Third International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city
September 16 – 29, 2013

Master-classes – Lectures – Concerts

Professors:
Jean-Luc Herve, composer (France)
Antoine Beuger, composer (the Netherlands/Germany)

Musicians:
Soloists of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Ivan Bushuev, flutes
Oleg Tantsov, clarinets
Sergej Tchirkov, accordion
Michail Doubov, piano
Vlad Pessin, violin
Oleg Vedernikov, cello

Short description of the Academy:
Centre for New Music Initiatives invites young composers to participate in the International Academy of Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble 2013. The Academy will take place in Tchaikovsky city of the Perm region from September 16 to September 29, 2013.

According to the applications professional jury will select 12 students and 3 stagers of any nationality up to 30 years old. Students will have a possibility to work during 12 days on a new composition under the patronage of well known composers. The compositions will be premiered by Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble in the frames of the Academy in the Tchaikovsky city and at international festivals in Perm and in Moscow. Stagers receive individual classes of Academy professors and attend all events of the Academy.

Each student will have 6 hours of individual lessons (3 hour-long lessons with each professor), 1 hour-long individual meeting with each musician (participating in the piece performance) and 3 hour-long rehearsals with the musicians of the Moscow Ensemble (under the professors’ patronage). Each stager will have 4 hours of individual lessons (2 hour-long lessons with each professor).

Besides individual lessons, each professor will hold 2 open three-hour-long lectures, and each student and stager will have a hour-long presentation.

Students are proposed to compose a 6-8 minutes piece (or a complete part of a bigger work) for one of the following instrumental combinations:

1. Flute / flute alto / piccolo
2. Clarinet / bass clarinet
3. Piano
4. Accordion
5. Violin
6. Cello
7. Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello
8. Flute, clarinet, accordion, violin, cello
9. Flute, piano, violin
10. Clarinet, accordion, cello
11. Flute, clarinet, accordion
12. Piano, violin, cello

Students can propose their own combinations as well.
Organisers will try to distribute the instrumental line-ups in accordance with the participants’ will

II. Honorable mentions are previewed by the end of the Academy:
Invitation to the next Academy, performances during 2013-2014 concert season in Russia and abroad, etc.

III. Selection procedure:
Date of birth – 1983 or later
Composers 31 to 35 years old can also apply if only they are actually studying in conservatory (confirmation from the conservatory should be applied to the application).
Applications sent before May 31, 2013.
Jury selects 15 participants of the Academy: 12 students and 3 stagers.
Selected composers will receive confirmations by e-mail before June 15, 2013.
Before August 15, 2013 the 12 selected composers have to send the draft of the score.
In case composer rejects participation another composer is invited instead.

IV. Applications are to be sent by e-mail and must include:
Composer’s short biography, photo and list of works.
Three scores of any line-up in pdf.
Recording of 1-2 pieces in mp3 (a link to a file).
Send applications to: moscowensemble.academy@gmail.com

V. Financial conditions:
Selected composers pay only travel to Moscow. Travel from Moscow to Tchaikovsky and back, food, accommodation and studies are covered by the Academy.

VI. Accommodation and study:
All participants will be accommodated in a hotel in single or double rooms with sink. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Internet access.
All events will take place in the municipal musical college.

VII. Academy schedule:
coming soon

VIII. Additional possibilities:
Wishing to come at their own expenses are welcome. The “free listeners” can follow all public events of the Academy: lectures, presentations, rehearsals, concerts, but they have no possibility for individual classes. The number of free listeners is limited. Contact the Academy direction for the details.

IX. Contacts:
Victoria Korshunova, director of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble – mcme@rambler.ru
Dmitri Kourliandski, artistic director of the International Academy of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble – kourliandski@gmail.com

Send applications to: moscowensemble.academy@gmail.com

Organisers of the Giani Bergamo Classic Music Award have announced a 2013 competition for composers, with a first prize of 10,000 Euros. The composition will be open to composers of all nationalities born after 1973. For more information, go to www.giannibergamoaward.ch or email info@giannibergamoaward.ch The deadline is 20 August, 2013

In 2013, AYO is continuing their commitment to supporting emerging New Zealand composers with a fanfare competition. AYO encourages anyone age 28 or younger, in particular high school students, to enter and use their work for their portfolio of assessments. The winning work will open the 65th anniversary concert at the Auckland Town Hall on 20 October 2013, also featuring Glazunov Solennelle Overture and Mahler Symphony No.1 ‘Titan’. The winning composer will also receive complimentary tickets to the performance, a high quality concert recording and $250.

For more information and applications, please visit the website http://www.ayo.org.nz/opportunity/.

The Esoterics announces its international call for a cappella choral scores in its annual competition for choral composition, POLYPHONOS. Each winning composer will receive a commission from The Esoterics to compose a new choral work that will be premiered by the ensemble in 2014. In addition to this commission, each winner will receive $1000) US, along with airfare and lodging so that they can attend the Seattle premiere of their commissioned work. There will be up to three POLYPHONOS awards.

Entry form, portfolio requirements and complete rules can be found at www.TheEsoterics.org/POLYPHONOS. All POLYPHONOS applications must be complete and postmarked by 15 May 2013. The winners of The Esoterics’ POLYPHONOS will be announced on 1 July 2013. For more information, please email polyphonos@TheEsoterics.org.

The Foundation Destellos, call for works for the sixth Competition of Electro-acoustic Composition and Visual Music, open to composers and artists of any nationality, age and gender. The objectives of this competition are the promotion and development of the artistic creation in relation with new technologies. Likewise, it is an intention of the Foundation Destellos to stimulate the creativity of the young generations of artists and to provide them new routes of diffusion of their works. With the intention to offer new possibilities to the creators, the Foundation Destellos will attribute the two first prizes of an amount of 600 American dollars each, in the categories of Acousmatic music and Mixed media. Various other prizes are also available. See the website www.fundestellos.org/pageone.htm for more information, or email info@fundestellos.org

Hi everyone,

The Australian and New Zealand Viola Society is holding a composition competition to be judged at their viola convention in March. Details below and download entry form at the bottom.

1. The composer must be a resident or citizen of Australia or New Zealand.

2. Categories:
a. Viola Solo (unaccompanied)
b. Two or more violas (violas only)
Composers may submit one entry in each category.

3. Pieces to be up to 5 minutes duration.

4. The composition must have metronome markings.

5. The composition must not have been previously performed in public or published.

6. The manuscript must be easily legible on unbound single-sided A4 sheets and suitable for scanning. The composer must be identified on the manuscript itself by a nom-de-plume to ensure anonymity.
The composer’s details are to be included on the attached entry form and sealed in a separate envelope to accompany the manuscript. The nom- de-plume must be written on the outside of this envelope.

7. The original manuscripts with three photocopies must reach:
Mrs. A Brooker
Coordinator
ANZVS VIOLA COMPOSITION COMPETITION 1A Waimarie Street
St Heliers
Auckland
New Zealand 1071

Not later than 20 February 2013.
The inclusion of a sound file is encouraged in Sibelius or MP3 formats.

8. Judging: ANZVS has appointed a panel of three adjudicators with a range of experience in composition and performance on the viola. The panel’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

9. Prizes: $200 in prize money for each category. One additional prize of $100 will be awarded for best composition in either category written by a composer studying at secondary school or equivalent in 2012.
The adjudicators reserve the right not to award a prize in any of the three categories.

10. Winners will be announced and the winning and highly commended compositions will then be performed in a workshop setting at the Auckland Viola Convention 9-10 March 2013.

11. Results will be published in the ANZVS Journal June 2013.

12. Printing and Copyright
Though the copyright of their work remains with the composer, it is a condition of entry that the composers of the winning works (with the composer’s real name acknowledged) allow ANZVS to publish the works in the ANZVS Journal.

13. Manuscripts and photocopies will be retained to be used in workshops at the Auckland Viola Convention. At all times copyright remains with the composer.

anzvs-composition-competition-details-and-entry-form

London Ear Festival of Contemporary Music is a new international event, and is London’s only festival dedicated entirely to contemporary classical music.

It will present music by established, emerging and undiscovered composers from several countries.

As well concerts by world class performers and opportunities for advanced young performers, the festival is to host a major international composers’ competition.

COMPOSERS’ COMPETITION, 2013
The competition is divided into two categories

a) Pieces for ensemble
b) Pieces for solo piano

Submissions are invited from composers of any age, and of all nationalities.

Prizes will be awarded in both categories as follows:

1st Prize: £1000, performance at the London Ear Festival,
and publication by Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin of the winning piece.

2nd Prize: £500, and a performance of the piece at the London Ear Festival

The prize-winning pieces will be performed by Uroboros Ensemble and Ian Pace (piano)

The performances of the winning pieces will be recorded and, subject to agreement by all parties,
will be released as a download on the Sargasso label.

The four finalists (two in each category) will be invited to stay in London as guests of the Festival for the night of the performance of their pieces.

There will be two international juries: one for the ensemble category to be chaired by Michael Finnissy, and one for the piano category to be chaired by Ian Pace.

Full details of the competition, and a submission form, can be found on the London Ear Festival website: http://www.londonearfestival.co.uk

The Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, together with the Musical Chapel and Casa Ricordi, present the 1st International Competition of Church Music Composition, for the celebration of the 1700-year anniversary of the Edict of Constantine in 2013.

With this event, the Duomo of Milan again becomes the center of the city’s cultural life and international scared music scene by promoting the participation of young, promising composers (up to age 40) from around the globe, who can enter their works by May 31, 2013.

The International Competition of Church Music Composition will also be an opportunity for the Veneranda Fabbrica to let surface the inestimable value of its Music Archives, and the central role of the Musical Chapel in the world of international church music.

The winner, in addition to receiving a cash prize, will see his/her score published by Casa Ricordi, and its first performance in the Duomo, in September 2013, during the MiTo Festival.

Full details here.

Deadline Extended!