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WRITE FOR CARILLON

 WRITE FOR CARILLON
Summary:Carillon Competition
Deadline: 01 August 2017
Date Posted: 19 July 2017
Details: Gaudeamus and carillonneur/carillonist Malgosia Fiebig invite young composers (35 years or younger) worldwide to write a new composition for the carillon of the world-famous Dom Tower in Utrecht (The Netherlands). Malgosia Fiebig is a carillonneur/carillonist in the cities of Utrecht and Nijmegen and a big advocate for new compositions for carillon.

CALL FOR SKETCHES

Send a composition sketch with a maximum length of one minute before August 1 via our website www.gaudeamus.nl/professionals. We would like to receive sheet music / PDF and a midi file. From the entries, three composers are selected to work out their sketches into full-length compositions for carillon (length up to 4 minutes).

On August 8th we will announce which three composers are selected. September 1 is the deadline for submitting the full-length composition. On September 3 you are expected in the Dom Tower to attend a performance of Malgosia playing the carillon. She then gives some tips and recommendations for your own composition. On September 9th, the premier of the three compositions will sound!

Deadline: before 1 August 2017

Questions? malgosiafiebig@hotmail.com

Web Site:gaudeamus.nl/en/call/write-for-carillon/