CAMPGround27 CALL for WORKS & PROPOSALS
CAMPGround27, an international new music festival, takes over Tampa, FL, March 11-13, 2027.
Featuring multiple world premieres, the Tacet(i) ensemble, CAMP27 commissioned composer Piyawat Louilarpprasert, a toy-instrument project, new instruments, and selected works. We welcome all styles, performances, and notations. Be a CAMPer in 2027!
CAMPGround27 Commissioned Composer:
Piyawat Louilarpprasert
Young and Gifted, Meet the rebel Thai composer taking music to unheard heights
- CNN News Worlds Report, Karla Cripps
Originally from Bangkok, Piyawat Louilarpprasert is a Thai composer, multimedia performer, and curator who works with the interweaving of music composition, visual art, and sound installation. Piyawat’s music explores possibilities of creating the amalgamation of sonic and visual arts, including integrating multimedia and music, deconstructing instruments’ mechanisms and physicality with sound production method, and involving Thai traditional music elements in new compositions.
With performances spanning over 30 countries across Asia, Europe, and United States, Piyawat has received commissions and awards, including the Fromm Foundation Commission, Harvard (USA), the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Commission (DE), British Council Grant Prize (UK), Musicanova—Helsinki Philharmonic (Finland), 100th year commission of Donaueschinger Musiktage (DE), KulturKontakt Residency by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Austria), Best Music Award International Computer Music Conference (Shenzhen), Impuls Composer Commission (Graz), Artist in residence of Südwestrundfunk (SWR) Experimental Studio (Freiburg). Recently, Piyawat and his ensemble Tacet(i) were the recipients of the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize in Munich. In 2026, Piyawat is commissioned by Münchener Biennale 2026 for a new stage work and a song cycle with voices and orchestra with Münchener Kammerorchester. He has collaborated with ensembles and orchestras such as Tacet(i), Arditti Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Berlin Philharmonic Horn Section, American Composers Orchestra, Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, Klangforum Wien, International Contemporary Ensemble, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Yarn/Wire, Wet Ink, Lucerne Alumni Ensemble, Orkest Ereprijs, Oerknal!, [Switch~ Ensemble], Royal Northern Sinfonia, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others.
His major teachers were Dai Fujikura, Gilbert Nuono, and Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri. He holds a DMA in composition from Cornell University, M.M. in composition from the Royal College of Music, London. Piyawat is the Artistic Curator of IntAct Festival (Thailand) and currently serves as Dean of the College of Music, Mahidol University.
CAMPGround27 Guest Ensemble: Tacet(i)
Tacet(i), founded in 2014, is Southeast Asia’s leading new music ensemble, dedicated to commissioning and performing innovative works by local and international composers. Blending music technology, improvisation, and interdisciplinary collaboration, Tacet(i) premieres over 50 new pieces annually, with performances across Thailand, Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Tacet(i) has received prestigious awards and funding from organizations such as Siam Cement Group Foundation (Thailand), Goethe Institut (Germany), British Council–Connection through Cultures (United Kingdom), Japan Foundation Grants (Japan), the Office of Contemporary Art And Culture (Thailand), Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council (Switzerland), Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (Thailand), Cornell Council for the Arts (USA), and Vasinee Food Corp (USA). In 2020, the ensemble was featured in a series produced by CNN World, “Young and Gifted.” Since 2019, Tacet(i) has served as the ensemble-in-residence for the IntAct Festival (Thailand) at the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre, which has become a center for new music in Southeast Asia.
In 2024, Tacet(i) was awarded the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize (2024-25). With this recognition, Tacet(i) strengthens its place on the global music stage, pushing creative boundaries and serving as an inspiring ambassador for cultural exchange and creativity. The ensemble remains committed to enriching the contemporary music scene in Southeast Asia and globally. Tacet(i) pursues this mission through dedicated research in sound studies, technology, and interdisciplinary exploration, fostering collaborations with diverse artists, composers, and performers.
2027 CAMP Ensemble Commission: Paul Novak & Stephen Yip
Paul Novak is a Chicago-based composer and flutist. His "spellbinding" (Washington Post) music immerses listeners in shimmering and subtly crafted worlds full of color, motion, light, and magic. His recent projects engage with dreams and memory, queer identity, climate change and the natural world, and psychosomatic illness.
From 2026-2029, Novak will serve as composer-in-residence of the California Symphony, where he will collaborate with the orchestra and music director Donato Cabrera on three new commissions over the course of his three-season residency. Novak's 25/26 season includes premieres and performances by Orchestra of St. Luke's, International Contemporary Ensemble, Chicago Composers Orchestra, the Balourdet, JACK, Attacca, and Formosa Quartets, and more. Other recent collaborators include American Composers Orchestra, Reno Philharmonic, Austin Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Music from Copland House, and Left Coast Ensemble. His music has been heard at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, New World Center, and Chicago's Symphony Center.
Novak has received a Fromm Commission, a Barlow Commission, and an Underwood Commission, as well as awards from the ASCAP, BMI, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received fellowships from Aspen, Norfolk, Copland House, Millay, and I-Park, and was featured in the Washington Post's "23 for '23: Composers and Performers to Watch this Year."
Novak is the co-artistic director and flutist of Chicago-based ensemble Mycelium New Music, which is committed to presenting imaginative, multidisciplinary performances of contemporary music that showcase diverse emerging voices. Originally from Reno, NV, he is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago.
Stephen Yip is a composer whose chamber works abound in colourful texture that take their cue from traditional Asian music as well as extended techniques appropriated by many contemporary Western composers. Yip’s splendid ear and sophisticated technique stand him in good stead, along with his avoidance of stock-in-trade ‘atmospheric’ clichés (for the most part).
- Gramophone Review
Stephen Yip has an extraordinary way of creating a post-Darmstadtian modernism that incorporates his Chinese roots with a subtlety that gives us a vivid experience of the inner colors of an advanced spatial sense. It leaves us with a feeling of focused tranquility. He is a genuine voice in new music today.
- Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
Stephen Yip obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) at Rice University. He has attended major music festivals including: Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Asian Composers’ League, ISCM World Music Days, Chinese Composers’ Festival, Darmstadt, Germany. Residencies include: Yaddo Colony and MacDowell Colony.
Yip’s works have been performed in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. He has received several composition prizes, including “Earplay Donald Aird”, “Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award”, “Taiwan Music Center International Composition Prize”, “Singapore International Composition Competition for Chinese Orchestra”, and the ALEA III composition Competition. Yip’s music is published by the Universal edition, the BabelScores, and the edition Impronta. His works are recorded in the Kairos, Albany, ERM-Media, PARMA, Capstone, North South recording, Ablaze records, ATMA Classique, and Beauport Classical labels, and now serves faculty at Houston Community College and Lonestar College.
CAMPGround27 Toy Instrument Project - coming soon!
Composer Anthony R. Green directs this whimsical project. Explore all toy instruments and work with Anthony! More information coming soon. Stay tuned!
CAMPGround26 Review with Living Classical
Living Classical Radio host Tyler Kline talks with CAMP president Eunmi Ko. Listen to Living Classical and learn about today’s music!
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