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Look & Listen Competition

 Look & Listen Competition
Summary:Solo singer with accompaniment call.
Deadline: 01 January 2018
Date Posted: 11 October 2017
Details: The Look & Listen Festival Composers Competition is an annual call-for-submissions to foster and support contemporary composers and music pioneers from all over the world. The winning work is chosen to be featured as part of the upcoming festival in NYC and the composer receives a cash prize of $500.

For this upcoming season, Look & Listen Festival is looking to expand the contemporary vocal repertoire by accepting works for soprano, accordion, cello and clarinet.

The competition is free and open to artists of any age, ethnicity, citizenship, gender and background to apply.

To submit a work, please observe the following guidelines:

Works must be written after 2010
Works must be written for this specific instrumentation:
Soprano, accordion, cello and clarinet

OR

Soprano and accordion

OR

Soprano and banjo

Submissions should include a short biography
Submissions should include a score and mp3, if possible
Limited to 3 submissions per composer
You must obtain all necessary rights to use any text that is not in the public domain.

Deadline: January 1, 2018

Results announced: March 1, 2018

Please direct all questions to phyllis@lookandlisten.org

Note: If your piece has a video component, please put the link to a webpage (vimeo, youtube, etc) in your bio and on the first page of the score. The judges will then access the video while listening to the musical component of your submission.

Technical Note: Please limit the size of your mp3 to under 20MB (under 10 if possible). Please submit only one mp3, if your piece is in movements, combine them into one mp3. There are tools available online to help you do these things. Visit http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (for both Windows and Mac) and http://www.goldwave.com/(for Windows).
Web Site:www.lookandlisten.org/competition/2018-composers-competition/