International composition competitions sorted by deadline
- 2012/05/12 SOUND WALK 2012 Música Viva Festival 2012 / Miso Music Portugal call for electroacoustic miniatures (duration: 2' to 5') under the theme of "sound text composition" for the garden of the Goethe Institut in Lisbon. ....read more
- 2012/05/15 Forme Uniche 2012 International Composition Competition and workshop is an opportunity for composers to express the originality of their musical ideas and aims to contribute to the creation of a large and eclectic body of art works, with rich implications in the relationship between music and poetry. ....read more
- 2012/05/19 The Association of Friends of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra (Förderverein Brandenburger Symphoniker) announces a competition for composers of symphonic music. The competition is international and open to all age groups ....read more
- 2012/05/31 The Eighteenth Edition of the "2 Agosto" International Composing Competition for full score for violin and orchestra <10 min. suitable for open air performance ....read more
- 2012/05/31 XV Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Franco Evangelisti 2012 - dedicated to violin soloist or viola soloist and electronics and is open to composers of any nationality and of any age. ....read more
- 2012/06/01 Call for Scores for 2012-13 season North/South Consonance for all composers for Solo, chamber ensembles and chamber orchestra works up to 18 performers (Vocalists, percussion and/or electronics are acceptable) One work will be selected for recording on the North/South label ....read more
- 2012/06/01 The Reveille Trumpet Collective announce its second annual Composition Prize for an unpublished, un-premiered work for trumpet (one player, all doublings) and percussion (one player) of at least 6 minutes' duration ....read more
- 2012/06/01 Call for new scores around 4 percussion works by John Cage is linked to a special project within the percussion workshops of Christian Dierstein and Arnold Marinissen: The new (shorter) pieces should be in relation with and in the spirit of the percussion work of John Cage - more specifically his four works Trio, Third Construction, Branches and Six. Presentation concert in the afternoon ....read more
- 1012/06/01 the International Chamber Music Festival The Hague (artistic leader Eva Stegeman) announces the third edition of its competion contest for string quartet for Composers aged 30 and younger who are currently living in the EU ....read more
- 2012/06/01 SoundTrack_Cologne 9.0 15. - 18. November 2012 and The IN-EDIT Music Documentary Film Festival Berlin Germany 2012/11/02-11/05, are looking for interesting new music documentaries. Send us a DVD-screener together with some information about the film (synopsis, technical data, CV of the director) ....read more
- 2012/06/01 21st International Review of Composers, Belgrade, November 2 - 5, 2012 The proposed compositions should be for instrumental, vocal or vocal-instrumental (any combination from one to eight instruments. b) electronic or electroacoustic (electroacoustic may include any combination from one to three instruments from the list) ....read more
- 2012/06/15 In order to encourage the creation and the diffusion of new electroacoustic music, Miso Music Portugal promotes the 13th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2012. ....read more
- 2012/06/20 International Composition Competition for youth orchestra "Bruno Maderna" 2012 - Third Edition, Duration: between 8' and 12', Total prizes amount: 2000 Euro, Performance of selected pieces, Publication of the selected scores by Edizioni Sconfinarte ....read more
- 2012/06/30 ISCM Polish Section is organizing The ISCM World Music Days in Wroclaw from 3rd to 12th of October, 2014 and the Call for Scores with a deadline of 31 March 2012 is at ....read more
- 2012/06/30 Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien invites International composers to send scores for any combination of flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano, without conductor participation and without vocal participation for the Labyrinthmaker Platform 2013 ....read more
- 2012/06/30 the 2012 edition of U.S.O. Project - Sonic Screens (Milan, Italy) will be focused entirely to the electro-acoustic music praxis. Candidates should produce a composition for instruments and real-time signal processing (live electronics)for Violin and Cello as a duo. The Score (in .pdf format) must be graphical and not in traditional notation ....read more
- 2012/06/30 The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge and Culture Awards, whose fifth edition is now open, seek to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of broad impact for their originality and theoretical significance. ....read more
- 2012/06/30 Iv Magistralia Competition For Musical Creation For Women Composers open to all women composers of all nationalities and ages. The orchestral formation will be symphonic without solo instruments or vocals. a maximum length of 10 minutes ....read more
- 2011/06/30 ISCM Polish Section is organizing The ISCM World Music Days in Wroclaw from 3rd to12th of October, 2014 and the Call for Scores is at ....read more
- 2012/06/30 The Respighi Prize competition is open to young composers and soloists (instrumental and vocal) under 40 years of age, of all nationalities, currently enrolled in (or recent graduates of) music conservatory or college ....read more
- 2012/07/08 Krzysztof Penderecki International Composers' Competition for only compositions for string orchestra, consisting of 5 vn I, 4 vn II, 3 vl, 3 vc, 1 cb with conductor will be considered. Use of tape and live electronics is not permitted.Duration: from 8 to 12 minutes. ....read more
- 2012/07/13 2012 Sizhu Music Composition Contest The instrumentation of the composition has to include at least 3 and not more than 7 of the instruments (one for each instrument.) of a classic Sizhu (Silk and Bamboo) ensemble: 1. Erhu / Zhonghu / Gaohu (Chinese Violin), 2. Pipa (Chinese Lute), 3. Di (Chinese Bamboo Flutes), 4. Ruan (Chinese Guitar) / Liuqin (Chinese Ukulele) 5. Guzheng (Chinese Zither), 6. Yangqin (Chinese Dulcimer), 7. Sheng (Chinese mouth organ). ....read more
- 2012/07/20 The Francesco Siciliani Prize an International Competition for a Composition of Sacred Music on a text for unaccompanied choir. Or choir with organ between 5 and 15 minutes ....read more
- 2012/07/31 the 10th International Composition Competition "Romualdo Marenco" competition for band composition, with a competition reserved to the composition of an original work for instrument - saxophone quartet ....read more
- 2012/08/01 The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and its Kodály Institute, in conjunction with the International Kodály Society, under the patronage of Mrs. Sarolta Kodály, announces The Third International Composers' Competition, "In Memoriam Zoltán Kodály",Budapest, 2012 ....read more
- 2012/08/01 REFLECTED LIGHT- Second international musical composition, creation and critique competition SuonoSonda 10 sections: compositions for instrument with electronics or not, electro-acoustic etc music, ....read more
- 2012/08/01 International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition Compositions must a combination of the following or all of the following instruments (all percussion instruments will be played by one percussionist): Flute/Piccolo Clarinet in B flat Violin Cello Piano Percussion (any combination of or all of the following: triangle, snare drum, bass drum, two cymbals, three tom-toms, two bongo drums, two cowbells, three temple blocks, vibraphone, two gongs). must be written for at least three musicians. ....read more
- 2012/08/12 the Second International Music Composition, Creation and Critique Competition comprises 10 sections: compositions for instrument with electronics or not, electro-acoustic music, innovative and experimental rock and jazz, innovative computerized sound writing and construction programs, musicological essays and poetic texts or literary pages, images, graphic and/or photographic, audio/video productions. Without age limits. ....read more
- 2012/08/15 3rd International Music Composition Competition Eulalio Ferrer for flute or flutes, viola, harp and soprano between 10 and 15 minutes with the theme "Cancion de Lisandro" found in the first book of la Galatea by Miguel de Cervantes ....read more
- 2012/08/31 announce the 4th Grazyna Bacewicz International Composer Competition, Lodz 2012, Poland open to composers of all nations regardless of age. Each participant may submit more than one score ....read more
- 2012/09/01 Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition is looking for piano pieces written for children and young adults which, although limited in their technical difficulty, remain uncompromising in their artistic aim; pieces written with a contemporary compositional technique which offer the young student stimulus, insight and new experiences: experiences about oneself and the world in which we live. ....read more
- 2012/09/01 The British Harpsichord Society announces its International Composition Competition: open to all ages. Submissions are invited for a solo, acoustic harpsichord piece, no longer than 8 minutes in duration. Submissions are anonymous. not have been commercially recorded or published. ....read more
- 2012/09/05 Composers are invited to submit compositions for the first Toy Piano World Summit. 02.12.2012 at Philharmonie Luxembourg with toy piano soloists from New York to Luxembourg and premieres of works by Vadim Karassikov, James Clarke, Bernhard Lang, Marcel Reuter, and many others. ....read more
- 2012/09/07 V International Composition Competition "Francisco Escudero" A unique category with works composed for solo accordion and for chamber music with accordion which length does not exceed 10 minutes. The works of chamber music must be composed for a maximum of four players ....read more
- 2012/09/12 13° Concorso Internazionale Premio Trio Di Trieste "Giampaolo Coral Award" for- trio: violino, violoncello e pianoforte or for - quartetto: violino, viola, violoncello e pianoforte - Categoria B ....read more
- 2012/09/15 10th International Composition Prize for 2013 in cooperation with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Composers from all over the world are invited to present new works for an orchestra consisting of seven traditional Chinese instruments and seven classical western instruments. ....read more
- 2012/09/30 Wär' ich ein Ton. Jean Paul 2013 for Ensemble: a) ten to fourteen solo instruments (ensemble Phoenix Basel)or up to eight solo instruments or Voice (all registers) and solo instrument with or without electronics/media (one performer). (ensemble of the Institute for Contemporary Music I z M Frankfurt am Main) Or Radiophone sound art: stereophonic and, as applicable 5.1, 20' - 40' duration on a self-chosen quotation, a work/section or a motif-related aspect from the oeuvre of Jean Paul or on a text passage to be selected from the Jean Paul quotes on ....read more
- 2012/10/01 The Frederic Mompou International Award for 2012 new works for Solo Piano between 12 and 20 minutes.by composers <35 ....read more
- 2012/10/08 The Chengdu China 8th Sun River Prize Students New Composition Competition Chengdu, PR China, 2012 is chamber music, for 1-9 instrumentalists combined willingly and the same instrument is not more than 4. (Without any electronic instrument, equipment and computer) no longer than 12 minutes. ....read more
- 2012/10/31 Symphony Composition Contest - City Of Torrevieja' for all composers for compositions (15-20 min.) original and unedited and not be a copy, modification or a version of any existing composition nor have been previously published through any media. ....read more
- 2012/10/31 The Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium is holding a composition competition, which will take place in the month of December 2012. The purpose of this competition is to select the work that will be compulsory for participants in the final of the same organisation's Piano Competition in 2013 ....read more
- 2012/10/31 Symphony Composition Contest - City Of Torrevieja' for all composers for compositions (15-20 min.) original and unedited and not be a copy, modification or a version of any existing composition nor have been previously published through any media. ....read more
- 2012/12/01 To mark its 100th season in 2012/2013, the Wiener Konzerthaus is launching an international composing competition, inviting composers aged up to 35 (as of 1 December 2011) to submit compositions in one or more of the following 10 categories ....read more
- 2012/12/03 The Intimacy of Creativity, two-week devoted to promoting an intimate dialogue between composers and performers hosted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong 23 April - 6 May, 2012. Selected composers will present and revise their chamber music compositions after in-depth discussions between composers and performers during on-campus Open Discussions. ....read more
- 2013/01/25 100th birthday of Witold Lutoslawski, no territorial or age estrictions, for a symphonic orchestra similar to those employed by Lutos?awski in his last symphonies. Jury: Luca Francesconi, Kazimierz Kord, Magnus Lindberg, Steven Stucky, Pawe? Szyma?ski and Tadeusz Wielecki. First prize:10 000 Euro and performing during 'Warsaw Autumn 2013'. " class="external-link-new-window" title="Opens external link in new window">....read more<//a>
