Courses and Competitions for Musicians

Although the Whittaker Library doesn't actively collect details of courses and competitions, at this time of year flyers seem to wing their way to us like homing pigeons.  Yesterday was a record - four flyers in one afternoon!  What can we do but share them with our friends?

Conducting, Piano, Organ, Strings, Wind, Vocal, Chamber ...!

• English Choral Experience: ECO Conducting Course, July 22-30, 2017, Herefordshire http://www.englishchoralexperience.co.uk/ (hurry, deadline for applications is 13 March!)
• Allegro Vivo Summer Academy 2017, northern Austria, 5 August - 3 September (master and youth courses, strings, piano, vocal, winds, chamber music, concerts and prizewinner concerts) https://www.allegro-vivo.at/en/ 
• Pianale Piano Academy, Germany, August 13-30 (International Academy and Competition) www.pianale.com
• 23rd Annual Leos Janacek International Competition in Brno (Czech Republic), September 14-21 (Organ and Piano) http://hfenglish.jamu.cz/leos-janacek-international-competition/

Do you Know any Young Musos from Kirklees?

Young Musicians! Are you from the Kirklees Metropolitan Area?

2017 Contest!

We received a leaflet from The Kirklees Young Musician of the Year Contest 2017.  It takes placed in Huddersfield on Friday 24 February 2017.  Entries must be submitted by 12 November 2015.

You must be aged 16-25, born or resident in the Kirklees area

More info at their website:- http://www.mrssunderlandfestival.com/

New Peters Edition of Faure Songs Wins Prize

Singers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will be aware that the Whittaker Library recently acquired several copies of Roy Howat's splendid new Faure song edition.  He won a prestigious prize for it!  We thought we'd share the glad tidings with our readers.  Roy comments,

"We’re delighted to learn that the new Peters edition of Fauré songs vol. 1 has received a “Best Edition” award at the Frankfurt Musikmesse this week:

http://www.best-edition.de/html/2015_preistraeger_02.htm

"We’re specially happy to see the jury blurb end by saying the new edition should see this repertoire better established in German concert repertoire.  And elsewhere, of course.

"Our collaborations with enthusiastic and skilled colleagues have made it possible, and if we’re feeling proud of this, it’s not just for us but also for Peters Edition, the RAM and the RCS."

Composers - Time to Enter the Bangor Festival composition prize!

Full details here.  

CLOSING DATE: 5pm, FRIDAY 6th FEBRUARY 2015

Time for the Martyn Bennett Prize

The Martyn Bennett Prize for traditional music composition

How to enter - visit the website HERE. From the competition website:-

Timetable

Mon 7 July 2014 Competition Open
Mon 1 September 2014 Closing Date
Tue 16 September 2014 Shortlist Announced
Thu 9 - Tue 14 October 2014 Shortlisted composition rehearsals
Tue 14 October 2014 Finalists’ Concert/Award of the Martyn Bennett Prize for Traditional Music Composition

Thomas Wilson Prize for Composition: Deadline 1 October 2014

Thomas Wilson Prize for Composition (Solo Guitar) 2014

Prof. Thomas Wilson, CBE Thomas Wilson Prize for Composition (Solo Guitar) 2014 The Thomas Wilson Trust is pleased to announce the Thomas Wilson Prize for Composition (Solo Guitar) 2014.  Persons under the age of 26 on 30 November 2014 are invited to submit an original, unpublished and unperformed work for solo guitar lasting approximately ten minutes. Entries will be scrutinised by a panel of eminent experts and three finalists will be selected for performance during the Big Guitar Weekend at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, in November 2014. The Prize fund this year is £1000 and the closing date for entries is 1 October 2014. For full details and an application pack, visit the website: http://www.thomaswilsoncomposer.co.uk/

Martyn Bennett Traditional Music Prize

Martyn Bennett was a student at the RSAMD, and his mother, Margaret Bennett, is on our teaching staff for the Scottish Music course.  We're delighted to share details of this prize with you.

All entries must be received by 5pm, Mon 12 August 2013

http://themartynbennettprize.com/

From the website:- 

"The Queen’s Hall and the Traditional Music Forum are inviting submissions for a compositional prize for new work that takes its inspiration from Scottish traditional music. Applications are open to all composers and musicians aged 16+ based in Scotland whose work and practice evidences the influence of Scottish traditional music.

The submitted piece should be between five and ten minutes long and not previously performed in public in either informal or formal settings. The work should have its roots in Scottish traditional music and look outward to a connected world. The competition is only open to instrumental music; songs with lyrics will not be considered, but the use of vocal elements (eg chanting) is allowed."
 

International Oboe and Bassoon Contest - MEGA PRIZES

So if you're an oboist or bassoonist, don't miss out!  And a trip to Switzerland for the contest, too.

Read more here ...

International Composition Prize: Isang Yun (Korea) 2013

Whittaker has just received notification of an international composition prize:-

Isang Yun International Composition Prize 2013

28 September 2013 - click on the link to find out more.

Award for Early Career Music Librarians - the E T Bryant Memorial Prize

E.T. Bryant Memorial Prize

From the IAML(UK & Irl) website:-

'The E.T. Bryant Memorial Prize is awarded to a student of Library and Information Science, or to a librarian in their first five years in music librarianship, for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship. Publication does not preclude entry. The prize is £250, awarded jointly by IAML(UK & Irl) and the Music Libraries Trust ...'

Library History Essay Prize

The eponymous 'Whittaker' of the Whittaker Library (aka Karen McAulay) published an article about cultural nationalism in national song collections, in Library and Information History journal (2010). 


It has just won Emerald Publishing's 2011 Library History Essay Prize!  More info on the Library and Information History Group blog.

Thomas Wilson Composition Prize: deadline 29 February 2012

Thomas Wilson Prize for Composition

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of the composer Thomas Wilson, a composition prize has been inaugurated in association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Composers will be invited to choose a theme from six incidental works commissioned from Wilson by the BBC and STV.

The Thomas Wilson Prize for Composition is intended for composers of 25 years of age or younger. Works to be for solo guitar and should last between six and ten minutes. Entries to be submitted by 29 February 2012.

A jury will select a shortlist of three entries to be played by students of the Royal Conservatoire during the PLUG Festival in April 2012. The jury will then select a winner to be awarded the prize of £500.

For an application pack please apply to the Thomas Wilson Trust, c/o David Griffith, 146 Niddrie Road 3/2, GLASGOW, G3 7YL, UK. Full terms and conditions can be downloaded here.

This competition will also be added to Whittaker Live's Awards, Grants, Prizes page.

Awards, Grants, Prizes

WhittakerLive is keen to help performing artists gain the recognition they need and deserve.  Visit our new Awards, Grants, Prizes page here. Today, find out about the Learning on Screen Awards.