2008 Winners Announced 3-15-2008
see details here. . . .

2008 Beethoven Club Student Composition Contest

The 2008 Beethoven Club Composition Contest is offered in conjunction with the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival to be held June 18-21, 2008 at Grace St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and the Beethoven Club in Memphis, TN. The festival (www.belvederefestival.org) is sponsored by Luna Nova New-Music Ensemble (www.lunanova.org)

ELIGIBILITY
The contest is open to composition students of all nationalities. Entry forms must contain the signature of the entrant’s current theory or composition professor. Entrants must be born after June 1, 1980.

GUIDELINES
Participants may submit up to two entries. To insure anonymous submission, the composer’s name should appear only on the entry form and not on any page of the score. Submissions may be made in two categories:

Chamber Music:
Students may submit scores for violin, flute, clarinet, cello, bassoon, horn, and piano. Entries may be solos or works for any combination of these instruments. Works should not exceed 10 minutes in length.

Organ:
Students may submit scores for pipe organ. The winning composition will be performed on the Schantz III/59 at Grace St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.

ONLINE FORMS
Contest Announcement and Guidelines:
www.belvederefestival.org/2008contest.pdf
Contest Entry Form:
www.belvederefestival.org/entryform.pdf

DEADLINE
Deadline for entry is March 14, 2008. Winners will be announced by April 20, 2008. Composers of winning entries must provide full score and parts by May 5, 2008. Scores cannot be returned. Entrants are asked to send two copies of each score along with one completed entry form to:

Student Composition Contest
1794 Carr Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
Attn: Patricia Gray

JUDGING
A panel assembled by the Luna Nova Music board will judge scores. Their decision will be final.

PRIZE
Three winners will be named in the chamber music category and one in the organ category. Winning compositions will be performed by members of Luna Nova New-Music Ensemble (www.lunanova.org) and by Wesley Emerson, organist/choirmaster of Grace St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at the festival. Winners are expected to attend the festival. They will receive a live recording and tuition remission for attendance at the Belvedere Festival.

In addition, the first place winner in the chamber music division will be eligible to receive tuition, room and board to ISAM, the International Summer Academy of Music, to be held in Michaelstadt, Germany on 2-18 August, 2008.

Former contest winners are not eligible to enter.

Questions may be sent to pgray@pgray.net