2012 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission
Submission Deadline: February 29, 2012 (extended)
The Society of Composers, Inc., in conjunction with ASCAP, is pleased to announce the eleventh of a series of annual commissions to be awarded to two student composers. The winners will be selected from a pool of finalists from each region, and their music will be subsequently premiered at a National Conference and recorded.
Awards for Winning Pieces
- 1st place
- $1250 Award
- Recording in SCI CD series
- Score published in SCI Journal of Music Scores
- 2nd place
- $750 Award
- Recording in SCI CD series
Previous Winners
- 1998 Howard Yermish, Stefan Freund & Emily Doolittle
- 1999 Steven Ricks, Chihchun Lee & Jennifer Blair Furr
- 2000 Lansing McLoskey, Karim Al-Zand & Ching-chu Hu
- 2001 Ceiri Torjussen, Moiya Callahan & Mei-Fang Lin
- 2002 Jennifer Walshe, Geof Holbrook & Mark Volker
- 2003 Orianna Webb, Jeff Myers & Dimitri Papageorgiou
- 2004 Grace Choi, Douglas O'Grady & Carl Schimmel
- 2005 Matt Tommasini, Eric Lindsay, Andrew Norman, Jay Wadley
- 2006 Maxwell Dulaney, Carolyn O'Brien, Erin Gee, Hermes Camacho
- 2007 Jeremy Podgursky, Kryzysztof Wolek, Ashley Fure
- 2008 Eric Nathan, Clint Needham, José-Luis Hurtado
- 2009 Douglas Pew and Peiying Yuan
- 2010 Andres Carrizo and Gilad Cohen
Submission Guidelines
- Composers can be of any age and nationality, but they must be either
- a student enrolled in a college or university composition degree program, or
- studying privately with a recognized professional composer
- Send proof of student status by submitting either of the following:
- a PDF copy of your current transcript that clearly indicates your degree program, or
- a letter from your composition teacher confirming that you are his/her student.
- All entrants must be SCI members (at any level) at the time of submission. The student rate is $27.50 per year. If your institution has an SCI student chapter, then membership dues are $17.50. Entrants may join SCI by going to the website http://www.societyofcomposers.org.
- All entries should be clearly marked to indicate your SCI Region, which you can obtain by visiting the region information page on our website. Please note that Region V is divided into two parts: V (East) -- IN, MI, OH, (ON) and V (West) -- IL, IA, MN, ND, SD, WI, (MB)
- Submit both a 2-channel MP3 recording and PDF score of one work for any combination of instruments, voices, and/or electroacoustic sound. Recordings of instrumental works can be of a studio session, a live performance or a MIDI/digital realization. Multi-media works are also encouraged and should be submitted as compressed MPEG files. The entrant may provide a URL so judges can download a higher-res version.
- Regardless of medium submitted, the awarded commissions will be limited to a particular instrumentation (to be negotiated with the host of the National Conference).
- All submissions, unless agreed upon in advance with the Contest Coordinator, will be submitted electronically to kjuusela@berklee.edu. Please limit the size of your emails to less than 20MB each. Multiple email submissions per composer are permitted. Services such as Yousendit.com can be used to send large files. Please use the official PDF submission form, even if you are already a member.
Submission Check List
- Electronic submissions to kjuusela@berklee.edu.
- Include region number in email title.
- Fill out and include the submission form.
- Must be member of SCI.
- Include proof of student status.
Adjudication
Each work will be adjudicated in one of nine regions (Region V is being divided between East and West). Three winning scores will be selected from each region and sent to the National Conference for final adjudication. Two winning composers at the national adjudication will be chosen to write new works to be performed and recorded the following year.
If there is no national conference or student national, then a regional conference host will be chosen. The judges reserve the right to reconfigure the award money. The composer may choose to have the premiere performance placed on the SCI CD, or may reserve the option to arrange his/her own recording session. While it is our intention to include winning compositions on the SCI CD series, in all cases the direct or indirect costs of an acceptable tape for inclusion must be born by the host institution, the composer, or an outside funding source.
SCI reserves the right to choose the CD on which the winning works will be produced (either on the regular SCI CD series, or a special issue every other year). SCI will endeavor to arrange the performance and recordings to the mutual satisfaction of all parties, but reserves to itself final approval of the arrangements. Nevertheless, all rights to the music will remain with the composer.
For More Information
For more information on this competition, please contact the contest coordinator:
Kari Juuselaphone (617) 747-8629 (PW Division Office) or
(617) 747-2968 (Direct Line)
e-mail kjuusela@berklee.edu
For more information on Student Chapters, please contact Nick Demos at Georgia State University:
phone (404)651-1728e-mail ndemos@gsu.edu
For more information on membership, please e-mail: secretary@societyofcomposers.org.