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Aalborg Guitar Festival and Competitions invites entries for the Composers' Competition for the six-stringed classical guitar. The competition has been arranged in collaboration with Bergmann Edition and with the support of the Augustine Foundation and William Demant Fonden.
One of the aims of the competition is to promote new work and enlarge the classical guitar repertoire. The intention is that the composer will meet the guitarist, and the guitarist will meet the audience.
Bergmann Edition is the facilitator of the competition and is, therefore, the point of contact.
General Guidelines and rules:
* Open to composers of all ages and nationalities.
* Compositions submitted must be written for solo guitar.
* Compositions must be written for the six-stringed classical guitar.
* Alternative tunings are acceptable.
* Fixed media and/or live electronics are not accepted.
* Compositions submitted must be no longer than 8 minutes.
* Composers may submit multiple works.
* Compositions submitted must be previously unpublished (not published by a commercial publishing house).
* The competition is organized by the society: Aalborg International Guitar Festival & Competitions.
* The decision of the jury is final. The judging system is an internal system and is not open to public discussion.
Remaining regulations:
* All potential problems and/or situations not covered by the above rules will be decided by the organizers of the competition
Submissions:
Application Deadline: November 1st 2024
Application Fee: €50 for each work (+ ticket sales fee). Multiple works may be submitted (an additional application fee must accompany each extra work).
Application materials and fees must be submitted and paid online no later than November 6th 2023, by 11.59 pm.
All submissions to the competition should include the following:
1. First, complete online payment.
Please make a pdf copy of your payment receipt/ticket, and send it together with your music and mp3 file of your work to:
[email protected] (before November 6th 2023, by 11:59 pm). Application fees are non refundable.
2. The pieces must be notated in a music notation program: We accept Finale, Sibelius, Musescore, and Dorico files. We also accept Music.XML files, as long as the XML is readable by one of the four listed applications.
* You must include a recording as an mp3 file of the work, either a live recording or a computer-generated mock-up.
* All compositions must contain the composer's name and will be anonymized before being presented to the judges.
* The name/number of the composition and the name of the composer must appear on the payment for participation.
* All files must be sent to [email protected] (before November 1st 2024, by 11:59 pm).
Prizes
* 1st prize:
* The winner will receive a €1,000 prize.*
* The winning work will be published by "Bergmann Edition", both on paper and digital.
* The 2nd and 3rd prizes will be published as print-on-demand.
* Bergman Edition Special Prize 2023 : 350 €*
* Judges have the right to award all or some of the prizes or none.
* Winning compositions will be announced at the Award Concert on November 19th 2023, 14.30 and posted online at www.aalborgguitarfestival.com as well as at: https://www.facebook.com/Aalborginternationaleguitarfestival.
* * The winners of the 1. prize and of the Bergmann Edition Special Prize 2023 will receive an email, and €1,000/350€ will be transferred to the winner's bank account.
Jury: will be announced soon.
Chairman:
Other Members:
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Skipper Clement Skolen, Aalborg, Denmark
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