2008 Emerging Composers Competition
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For your information (thanks to acapella news for pointing this out):
Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition (2008) Guidelines
Eligibility: Composers should be in the early stages of their musical careers. Yale alumni may participate, but current Yale students are not eligible. Employees of Yale University and previous Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition are not eligible.
Guidelines for submitted compositions:
• Mixed choir (SATB)
• Unaccompanied, with piano accompaniment, or with instrumental accompaniment of not more than three
individual instruments
• Three to five minutes’ duration
• Unpublished works which have not received a premiere performance, only
• Rights to text must be cleared and evidence of copyright holder’s permission must be shown
• Secular or sacred text
• Level of difficulty suitable for a college choir or community choir, or excellent high school choir
Prizes:
• $1500 plus travel expenses to New Haven for attendance at premiere performance by the Yale Glee Club
during its 2008-2009 concert season
• Possible future publication in Yale Glee Club Choral Series
• The winner will be announced in late April, 2008. All entrants will be notified by mail. The winner will
also be announced on the Yale Glee Club web site (www.yale.edu/ygc) at this time.
submission guidelines:
• Five (5) copies of the submitted score must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2008. Only one
composition per entrant may be submitted.
Mail scores to:
U.S. Mail:
Jeffrey Douma, Director
Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition
PO Box 201929
New Haven, CT 06520-1929
Fedex address:
Jeffrey Douma, Director
Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition
165 Elm Street, Room 201
New Haven, CT 06511
• Names must not appear on the score. Instead, please include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number(s) in a separate envelope.
• Please also include a brief resume outlining prior musical experience and education.
• Submissions will be evaluated by a committee of composers and conductors who will determine the winning entry.
• The winning score will be reproduced solely for performance by the Yale Glee Club. Copies will be destroyed in the event of future publication.
• The Yale Glee Club will have a non-exclusive, world-wide perpetual license to perform the winning score.
• The Yale Glee Club shall have the right to record the inaugural performance for archival and other purposes, including distribution and sale of such recording.
• No scores will be returned.