Attention Young Composers!
The School of Music at Penn State University is pleased to announce the 2023 Ballora-Wang Young Composer Award at Penn State. This contest is open to students who are U.S. citizens and in high school during the 2022/2023 school year. Three composers will be named winners of the 2023 Ballora-Wang Young Composer Award. A minimum of one winner will be selected from the state of Pennsylvania. There is no entry fee. A panel consisting of Penn State faculty and students will evaluate the pieces and choose the winning entries. All applications must be completed and received by November 28, 2022 (11:59pm EST). The winning entries will be announced by February 15, 2023.
Each of the winning composers will receive:
>$100 prize
>1-hour virtual or in-person composition lesson/consultation with a Penn State Composition and Technology faculty member.
>Possible performance of the winning work at a Penn State Living Music event.
>Work and composer featured on the Penn State Composition social media sites.
Rules & Guidelines:
>Composer must be a freshman-senior in high school during the 2021/2022 school year (or equivalent).
>Composer must be a citizen of the United States.
>Work can be any duration.
>Any instrumentation, including works for digital media, are eligible.
>Works for acoustic ensembles or instrumental soloists must be submitted with a notated score (PDF file only). The PDF file must be uploaded to Google Drive, Dropbox, or a similar file sharing service and shared as a link on the form below.
>Works for digital media must include a one-paragraph description of the work and the hardware/software used to create it. The PDF file must be uploaded to Google Drive, Dropbox, or a similar file sharing service and shared as a link on the form below.
>Recordings are optional for acoustic compositions.
>Recordings are required for works for digital media only.
>No more than two submissions per composer.
>Previous winners are not eligible to apply.
For guidelines and submission form, please visit:
forms.gle
Deadline 28 November 2022
Website sites.psu.edu
