Origin + Vital Organ Project
About a year ago, Origin Brass was founded by 5 students at the DePaul University School of Music in an attempt to fulfill a mission. Our mission was to support new music by emerging composers with high-level performances and recordings. Our first collaboration was in April 2017 with composer/organist Graeme Shields and Vital Organ Project. During that event, we featured seven composers with new works for brass quintet, brass quintet + organ, solo brass + organ, and solo organ.
In March 2018, Origin Brass and Vital Organ Project are teaming up again to raise funds to perform a concert of new music in Kalamazoo, MI. Building on the framework from our previous collaboration in Chicago, we will be premiering Graeme Sheilds' new three-movement work for Brass Quintet + Organ, in addition to featuring some of our friends who are extremely talented composers from all around the midwest and more!
In order to do this, however, we need some help. The money we are raising will go to the following things:
Travel Expenses (Food + Gas): $200
Operating Expenses (Origin): $700
Operating Expenses (Vital Organ Project): $300
Total fundraising goal: $1200
By donating to this campaign, you'll make all of this a reality. Both Origin + Vital Organ Project believe strongly in supporting performances of music being written right now. By doing so, we are providing young composers and our peers an avenue to workshop their skills and to create new and exciting programs that you won't hear anywhere else. With the recording budget we are raising, we aim to provide these composers high-level recordings of the pieces they've worked so hard on.
A bit about our rewards:
Donate $35 dollars and you get to pick from one of the following rewards. We'll be in touch with you to figure out which award you'd like :)
- Riley will create a 30-second ringtone for you!
- Akshat will cook an Indian meal for you!
- Graeme will write and record a 1-minute organ piece for you!
- Julia will create a box of assorted homemade baked goods for you! - Limited to 4.
- Josh will tune up your bike!
Donate $50 and you will receive a lesson from any member of your choice! This can be used for anyone you'd like or for yourself!
Donate $200 and we will arrange any song you want and give you a personal recording of us performing it! This is limited to 5 awards total.
Donate $250 and Graeme will visit you at a to-be-determined time/place to give you an organ tour! You'll get to see and hear how everything works and hear some music to boot! Limited to 3 rewards.
Donate $500 and Origin will travel to you and perform a concert for you and your friends! This is limited to a 100-mile radius of Chicago for Origin Brass, and the total number of awards will be limited to two. Get it while it lasts!
The concert will be presented at First Congregational Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan the weekend of March 24 and 25th. Origin will be in residency at the church, performing a church service on Sunday morning for the community.
