The Music Council of Australia maintains a useful collection of current composition competitions and other opportunities at http://www.mca.org.au/bulletin_commissions.php#1

A good one to bookmark and check back with periodically..

The Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival is seeking scores and musical works that fulfill the following conditions:

1. Duration not more than 10 minutes

2. SOLO, DUO or TRIO

3. from the following

a. Strings: violin, viola, cello, double bass
b. Wood winds: piccolo, flute, alto flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bass clarinet, bassoon.
c. Brass: horn in F, trumpet in Bb, trombone
d. Percussion: Marimba, xylophone, vibraphone.
e. Piano, guitar
f. Vocals: Soprano
g. Javanese and Chinese instruments: Gender, rebab, siter, saron, vocals, kendang, suling, erhu.

Scores and instrumental parts have to be written in Sibelius, and formatted in PDF. They should be mailed to ycmf@live.com along with a short bio, photograph and program notes.

Electroacoustic Music

Duration has to be not more than 10 minutes. Work must be for sound only or sound and video. In both cases, the work should be a composition without live performance. The video work should be submitted on DVD that is playable on a PC.

The CDs/DVDs should be sent along with a short bio, photograph and program notes by mail to

Panitia YCMF 2010
J1. Ki Mangunsarkoro 55
Yogyakarta 55111
D.I. Yogyakarta
INDONESIA

DEADLINE: August 15, 2010

Open to all composers without age limit.

Selected works will be performed, recorded, and uploaded onto YouTube.

website: http://ycmfindonesia.bravehost.com

Emerging young composers with experience in creating music for voices are invited to apply for a place in MODART11, hosted by The Song Company in Sydney in July 2011.

Every two years The Song Company host MODART, an opportunity for young, emerging composers to develop a short vocal work in close collaboration with the ensemble. The Song Company have asked SOUNZ to be involved in the selection process for a New Zealand representative at MODART11. They anticipate a larger international component in 2011 with composers also from Canada, China and Mexico. They envisage that the project will again take place in two stages:? in early February 2011, three or four days of initial workshops in Sydney with the Song Company; and in late July 2011, a final week of rehearsals and public performance recorded by ABC Classic FM. It is envisaged that there will be two public performances, one in Sydney and one in Brisbane.

For further background and information on the application process, got to the SOUNZ website here: http://sounz.org.nz/events/show/1929

The Centre for New Zealand Music is now welcoming proposals from New Zealand composers and/or community groups for the 2010 SOUNZ Community Commission.

Click here to download a pdf of more information and an application form or contact us at SOUNZ.

The SOUNZ Community Commission aims to bring together professional composers and community groups to create and perform a new work. It has been supported since 1998 by an overseas donor who prefers to remain anonymous. Click here to find out more about the commission and click here to see a list of previous recipients.

The proposed commission should be completed and a performance realised or scheduled by March 31, 2011. While works can be of any form, the donor has previously expressed an interest in those works which include improvisational processes and a choral/vocal element and perhaps a music-theatre slant. (These elements are not obligatory by any means!)

The Choral Project is currently holding its 3rd annual choral composition contest. High school students (grades nine through twelve [Years 10 - 13]) and undergraduate college [university] students are eligible to submit their works for consideration. First place prize is $1000, a live performance of the work, a live recording of the work, and possible publication with Santa Barbara Music Publishing.

The deadline for this contest is June 30, 2010.

Applications can be found at: http://www.choralproject.org/outreach.html

ORGANZ holds an bi-annual composition competition to provide opportunities for composers and to add to the repertoire of the organ.

Entries are now open for the 2010-2011 Composition Competition. The winning piece(s) will be presented at the Jubilee Congress in Auckland, June 2011.

Criteria and Entry Form can be found here.

The 2008-2009 Competition was jointly won by Graham Parsons and Michael Bell.

JFC has just announced the fifth call for scores (I believe it is the last call) for the Asian Music Festival 2010. The selected pieces will be featured in the concert called “Digital Music in Asia” to be held at 5:30 pm on 2nd October 2010 in the 6th Hall of the Tokyo University of the Arts:

Category A: Electroacoustic music of no longer than 15 minutes for no more than 8 channels with live performance of one instrumentalist. The festival will provide the instrumentalist. Pieces with a Japanese instrument are recommended (as it matches the theme of the festival).

Category B: Electroacoustic music of no longer than 15 minutes for no more than 8 channels.

Category C: Category A or B with visual.

The organizer will provide the following in the concert venue:
- 1 projector
- 1 large screen
- 2 microphones with stands (if contact microphone is needed, composer shall provide his own)
- ordinary audio systems with CD player, 8-channel mixer, 8 loud speakers (which can be used for 2-channel as well), Digidesign 192 I/O interface (in case the composer is bringing and using another type of interface, the composer must provide the adequate audio outputs)

The composer shall submit a score with CD or DVD, plus a guide on the system setup or instructions. In case of more than 2 audio channels, the composer shall submit the audio files of all channels (in AIFF or WAV file) on a CD or DVD. The composer must operate the system by her/himself during the performance in the case of a real-time interactive piece.

All pieces shall come with the same standard materials specified in the earlier call. And each composer shall not submit more than one piece for the whole festival.

The Sixteenth Edition of the “2 Agosto” International Composing Competition is announced.

The Competition will award three prizes:

First Prize: € 5.000,00
Second Prize: € 2.500,00
Third Prize: € 1.500,00

The Competition will also award the “Mozart” Special Prize of 1.500 Euros Offered by the Festival Internazionale Mozart of Rovereto, and a Scholarship of 500 Euros Offered by the “Alcide Cervi”Institute.

The Festival Internazionale Mozart of Rovereto will include among its program some winning scores from previous editions of the Competition and/or it will reserve to commission to previous or current winners a piece to be included in its future programs.

Visit http://www.concorso2agosto.it/ for details.

JFC has just announced the third call for scores for the ACL special festival 2010 (which is called Asian Music Festival 2010):

1) Chamber music for string quartet and Japanese instruments, with 8 maximum performers and 15 minutes of maximum duration. The concert will be held on 5th October at So-gaku-do Hall in Ueno, Tokyo.

2) Works for Japanese instrument(s) - from solo to big ensemble, with 15 minutes of maximum duration. Arrangement of pieces originally written for Chinese & other folk instruments are acceptable. The concert will be held on 6th October at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space.

All scores (including those for the earlier calls) shall come with the following materials:

[1] Title of the work in English, and if applicable, Japanese (if Chinese characters are used, one shall use those give more idea of the meaning of the word than of its sound)
[2] Year of Composition
[3] Duration
[4] Instrumentation
[5] Whether it is a world première or Japan première
[6] Composer’s name in English and Chinese characters (if applicable)
[7] Nationality
[8] Date of Birth
[9] Address
[10] Telephone Number
[11] Fax Number
[12] E-mail Address
[13] Biography (maximum 150 words)
[14] Programme Notes (maximum 150 words)
[15] CD or audio tape of the work, if available

All materials must reach the AMF 2010 Secretariat before 31st May 2010 through ACL national sections. The address is c/o The Japan Federation of Composers, #310 Sky Building, 3-3-8 Sendagaya Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051, Japan. Telephone: (81) 3-5474-1853. Fax: (81) 3-5474-1854. Email:
acl@jfcomposers.com

The applicants will be informed the results by 30th June 2010. The individual parts of the selected scores should be submitted at a later stage (to be announced). The performing royalties will be paid in accordance with the regulations of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers & Publishers. However, the composers are asked to waive the right to possible broadcast of the selected work (in part or whole) in news and other programmes. Please consult the AMF 2010 Secretariat for more information.

Although the organizer will not have budget to provide airfare and accommodation for the selected composers, they will pay for them the festival registration fee.

Scores should be send (hard copy only) to: ACL Special Event, CANZ, PO Box 4065,Wellington 6140
Deadline: 30 April 2010 (postmarked)

The Wagner Society in Queensland Inc invites composers who are permanent residents of Australia or New Zealand to create an instrumental chamber work to celebrate the 2013 bicentenary of the birth of Richard Wagner (1813-1883).

Submitted works must have been composed specifically for the 2013 Wagner Bicentenary Composition Competition, must not previously have had a public performance or have been commercially recorded. They must not have received an award from another competition for composition.

The applicant will be required to declare that the music is the applicant’s own original work.

Eligibility: The Wagner Bicentenary Composition Competition is open to living composers of any age permanently resident in either Australia or New Zealand at the time of entry into the competition.

Website: www.wagnersociety.com

Deadline for entries: 30 June 2012