Discipline: Music Composition

Antoni Schonken

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Stellenbosch Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
MacDowell fellowships: 2016
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Antoni Schonken worked on a set of compositions that explore the complexity in music and the emerging qualities of music and musicality in the free performance of simple pitch and rhythm material. His original soundtrack for Aurora received a silver medal at the NY International Film and Television Awards.

Studios

MacDowell

Antoni Schonken worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the residency program's studios, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the we began welcoming…

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