Overview

SICPP is an 8-day intensive seminar on the performance of 20th and 21st century music, culminating in a day-long marathon of explosive new music, a smorgasbord of masterworks and world premieres by composition fellows.

In collaboration with University of Colorado, Colorado Springs’ Music Program and Ent Center for the Arts, and with the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, CO, SICPP will take place June 24th to 30th at UCCS’s Ent Center for the Arts.

With the expanding landscape of the contemporary music world, SICPP 2023 builds upon its traditional Performance, Composition, and Electronic Music programs to include more integrated activities and interdisciplinary explorations.

With select UCCS Music Faculty joining forces with SICPP Faculty, our goal is to help develop new creative artists across the breadth of SICPP programs by integrating emerging areas such as outdoor concert and installation settings, immersive listening, environmental sound, the performer/composer relationship, and improvisation. SICPP especially welcomes students dedicated to addressing issues of our time in their music and from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.