Toolbox Percussion, as a creative incubator, works to make new music happen by commissioning, producing, collaborating, professional training, performing, recording, and touring contemporary performances. TICAFEST Composition Fellowship Programme is for emerging composers across the globe who share our vision to create percussive arts practices with creativity, originality, and potentials. This programme encourages creativity and continuous cross-platform learning.

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About the Fellowship

The Toolbox International Creative Academy offers an unparalleled opportunity for an exchange of ideas with some of the world’s foremost composers and performers of new music. The TICA Composer Fellowship Programme provides five composer fellows with a variety of perspectives and teaching styles in a hybrid and intensive six-month program between May to Oct 2025.

 

Students will work intimately with TICA faculty, Creative Director-in-residence, guest composers, teaching artist ensemble, as well as Toolbox Percussion Artists. Masterclasses, lectures, and individual studies will be given by some of today’s most highly regarded and frequently performed living composers.

 

Fellows will be tasked with a chamber music commission for work between 8 and 12 minutes in length for the Artists from Toolbox Percussion.

 

Instrumentation: For percussion duo and one optional percussionist, details will be announced in February.

 

Final Performance: November 2025 in Seoul

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Faculty

Prof. Ken Ueno (USA/Hong Kong), Creative Director-in-Residence

Percussion Duo Moitié (Artist in Residency)
Prof. Byung-moo Lee (Korea National University of Arts), Faculty
Dr. Douglas McCausland (San Francisco Conservatory of Music), Faculty

Dr. Austin Yip (Sound Maker Limited), Faculty

Prof. Kai Young Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Faculty
Matthew Schreibeis (Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University), Faculty

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Application Information

• Open Application: 1 NOV 2024
• Deadline: 10 JAN 2025
• Selection Announcement: 23 FEB 2025
• Application Fee: $10 USD

• Fellowship Period: May - Oct 2025