Plucked from Nowhere:
A Composition Competition for a Work for Harp
and Chamber Orchestra.
The Alvarez Chamber Orchestra is holding a competition
for composers of any age and nationality to submit works for Harp and Chamber Orchestra. There is no specification as to the length or nature of the work, or
the number of works submitted. Each work should have a pseudonym printed on the
cover, and the identity of the composer, including address, email, phone number,
biography, photograph and programme notes in a sealed envelope. The closing date
for scores is August 15th, 2009. The maximum size of the orchestra is
as follows: 2.1.1.1./2.1.1.1/harp/perc1/3.3.2.2.1. The entry fee is £25 per work
which includes postage costs for return of scores. Cheques may be made payable
to The Alvarez Chamber Orchestra. Scores should be sent to the address below.
There will be a prize of £1000 for the winning work and a performance by the
Alvarez Chamber Orchestra at the forthcoming season Plucked from Nowhere, a
series of concerts also featuring the premiere of a new Harp Concerto by Bogusław Schaeffer written especially for the orchestra as well as works by
members of the reading panel.
The reading panel, which will meet to consider the works in the Royal Academy of Music at the beginning of September 2009, will consist of widely performed and commissioned composer Paul Patterson, Manson Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, also holding a number of other distinguished posts including composer in residence with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Diana Burrell, Director of the Spitalfields Festival, also currently holding an important Fellowship at the Royal Academy, Roxanne Panufnik, a composer with a particular knowledge of the harp, Elżbieta Baklarz, virtuoso harpist with the Sinfonietta Cracovia, Simon Campion, music publisher, and Geoffrey Alvarez, composer and conductor of the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra. No prize will be awarded in the absence of a submission that is acceptable to the jury.
Dr Geoffrey Įlvarez
Artistic
Advisor/Charity Consultant
The Alvarez Chamber Orchestra
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