You are probably wondering why is there a photo of a cute puppy in here. Well, this puppy is watching all of us to make sure we offer fair prizes to all artists involve in your new choral music opportunity!
When setting up a choral composition opportunity, make it as attractive as possible. Sharing details such as prizes, rules, and judges is a great way to call your community’s attention. Even acknowledging the lack of one of these will show people that you are thorough enough to recognize there is a need for these elements.
The first thing that you’ll want to do is to look at your budget for this opportunity. Does your organization has a budget set for this kind of event? If so, find out the amount that you can devote to this competition, call, or commission so you can decide what you can offer.
Examples include:
- Chorus Austin’s Young Composer Competition offers a prize for 1st place and runner up, as well as some stipend for traveling.
- Busan Choral Composition Competition offers as well a prize and a partial travel reimbursement.
Some organizations decide to give a bigger prize to one winner. That is ok. However, consider having a runner-up or other places that can still connect with your organization and possibly create something in the future.
Some organizations do not have the money available to invest in these opportunities. That is not a reason that can stop you from creating a choral composition event. There are many other ways of celebrating your composers other than money. Money is the number one prize you’ll want to consider, don’t get me wrong. However, here are a few examples of opportunities that offer more than money:
- The Happy Composer Commission Project commissions composers in partnership with choirs through a call for score, offering education, performance, and recording for composer’s portfolio.
- Dr. Ethan Sperry (Portland State University) did a Call for Score for his ACDA NW Interest Session. The selected composers would be part of his presentation in a regional conference.
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