Choir & Organ Composition Competition 2010
Choir & Organ is pleased to announce the Composition Competition 2010 in association with the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge.
The composer of the winning entry will be interviewed in the November/December 2010 issue of Choir & Organ and the score will be published on the Choir & Organ website as part of its New Music series.
The premiere will be given by the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, in November 2010.
Eligibility
The competition is open to composers of any nationality who are under the age of 30 on 30 June 2010.
Entry requirements
- Entrants are invited to submit a setting of any psalm text for SATB choir, with or without organ and/or another solo orchestral instrument (not piano). This must be an original work and must last not longer than 4 minutes (based on the composer’s metronome or tempo mark).
- The work must be of a suitable standard for the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge.
- Scores must be typeset to a professional standard on A4-size pages.
Applications and closing date
Five 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 four copies should have no identification markings on them.
Scores must be sent to:
Composition Competition 2010
Choir & Organ
Rhinegold Publishing Ltd
239-241 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
WC2H 8TF
Closing date: 30 June 2010
Terms and conditions
- The composition must be an unpublished original work written after 1 November 2009.
- 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 a jury of musicians during July 2010.
- The jury reserves the right to withhold the first prize.
- The winner will be notified by 31 July 2010.
- Choir & Organ will publish an interview with the winner in the November/December 2010 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 November/December 2010 issue and to keep it on the website as a free download for six months.
- The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, reserves the premiere recording rights until 31 January 2012.
- 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
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, can be heard on numerous recordings, and also via its weekly webcasting programme: http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/default.php?page=webcast
Andrew Nethsingha, Director of Music at St John’s College, comments:
‘We are excited to be collaborating in this project. Choral music has provided so many of the jewels in the crown of British composition during the past millennium. Here at St John’s we are very committed to discovering and encouraging the next generation of successors to Byrd, Purcell, Parry, Harvey etc.’
‘We are also pleased to be making new compositions more widely known through our weekly webcasting project.’
