Premiering, Performing, Recording and Broadcasting New Music for a New Audience
Open to composers of any nationality and age, the Non Profit Music Foundation is very excited to announce the Cum Laude Music Awards, an International Consonant Chamber Music Composition Contest.
The prize is a full program of international promotion of the winning works through their recording in CD and performance in concert halls world-class with renowned interpreters, whenever possible. The recording will feature an international broadcast campaign between broadcasters and print media.
The premiere or performance of the work will be videotaped, additionally, for submission to be broadcasted by Spanish Radio Television (RTVE). Each winning author will also receive 50 copies of the recording. The distribution of the recording in the United States and Canada will be made through Naxos of America or The Orchard and Europe through Semele Music Projects. The recording will be distributed on digital download stores both high resolution and generic stores too.
Some inscription rules:
- There is no restrictions about the works except in Spain, where never have had to be performed or premiered.
- Any possible combination that includes up to 10 parts.
- It can be present works for a single instrument alone but not for voice a capella.
- The works can not be longer than 20 minutes, or less than 3 minutes.
There is a registration fee for each work a composer present to this contest of $50 / 45€ to be paid online through PayPal.
The deadline for registration is July 31, 2021
A single PDF file must be provided for each registered work, containing the complete score and parts, and an audio file in mp3 format containing either a recording of a performance or a simulation made in MIDI. Also attached must be all the composer’s contact details, a biography including the composer’s age and year of birth in no more than 250 words, a high-resolution color photograph, and an e-mail address. All this material will be sent through the web page that the Non Profit Music Foundation will enable the composer once the registration fee has been paid.
For more information and to register, please visit the awards website
www.clma.nonprofitmusic.org
or the Non Profit Music Foundation website
www.nonprofitmusic.org
Deadline 31 July 2021
Website clma.nonprofitmusic.org
