COCOA or Composers of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music

COCOA or Composers of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music

Cocoa is a non-profit organization which gives composers of all ages the opportunity to have a compos

COCOA Chamber Orchestra Concert-June 2nd, 2024, organized by Candi Morris 25/11/2023

Please consider giving to COCOA Music's current fundraiser.

COCOA Chamber Orchestra Concert-June 2nd, 2024, organized by Candi Morris Composes of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music (COCOA) wa… Candi Morris needs your support for COCOA Chamber Orchestra Concert-June 2nd, 2024

02/10/2023

Call for Scores:
COCOA Music
Call for Scores:
Concert June 2nd 2024
Chamber Orchestra - all one on a part:
No more than 10 minutes in length
Make sure lyrics are public domain or your own
Score and MP3 due by April 16th 2024

1st Violin, 2nd Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon
Trumpet, Trombone
Piano
Harp
Soprano Voice (optional)
Baritone Voice (optional)

14/06/2023

Hear ye hear ye

Fall 2023 Call for Scores

COCOA Music calls composers of all ages to write a 1 to 4 person chamber piece for any of the following instruments:

1 Violin
1 Viola
1 Cello
1 Flute
1 Clarinet
1 Harp
1 Piano

** no longer than 10 minutes **

Scores, parts and an MP3 due by August 1st 2023

send to: [email protected]

Applicants will be informed by August 10th if their score is accepted

Concert Date September 10th 3:00pm

Place to be announced

Please share with others

10/06/2023

Fall Concert September 10th 2023. Call for scores coming soon.

Photos from COCOA or Composers of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music's post 05/06/2023

Photos from the June 4th 2023 concert,

04/06/2023
COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding, organized by Candi Morris 29/05/2023

COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding, organized by Candi Morris Composes of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music (COCOA) was fo… Candi Morris needs your support for COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding

COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding, organized by Candi Morris 16/04/2023

Help us fund the next COCOA music concert

COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding, organized by Candi Morris Composes of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music (COCOA) was fo… Candi Morris needs your support for COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding

COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding, organized by Candi Morris 09/03/2023

COCOA music is working toward another concert June 5th. You can help us by giving to our go-fund-me page. The money is used to pay musicians, recording engineer and for the use of the facility. For more information goto:

COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding, organized by Candi Morris Composes of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music (COCOA) was fo… Candi Morris needs your support for COCOA Theme and Variations Concert Funding

13/01/2023

Call for Scores
COCOA Music
Theme and Variations Concert
June 4th 2023
Write variations on a theme of your own choice.

Choose from 1 to 5 players:

Clarinet or Sax or Flute (one player for all of these)
Oboe or oboe d'amore or English Horn (one player for all of these)

Violin
Viola
Cello
Bass
Piano

Score in pdf form and mp3 due May 1 2023. Send to [email protected]

13/09/2022

Theo Majka - here is the page for COCOA

COCOA Music pro­motes col­lab­or­a­tion over com­pet­i­tion | Dayton Daily News 10/09/2022

https://www.pressreader.com/article/282024741098135?fbclid=IwAR1HniZcKo0kTdPDqfOu7tYbIegFMINDJGKy_njmB-QodmKrC-adYwp-saA

COCOA Music pro­motes col­lab­or­a­tion over com­pet­i­tion | Dayton Daily News As pres­id­ent of the Com­posers of Ohio Col­lab­or­at­ive Organ­iz­a­tion for Acous­tic Music, Moira Levant is using her exper­i­ences as a musi­cian, com­poser and edu­cator to pro­mote homet­own cre­ativ­ity. COCOA Music’s next con­cert is at Dayton...

25/06/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRSe5QNXvWM

link to our May 8th concert. Enjoy!

01/06/2022

Hear ye, hear ye,
COCOA Music is calling for scores:
Deadline is August 1st 2022
you will hear by August 8th if your score is accepted
Concert date is September 11th
Quintet or smaller.
Send score and midi file, mp3 or AAC file to: [email protected]

any combination of FIVE or less from the list of instruments:
2 violins
viola
cello
string bass
contrabass flute
oboe
clarinet

As you compose the music please remember we have one rehearsal the night before the concert and a run through the day of the concert. How difficult a piece is to put together is one thing we consider when reviewing scores.

COCOA 5/8/22 22/05/2022

From the May 8th 2022 Concert

COCOA 5/8/22 This is a living composers concert produced by COCOA music. It features music for trios. Performers and composers are:Syrodesy Flute Trio:Gretchen Germann Fl...

Photos from COCOA or Composers of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music's post 09/05/2022

Photos from the rehearsals and concert. Next concert will feature String Quartet and be in the Fall of 2022

Photos from COCOA or Composers of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music's post 08/05/2022

program for tomorrow's performance, 3:00pm live here.

Videos (show all)

Life is a Precarious Adventure
Fantasy for Quartet
Edgy Melancholia
Lament
Three Points of View by J. Yeager
Live from Oakwood - it's COCOA
test 3. keeps going off just a few seconds into the live broadcast.
Testing before the COCOA concert Feb. 25th