Search for New Music Competition
| Search for New Music Competition | |
| Summary: | Competition for Women Composers |
| Deadline: | 15 May 2015 |
| Date Posted: | 25 March 2015 |
| Details: |
The IAWM holds an annual composition competition for women composers called the “Search for New Music by Women Composers”, aka SNM. This international competition includes nine different prize categories ranging from chamber and orchestral works to electro-acoustic media, improvisation, and sound installation. Each prize has its own monetary award. Membership in IAWM is required to enter, but contestants may join at the time of entry. The SNM committee administers the competition, receives entries, selects judges and publicizes the contest guidelines and the list of winners. Categories Ruth Anderson Commission Prize ($1,000) Commission for a new sound installation with electro-acoustic music To apply, submit a detailed proposal of the sound installation. The project must be completed within 12 months of notification of the award. The winner will receive the award money after submitting a report to IAWM following the public showing of the completed installation. Location of the installation may be, but is not restricted to, an IAWM annual concert or congress. Theodore Front Prize ($300) (minimum age – twenty-two) Large chamber and orchestral works . Sponsored by Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc. Miriam Gideon Prize ($500) (minimum age – fifty) Works for solo voice and one to five instruments Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize ($500) (minimum age – forty) Works for piano trio or quartet, or any combination of 4 instruments drawing from woodwinds, strings, and piano. The work must be unpublished with no professional performance. Given by Harvey Glickman in memory of his wife and supported by the Hildegard Institute. Libby Larsen Prize ($200) (must be currently enrolled in school) Works for any medium Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize ($300) Works for electro-acoustic media or incorporating innovative form or style, such as improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation. If no score is used, a description of the work and its structure must accompany the audio or video submission. PatsyLu Prize ($500) (for Black women and/or lesbians) Classical art music in any form or instrumentation Judith Lang Zaimont Prize ($400) (minimum age – thirty) Extended instrumental compositions—large solo or chamber works—by a composer whose music has not yet been commercially recorded or published Each prize category has its own monetary award as indicated. The categories have changed. If you have previously submitted in the Zwilich category for ages 21 and under, and you are currently a student, please submit in the Larsen category. |
| Web Site: | http://iawm.org/competitions/search-for-new-music/ |
