PUTNEY — Ten sixth-graders, one seventh-grader, and two eighth-graders from The Grammar School are working on their entry compositions for the Opus 25 competition sponsored by Music COMP (Composer Online Mentoring Program), formerly the Vermont Midi Project.
They are composing for brass instruments, piano, percussion, and voice. Working with their teacher, Alli Lubin, with online support from mentors statewide , the students will have final entries submitted in early December.
Pieces selected will be played in a live concert by professional musicians in the Opus 25 Concert on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2013, at the Elley-Long Music Center at St. Michael's College in Colchester. Snow date is tentatively scheduled for Friday, Jan. 11.
Composers from TGS are Colette Anton and Sophie Basescu, eighth grade; Molly Durling, seventh grade; and Ivy Dall and Gwyneth Thomson, Pauline Farrington, Aicher Hearon, Andrew Brooks, Miranda Fuller, Gracie Childs, Dylan Ray, Alex Opsahl, and Rachel Racco, sixth grade.