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Cory link with RWCMD for Composition competition

Welsh champion links with the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama for new annual composition competition.

Cory Composition prize
 

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Cory Band has announced the launch of a new brass band composition competition.

The winning entry for the annual ‘RWCMD Cory Band Composition Prize’ will be performed and recorded by the band, with the composer receiving £250 in cash and a trophy, kindly donated by Kapitol Promotions.

Open

The competition will be open to all composers, although RWCMD postgraduates will be able to enter their pieces into their final examination portfolios.

The first winner will be decided in a Gala Concert at the Cardiff college on the 23rd May next year from a chosen shortlist of three pieces.

Performed, recorded and published

All three works will be performed by Cory in the first-half of the evening event, after which a panel of judges comprising Philip Harper, Dr Robert Childs, Kevin Price and John Hardy, will decide the winner.

The succesful composition will gain an immediate reprise performance in the second half, as well as going on to be published by Wright and Round Music Publishers.

Delighted

Cory MD Philip Harper told 4BR: “I’m delighted to be able to launch this project in collaboration with the RWCMD and I hope it will result in some exciting new works for brass band.

Our brief is quite specific, and is targeted to encourage composers to think about the brass band's target audience, without being creatively too restrictive. Our planned Gala night should be a very prestigious occasion at which to make the inaugural award."

Our brief is quite specific, and is targeted to encourage composers to think about the brass band's target audience, without being creatively too restrictiveCory MD, Philip Harper

Proud support

Head of Brass & Percussion at RWCMD, Kevin Price added: “We are proud to be able to support this new enterprise which will further the development and promotion of brass band composition and performance at the highest possible level."

More information

Entry forms, which contain details of the brief, can be downloaded from Cory Band's website at www.coryband.com

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