Moretti, Greensboro, NC
Allison Nicotera, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Joseph Swift, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Corning, NY
Dr. Miriam Brack Webber, Bemidji State University, Silent Voices Project, Bemidji, MN
Student:
Mason Cox, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Kathleen and Conor Bell, The Bell Double Reed Duo, Amarillo, TX
Erin Brophey, Oboe Path, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Michael Burns, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Dr. Margaret P. Fay, Penn State University, State College, PA
Heather Killmeyer, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Martin Van Klompenberg, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Graham MacKenzie, Reed Minders Duo, Greensboro, NC
Albie Micklich, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Courtney Miller, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Douglas G. Moran, Denver, CO
Angela Moretti, Greensboro, NC
Allison Nicotera, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Joseph Swift, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Corning, NY
Dr. Miriam Brack Webber, Bemidji State University, Silent Voices Project, Bemidji, MN
Student:
Mason Cox, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA