Chanticleer Student Composer Competition
| Chanticleer Student Composer Competition | |
| Summary: | Student choral competition |
| Deadline: | 01 November 2014 |
| Date Posted: | 19 March 2014 |
| Details: |
Chanticleer, the internationally acclaimed, 12-man vocal ensemble, announces its fifth Student Composer Competition. The competition is designed to encourage current composition students to write quality works for high school level choirs. Score submissions must be postmarked by November 1st, 2014. Winners will be announced on December 1st, 2014. The top ten compositions will be learned and performed by the Chanticleer LAB Choir. Winning composers will be invited to work with the LAB Choir during the rehearsal process (January-February 2015). The top prize will be considered for performance at the Chanticleer National Youth Choral Festival, in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall in the spring of 2015. Compositions must be for a cappella SATB high school level choir, three to five minutes in duration. The submitted work must not have had prior public performances or recordings. Only one work per composer may be submitted. Composers should be currently enrolled as students at time of submission. (See Call for Entries, below, for details). The latest competition winner, "Chou Nu Er" by Yi-Wen Chang, won a featured spot on our National Youth Choral Festival in 2010 where it was sung by 416 high school students and Chanticleer. Eric Barnum’s 2004 entry “She Walks in Beauty” was so successful that Chanticleer incorporated it into its touring program in the following year. The quality of entries for 2006 was so high that seven winners were announced: Vicente Chavarria, Miami, FL; Erica Glenn, Tempe, AZ; Blake R. Henson, Princeton, NJ; Matthew Peterson, Northfield, MN; Philip Rice, Coldwater, MI; Jorge Sosa, New York, NY; and Dale Trumbore, Chatham, NJ. Honorable mentions went to Mark Fromm, Pittsburgh, PA and Samuel Hunter, Fairview, NC. Kieun Steve Kim’s 2008 winning composition, “Sanctus”, fuses older music forms and texts with a contemporary voice. The native Korean composer is a two-time Grand Prize recipient of the Christian Times' Gospel Music Competition. He was the finalist in the 17th Christian Broadcasting Station's New Gospel Songs Competition and has since produced his debut CD, My God, sponsored by Joon Records. |
| Web Site: | https://www.chanticleer.org/education/composer-competition/ |
