GENERAL RULES

• “Sounds of Change”, a Creative Europe project, announces the call for composers for the Orchestral Academy in Slovenia in 2023.
• The call is open to composers born after 1982.
• The instrumentation for this call: 2 2 2 2 – 4 2 3 0 – tmp + 1 and strings.
• The work’s duration should be between 5 (five) and 8 (eight) minutes.
• The works submitted to the competition must not have been performed, published or awarded. The jury will exclude all pieces that have been made public or commissioned. The works must be strictly unpublished. The jury will exclude all works awarded in any national or international competition.
• Each applicant may submit only one piece to the competition.
• The participants should lay out the work in a manuscript or a computer program (Sibelius, Finale, or similar) in one PDF file.
• The participants must apply to this Call for Composers using the link https://forms.gle/KRyt5PcUo69yLrBSA.
• Before sending the compositions to the jury members, the production team will guarantee that the author’s name is secret. Therefore, the scores must not show any evidence that identifies its author.
• Along with the competing work, the participant must send a photocopy of an identification document (ID or passport), a summarised curriculum, a photo and a brief text about the work.
• The participants must send the work and the additional documents by e-mail to the address info@soundsofchange.eu.

AWARDS

• The value of the 1st Prize is 5.000 (five thousand) euros. The award is also considered payment of premiere copyrights, equipment rental and score editing for the winning works. The scores of the winning piece (1st Prize) may be published.
• The author of the winning work undertakes to mention, on the edited score and for future public presentations programs, a brief text such as “Awarded piece in the “Sounds of Change” International Call for Composers 2023”.

JURY

• The members of the jury are:
  • Aleksandar Stankov (Artistic Director of the Serbian National Theatre);
  • Benedict Klockner (Artistic Director of the International Music Festival Koblenz);
  • Lolo Fernández (Stage Director, Clown/Actor at Cirque du Soleil, Musician and Conservatory Teacher);
  • Osvaldo Ferreira (Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa);
  • Živa Peršuh (Artistic Director of the Ljubljana International Orchestra, ART BSA and the platform European Career Centre for Artists Triple Bridge)
• The jury may decide not to select any competing work.

FINAL PROVISIONS

• Participation in this competition implies the acceptance of all the articles of these Regulations.
• Omissions herein shall be resolved by the jury.