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Oh! These are great badges! Thank you @PeterthePapercomPoser and the support team! I like the designs for "Synthesizer Wizard," "Gentlefolk," and "Stimulator" are especially wonderful! Very nice! Also, adding this text to the first post in this topic ( @PeterthePapercomPoser's post listing the awards) might make things clearer! By the way, there is someone I would like to nominate for a badge, so I’ll take this opportunity to mention it here. Person's name: @Vasilis Michael Badge: Meticulous Composer Topic for the badge: https://www.youngcomposers.com/t50201/sonata-no-26-in-a-major-binary/ Reason: I think the piano composition itself is crafted with incredible precision—including the interplay between the left and right hands. Furthermore, the piano playback is really amazing; the articulation and sound clarity reflect that same meticulous attention to detail, which is why I wanted to award him this badge. His pieces are always wonderful, after all :) Best, Lithl.

Wow, my friend, thank you so much for this! ❤️ I honestly didn’t expect it, and it means a lot to me. Being described as a “Meticulous Composer” is a particularly meaningful compliment, because I really do care deeply about the smallest details in my music — from the interaction between the hands and the articulation to the harmonic choices and the overall character of a piece. I’m especially touched that you chose the Sonata No. 26 as an example, but even more by the fact that you see this quality throughout my work. After all, these pieces are a very personal part of my musical journey. Thank you again for your kindness and support, my friend. I’m genuinely grateful to have my music appreciated in such a thoughtful way. ❤️

A magnificent piece: I love it! Especially the way it combines Baroque counterpoint with a modern harmonic language. The only problem is, it's unplayable in places. Bars 28 and 35 to name but two examples. Human hands cannot reach all those notes! Also Page 2 would benefit from having the left hand in treble clef most of the time; otherwise you have too many ledger lines to read. The notation is generally quite confusing to the eye. This is partly down to the voice allocations. Bar 47 is a good example. The lower notes in the right hand would be far easier to read if they were merged into the left hand. The upper notes in right hand voice 2 should be in voice 1, and the B natural is unplayable. Definitely worth revising this piece to fix these problems, as I think the composition is very good. It would be a difficult piece to pull off; but could be made playable for sure. Btw, the audio sounds strangely muffled sometimes. Not sure what's happened there? Anyway, hope that helps. Alex

As per @Lithl 's suggestion, some new badges have been published! Yes - good point! If you wish to anonymously nominate someone for an award, you can message any of the staff privately and we will take your nomination into consideration!

Hello my friends! I’m happy to present my Binary Sonata No. 26 to you as well. I hope you enjoy it!

Quite beautiful.

Ah, I see. I’ll try to revise it so that it can be played. Thank you sincerely for the feedback.

The members have voted in the poll and decided upon a theme for the next competition - "From Nothing, to Something"! This competition has no monetary awards - only kudos and badges. We are inviting the members/competitors to review and to participate in the creation of the badge awards that will be dispersed at the end of the competition! So if you have any ideas for particular badges that would accord with the kind of music that will be submitted for this competition and the theme of this competition, let us know in the List of Manually-Awardable Badges thread and we will take your ideas into consideration! Please reply to this thread to declare your intent to participate in this competition! The winners will be determined by popular voting polls! The duration of each piece should once again be between 3 - 7 minutes. Reviewing the entries will once again be spearheaded by the members/competitors at large. You are free to use the Official Competition Reviewing Template or you can review the entries in any way you see fit or create a template of your own making! Thank you for whatever time and effort you are able or willing to give towards reviewing the competition entries! There will be tiered "Ardent Reviewer" badges given out for this event: Featherweight Reviewer - for reviewing 33% of the entries Welterweight Reviewer - for reviewing 66% of the entries Heavyweight Reviewer - for reviewing 100% of the entries We are instituting a policy of not allowing any AI generated works in the competition. Because of this you will be required to detail how you created your piece and submit a PDF score or midi file for the perusal of the staff and members at large. The musical entries to the competition are final once submitted. This is for the sake of consistency of reviewing (so that each reviewer reviews the same piece of music without any changes). Instrumentation: As per the poll, the competitors will be tasked with writing a piece for a mixed trio/quartet/quintet of individual instruments/players/singers. Deadline: As per the poll, this competition will take 2 months, so the deadline to participate will be Thursday, September 24th, 2026. @MK_Piano's theme for the competition can be found below: What greater challenge of a composer than to take nothing and turn it into something! Your goal is to take the text from Paul Verlaine’s summer poem “Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été,” (So, on a bright summer day it shall be) and turn it into a piece! This poem is short, but filled with evoking images of the season of summer. It is read as a love poem, and Verlaine felt the winds and sun of summer amplified the affection he felt for his admirer. When you write, we ask that you focus on what summer brings to you as it did for Verlaine. Using this text, you must create a musical work that best captures the sensation of summer. What was nothing but words on a page, will be turned into a beautiful work of music by your hand! Attached is the poem in English: So, on a bright summer day it shall be: The great sun, my partner in joy, Shall make, amid the satin and the silk, Your dear beauty lovelier still; The sky, all blue, like a tall canopy, Shall quiver sumptuously in the long folds Above our two happy brows, grown pale With pleasure and expectancy; And when evening comes, the breeze shall be soft And play caressingly about your veils, And the peaceful stars looking down Shall smile benevolently on man and wife. The poem in French and English Entrants to the competition thus far: @MrBelegro @Fruit hunter @Ninja Nolan @Kvothe @TristanTheTristan @MK_Piano @Matthew M @GMoneywroteasong @therealAJGS @Musicman_3254 @Some Guy That writes Music @UncleRed99 @Wieland Handke Here is the submissions thread for the competition where participants are encouraged to post links to their composition (rather than posting their piece directly into the pre-existing topic - make your own dedicated topic so the members at large can review your music there):

Ah ah ! Chers collègues compositeurs, que ce message serve de déclaration officielle de ma participation. Je suis ravi que mon thème ait été retenu comme gagnant. Je suis sûr que vous allez tous adorer ce poème français et j'ai hâte de découvrir la musique que vous allez composer ! TL,DR: I’m in boss 🫡