SEMMEA Composition Competition 2011

Welcome to our 5th year of competition

 

We are very please to begin a new year of competition with more of your great music and a new clinician.

 

   This year, same as last, students should tell their music teacher or director of their intentions to enter a piece in the competition.  Directors will register these students with the other instrumentalist from that school.  These students should be registered as a composition audition by selecting composition in the field marked for instrument family.  Although there may be a field for instrument, this space can be left blank or any instrument can be specified, though this is not important as long as composition is marked in the first section.

 

These students will be registered for an audition time just as other instrumentalists at the Senior District Audition, where their piece will be adjudicated.

 

The top 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive recognition and awards on Saturday January 8th 2011 at 2:00pm just before the concert begins during the Senior District Festival.

 

 

All students who submit pieces to the competition are invited to attend the composition clinic.  Our clinician this year will be Jeffrey Holmes, Professor of Music and Director of Jazz & African-American Music Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 

 

Check back in for the date and time of this composition clinic. 

 

 

Submission Guidelines

 

1.  Pieces can be written for any instrumentation.

2.  Pieces should be no longer than 10 Minutes.

3.  Pieces need to be accompanied by some kind of audio representation; midi or live.

4.  Pieces need to be submitted in as detailed a score as possible.

 

 

All submission will be judged according to the

Composition Adjudication sheet.

 

For more information contact

Joe Pondaco

J_Pondaco@duxbury.ma.us

130 St. George St. Duxbury MA 02332

781-934-7650 X573