This year is the final year for our NewWorks choral composition competition, with the deadline approaching in just over a month. We would appreciate if you could share this competition information with your students and/or colleagues.
After more than a decade – and a CD recording of many of our winning entries – DaCapo has decided that this will be the final offering of the NewWorks choral composition competition.Composers are encouraged to submit works whose texts touch on issues such as (but not limited to) mutual respect, civility, or peaceful co-existence. Our goal is to engage listeners with the music, and stimulate, perhaps challenge, the mind with texts of substance. While we certainly wish to make “words sing,” we want to go beyond that and give voice to ideas. We are inviting submissions that will do that.
The winning composer will receive $1,500 plus travel expenses to Kitchener-Waterloo for the winning composer to attend the premiere.
Deadline is November 14, 2022
Composition Guidelines
- the submitted composition should be based on texts of substance, matched with music that nuances and extends the impact of the text; traditional liturgical texts are to be avoided
- a single work, 4 to 6 minutes in length (i.e. do not submit a work with multiple movements)
- a cappella SATB; some divisi a2 is possible in all voice parts, but the texture should mainly call for undivided sections; the composition should include some polyphonic writing
Full details are on the choir’s web site: https://dacapochamberchoir.ca/