Choir & Organ Composition Competition 2011
Choir & Organ is pleased to announce the Composition Competition 2011 in association with the International Organ Festival at St Albans.
The composer of the winning entry will be interviewed in the July/August 2011 issue of Choir & Organ and the score will be published on the Choir & Organ website as part of its New Music series.
The premiere of the winning entry will be given during the International Organ Festival at St Albans in July 2011.
Eligibility
The competition is open to composers of any nationality who are under the age of 35 on 30 June 2011.
Entry requirements
- Entrants are invited to submit an original work for organ and trumpet, lasting not longer than 4 minutes (based on the composer's metronome or tempo mark).
- The work should be a duo, treating the instruments as equals.
- Scores must be typeset to a professional standard on A4-size pages.
Applications and closing date
Four copies of the score must be sent, one copy of which should have the composer's name, address, telephone number and email written on the back of each page; the remaining three copies should have no identification markings on them.
Scores must be sent to:
Composition Competition 2011,
Choir & Organ,
Rhinegold Publishing Ltd
239-241 Shaftesbury Avenue,
London
WC2H 8TF, UK
Closing date: 31st January 2011
Terms and conditions
- The composition must be an unpublished original work.
- The work must not have had a public performance, a recording that is publicly available (whether commercial or not), or a broadcast of any sort.
- The competition will be judged by David Titterington, Diana Burrell, John Casken, and the editor of Choir & Organ during February 2011.
- The jury reserves the right to withhold the first prize.
- The winner will be notified by 28 February 2011.
- Choir & Organ will publish an interview with the winner in the July/August 2011 issue.
- The composer will retain the copyright of the work, but will grant the right to Choir & Organ to publish the score on the Choir & Organ website from the on-sale date of the July/August 2011 issue and to keep it on the website as a free download for six months.
- Scores are sent at entrants' own risk. We cannot acknowledge receipt of scores, nor return any material submitted.
- In all matters relating to the competition the decision of the jury is final and correspondence will not be entered into. Submitting an entry for the competition indicates the entrant's unqualified acceptance of these terms.
Further information
Full details of the International Organ Festival at St Albans can be found at www.organfestival.com.
David Titterington, artistic director of the International Organ Festival at St Albans, comments:
'The International Organ Festival at St Albans has been at the forefront of organ performance for nearly 50 years and new music has always been a constituent part of both the competitions and the festival. In 2009 John Casken accepted the commission to write for the quarter-final round and in 2011, John McCabe. New music is our future, as are the finest organists of the younger generation who come to perform in St Albans. Be a part of this important legacy and consider writing a piece that will be premiered during the 2011 festival.'
