2010 ISCM World Music Days
Sydney, Australia
30 April to 9 May 2010

Call for Works: Momentary Pleasures
Closing date: 31 December 2009

Typically composers will spend many days, weeks, months and even years writing pieces of music. But to write an entire piece in one day can also be a singularly pleasurable experience.

The 2010 Aurora Festival will be presenting a unique concert of new piano works, each of which will have been written by composers in a single day.

We invite submissions from composers from around the world for this concert. The theme of this concert is Momentary Pleasures. Composers should write a work with this theme in mind - however they wish to interpret this.

Criteria
Instrumentation: solo (unamplified) piano. Playing inside the piano is to be avoided.
Duration: Maximum two notated pages, maximum 4 minutes in length.
Composition time: The composer must include a declaration stating that the submitted piece was written within a single day. Typesetting time may be additional to this single day.
Nationality: Composers may be from anywhere in the world.
Age restriction: There is no minimum or maximum age restriction.
Entry fee: There is no entry fee for this category.

The following should be submitted:
Score in PDF format
Recording (Optional. MIDI recordings acceptable. Mp3 format only.)
Name and nationality of the composer
Address
Email contact
Programme notes (max. 100 words, in English), detailing how the theme of Momentary Pleasures was used in the composition
A written declaration from the composer in the body of the email stating that this composition was written in a single day

Entries must be submitted electronically via email to the following address:
p.horn@australianmusiccentre.com.au

Date of receipt of entries: 5pm Thursday 31 December 2009 (Sydney time)

http://www.aurorafestival.com.au/momentary.html
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/s/iscm2010

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Shakuhachi Chamber Music Composition Competition 2010
Shakuhachi Chamber Music International Prize 2010

Entries are invited for new compositions for shakuhachi with piano trio (piano, violin, cello).

Finalist compositions for this international competition will be performed, offered a publishing deal and recorded in Melbourne, Australia. For details about instrumentation, eligibility, duration, judging, prize money, concerts, please visit the competition site.

Entries Close: 26 February 2010

www.shakuhachichambermusic.com

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Pacific Opera Vocal Writing Prize 2009

Pacific Opera is committed to developing talent, and that includes composers. Each year we will seek out those composers who have a gift of writing for the classically trained voice.

Entries are invited by Pacific Opera in collaboration with The Fellowship of Australia Composers, for a composition of no longer than 12 minutes duration employing piano and solo voice, or piano and duet for 2 solo voices.

Competition opens: August 1st 2009
Entries Close: 30th November 2009
Entry Fee: $40 for FAC members, $50 non-members

Address entries to:

Julie Simonds
President, Fellowship of Astralian Composers
PO Box 520
Epping NSW 1710

Conditions: Open to all Australian citizens, open age. 2 copies of score and CD of midi file (or equivalent). Stamp addressed envelope if scores to be returned.
Adjudicators: The adjudication panel will be selected by Pacific Opera and The Fellowship of Australian Composers.

Prizes:

- A cash prize of $2,000 will be awarded to the winning entry. This prize is provided to Pacific Opera by APRA. The prize is also generously supported by Ars Musica Australis.
- Performance of winning work and function afterwards at an art gallery TBA in January.
- Recording, broadcast and interview by 2MBS FM – Dec/Jan 2010.
- 1 Page article in Fine Music Magazine.

NB: The entry must be a new work which has not previously been performed, recorded, broadcast or published.

Presented by Pacific Opera, the Fellowship of Australian Composers, and APRA/AMCOS.

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2009 International Horn Society Composition Contest

First prize $1500
Second Prize $1000

For original compositions composed during the past two years featuring the horn as:

an unaccompanied instrument
as a solo instrument with accompaniment OR
as a member of a chamber ensemble

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2009.

For more information, contact
Paul Basler
IHS Composition Contest Coordinator
School of Music
P.O. Box 117900
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611 - 7099
Tel: (352) 273-3188, Fax: (352) 392 - 0461
Email: basler at ufl dot edu

Website: http://www.hornsociety.org/content/blogcategory/47/222/lang,en/