HELD BY WINDWERK – THE CENTRAL ALPS WIND MUSIC PROJECT
WINDWERK, the professional symphonic wind orchestra from Austria, is for the first time inviting arrangers, musicians and composers to enter an international arrangement competition.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
WINDWERK, the professional symphonic wind orchestra from Austria, is for the first time inviting arrangers, musicians and composers to enter an international arrangement competition. The aim is to create new and innovative scores and thus enrich the repertoire for concert bands. All styles are permitted; innovative ideas are positively encouraged.
Thomas Ludescher, initiator of this competition and artistic director of the WINDWERK orchestra, considers the playing of arrangements, instrumentations and musical adaptions to be an essential part of the wind orchestra scene alongside the performing of original compositions. „We believe that in addition to the countless composition contests, there is enormous potential for arrangements from the Renaissance to (non-European) folk music, to film, to musical theatre and on to modern music in all its diversity. The ‚garden of music is infinite‘.”
PROCESS
The competition is split into three phases.
Phase 1
Submission of the presentation by March 1, 2021.
Phase 2
Preselection of up to ten participants. The participants will be notified by May 1, 2021. The organizer is offering a free coaching session as a special service. The coaching will be provided by two international experts in composition and arrangement: Oliver Waespi (CH), Bert Appermont (B) and other.
The coaching consists of two elements:
- The submission of the arrangement (if available)
- The personal coaching session (approx. 1h) by appointment, online in English during June 2021.
Phase 3
Submission of finished arrangements by October 1, 2021.
Prizes awarded to the three winning works.
PRIZES
The following cash prizes will be awarded to the winning participants.
1st prize - € 2500
2nd prize - € 1500
3rd prize - € 1000
The winning works will be presented to the public in 2022. A recording of selected arrangements performed by the WINDWERK orchestra is planned.
COMPETITION CRITERIA
- The call for applications is addressed to arrangers, composers and musicians worldwide without age limit.
- All musical styles are permitted for the arrangements.
- Instrumentation for a symphonic wind orchestra, innovative ideas are possible and positively encouraged.
- Exclusivity: the work must not have been published or performed before.
CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION (PHASE 1)
- Biography of the entrant
- Scores and/or recordings of own arrangements for wind ensemble representative of work
- Project description and/or sketches including artistic thoughts about the planned arrangement as well as the title (max. 2 A4 pages)
- Brief description of the musical adaptation
- Copyright information
- Documents to be submitted in German or English
- Indication as to whether the entrant intends to make use of the coaching offered
JURY
The three phases will be evaluated by the artistic director of the WINDWERK orchestra as well as by at least three well-known figures from the field of composition and arrangement.
LEGAL NOTES
- The decision of the jury cannot be appealed. The jury does not have to justify its decision. The jury is not obliged to award three prizes.
- By submitting the entry, the entrant automatically agrees that the submitted work may be premiered by WINDWERK in the event of an award. The world premiere itself and any subsequent performances shall not give rise to any separate claim to remuneration apart from the commission to the Societies for Musical Performance Rights (GEMA, AKM, SUISA, etc.). At the same time, the entrant agrees that any concerts by WINDWERK may be recorded and published in sound and image without giving rise to separate remuneration.
- Awarding a prize to and performing the work shall only be possible if there are no third-party copyrights presenting legal obstacles.
- If the entrant publishes the score, the score must contain the note: „Arranged for submission in the 1st WINDWERK Austria International Arrangement Competition.”
- By submitting the score, the entrant agrees that his or her data may be stored electronically by WINDWERK and used for communication purposes. The latest version of the European GDPR shall apply.
- Further, any performance in 2022 shall only be possible if not prevented by legal provisions for the containment of pandemics and their effects.
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