Choir and Organ Composition Competition 2009

The 2009 Choir & Organ Composition Competition is in association with Birmingham City Organist Thomas Trotter and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

The composer of the winning entry will be interviewed in Choir & Organ September/October 2009 and the score will be published on the Choir & Organ website as part of its New Music series. The premiere will be given by Thomas Trotter in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, in the autumn of 2009.

http://www.choirandorgan.com/pdfs/Competition09.pdf

Eligibility
The competition is open to composers of any nationality who are under the age of 30 on 1 May 2009.

Entry requirements
1. Entrants are invited to submit an original work for solo organ (with pedals) of between four and ten minutes long (based on the composer’s metronome or tempo mark).
2. 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, Choir & Organ, Newsquest Specialist Media Ltd, 30 Cannon Street, London EC4M 6YJ, UK.
Closing date: 30 April 2009

Terms and conditions
(i) The composition must be an unpublished original work written after 1 January 2008.
(ii) The work must not have had a public performance, a recording that is publicly available (whether or not commercial), or a broadcast of any sort.
(iii) The competition will be judged by a jury of musicians during May 2009.
(iv) The jury reserves the right to withhold the first prize.
(v) The winner will be notified by 31 May 2009.
(vi) Choir & Organ will publish an interview with the winner in the September/October 2009 issue.
(vii) 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 September/October 2009 issue and to keep it on the website as a free download for six months.
(viii) Scores are sent at entrants’ own risk. We cannot acknowledge receipt of scores, nor return any material submitted.
(ix) 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
Symphony Hall organ Specification
Symphony Hall organ CDs