Prize
The Winner will receive:
A $3000 cash prize
A performance of the winning work by the Garth Newel Piano Quartet on the 2024 Summer Music Festival in July, 2024
A travel stipend of up to $1000 to travel to Garth Newel Music Center to work with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet and attend the premiere.
A high-quality recording
Frequent performances of the winning work by the Garth Newel Piano Quartet.
The winner will also have the opportunity to participate in a short-term residency during the week of the premiere. The residency will take place during Garth Newel’s prestigious Emerging Artist
Fellowship chamber music program.
The winner will have the opportunity to work closely with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet and our Emerging Artist Fellows, with the possibility of readings and performances of additional chamber works by the composer.
Collaborate and network with talented musicians from the top music schools.
Guidelines
Submitted works must be for violin, viola, cello and piano. Piano trios and quintets will not be accepted.
There is no time limit for works.
The work must be originally conceived as a piano quartet. Arrangements of previously completed works that have been performed or published are not acceptable.
Submissions from any composer are welcome. Garth Newel Music Center is an equal opportunity organization and will not allow discrimination based upon age, ethnicity, ancestry, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or any other status prohibited by applicable law
Restrictions
A Composition is ineligible if:
It requires live electronics or cannot be performed with just stereo playback
The work has already received a professional premiere.
A prior professional premiere means a performance of your work for the public, which includes a public announcement that the performance is a premiere of your work. If your piece was performed as part of a reading/workshop, and was only performed for a select audience within a school’s department, it is still admissible.
It is a transcription or arrangement of another work that has been performed or published.
It has already been professionally recorded for commercial CD release;
The work has already been published. This includes publications of a previous version of the work.
For physical submission, each composer must submit:
A legible score and string parts (no piano-only part is necessary) of professional quality labeled with a pseudonym. No marks identifying the composer may appear anywhere on the score. The title of the work is permissible.
An envelope labeled with the composer’s pseudonym. Information within the envelope should include the composer’s name, address, telephone number, email address and one-paragraph biography.
A digital recording of the work labeled with the composer’s pseudonym (CDs or flash drives are acceptable). MIDI realizations are acceptable.
A self-addressed stamped envelope of appropriate size if the composer wishes to have their materials returned.
All materials should be mailed to:
Composition Competition
Garth Newel Music Center
403 Garth Newel Lane
Hot Springs, VA 24445
For electronic submission:
Email the score, instrumental parts, and audio file under a pseudonym to pianoquartet@garthnewel.org, along with the composer’s info in a pdf/word document labeled “do not open until after the results are determined”.
Recordings that are too big can be sent via Dropbox or google drive. Please label the titles of digital tracks with the composition name as well as the composer’s pseudonym.
Deadline:
All materials must be received by November 1, 2023. Applicants will be notified of the result by email no later than January 31, 2024.
Deadline 1 November 2023
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