Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Call for Scores
Fee: $0 · Deadline: January 15, 2025 · Posted: November 1, 2024Seeks 3-15 minute works for chamber orchestra or large ensemble, chamber chorus, or brass quintet, from any composers. Selected works will be performed in Orlando, Florida, between June and August 2025.
Connecticut Summerfest Composition Program
Fee: $0 · Deadline: January 7, 2025 · Posted: November 1, 2024Seeks applications from any composers ages 18+. Selected composers will attend festival program June 12-18, 2025 in West Hartford, Connecticut, including rehearsals and performances of new work, four hour-long private lessons with composition faculty, seminars, and guest lectures. Tuition is $1375 and includes lodging and meals. Application is pay-what-you-wish with a suggested fee of $30.
International Trombone Festival Composers Workshop
Fee: $0 · Deadline: January 3, 2025 · Posted: November 1, 2024Seeks works up to 10 minutes for trombone choir or other instrumentation that prominently features trombone, from any composers ages 18+. Selected composers will be invited to a workshop in London, Ontario, Canada, July 16-19, 2025, including performance of submitted works and a master class with the composer in residence. Workshop registration is $250, and composers are responsible for their own travel expenses. Those unable to travel can receive a virtual lesson with the composer in residence for the price of registration.
Heidelberg School of Music & Theatre Call for New Works
Fee: $0 · Deadline: December 1, 2024 · Posted: November 1, 2024Seeks 3-5 minute works for choir, band, chamber/solo or singer/songwriter, from artists currently attending high school in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan or Pennsylvania. Selected artists will each receive an honorarium of $200, a performance on January 20, 2025 at Heidelberg University (Tiffin, Ohio), and workshop sessions with Heidelberg School of Music & Theatre faculty.
Cross-Country Chamber Consortium Black, Latinx and Indigenous Emerging Composer Commission
Fee: $0 · Deadline: November 30, 2024 · Posted: November 1, 2024Seeks Black, Latinx and/or Indigenous US citizens under the age of 30. One winner will receive $5000 to compose a new work for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 7-10 minutes in length. The new work will be performed in five cities by five ensembles, and the composer will receive a $500 travel stipend to attend a performance in the location of their choice.
Heckscher Foundation Ithaca College International Composition Prize
Fee: $0 · Deadline: December 10, 2024 · Posted: October 25, 2024Seeks duos or trios including flute, clarinet, saxophone and/or bassoon, up to 12 minutes long, from any composers. One winner will receive $1500 and a performance at Ithaca College, New York in Spring 2025.
International Women’s Brass Conference Composition Competition
Fee: $0 · Deadline: February 1, 2025 · Posted: October 25, 2024Seeks pieces 5 minutes or longer for solo euphonium, with or without piano or electronics, written since the start of 2022, from any female composers. The winner will receive a $1500 cash prize plus up to $1000 to cover travel and lodging to attend a panel at the IWBC conference May 21-24, 2025 in Hartford, Connecticut, where the winning work will be performed.
The Sound Ensemble International Composition Competition
Fee: $0 · Deadline: February 1, 2025 · Posted: October 25, 2024Seeks 4-6 minute works composed since 2020 for a subset of The Sound Ensembles’s instrumentation, from composers ages 14-26. Two winners will each receive $500 and a Spring 2025 performance in Seattle.
Ruth Crawford Seeger Prize at Elmhurst University
Fee: $0 · Deadline: December 1, 2024 · Posted: October 25, 2024Seeks chamber ensemble works in any style, up to 10 minutes long, from composers not yet in college or professional composers. Three student composers will receive $22,000-26,000 scholarships to study composition at Elmhurst University. Three professional composers will receive $200-500 cash prizes and be invited to address Elmhurst University students as guest artists.
San Francisco Choral Artists New Voices Project
Fee: $0 · Deadline: February 1, 2025 · Posted: October 23, 2024Seeks 2-4 minute choral works dealing with the theme of animals, from composers under age 30. The winner will receive $500, three performances in the San Francisco Bay Area in June 2025, and a professional-quality recording.
Oh My Ears Instrument Choir Concert
Fee: $0 · Deadline: December 14, 2024 · Posted: October 23, 2024Seeks works for clarinet choir or brass choir, up to 10 minutes long, from any composers. Selected works will be performed February 22, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Unheard-of Ensemble Second Story Initiative
Fee: $0 · Deadline: December 10, 2024 · Posted: October 23, 2024Seeks any works written in the past 20 years for any subset of clarinet, violin, cello and piano, which have received a premiere but not been performed recently, along with proposals for revisions to the works, from US-based composers. Three winning composers will each receive revised premieres and recordings in New York City in 2025, along with a $1000 prize.
Taxi Performances
Fee: $0 · Deadline: December 1, 2024 · Posted: October 23, 2024Ear Taxi seeks proposals for 45-75 minute concerts from Illinois-based performers and composers. Selected concerts will be presented in Chicago between October 3-19, 2025. Preference will be given to programs including vocal works, vocal/instrumental collaboration, music composed since 2000, and music by Illinois-based composers. Stipends of $300-750 are available depending on the size of the ensemble. Additional $250 micro-grants are available for ensembles commissioning new work from Illinois-based composers.
Oh My Ears New Music Festival
Fee: $0 · Deadline: December 8, 2024 · Posted: October 18, 2024Seeks program proposals from any performing artists or ensembles, optionally in collaboration with composers. Selected programs will be performed March 20-28, 2025 at various venues in Phoenix, Arizona. Performers will receive $150-225 in payment and limited travel funding upon request.
Weiger Lepke-Sims Family Sacred Music Award
Fee: $0 · Deadline: January 31, 2025 · Posted: October 18, 2024American Harp Society seeks 3-30 minute tonal harp works, from any composers ages 18+. One winner will receive $600 and a future performance (time and location TBD).
Lowell Chamber Orchestra Call for Scores
Fee: $30 · Deadline: December 31, 2024 · Posted: October 18, 2024Seeks 8-30 minute chamber orchestra works from any composers. One winner will receive a $1000, performance and video recording during the 2025-26 season in Lowell, Massachusetts, and free lodging to attend rehearsals and performance, plus a travel stipend of up to $300.
Margaret Blackburn Biennial Composition Competition
Fee: $35 · Deadline: April 30, 2025 · Posted: October 16, 2024Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota seeks unpublished works of any length for 2-12 instruments (including voice) or electronics, from any female composers enrolled in degree-granting programs. One winner will receive $1000 and and possible performance. The $35 application fee can be waived if it presents a financial barrier to applying.
Music Teacher Gifts Youth Music Composition Competition
Fee: $40 · Deadline: February 14, 2025 · Posted: October 16, 2024Seeks 2-5 minute compositions from students ages 10-19 who have not yet graduated high school. Selected composers will receive online publicity and $25-100 in prizes. All applicants will receive professional feedback from judges. The $40 application fee can be waived if it presents a financial barrier to applying.
highSCORE New Music Festival
Fee: $0 · Deadline: February 18, 2025 · Posted: October 16, 2024Seeks applications from any composers, for program July 14-26, 2025, in rural Belluno province, Italy, featuring lessons, workshops, rehearsals and performances. Tuition is 2950 Euros, and includes lodging, meals, and recreational activities.
Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia Emerging Artist Commissioning Award
Fee: $0 · Deadline: January 8, 2025 · Posted: October 16, 2024Seeks applications from any emerging composers ages 18+ in the Greater Philadelphia area. Five composers and five poets will be paired to create a 3-5 minute work for chorus and one additional instrument. Each winner will receive $1000, mentoring sessions, and a performance and recording in Philadelphia in Spring 2026.
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