Opportunities
Opportunities for composers and performers both from the highSCORE New Music Center and from around the world.
KCO Composition Prize
KCO (Klezmer Company Orchestra), founded in 1997 at Florida Atlantic University Libraries, announces its inaugural composition prize, sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Society at FAU. Graduate or undergraduate students currently enrolled in a music composition or jazz program are eligible to apply. Applicants will compose a new work based on one or more of the folk melodies provided with these guidelines. This melodic source material is part of the historic sheet music collection at FAU Libraries, where KCO serves as the professional...
read moreDolce Suono Competition
Dolce Suono Ensemble invites young composers to participate in its project “Debussy in Our Midst: A Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy (1862-1918),” a season-long exploration of the chamber and vocal works of this monumental composer. Debussy revolutionized the music of his time and the music that followed him, exerting a powerful influence on composers to this day. The competition is part of our concert program “Debussy as Painter of Song,” which will focus on Debussy as song composer and creator of exquisite...
read moreInternational Composition Competition “Franco Evangelisti”
Associazione Nuova Consonanza, together with the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni and Rai Radio3, announces the XV edition of the International Composition Competition “Franco Evangelisti” The 2012 Competition is dedicated to violin soloist or viola soloist and electronics and is open to composers of any nationality and of any age. Scores should be for violin soloist or viola soloist and electronics. Theelectronic part must be playable from a data storage device. Pieces involving live electronics are NOT...
read moreSound Walk Installation
Miso Music Portugal and the Música Viva Festival 2012 convoke composers to send electro-acoustic miniatures to be diffused at the Sound Walk installation during the Música Viva Festival 2012 (October 6 to 10 2012) at the Goethe Institut in Lisbon. Sound Walk is an outdoor sound installation for the Goethe Institut Garden. 1) The call is directed to composers of all ages and nationalities. 2) The aim of the call is the creation of electroacoustic sound miniatures (duration: 2-5 minutes) in 2012 under the theme of “sound text...
read more60 x 60
60 works by 60 artists, 60×60 offers something different every minute 60×60 is a project containing 60 works each 60 seconds in length presented continuously in an hour performance synchronized with an analog clock. 60×60 presents a slice of what is happening in the contemporary music scene by representing 60 works that are diverse in aesthetic and style. Works are selected from an international pool of emerging and established composers and sequenced in order. The resulting mix is presented, without interruption, as a...
read moreThe Hazel Renshaw Composition Prize
Music Makers are delighted to announce that we will be holding a Carol Composition Competition in 2012, for the Hazel Renshaw Prize. First prize: £500 Second prize: £200 Submitted compositions will be shortlisted for performance. Shortlisted pieces will be performed and judged as part of our Christmas concert on the evening of Thursday 13th December 2012, at the Church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate. Judges will be Patrick Russill and Judith Weir. It is proposed (but not confirmed) that the winning entries will also be...
read more4th Grażyna Bacewicz International Composer Competition
I. COMPETITION The competition is open to composers of all nations regardless of age. Each participant may submit more than one score. All submitted works must have been composed after December 31st, 2009, be unpublished, have never been performed in public and not awarded in any other competition. The jury will give its award to three pieces, which will be performed in The Arthur Rubinstein Łódź Philharmonic. II. SUBJECT The subject of the competition is a piece for: a) voice solo and string orchestra with the option of using...
read moreVariation for Judith
Entrants are invited to submit a new ‘Variation for Judith’. The variation should be written for solo piano, last no more than two minutes, and should be playable by someone of ABRSM Grades I–V standard. The competition is open to two categories: adult, and under 18 Entries are encouraged from amateur and professional composers and pianists. The winner of each category will be given two complimentary tickets to hear their variation premiered at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham during Melvyn Tan’s solo recital on Sunday 8 July. Each...
read moreUnique Forms of Continuity in Space
The title of the competition, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”, is derived from the famous sculpture by Italian futurist artist Umberto Boccioni. This international composition competition and workshop is an opportunity for composers to express the originality of their musical ideas and aims to contribute to the creation of a large and eclectic body of art works, with rich implications in the relationship between music and poetry. THE COMPETITION WILL OCCUR IN FIVE STAGES: Stage One – Application: For the...
read moreMusica Domani Prize
The prestigious international adjudicating panel of Musica Domani Prize encourages submissions by composers of all nationalities and ethnicities with no age limit. The competition seeks the selection and promotion of new music through its performance and by means of a live recording. In addition, the competition facilitates the interaction between performers and composers. Musica Domani Prize seeks short (up to 15 minutes), original scores for three categories (including a category for piano, four-hand and two-pianos, one for solo...
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