The 2009 Beethoven Club Composition Contest
is offered in conjunction with the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival
to be held June 24-27, 2009 at Grace St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
and the Beethoven Club in Memphis, TN. The festival (www.belvederefestival.org)
is sponsored by Luna Nova Music (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, 1979.
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/guidelines2009.pdf
Contest Entry Form: www.belvederefestival.org/entryform.pdf
DEADLINE
Scores must be received by March 6, 2009. Entrants outside the US
should allow two weeks for delivery. Winners will be announced by
April 10, 2009. Composers of winning entries must provide full score
and parts by May 1, 2009. 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.
PRIZES
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 of the performance and room and board for
the festival. In addition, the first place winner in the chamber music
division will be eligible to receive tuition remission to ISAM, the
International Summer Academy of Music (www.michelstadt.de/ISAM_english.595.0.html),
to be held in Michelstadt, Germany on August 2-17, 2009. Winners are
responsible for their own transportation, room and board for this
event.
Former contest winners are not eligible
to enter.
RECORDINGS
Recordings of the winning compositions from 2007 are available at
www.belvederefestival.org/sound.html.
Recordings from 2008 are available at www.lunanova.org/audio.html
PAST
WINNERS
2008
Winners
2007 Winners
Questions
may be sent to Patricia Gray, Luna Nova Music, Preisdent at pgray@pgray.net
