With about a month to go before the closing deadline,
applications for our open submission composition competition are steadily
coming in. As a composer myself, I was
both pleased and dismayed to be handed the task of keeping track of all the
applications and getting them ready for our Artistic Advisor, composer Huw
Watkins, to look at after the first stage of the competition closes. Pleased because I can see what a great
opportunity this is for unpublished composers: no restrictions on age or
experience, no need to write new material unless chosen for the second stage,
and, for one lucky winner, not one but three performances by top professionals,
mentoring from Huw, a BBC broadcast and a proper commission fee! I know from my own experience that a competition with such a smorgasbord of
prizes is rarely open to so many applicants – usually there’s some sort of
application fee, or you have to write a lot of new music first which may never
get selected, or you have to be in a certain age bracket. Dismayed though, because my role means I
won’t be able to enter!
If you’re a composer, all you need to do is send us two
existing pieces (and preferably a recording of at least one of them – but this
isn’t essential) for instrumental ensembles of 3-10 players and fill in a brief
form. The form and all the details are
available on the OPUS 2013 page of our website, which can be reached via this
handy link: http://bit.ly/opus2013. The deadline is 31 August so what are you
waiting for?
James Brady
Creative Learning Assitant
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