Music Competitions

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Music Memorial Competition Winner is

Nancy Boomer Deussen

“Music From The Heartland” by Nancy Boomer Deussen "is the most ambitious of the finalist’s works," says music juror, Tony Fiorentino.

"It’s difficult to imagine a better choice of instruments to represent all of the necessary colors contained within. One can often pick up a fourth or fifth passage creating the skillful illusion that exudes more than the simple sum of three very musical melodies. Earth, wind, fire and water are all represented here – recognizable and distinct from one another yet happy to be part of the meaningful and unpretentious dance. The composer’s vision of interplay speaks clearly, both in individual purpose and as an ensemble that creates a human appreciation of an American landscape.

In other words folks – I liked it because it had wholeness, harmony and radiance."

Juror Tony Fiorentino has been a professional musician since the early 1960’s. He has dedicated all of his life to playing, recording, engineering and producing just about every musical genre.

IAWM - International Alliance for Women in Music 2010 Annual Concert Call for Works

The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) announce the Annual Call for Works by all members of IAWM. We decided to focus purely on electronic media this year, and we will make certain the foucs of our annual concert in future years covers a wide variety of instrumetnal forces. The IAWM Annual Concert 2010 will be held on Friday 22 October, 20h, in the Musee des moulages de l'Universite de Lyon II, Lyon, France, in conjunction with the Music Season 10/11 of Grame, National Center for Music Creation.

Rules and Regulations:

Entries for the IAWM Annual Concert should be received before June 15, 2010.
IAWM members of any age or nationality may submit works (current IAWM members or those joining at the time of submission)
Works should be:

Category I: 2-channel fixed electro acoustic music genre - without soloist, without real-time.
Category II: 2-channel fixed electro acoustic music genre with fixed video - without soloist, without real time.

Each composer can submit one piece only.
Works should be under 15 minutes
The result will be announced at the end of July.
The composers whose works have been selected are expected to attend and diffuse their own works in the concerts.
The rehearsal will be the morning of 22 October 2010. At this time, IAWM is unable to provide financial assistance for selected composers to attend the annual concert.
Please send the following materials by post to the address below:

For Category I: Send two copies on playale CD. For Category II: Send two copies of the quicktime video file (DV PAL or H.264 formats, avi, .mov) on DATA-DVD. Materials must be submitted ANONYMOUSLY. Only the title of the piece may appear on the CD and DVD.
Please send also a sealed envelope containing your information sheet with the work's title, duration, year of composition, composer's name, address, telephone, email, composer nationality, brief bio, and program notes in French or English. On the outside of that envelope write the title of the piece ONLY.

Please submit all program information by email as well to:

annualconcert@iawm.org

The identical program of winning pieces will be played at a number of other locations around the globe, after the official 2010 annual concert in Lyon. Individuals interested in participating as one of the hosts for duplicate concerts should have at least stereo sound systems as well as projection systems for video works.

TAO Yu, Chair

IAWM Annual Concert Committee

31 rue Bouret

75019

France