West Cork Chamber Music Young Composers’ Competition 2020


West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2020 – Call for Scores Announced.

The 13th West Cork Chamber Music Young Composers’ Competition is now open for entries. They welcome submissions from all Irish and Irish-resident composers under 35. Past judges of this competition include Donnacha Dennehy, Lera Auerbach, Brett Dean and Andrea Tarrodi. The adjudicator for the 2020 Competition will be the great Irish composer, Deirdre Gribbin.

Instructions for Submissions
The work:

  • Scored for string quartet (2 violins, 1 viola and 1 cello). Works requiring other instruments, pre-recorded sounds or electronics are not eligible for consideration.
  • 5-8 minutes duration.
  • Has not been performed in concert prior to its performances at the 2020 West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

The competition will be judged anonymously and the international judge will select four winning scores on equal footing.

Each of the four composers will receive:

  • €750 prize money.
  • 3 nights’ accommodation at the festival.
  • 2 public performances of their work by a conservatoire quartet at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. The second will be the official World Premiere played at the quartet’s Town Concert (a date in early July).

The first performance will be at a workshop attended by all four composers and the public. The composer will have a chance to discuss their work with the international adjudicator and the musicians. The assigned conservatoire quartets will perform the works as they are workshopped and experiment with compositional suggestions.

Each composer will have an opportunity to work with the performers prior to the work’s Town Concert performance.
Competition entry is free.

Closing date for submissions: Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 11.00pm

For further information please visit: www.westcorkmusic.ie