BBC Encourages Young Composers
Young Composers’ Competition
Now in its twelfth year, the prestigious BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition gives young composers aged 12-18 a chance to get their music heard by a wider audience. Young composers will need to enter their own, original piece of music – no more than five minutes long – to the BBC Proms judging panel, who’ll choose the winning compositions, which are then performed at the Young Composers’ Concert during the BBC Proms season and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
If they win, they’ll also receive a commission to be performed and recorded by BBC musicians at the 2010 Inspire events, and get to work with top composers and musicians in a series of workshops to develop thier commission. Last years winners were commissioned to write for the last night of the Proms!
Anyone who enters the Young Composers’ Competition or attends a lab can attend Inspire Day, a day of workshops that will challenge and inspire them to compose in ways they’d never thought of, in London on 2 August 2010.
BBC Proms Composer Labs
As part of the scheme, we offer composer labs throughout the UK. These labs help young people meet other composers, share ideas and discover new ones, develop a deeper understanding on how to use use rhythm, harmony, melody and form and how to make them their own.
Composer Labs are a unique chance to join professional musicians from the UK’s top orchestras and the BBC Singers, top composers and the BBC Proms team in a day of music making, exploration and discovery.
Labs will be held at locations around the UK between February and April.
Composer Lab Date in Cornwall
Truro High School for Girls, Falmouth Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2HU
14 March 2010, 10.30am to 4.30pm
In partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers
How to get involved
All you need to do is contact promslearning@bbc.co.uk or call 020 7765
5575 or visit www. bbc.co.uk/proms if you would like to attend any of the Labs.
How to enter the Young Composers’ Competition
Send in two musical scores of your composition, along with two CD recordings and an entry form to:
BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition,
14 Lakeside, PO BOX 105,
Rochester, Kent ME2 4BE.
Entry forms are available from bbc.co.uk/proms, by calling 020 7765 5575 or emailing promslearning@bbc.co.uk
The closing date for entries is 28 May 2010. Any entries received after this date will not be entered in the competition.
