Results and Winners: "Dreamscapes" Chamber Music Composition Competition

Thanks to all the participants who submitted music to the competition - the recipients of the "Oneironaut" Award!

Watch @chopin's YouTube video results and winners premiere!

Click on the links of each entry to read all the reviews for that entry:

Entry A - "Sonata for a Dream" by @Samuel1
Entry B - "a knee in the grass through my eyelashes" by @GreenGiantCanOfCorn
Entry C - "The Journey of Jason" by @Michalis
Entry D - "Argonauta" by @Jordan Jinosko
Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam
Entry F - "Allegro in B flat major" by @44W74l4
Entry G - "Rêverie Sentimental" by @expert21
Entry H - "OneiRomantica" by @AngelCityOutlaw
Entry I - "Lucidity" by @SorooshMHS
Entry J - "Stories for Violin and Piano" by @Composer from Europe
Entry K - "A Strange World" by @spike473
Entry L - "cathédrale électronique" by @Paweł Siek
Entry M - "Relentless Terror" by @AlexeySavelyev
Entry N - "dreamscape for alto flute and piano" by @José de Azevedo Souza
Entry O - "Wind's Lament" by @veps
Entry P - "Profane Scenes of Prophetic Dreams" by @popsinn
Entry Q - "Deaf Pillows" by @Irene Huang
Entry R - "Dreamscape for Cello and Piano" by @MTK
Entry S - "VALS DE ESPASMOS DE UN SUEÑO DE AMOR" by @Sergio Moreno
Entry T - "Alessandro's Dream" by @ComposaBoi
Entry U - "Liminal Dream" by @IanBoins

For winning the Themes/Melodies/Motives category with a score of 9.48, Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam receives the "Tune Smith" badge! 

For winning the Harmony/Chords/Textures category with a score of 9.38, Entry Q - "Deaf Pillows" by @Irene Huang receives the "Ingenious Harmonizer" badge! 

For winning the Form/Development/Structure/Time category with a score of 8.90, Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam receives the "Musical Architect" badge! 

For winning the Originality/Creativity category with a score of 9.30, Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam receives the "Musical Explorer" badge! 

For winning the Score Presentation category with a score of 9.80, Entry L - "cathédrale électronique" by @Paweł Siek receives the "Immaculate Engraver" badge! 

For winning the Instrumentation/Orchestration/Playability category with a score of 9.30, Entry D - "Argonauta" by @Jordan Jinosko receives the "Outstanding Orchestrator" badge! 

For winning the Execution of Given Challenge category with a score of 9.98, Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam receives the "Theme Winner" badge! 

For winning the Taste category with a score of 9.50, Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam receives the "Impeccable Taste" badge! 

There are multiple ties in the popular voting polls!  Entry C - "The Journey of Jason" by @Michalis and Entry O - "Wind's Lament" by @veps will both receive the "Lucid Dreamer" badge! 

Also determined by the popular voting polls, Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam and Entry O - "Wind's Lament" by @veps will both receive the "Peaceful Sleeper" badge!  

Determined by the popular voting polls, Entry B - "a knee in the grass through my eyelashes" by @GreenGiantCanOfCorn receives the "Biggest Nightmare" badge!  

And now, --==<< Decisive Fanfare >>==-- for the official winners of the "Dreamscapes" Chamber Music Composition Competition:

For winning 1st place with a score of 9.32, Entry E - "The Escapist" by @ComposedBySam receives the "1st Place" badge  and the $100 USD prize!

For winning 2nd place with a score of 8.79, Entry Q - "Deaf Pillows" by @Irene Huang receives the "2nd Place" badge  and the $50 USD prize!

For winning 3rd place with a score of 8.60, Entry K - "A Strange World" by @spike473 receives the "3rd Place" badge  and the $25 USD prize!

Congratulations to all the Oneironauts!  And thank you to all the Oneiromancers @Thatguy v2.0, @PeterthePapercomPoser, @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, @Omicronrg9, @chopin for judging the competition!  They will be the recipients of the "Oneiromancer" badge! 

A special thanks goes out to @Thatguy v2.0 and @PeterthePapercomPoser for organizing the competition!  They will receive the "Community Organizer" badge!  

And an extra special thanks goes out to @Thatguy v2.0 for financing the competition!  He will receive the "Patron Award" badge!  

Here are all the Oneiromancer Journals (reviews):  Thatguy v.2.0, PeterthePapercomPoser, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, Omicronrg9, chopin.

Here are all the Predictions where the Oneiromancers kept track of their scores:  Thatguy v.2.0, PeterthePapercomPoser, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, Omicronrg9, chopin.

To check out the Final Destiny, where all the Oneironauts music was evaluated for their final score go here:  Final Destiny.

We encourage all the participants to now submit their entries under their name for further feedback from the community!  Also - the winners' entries will then be able to be moved into the "Competition Hall of Fame"!

To take the "Dreamscapes" Satisfaction Survey go here:

To listen to all the entries, go here:

To check out the popular voting polls, go here:

For the competition announcement, go here:

Congratulations to all the winners as well as all the non-winning contestants for their submissions! There is much enjoyable music in your submissions. I wonder which ones of the pieces at least from the three winning pieces are played by real instruments and performers. If I am not mistaken the 1st and 2nd placed pieces are by real instruments/performers. However, why not mention this fact as well as give credit to the performers.

On 9/16/2023 at 5:06 AM, luderart said:

I wonder which ones of the pieces at least from the three winning pieces are played by real instruments and performers. If I am not mistaken the 1st and 2nd placed pieces are by real instruments/performers. However, why not mention this fact as well as give credit to the performers.

When submitting music to this competition, the entrants were required to keep their entries anonymous which means removing any names from the score which might give away the identity of the composer and/or performers.

15 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

When submitting music to this competition, the entrants were required to keep their entries anonymous which means removing any names from the score which might give away the identity of the composer and/or performers.

Good point. However, now that that requirement is no longer extant, I think the names of the performers ought to be mentioned.

2 hours ago, luderart said:

Good point. However, now that that requirement is no longer extant, I think the names of the performers ought to be mentioned.

 

I agree, a lot of performers also require that public uses of their works include credits to them.