[ANPPOM-Lista] BMI Student Composer Awards for classical composers

Carlos Palombini cpalombini em gmail.com
Qua Nov 1 12:43:40 BRST 2017


The BMI Student Composer Awards is an annual competition open to young
composers engaged in the study of classical music. Our oldest awards
program in any genre, the competition has a prestigious history of
discovering and encouraging many of today’s most prominent and talented
young composers.

BMI first established the Student Composer Awards in 1951, during the
expansion of its classical music repertoire. A group of composers and
educators met to create a platform that would recognize superior musical
compositional ability and further the classical-music education of young
talent. Since its inception, the competition has awarded nearly 600
scholarships to musicians, including fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and is
widely regarded as the premier recognition for young composers of classical
music in the Western Hemisphere.

Co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, awards totaling $20,000 are
determined annually for vocal, instrumental, and/or electronic compositions
submitted by students of classical music. All works are judged anonymously
by a high-profile panel of classical composers that has in recent years
included such icons of American music as Bernard Rands, Joseph Schwantner,
Christopher Rouse, Tobias Picker, and Ingram Marshall as well as notable
newer voices such as Kevin Puts, Kristin Kuster, and Sean Shepherd. Ellen
Taaffe Zwilich, the first female composer in history to win the Pulitzer
Prize for Music, serves as the permanent chair of the competition.

Winners are honored at an award ceremony in New York City each spring. A
special William Schuman Prize, given in memory of the late William Schuman,
who served for 40 years as Chairman, then Chairman Emeritus, of the BMI
Student Composer Awards, is awarded to the composer whose work is judged
“most outstanding” in the competition. Additionally, the Carlos Surinach
Prize is awarded annually to the youngest winner of the competition.

Past winners of the BMI Student Composer Awards include such luminaries as
John Adams, William Bolcom, Kevin Puts, Cindy McTee, and Joseph Schwantner,
and in more recent years, emerging talents such as David T. Little, Mason
Bates, and Gregory Spears.

The Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
at Lincoln Center houses the BMI Student Composer Awards Archive, a
permanent collection of winning scores dating back to the 1953 inaugural
competition. Scores are donated by composers to the Archive on a voluntary
basis and are available for study within the library. The Archive is
overseen by George Boziwick, BMI composer and Chief Librarian of the Music
Division at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Eligibility requirements:

Must be a citizen of a country in the Western Hemisphere

Currently studying music, either in an educational institution or privately

Under the age of 28 as of time of submission

Has not won a BMI Student Composer Award more than two times (Honorable
Mention excluded)

https://bmifoundation.org//programs/info/bmi_student_composer_awards


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