Young Composer Mentoring: Get A Performance And Feedback

Saw this on the Association of Choral Directors website.  Looks like no fee to apply.  A really good opportunity for a performance and some valuable feedback and they are selecting 4 composers, so the odds are better than a lot of contests that are for cash prizes and only pick one "winner".  If you are in the right age bracket, I highly suggest filling out the application form and sending them a score.  It only takes 15 minutes of your time.  

(:  -pateceramics

Magpies & Ravens is accepting scores for its 2016 Lineage program, a mentorship program for young composers. Four young composers will be selected to receive personalized mentoring from an established, professional composer culminating in a premiere performance of a new choral work in March 2016.

Submission Guidelines:

·      Call for scores is open to all composers between the ages of 15 and 25

·      One previously unperformed piece may be submitted per composer

·      Piece should be 3-5 minutes in length and a capella (pieces with accompaniment of any kind will NOT be considered)

·      Voicing should be SATB, some divisi acceptable (M&R is 16 singers)

·      Text may be sacred or secular. Composer must have rights to use the text (or obtain the rights before performance)

·      Piece may only submitted via email as a PDF to magpiesravens@gmail.com  (recordings/MIDI files are unnecessary)

·      Include your Name, Date of Birth, and Contact Information (phone number and email address) with your submission

·      DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS NOVEMBER 30, 2015

If selected:

·      Composer will receive personalized mentoring and feedback from one of our four professional composers who make up the selection committee:

o   James Kallembach – Chicago, IL

o   Linda Kachelmeier – St. Paul, MN

o   Paul Rudoi – Minneapolis, MN

o   Dale Trumbore – Los Angeles, CA

·      Mentoring will include phone call and Skype sessions as well as in person sessions (if local)

·      Selected pieces will be premiered at the M&R “Lineage” concerts on March 12 & 13, 2016 at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN

·      Winners will be announced on December 7, 2015

For more information about M&R visit www.magpiesravens.com 

I wish they had done this about 12 years earlier.

Yeah, I'm too old too.  ):