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Thank you for your kind review ! 🙂 I know that some of my pieces are truly inspired from other composers but it is something that I accept. I just try to master different styles in aim to develop my own.

CONGRATULATIONS @Gustav Johnson @Tónskáld @Noah Brode I've been so excited to get the feedback/scores for this that I forgot there would even be winners! You guys totally deserve your places at the top in this challenge! Each one of you wrote such a lovely submission. Great job guys! Can't wait for the next one!

Just recently finished my piano piece titled "Walking on G." It's like a mellow mesh of Erik Satie & Arvo Pärt. Would love your guys' feedback on this!

Composed some years ago, written in both contemporary and jazz styles. Hope you enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV76RLRVce4

The pieces are fine and could be useful. Thanks for sharing them. However, I would like to see more coherent melodies as well as more harmonic variations , possibly with some purposeful dissonances ( there is some of it in your second piece).

Hi! I wrote this piece for submitting to choral composition competitions in next few months... Could you give me any comments after listening to the piece? I'd really appreciate your help! (Attached are PDF score and computer-generated audio)

This is an interesting idea. I think it's a little bit of a shame how PC6 was delayed from P0, only to just kind of show up in an inner voice. M. 18 also seems a little bit empty compared to the relative motion of the passage before it. It's a neat idea for a piece, though! Nice to see some different stuff on here once in a while.

Thank you to everyone who participated! It was super fun being able to see a truly full competition again, after a lot of hard attempts to get off the ground. I'd like to thank every contestant for bearing with us judges as we worked through some new and malleable competition terms, but I hope it still made a for a fun, creatively nuanced experience that'll assist with your thematic development down the line. Every single person contributed a lot, and it was really fun to listen to new ways to take old stuff (see our old Theme and Variations competition); every piece had a wonderful arc and I appreciate you all for joining in! Without further ado... the places: 1. @Gustav Johnson – 91.5/100 2. @Tónskáld – 91/100 3. @Noah Brode – 84/100 Congratulations, Gustav! The chart with my and @Luis Hernández's scores is attached to this topic post and contestants will find their individual remarks in the comment section!

First one: I think a little bit of variety would do well here. Doesn't seem to be much until the end. Second one: I love the brevity of material here -and feel you could have done a bit more with it. Similar to the first one, your variation of the material doesn't provide as much variety. Third one: This one has a more playful nature to it -that I like. One thing that would really benefit this one is a bit more contrapuntal usage. Not sure if you thought about maybe transforming the base material of this into a more fugue-like passage, but it would lend itself well. I'm curious why these are all listed as being in C major?

Seems to have a bit of a juxtaposition in style between the opening, middle, and end. I think the overall harmonic language could have been a bit more uniform throughout the piece -again, I'll reference the idea of juxtaposition. Overall, a nice playful piece. Would love to see this more worked out!

Very lovely! I love etudes and studies in certain ideas like your exploration of arpeggios, scales, etc. for every key. You did a good job! I found some notes that overlap in #3, but otherwise pretty flawless 🙂 Gustav

Nice music. It's remarkable the way you get a really (but mild) oriental sound, just using scales and some chords (not all) with 5ths and 4ths in the bottom. Surely you would get a stronger (oriental) sound with other devices (pentatonics, scales with augmented seconds, etc...). But it's OK, because it blends very well with the polonaise part. There is only one thing I'm not very fond of, and it is, particularly in the first part, the "excess" of arpeggiated chords. I think it weakens the piece, I mean, it makes it sound more "¿corny?", and it belongs to another style. I know if you have wide chords there is no other way but to roll them, but I would figure out other solution (just my opinion, if you like it ...OK).

Yowza! Thanks all!! For the kind reviews and for your entries, this competition was a challenge no doubt. Hey, do we have a running list of competition ideas somewhere that we could update and add to? This one was super challenging but also very rewarding not only because of the participation but also because the idea itself was challenging. I'd love to see more competitions at this level, and however we can be a part of growing that would be cool. Thanks @Monarcheon and @Luis Hernández for all your hard work - can't wait to read the comments. Gustav