The Henri Lazarof Living Legacy at Brandeis University announces the Second Annual Henri Lazarof International Commission Prize for the composition of an original work for select instruments. The specific instrumentation will change annually to complement an existing work by Henri Lazarof, and the commissioned piece will be performed alongside Lazarof’s work. Instrumentation for the 2021 prize commission will be a quintet for piano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello (or any subset of these instruments). Electronic music components and/or multimedia may also be included.
The winner will be awarded a $15,000 commission prize, and the winning composition will be performed at Brandeis University in the spring of 2022.
Application deadline is midnight EST, January 31, 2021.
Each candidate may submit only one application. There are no restrictions regarding age, gender, nationality or race. Members of the Commission Prize jury, Brandeis faculty and students cur¬rently enrolled at Brandeis University are ineligible.
Deadline 31 January 2021
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