From Young Composers

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Young Composers competitions promote members of our community and recognize high levels of achievement in music composition. As well as being a good source of inspiration for composers and a good motive to crawl out of the dreaded writer's block, our contests and competitions, hosted on our public forums, continue to identify the strongest of young composers in our community and contribute to the establishment of their future careers. Of course bragging rights are always dealt in large amounts, however we currently offer no prizes to the winners of our competitions, we simply host them for the benefit of the contestants, usually providing in-depth critiques of all the entries - another great motive for entry.

• Competitions Main Forum
• Monthly Competitions Forum

Current competitions and deadlines

• Nov.1 - CMC 22: Aqueous Nocturne
• Nov. 5 - October "Images" Competition
• Nov.13 - "Medieval Fantasy" Band Arrangement Competition
• Oct.-Nov. - If you like the viola...
• Jan 31 - Cello competition. Try a new style!
• Jan 31 - Tyler Youth Orchestra New Music Project Composition Contest
• Dec 31 - Trumpet Solo Competition

Past Competitions and Results

Regular Competitions

Monthly Competitions

These are usually held on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. The following list begins with the most recent rounds.

• May/June 2008 Piece consisting only of a family of instruments written based on a text.

Results Pending.

• February/March 2008 Duo for any specified family of instruments.

Results Pending.

• January 2008 Theme and Variations

Four entries:

1st place: EnigmusJ4

2nd place: M_is_D

3rd place: Dev

4th place: VirtualShock

• Competition #3 Wind Trio

Four entries:

1st place: CreationArtist

2nd place: Mitchell

3rd place: FPSchubertII

4th place: Eddwin

• Competition #2 Piano Rhapsody

Nine entries:

1st place: Sinequanon

2nd place: spc1st

3rd place: Anders

4th place: Bassam

5th place: Mitchell, Rolifer

6th place: FPSchubertII, blueygh2, Eddwin

• March 2007 Competition Free-form sonata.

Four entries:

1st place: ralphb

2nd place: KSP

3rd place: awayfromlight, lind

Withdrawn: Invisionary

The Conceptual Music Competition

The CMC is a monthly composition contest directed by Kenneth Edward Keyn (Abadoss). The CMC was created shortly before the Thematic Original Music Competition was disbanded. The contest is typically open to registered members of the forums of OverClocked ReMix, VGMix, VGMusic, Gaming World, Young Composers, and GameDev.

More information and history of results and be found on the organizer's own profile: Kenneth Keyn

One-time Competitions

Fantastic Competition for Recorder

Posted May 30, 2008 by Peter Smal. Thread

One entry:

1st place: EnigmusJ4 "Concert Étude for Unaccompanied Recorder"

New Year's Competition 2008

Posted Dec 20, 2007 by pricewalden. Thread

Two entries:

1st Place: EnigmusJ4 "Reflections of New Years"

2nd Place: Verdi_Lvr "New Year's Trio"

Duet Competition

Posted June 23, 2007.

Twelve entries:

1st place: Nightscape

2nd place: rolifer

3rd place: Berlioz

Runners-up (in no specific order): TheMeaningofLIfe, Rafn, virtualshock, RavingSpleen, Euler, James QZ, EnigmusJ4, KSP, fegane.