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Chalmers Performance Space Artist is Residence Program
Deadline / rolling
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The CMC Short-term creative residencies are a rolling residency program for composers, ensembles, and production companies involved in the production or researching of Canadian Music in CMC’s Chalmers Performance Space in downtown Toronto. These self-directed residencies provide you or your organization with space and time in which to experiment and cultivate new works or research new avenues for creativity. Residencies take place during work hours, 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Residencies may range from a few days up to 4 weeks (excluding weekends) and may take place at any time of the year subject to availability of the performance space.
Resident artists and ensembles benefit from access to CMC’s production facilities and knowledgeable staff who are available to provide technical support and assistance. In addition, you will have the opportunity to build connections, create networks, and share your work with the broader CMC community through artist talks, publications and/or livestreaming.
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Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline / rolling
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The Canadian Music Centre in BC (CMC BC) is pleased to launch a new Artist in Residence program for the upcoming 2022/2023 season. Select artists (composers, performers, small ensembles) will be chosen as ‘Artists in Residence’ in CMC BC’s Murray Adaskin Salon.
These residencies are offered to artists involved in the production or researching of Canadian Music. The Canadian Music Centre in BC has always tried to support and encourage artists in our community and continues to do so with this investment in a private, creative working space to focus on your goals.
The AiR program is a flexible model to encourage experimentation and creativity. Basically you decide what you need to work on and we give you the space and time within which to do it.
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CMC Ontario – Concert Series
Deadline / rolling
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Starting in 2023, The Ontario Region of the Canadian Music Centre is offering up to six $1,000 sponsorships each year, available to Associate Composers and new music performers, ensembles, and presenters, to produce a concert featuring at least 50% of music by Ontario Associate composers, allocated regionally in the following areas:
- Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, Kingston)
- Southern Ontario (Hamilton, Kitchener, Niagara)
- Western Ontario (London, Windsor)
- Central Ontario (Peterborough, Barrie, Owen Sound)
- Northern Ontario (North Bay, Sudbury, Manitoulin)
- Northwestern Ontario (Thunder Bay, Sault-Ste-Marie, Kenora)
CMC ON will promote the concerts via the CMC Ontario eBlast, our website, and social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). In return we ask that the concerts are billed as co-presentations providing equal billing to CMC ON on programs, website page about the concert, and any promotional materials using our logo. After the event, CMC ON will solicit a statement about the benefit of the support. Where possible, someone from CMC ON will attend.
While offering a source of new funds to areas historically deprived of new music performances and our help promoting concerts under this umbrella, this new paradigm of working has the potential to increase the number of concerts CMC ON presents each year, broaden our presence across the province, help us meet new people doing creative things, and help us better fulfill our provincial mandate and mission.
A specific number of sponsorships will be allocated to each area annually. Applications will be reviewed by staff as they are received until the funds for each area are committed.
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Singspire – Reading Sessions of New Compositions
Deadline / September 27, 2024
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Next offered: Monday, October 28, 2024 3:00pm – 9:30pm
Application deadline with score: Friday, September 27, 2024
Location: Pacific Spirit United Church, 2205 West 45th Avenue, Vancouver
Reading Sessions of New Compositions Application and Program Guidelines
There is no cost to composers except providing hard copies of your score
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Orkest De Ereprijs Young Composers Meeting
Deadline / September 30, 2024
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Young Composers Meeting is an intiative by Orkest De Ereprijs to give young professional composers under 30 a chance to compose for an ensemble and develop their talents, knowledge and professional network.
During this week in Apeldoorn (February 16th – February 21st, 2025), 14 selected participants will come together. In preparation for the Meeting they will each write a three-minute piece for the orchestra, possibly extended with voices from Royal Conservatoire The Hague, coached by Georgi Sztojanov. The week consists of rehearsals of these compositions, readings and individual lessons from our senior composers. This year the senior composers are Richard Ayres, Tansy Davies, Yannis Kyriakides and Wilbert Bulsink. The closing concert, directed by Gregory Charette, will take place at Podium GIGANT, featuring all the pieces. Afterwards, a jury of prominent composers will decide which four talented participants will win the composition commissions.
Are you interested in applying? Make sure your application contains the following:
- A filled out application form;
- A CV and/or a short biography;
- Score and audio fragment (mp3 or mp4) from a recent work (we unfortunately cannot accept links to audios online, e.g. YouTube or Bandcamp).
Please send the materials via Dropbox, Google Drive or a wetransfer link to youngcomposers@ereprijs.nl. You can apply up until September 13th.
The participation fee is 575 euros. This includes the hotel, meals, lectures, individual lessons, portrait photos for your portfolio and a museum trip. Details about the payment will be provided after the selection.
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MAKEWAY 2025: An Empowerment Program for Early-Career Creators
Deadline / October 1, 2024
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New Music Concerts’ MAKEWAY program returns in May 2025, dedicated to supporting and nurturing the growth of early-career musical creators. MAKEWAY provides an unparalleled opportunity for emerging composers to elevate their careers through a unique blend of composing workshops, conducting clinics and industry training, all in the heart of downtown Toronto.
Prix Molson du Conseil des arts du Canada
Date limite / 5 octobre 2024
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Deux prix Molson du Conseil des arts du Canada, de 50 000 $ chacun, sont décernés tous les ans à des personnes qui se sont distinguées l’une dans les arts, l’autre dans les sciences humaines, afin de les encourager à poursuivre leur contribution au patrimoine culturel et intellectuel du Canada.
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RBC Bridges : Programme des compositeurs émergents
Date limite / 14 octobre 2024
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Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges: Emerging Composers Program is an annual week-long tuition-free workshop that culminates in a public premiere performance. The week brings together celebrated mentors, a professional resident ensemble, and six emerging composers from around the world to each develop and premiere a new work, presented as part of Soundstreams’ main stage concert series in Toronto, ON.
Each participant will receive a $1,000 honorarium and free accommodation in Toronto for the duration of the workshop. Travel expenses to and from Toronto are the responsibility of the participants.
The workshop week includes seminars, networking events, rehearsals, 1-1 mentorship sessions, and professional development activities that foster new connections, artistic development, and lifelong career building.
The 2025 edition of Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges Program will feature British/American composer Tarik O’Regan as our composer/mentor-in-residence. Invited participants will write a short piece (5’ maximum) for our resident ensemble, which this year we’re thrilled to announce will be the Vancouver Chamber Choir. The Vancouver Chamber choir is a 16-voice SATB choir. Composers must write for the full voicing of the choir, either SATB or SSAATTBB and may include possible solo voices from within the choir. Works can be written either as a cappella (non-accompanied, voices only) or as accompanied works with piano.
The Bridges Composers works will be premiered at Soundstream’s mainstage concert featuring the Vancouver Chamber Choir on February 27th, 2025, at Christ Church Deer Park, Toronto ON.
Participants will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and free accommodation in Toronto for the duration of the workshop week. Successful applicants will be expected to submit a completed 5-minute work by January 2, 2025.
Prix des amix de la musique canadienne 2024 : appel de candidatures
Date limite / 15 octobre 2024
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Connaissez-vous une personne qui démontre un engagement exceptionnel à mettre en valeur les compositeurs, compositrices et artistes sonores canadiens? Le Prix des amis de la musique canadienne vous offre une occasion de la célébrer! Vous pouvez proposer la candidature de toute personne travaillant dans les milieux suivants : interprétation, ensemble, administration, diffusion, journalisme, enseignement, composition, arts sonores, ou de toute autre personne ayant fait preuve d’un dévouement hors du commun!
Administré à la fois par la Ligue canadienne des compositeurs (LCC) et le Centre de musique canadienne (CMC), ce prix consiste en un montant total de 4 000 $ distribué de la façon suivante : 2 000 $ au gagnant ou à la gagnante, et 2 000 $ à une personne de son choix qui est en début de carrière dans les domaines de la composition ou de l’art sonore.
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Programme SPO pour les compositeurs de films de la nouvelle génération
Date limite / 24 octobre 2024
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The Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) is issuing a call for proposals for early career and advanced student composers wanting to write music for animated film.
Successful applicants will write music for animated short films created by students of world-renowned Sheridan College Bachelor of Animation program. During the writing process, each selected applicant will be paired with an experienced film composer who acts as a mentor: helping with advice on spotting the film; choosing the synthesized instrumentation; writing the music; recording and synchronization to picture.
Participants will also be supported and advised by SPO music director Ronald Royer and will also take part in an orientation meeting to discuss the logistics of synchronizing to video.
Completed animation scores will be published on the SPO’s YouTube channel from April to July 2025.
Composers can also separately apply to the SPO’s New Generation Composer’s Project (link), writing a short concert piece for clarinet and string quartet. If a composer is accepted into both programs, they will need to choose one. Composers will not be able to participate in both programs in the same year.
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Programme pour les compositeurs de la nouvelle génération
Date limite / 24 octobre 2024
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The Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) is issuing a call for proposals for early career composers and advanced students studying composition interested in composing for clarinet and string quartet. This is the eighth edition of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Generation Composer’s Project. The program is highly competitive, and space is limited.
The performers for this project include clarinetist Kaye Royer and the Odin Quartet. During the writing process, each composer will be paired with a mentor composer, who will be a support and resource. The mentorship will include advice on writing the composition, clarinet and string writing, notation, and score/part preparation. Composers will be invited to workshops on composing for clarinet and strings, and aspects of career development. Composers will be supported and advised by SPO music director Ronald Royer.
After rough drafts of the quintets are composed, there will be a workshop session where the compositions will be played and recorded. Feedback will be provided by the performers and mentor composers. One composer will be selected to have their music presented on a SPO performance during the 2025-2026 season.
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Impuls Competition
Deadline / October 31, 2024
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impuls promotes and supports young composers not only within its Academy, but also through the international impuls Composition Competition.
impuls commissions new works for ensemble every second year from young composers selected by a jury. Subsequently these composers are invited to take part in the impuls Composition Workshop in Vienna and Graz – where their new works are collectively rehearsed and discussed extensively with musicians of world-class ensembles such as Klangforum Wien – as well as to the premiere of their new pieces within the impuls Academy and Festival in Graz. impuls also intends to support the composers´ works beyond that point through recordings respectively broadcasting, music communication programs and additional concerts.
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Arts and Letters Club, Emerging Canadian Composers Competition
Deadline / November 1, 2024
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The Arts and Letters Club has always supported the early stages of artists’ careers by providing community, performance opportunity and physical space to practice. In continuation of this support, the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto announces its inaugural Emerging Canadian Composers Competition.
Any emerging Canadian composer is eligible, whether by birth, citizenship or permanent residency.
Composers entering the competition are invited to submit a work, in written form, for viola and piano, between seven and twenty minutes in duration, before the competition deadline of November 1st, 2024.
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The Royal Canadian College of Organists
Rachel Laurin Composition Competition
Deadline / December 29, 2024
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Established by the Royal Canadian College of Organists to encourage the composition of organ music by young composers.
Open to national and international composers 35 years and younger.
