Brittany J. Green, a Duke graduate composer in the Department of Music, is one of eight composers to receive a publishing contract for select orchestral works from the American Composers Orchestra (ACO).
Green is one of the inaugural recipients through the ACO’s newly launched Earshot Publishing, an unprecedented music publishing initiative that will administer the rights for select orchestral works developed through its national EarShot composer advancement programs.
Green has been accepted for her work Rencontres, an expansion on a string quartet by the same name. Her work uses brevity, tension and euphoria to evoke the feeling of chance encounters. Combining lush, resonant chords with expressive ornamental gestures and dissonant harmonies, the piece creates a sense of disparate elements growing into and out of each other, representing a constant state of uncertainty. The educational module for this piece explores Green’s composition process and the formal dimensions of the work, while providing exercises for connecting with the individual thematic elements contained in the piece.
Works published by EarShot Publishing will be administered worldwide in partnership with Boosey & Hawkes, an international leader in classical music publishing, and with the support of the Sphinx Venture Fund.