Composer Opportunities - calls for scores
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:38 am
I know there are a few composers here, and occasionally there are opportunities worth circulating. This one might interest those who tried to jump start the 'Pianophilia Variations' project-ette on the previous incarnation of pp. The Aurora Festival is currently directed by Matthew Hindson.
2010 ISCM World New Music Days
Sydney Australia
30 April to 9 May 2010
CALL FOR WORKS
Momentary Pleasures
Closing date: 31 December 2009
Typically composers will spend many days, weeks, months and even years writing pieces of music. But to write an entire piece in one day can be also be a singularly pleasurable experience.
The 2010 Aurora Festival will be presenting a unique concert of new piano works, each of which will have been written by composers in a single day.
We invite submissions from composers from around the world for this concert.
The theme of this concert is 'Momentary Pleasures'. Composers should write a work with this theme in mind - however they wish to interpret this.
Criteria
Instrumentation: solo (unamplified) piano. Playing inside the piano to be avoided.
Duration: Maximum two notated pages, maximum 4 minutes in length.
Composition time: The composer must include a declaration stating that the submitted piece was written within a single day. Typesetting time may be additional to this single day.
Nationality: Composers may be from anywhere in the world.
Age restriction: There is no maximum or minimum age restriction.
Entry fee: There is no entry fee for this category.
The following should be submitted:
* Score in PDF format
* Recording (Optional. MIDI recordings acceptable. mp3 format only)
* Name and nationality of the composer
* Address
* Email contact
* Programme notes (max. 100 words, in English) detailing how the theme of 'momentary pleasures' was used in the submitted composition.
* A written declaration from the composer in the body of the email stating that this composition was written in a single day.
Entries must be submitted electronically via email to the following address: p.horn@australianmusiccentre.com.au
Date of receipt of entries: 5pm Thursday - 31 December 2009 (EST).
2010 ISCM World New Music Days
Sydney Australia
30 April to 9 May 2010
CALL FOR WORKS
Momentary Pleasures
Closing date: 31 December 2009
Typically composers will spend many days, weeks, months and even years writing pieces of music. But to write an entire piece in one day can be also be a singularly pleasurable experience.
The 2010 Aurora Festival will be presenting a unique concert of new piano works, each of which will have been written by composers in a single day.
We invite submissions from composers from around the world for this concert.
The theme of this concert is 'Momentary Pleasures'. Composers should write a work with this theme in mind - however they wish to interpret this.
Criteria
Instrumentation: solo (unamplified) piano. Playing inside the piano to be avoided.
Duration: Maximum two notated pages, maximum 4 minutes in length.
Composition time: The composer must include a declaration stating that the submitted piece was written within a single day. Typesetting time may be additional to this single day.
Nationality: Composers may be from anywhere in the world.
Age restriction: There is no maximum or minimum age restriction.
Entry fee: There is no entry fee for this category.
The following should be submitted:
* Score in PDF format
* Recording (Optional. MIDI recordings acceptable. mp3 format only)
* Name and nationality of the composer
* Address
* Email contact
* Programme notes (max. 100 words, in English) detailing how the theme of 'momentary pleasures' was used in the submitted composition.
* A written declaration from the composer in the body of the email stating that this composition was written in a single day.
Entries must be submitted electronically via email to the following address: p.horn@australianmusiccentre.com.au
Date of receipt of entries: 5pm Thursday - 31 December 2009 (EST).
