Tenth Annual CLEVELAND COMPOSERS GUILD COMPOSITION CONTEST
Award
• First Prize: $500, Professional performance at the January 29, 2023 concert presented by the Cleveland Composers Guild, Audio and video recording of the live performance
• Second Prize $300
• Third Prize $150
If no entries, or too few entries, are deemed worthy, the Cleveland Composers Guild reserves the right to award some or none of the prizes.
Guidelines
Who: Full time undergraduates who are studying in any college, university, or conservatory in northeast Ohio may apply.
What: Art song or vocal chamber music compositions 10 minutes or less in duration set for any combination of up to four voices and instruments (limit one piano). Composers are responsible for demonstrating permission to set and perform texts not in the public domain. Original and public domain texts are strongly encouraged.
Score & Format: Each composer must submit a legible score, in PDF format only. No other file format will be accepted. The duration of the work must appear on the score. No marks identifying the composer may appear anywhere on the score. If submitting a recording with your score, please include a single file in mp3 format; MIDI realizations are acceptable, but should be submitted as mp3 files. No marks identifying the composer may appear anywhere on this media. Only electronic applications will be accepted – no hard copies!
Preparing your entry: Label your files with a pseudonym (don’t use your real name on your score). Fill out the application form, and save it as a PDF file. Give your files names in the following convention:
• Score: Your_pseudonym_Score.pdf
• Application form: Your_pseudonym_Application.pdf
• Recording (optional): Your_pseudonym.mp3
• Text Permission Form: Your_pseudonym_Permission.pdf
Number of entries: Each composer may submit only one work.
Entry: There is no fee required to enter this competition.
Please Note: You may not enter the contest if:
• you are not currently enrolled as an undergraduate student in a program based in Northeast Ohio
• the submitted work has been professionally recorded for commercial CD release.
• the submitted work has been professionally published.
• the submitted work has already been given a professional performance (student performances acceptable and encouraged).
Judging: an independent panel consisting of one Cleveland Composers Guild member, one Ohio-based composer, and one composer based outside Ohio will judge the scores. Comments will not be provided.
The winner will be announced in December 2022.
E-mail entries as attachments to:
The Cleveland Composers Guild
Margi Griebling-Haigh, Chairman
clecomposers@gmail.com
Deadline 15 October 2022
Website clevelandcomposers.com
