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2014 Call for Scores for Chamber Orchestra

 2014 Call for Scores for Chamber Orchestra
Summary:Call for orchestral scores
Deadline: 18 January 2014
Date Posted: 27 August 2013
Details: 2014 Call for Scores for Chamber Orchestra
CALL FOR SCORES FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WORKSHOP - DEADLINE JANUARY 18th, 2014

Hear your piece played at a workshop, and receive feedback from the orchestra and conductor. Open to all composers who would be able attend the workshop in London.

The LCCO is a good amateur orchestra, of single wind and brass, strings, percussion, and piano.

JANUARY 18th deadline for receipt of scores - maximum duration 5 minutes
Selection by a panel of LCCO players, if too many are received.
MARCH 29th - workshop performance and discussion of the selected pieces.
OCTOBER 4th - concert including pieces selected by the orchestra from those work-shopped.

Fee of £30 for taking part.

Full details: email us:alan.taylor@dpmail.co.uk - essential to read the detailed guidance before starting to write.

About the LCCO - we are a unique orchestra, which has the role of playing music by developing composers and giving them feedback. We were heard on Radio 3 as part of Making Music's Play to the Nation, and the composer of a piece workshopped and recorded by us won the Making Music category in the British Composers Awards in 2008.
Piece of the Year Competition
We have run a composition competition for student composers, and we may do so again. The previous winners were:

2011 winner: Ed Shellard

2010: a tie between Giles Brindley and Aleah Morrison

2009 winner: Nick Norton of UC San Diego

2008 winner: Dominic Irving of Trinity College of Music
Web Site:http://at.orpheusweb.co.uk/lcco/?page=scores