Hmmm, not sure how much use this is going to be.
At our season finale on 24 June, the chairman of the local orchestra I play in announced our 'Birthday Commission Competition'. I'm not quite sure how this can be a commission if it's a competition, but there you go. Anyway, here's an extract from the orchestra's brochure for its 2007/8 season.
Sunday 18 May 2008, The Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell from 11 am to 5 pm
To celebrate its 21st Season, WFS is running a competition for composers to produce a short orchestral work, which will open our concert on 22 June. The distinguished British composer John Mc Cabe will chair the judging panel, and the final three shortlisted works will be rehearsed and performed in open workshop. At the end of the afternoon an audience vote will be taken into account in the panel's choice of winning composition.
I think the chairman said the full details of the competition will be advertised in September, and that there would be some sort of judging panel to get things down to a shortlist of 3. 'Cos this is all vague, you can see why I said I wasn't sure what use this would be. Anyway, in case you are interested......
The Concert is on
22 June 2008, 7.30pm St Paul's Church, Wokingham,
Birthday Commission
Brahms Double Concerto (Ron and Juliet Colyer)
Sibelius Symphony No.5
And the orchestra's website is:
http://www.westforestsinfonia.org/Cheers
Tommo
The advert for this is now out, in Classical Music Magazine (on page 14 of the 29 September edition).
Perhaps not prestigious enough for many of the composers on this forum, but maybe something you might alert your students to?
Or somewhere to experiment ideas arising from Martle's Orchestral composition in the 21st century thread.
http://www.westforestsinfonia.org/Composition%20criteria.htmlHave fun
Tommo
