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Snape Young Composer of the Year Competition 2017

 Snape Young Composer of the Year Competition 2017
Summary:Trio competition for young composers
Deadline: 02 October 2017
Date Posted: 20 September 2017
Details: Composition Brief
Entrants must be 17 years or under on 31 August 2017 and live or attend school in Essex, Norfolk or Suffolk. You are invited to write a piece of music up to a maximum performance length of 5 minutes. This can, if you wish, be inspired by this year's Cambridge ‘Festival of Ideas’ theme of Truth.

The instruments available for this year’s competition are a piano trio:
Piano Violin Cello

Compositions may be written for any combination of the above instruments/voice but you must write for at least two of them. See below for the full competition rules.

Please note ‐ to enable us to perform entries at the competition final, pieces should include no more than one of each of the instruments listed above.

Entries will be judged by composer Ewan Campbell and all entries will be performed by members of the Phaedra Ensemble at the Competition Finals on Saturday 21 October, 2017, 11am to approx. 5.30pm at Snape Maltings, Suffolk. Composers will be given verbal and written feedback on their work. There will be a Class Winner and Highly Commended awards for each age group.

Winning entries from the Snape competition, and from the Cambridge Young Composer of the Year competition (covering Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire), will be performed at a concert at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge at 5pm on Sunday 29 October 2017 when a new piece by last year’s Cambridge Young Composer of the Year, Alexia Sloane, will also be performed.

Competition Rules
- Compositions must be sent to arrive no later than Monday October 2nd 2017 together with a
completed entry form (provided at the end of this document).
- We require a copy of the full score and a copy of each individual part. Please do NOT include
the composer’s name on the score or parts as the entries are judged anonymously.
- Compositions should be sent by email, preferably as PDF files (either saved from composing software or scanned from legible, hand‐written manuscript) to aym@snapemaltings.co.uk
- Competitors must live in either Essex, Norfolk or Suffolk or study full‐time in those counties.
- Competitors must be 17 years of age or under on 31st August 2017.
- Compositions must be the competitor’s own work and should not have won a prize in another
competition or been performed at a public concert (school performances not included).
- Entries will be judged in three age groups (as of August 31st 2017):
11 and under 12 – 14 years 15 – 17 years
- The decision of the judge and organisers will be final

Further information:
Email: aym@snapemaltings.co.uk/Tel: 01728 687115/www.snapemaltings.co.uk/AYM

Web Site:snapemaltings.co.uk/music/aldeburgh-young-musicians/
Email:aym@snapemaltings.co.uk