Past Winners
2009 - Steve Danyew "On Green Mountains"
2010 - Brad Kemp "La fille aux cheveux de lin" arrangement
2011 - To Be Announced
Octarium Composition Competition
2012 Guidelines
Guidelines for submitted compositions:
• Mixed Choir (SATB) divisi is acceptable but must not exceed SSAATTBB
• Unaccompanied
• Three to five minutes’ duration
• Unpublished works which have not received a Midwest premier performance
• Text must be either in the public domain or the composer must provide suitable evidence of copyright holder’s permission to set the text.
• Secular or sacred text
Prizes:
• $500 plus travel expenses to Kansas City for attendance at premiere performance by Octarium during its 2012-2013 concert season
• Possible future publication through Octarium Press
• Possible inclusion on future Octarium recording releases
Submission Guidelines:
• Three (3) copies of the submitted score must be postmarked no later than March 30, 2012. Only one composition per entrant may be submitted. The winning composer will be notified by mail (and/or email) in July 2012 and the winning composer’s name will be placed on the Octarium website, www.octarium.org
• Names must not appear on the score. Instead, please include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number(s), title of composition and a brief resume outlining prior musical experience and education in a separate envelope attached by paper clip to one of the scores. Please label the envelope with the name of the composition.
• Submissions will be evaluated by a committee of singers, composers and conductors who will determine the winning entry.
• The winning score will be reproduced solely for performance by Octarium. Copies will be destroyed in the event of future publication.
• Octarium will have a non-exclusive, world-wide perpetual license to perform the winning score.
• Octarium shall have the right to record the premier performance for archival and other purposes, including distribution and sale of such recording.
• No scores will be returned.
Mail scores to:
Krista Lang Blackwood, Artistic Director
Octarium Composition Competition
6320 Brookside Plaza #163
Kansas City, Missouri 64113
Questions? Email info@octarium.org
