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"Dean's Prize" Composition Competition

Sponsored by The Dean of the Jacobs School of Music and the Composition Department

"Dean's Prizes" are awarded in four categories:

Category A
$500 for a work for orchestra or concert band with or without electronics, with a minimum duration of 8 minutes. (minimum orchestra size: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 2 horns, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone; strings [multiple players on each part]). It is the department's intention that the winning composition in this category will also be performed during the following season by one of the school's orchestras or bands.

Category B
$1,000 for a chamber work for three to seventeen performers for any combination of instruments and/or voices, with or without electronics, with a minimum duration of 8 minutes. Additionally, the winner of this category is offered the opportunity to compose a new work for ensemble which will be premiered the following season by the IU New Music Ensemble. Duration, instrumentation and a deadline for the new work are to be decided in consultation with Director of the NME and the student's current teacher.

Students entering a work in Category B should indicate whether they wish to be considered for the Georgina Joshi competition. The Composition Department Faculty will choose 2 works from Category B as Commission prize winners; one of these commissions will be the Georgina Joshi Commission for a work for solo voice and instruments. During the summer following the award, the director of the NME will meet with both commissioned composers to determine the length and instrumentation of the commissioned works.

Category C (Open to undergraduates only)
$300 for a chamber work for up to ten performers for any combination of instruments and/or voices, with or without electronics, with a minimum duration of 5 minutes.

Category D (A NEW PRIZE ESTABLISHED IN HONOR OF MORRIS AND SHEILA HASS)
$300 for a work that is either solely electroacoustic or that uses electronics as a significant part of its instrumentation and that does not conform to one of the categories described above.  The minimum duration of the submitted composition should be 7 minutes.

  • Entries which fall outside the guidelines stated above for each category, or which do not follow the conditions below, cannot be considered.
  • All compositions submitted must have been composed during the student's tenure in the Indiana University School of Music.
  • Students may submit different works in several categories, but no more than two works in any single category. Works submitted in Category C may not also be entered in Category B, and vice-versa.
  • Submitted scores should be reproduced and bound, and should demonstrate a high standard of notation, whether copied by hand or by computer.
  • The duration of the composition should be indicated on the title page.
  • If the judges feel that no entry is worthy of the award, none will be made. Decisions will be announced as soon as feasible after the deadline.
  • Winners from previous years are only allowed to enter categories they have not yet won.

DEADLINE:
Entries should be submitted to Professor Freund in the School of Music mailroom no later than 12:00 noon, Friday, March 21, 2008.

ELIGIBILITY:
Categories A,B,C: enrollment in composition. Cat. D: enrollment in composition or electronic music.

 

 



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