The Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir invites composers to participate in our 2026 Call for Compositions, celebrating the power of poetry brought to life through choral music.

​This year’s competition centers around six selected poems, each offering its own world of imagery, rhythm, and emotion and composers are encouraged to choose one of these texts as the basis for an original choral setting. Our aim is to introduce fresh text to the choral repertoire; these poems are an ideal place to begin, though composers may also us an alternative public-domain text that has not been set, or has been set only very rarely, in choral music.

The winner of the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir – Call for Compositions 2026 will receive a completely free demo recording of their song and a feature on our YouTube Channel and website.

Requirements

  • Any composer is welcome to submit regardless of age, nationality, experience, etc.
  • Only one piece per composer may be submitted.
    • Compositions must be submitted as a PDF or JPEG
    • MP3 recordings of MIDI or live performances are encouraged by not required
    • Include a piano reduction for a cappella entries
  • Songs may be published or unpublished, previously premiered or never-before-performed.
  • Accompanied or a cappella compositions are welcome
  • All voicings and styles are welcome
  • Compositions should not exceed 8 minutes
  • Any work incorporating material generated by artificial intelligence (AI) or similar technologies in whole or in part will be disqualified.

Recording Rights

Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir (RMCC) shall retain the rights to use the recording and certain images of the score (with segments obscured for copyright protection) for the purpose of creating a video. This video may be published on RMCC’s YouTube channel, where it will remain indefinitely, and may also be embedded on RMCC’s website and social media platforms.

The Composer will receive a copy of the recording made for this project and shall retain full ownership of the recording and all associated distribution rights, with the sole exception of the video described above, for which RMCC retains the usage rights as specified.