27th IAWM Search for New Music by Women Composers - 2008 Competition
Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize ($500) - NEW
(for women - minimum age 40)
String Trio or Piano Trio (unperformed and unpublished)
The winning composition will be offered to the Hildegard Chamber Players for possible
performance and considered for publication by the Hildegard Publishing Company.
Given by Harvey Glickman in memory of his wife and supported by the Hildegard Institute
Theodore Front Prize ($300)
(for women - minimum age 22)
Chamber and orchestral works
Sponsored by Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
Miriam Gideon Prize ($500)
(for women - minimum age 50)
Works for solo voice and 1 to 5 instruments
Libby Larsen Prize ($200)
(for women currently enrolled in school)
Works for any medium
New Genre Prize ($200)
For innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation. If no score is used, a description of the work and its structure must accompany the audio CD or DVD.
Pauline Oliveros Prize ($150)
Works for electro-acoustic media
PatsyLu Prize ($500)
(for women of color and/or lesbians)
Works for any medium
Judith Lang Zaimont Prize ($400)
(for women in or out of school, age 30 and up, whose music has not yet been recorded or published)
Extended instrumental compositions: large solo or chamber works
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize ($200)
(for women 21 and under)
Works for any medium
Each prize category has its own monetary award.
Competition Guidelines:
1. Contestants must be IAWM members or must join at the time of entry ($55.00 individual; $30 student; $30 - 65 and over; $80 - Joint; $1000 - Lifetime). If you wish to join, please go to the membership form here.
OR you are also welcome to send in your membership check along with your competition submission.
2. A composer may submit only one piece in any given year in only one chosen category. Please do not send more than one composition total. Winners of previous SNM Awards cannot apply for two years subsequent to their award (this includes winners of the 2006 and 2007 competitions).
3. The work submitted must be unpublished by a major publishing house and must have won no prior awards at the time of entry in the competition. For the Zaimont award, the work must also have no plans to be professionally recorded when it is submitted.
4. Please send two copies of the score (not the original) and two recordings (CD or cassette tape). Recordings are strongly encouraged. If the work does not have a traditional score, it is acceptable to submit a recording or video documentation of the work with an explanation of structure, parameters, participants' roles, and any other considerations the composer deems notable. Please contact the Chair of the Search for New Music for questions. Materials must be sent complete and must be RECEIVED by the deadline. Incomplete submissions will be disqualified.
5. Submissions are anonymous. Please do not put your name on either score or recording. Submissions with names on them will be automatically disqualified. All works and recordings should be identified by title, a pseudonym (which the composer chooses) and the appropriate identifying code. Please write the identifying code on the outside of the mailing envelope as well.
Glickman = SG
Front = TF
Gideon = G
Larsen = LL
New Genre = NG
Oliveros = PO
PatsyLu = PL
Zaimont = JLZ
Zwilich = ETZ
6. On a separate piece of paper, please write the following: your pseudonym; the title of the submitted work; your name, address and phone number; email address; a short 75-word biography, and your birth date, if you wish to be considered for the Front, Gideon, Zaimont or Zwilich Prizes. For the Student Composer Prize please include a statement from your composition teacher verifying your student status or a copy of your course registration. Please write the identifying code on the outside of the mailing envelope.
7. Place the paper and verification statement in a sealed envelope and write your pseudonym on the outside. Enclose the envelope with your score.
8. No scores or recordings will be returned.
9. IAWM reserves the right to withhold an award, should the judging panel so recommend.
10. Receipt of Materials Deadline: March 14, 2008
This is NOT a POSTMARK DEADLINE.
Winners will be notified by May 23, 2008. Please check the IAWM website for a complete list of winners shortly after the May deadline.
11. Mail entries to:
Mary Lou Newmark, IAWM Search for New Music
Green Angel Music
P.O. Box 293
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-0293
Questions should be directed to her at: mln@greenangelmusic.com