Competition for Scottish Composers of any age

 

HERIOT–WATT UNIVERSITY

COMPOSER COMPETITION

 

 Are you an asipiring composer?

 

Heriot-Watt are offering

a prize of £400 to the

best composition entered in

their competition.

There is no age limit.

The piece is to be written for the group, ‘Inchcolm New Music Ensemble’, based at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

 The composition starting point [inspiration] shall be the Celtic plainchant composed and sung on Inchcolm, an Island in the river Forth near Edinburgh where hundreds of years ago, Augustinian monks lived and worshiped in the Abbey.

 he composition should have a duration of around ten minutes, and be written for voices and any combination of orchestral instruments.

1^st Prize: £400

Deadline for submissions: 1^st February 2015.

For further information and sample plainchant music, please contact:

Steve King D.Litt MBE
Director of Music

Gibson Craig Wing
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS
Tel: 0131 4513705

s.king@hw.ac.uk