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Here's my entry. It took a lot longer to notate than I thought, but I've written about 1.5 minutes.

May he rest in peace.

I picked these as they felt quite strong to me. My thought process was one of deciding which I could develop best in my style, and the relative rhythmic simplicity of the two that I picked lent themselves to virtuosity in the accompaniment.

I don't mind 😂. I've sort of abandoned the other movements for now, they were wayyyy to similar to Mozart and others. as such I'm leaving it for now and focusing on another thing which is a Piano trio. I'm only one the first movement however it's more organised. I know roughly what I'm doing and where I'm flowing to and from so the themes should be more tightly nit together. not to mention I won't be dealing with an Orchestra which to be honest was very ambitious of me

I think the piece is perfectly fine as it is, I didn't mean to imply you needed to change anything. I was just curious on your thought process, which appears to be through-composed, which is perfectly legitimate. While I think it is important to have an organized structure, at the same time you don't want to be too organized. I think it's important to find a happy medium between planned structure and letting the music flow naturally, which I think you did. It kind of sounds like you started out loosely with the idea of a sonata form, then improvised within that mold. As long as you keep practicing like this you will only get better over time. The thing to ask yourself is "Was it too through-composed, or was it too organized?", make an adjustment, and implement on your next piece. PS, didn't mean for this to turn into a review of your concerto, but good work! 😆

Maybe you're not in the right head space to submit a piece, sorry to hear of your loss. However, I've experienced a different type of loss with this pandemic, and it lead me back to this site and writing a piece in Sibelius for the first time in a few years. Just remember time heals all wounds, and I look forward to your return. What was once a great void in my life has turned to a fire I'm eager to share with you all. See you soon

To be perfectly honest I have no answer 😂. It's simply what I wrote. as I said earlier, it was very through composed without paying attention to what the times were initially. as such it's a miracle it resembles sonata form at all. I just enjoyed what I wrote for this piece. when I revisit it at some point down the line I will need to restructure it.

Condolences Ivan.

I'll reply to your original post, but that said, just know you'll get way more exposure here by creating a different post for each piece you submit. As a standalone piece, I think this deserves some kind of melody, maybe a flute would be cool? I wouldn't necessarily rework this if you like it as solo piano, but in the future the idea you have seems more like a nice harmony with some counter-play, maybe keep that type of idea as a left hand figure while you have a melody on top? Just some thoughts, I'm eager to hear how your music progresses!

At the end I will probably not participate because I'm having an emotional crisis after doing really bad with exams and my grandfather probably dying soon. Have fun.

After this let's do a competition about musical comedy lol.

I'd like to enter as an entrant entering the entrance of entrants

By the way my grandfather died last night.