INVITATION TO APPLY FOR THE BMW MUSICA VIVA COMPOSTITION PRIZE
FIFTH CALL: WORK FOR VOICE AND ORCHESTRA
(www.br-online.de/musicaviva; musicaviva@brnet.de)
For more information about the competition, please contact Mr. Michael TH Lim, Regional Manager, Corporate Affairs of BMW Asia at 6838 9638 or Michael.Lim@bmwasia.com.
On the initiative of the Artistic Director of the musica viva, Prof. Udo Zimmermann, the first invitation to apply for the BMW musica viva Composition Prize took place in the 1997/98 season for the first time since the foundation of the musica viva, a concert series for contemporary music with the Symphonieorchester des Baycrischen Rundfunks (hereinafter: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra). The prize is endowed by the BMW Group and encompasses a total of 25,000 Euro.
1. Conditions of Application
[1] The 5th call of the BMW musica viva composition prize invites young composers from all over the world to write a work for musica viva.The work should be written especially for the competition: work for voice or up to six voices [singer and/or speaker] and orchestra.
Technical equipment may be used.
The duration shold not be more than 15 – 20 minutes.
[2] The Competition is open to composers of all nationalisties who are not older than 40 years on the latest day of application.
[3] The composition submitted may not have been performed nor published before, neither in part nor as a whole.
[4] The time of duration must clearly be entered on the first page of the submitted full score.
2. Size of the Orchestra and Performance Media
[1] The composition may not require more instruments than the following provided by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, i.e.: winds (4.4.4.5; 6.5.4.1), timpani (1), percussion (3), harp, piano, celesta strings (14.12.10.8.6).
[2] Competitors are not obliged to employ the complete orchestra in the work submitted.
3. Documents to be submitted
[1] The score and notes must be submitted in a clearly legible and reproducible final copy.
[2] The application documents must be submitted anonymously, i.e. the score and other documents may contain neither signature nor name. Work titles of cyclical nature may not be revealed. The submitted documents may furthermore not contain any otehr indication which might suggest the identity of the composer.
[3] A sealed envelope containing documents with the following informations in typescript must be enclosed with the score:
– First and second name, nationality, date of birth, address, telephone/fax number, a curriculum vitae and a passport photograph of the competitor
– a declaration by the competitor which certifies that the submitted work was composed by himself specially for the composition prize and has, in compliance with the application rules, neither been performed nor published before, neither in part nor as a whole.
[4] The cover of the score and the sealed envelope must be marked with a clearly recognizable sign for reasons of identification. The sign may not be handwritten, but must be in typescript. IT must be designed such that the identity of the competitor can by no meas be infered from it.
4. Deadline
The score and the sealed envelope must be submitted by November 1, 2007 to the musica viva office of the Bavarian Radio at the following address:
Bayerischer Rundfunk / musica viva
BMW Kompositionspreis der musica viva
Prof. Udo Zimmermann
Rundfunkplatz 1
D-80335 Munchen