Presteigne Festival Competition for Composers

Presteigne Festival Competition for Composers

The Presteigne Festival has for many years held an international reputation for the performance and promotion of contemporary music. It is also well-known for its support and nurturing of young composers and performing artists at the start of their careers, having been twice short-listed for the annual Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards for best festival or concert series.

It seemed a natural progression for the Presteigne Festival to organise an annual competition for student and post-graduate composers which would stimulate the composition of contemporary classical music by young writers living in the United Kingdom.
 
The competition is open to British-born composers between the ages of 20 and 29; the winner will be awarded a prize of £1,000 together with, more importantly, a performance at the 2010 Presteigne Festival by three outstanding young artists.
 
Thanks to an exciting new association between the Presteigne Festival and the Birmingham Conservatoire, it is intended that a number of short-listed composers will have the opportunity to attend a workshop session led by Huw Watkins (one of the competition judges), George Vass (artistic director of the Presteigne Festival) and professional instrumentalists. During this workshop session, the short-listed compositions will be fine-tuned and then recorded.
 
The winning composition, a 5 - 7 minute piece of chamber music scored for clarinet, cello and piano will be awarded the first Alan Horne Prize for Composition.
 
The Presteigne Festival performance will be given in August 2010 by Catriona Scott (clarinet), Marie Macleod (cello) and Tom Poster (piano). The closing date for entries is Friday 8 January 2010.
 
 
For further details please contact Alison Porter, Festival Producer via the contact page on this site 
 

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