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2015 PARMA Student Composer Competition

 2015 PARMA Student Composer Competition
Summary:Student Composers' Competition
Deadline: 31 January 2015
Date Posted: 25 November 2014
Details: Student Composer Competition Timeline
December 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015 – Submission period
February/March 2015 – Judging period
April 2015 – Winners announced
Summer 2015 – Reading sessions

Eligibility
Entrants must be 30 years old or younger and currently studying composition either at an institution or through private instruction. There is no entry fee to submit.

Submission Guidelines
Submitted works should be no greater than ten (10) minutes in duration and orchestrated within a standard orchestral configuration of 2, 2, 2, 2 – 4, 3, 3, 1 – percussion – strings, with optional piano and harp. All costs will be fully subsidized by PARMA.

Awards
Ten (10) winners will be selected to have their works published in the 2015 PARMA Anthology of Music, and three (3) Grand Prize Winners will receive readings and archival recordings of their scores by a full symphony orchestra via PARMA’s PrimaVista program (www.parmarecordings.com/primavista).
Web Site:http://www.parmarecordings.com/studentcomposercompetition/2015-guidelines.html