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Asian Composers Showcase 2020

Open Call for Scores

The Asian Composers Showcase was launched in 2013 by the Goethe-Institut together with the Tongyeong International Music Festival (TIMF), to promote the composition of New Music in North East Asia. For seven years now, a total of thirty compositions by promising young composers have been premiered at TIMF.

Goethe-Institut Korea currently invites composers from the region to take part in a call for scores for the Asian Composers Showcase 2020. From the entries, an international panel of judges will select five participants whose pieces will be performed at the Tongyeong intl. Music Festival in April 2020. On the basis of the performances, one of the composers will be given the Goethe Award, endowed with 2,000 EUR, and receive a composition commission for the following year’s festival, amounting to an additional 5,000 EUR.

Due to a large number of inquiries Asian Composers Showcase 2020 - Open Call For Scores will extend the application period and postpone the due date for applications to Monday, 25th November, 2019. Complete applications including all required materials must be received on or before 25th November.

*Application due date: 25th November (Monday)

다수의 요청에 의해 2020 아시아 작곡가 쇼케이스 작품공모의 참가 지원 기간을 11월 25일(월)으로 연장하기로 하였습니다. 모든 서류를 포함한 지원서는 11월 25일까지 제출해주시기 바랍니다.

*참가 지원 마감: 11월 25일(월)

Eligibility

– Composers born in/after 1981 and citizens/residents of one of the following countries: Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Mongolia.

– Length of the work: maximum of 15 minutes

– The work must be an original work created after 2017; hence no arrangements or the like.

– Instrumentation: available are the following instruments/px-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-layers:

2 violins, viola, cello, bass

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet

Piano

Percussion (1 px-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-layer)

The piece should be written for a minimum of four and a maximum of ten instruments (or parts). The parts cannot be doubled. Please contact TIMF at acs@timf.org if in doubt or if you have any questions.

Submission

– Application via the online form available at www.timf.org

– Score in PDF format and if possible a recording of the piece (Only one submission per person is permitted)

– In the case of citizenship of states other than those previously listed, proof of place of residence in one of the previously listed countries

Deadlines:

– Submission deadline: 18 November 2019

– Announcement of the five participants: by 20 December 2019

– Performance: 4 April 2020 at the Asian Composers Showcase (at Tongyeong International Music Festival 2020, Tongyeong, Korea)

Copyright and performance rights must lie with the submitting party. All rights remain with the author, who with the submission agrees to a fee-free performance at the TIMF 2020 and the use of sound recordings for archiving and for promotion of future events of the Asian Composers Showcase.

Contact:

Tongyeong International Music Foundation acs@timf.org

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