Composition Competition 2020
Applications now open!
Deadline: July 20, 2020
Winners Announcement: August 2, 2020
Winners Announcement: August 2, 2020
Updates from 2019 Edition:
1) Each applicant has the opportunity to win one or more prizes (new exciting prizes!)
2) Application Fee reduced!
Prizes
-
Performance (s) during the Festival
in Italy -Lunigiana- in July 2021 - Performance(s) in New York City in 2021
- Professional recording(s)
- Video(s) published on the SIMC Youtube Channel and promoted on social media
- Partial scholarship to attend the "Puccini International Opera Composition Course" in Lucca (2021) and having your opera premiered in Italy in 2022
Jury
Andrea Talmelli
President of the SIMC (Italian Society of Contemporary Music)
Sergi Casanellas
Professor in the Composition Department at the New York University
Faye-Ellen Sylverman
Faculty at New York University and The Juilliard School.
Paolo Marchettini
Professor in the Theory and Composition Department at the Manhattan School of Music
How to apply
Submit an ANONYMOUS score, and recording/midi (if any) to:
info@lunigianamusicfestival.com
Application Fee: 25 Euro
Deadline: July 20, 2020
GENERAL RULES:
– Applicants are musicians, students and professionals, of any age, gender and nationality.
– Applicants are allowed to submit just one piece.
SUBMISSIONS
LENGTH: 3 to 6 minutes
AVAILABLE INSTRUMENTATION: piano, voice (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass), violin, viola and cello
PERFORMERS: minimum of 2, maximum of 5 *up to 2 performers per instrument
– Pieces should be composed after January 1st, 2010
– Pieces should not have been published yet
– Pieces should be submitted anonymously
Winners 2019
First prize winner
(concerts in Lunigiana, in New York and recording )
Michele Bernabei: Affinitá Ferrose
Winners
(performance in Lunigiana)
Paolo Geminiani:
Trio IV
Trio IV
Paolo Porto:
Lontananze
Special mention
Angelo Luciano Bruzzese: Redroom
Michele Bernabei
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
Michele Bernabei is a young polyhedral musician, accomplished jazz trumpet player and composer. He earned a BM in trumpet at the Conservatory N.Paganini” of Genoa and MM with full marks in Jazz Arranging and Composition at the Conservatory “G. Verdi” of Turin.
He studied Classical Composition at the Conservatory of Turin with Giorgio Colombo Taccani and in parallel at the “Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale” of Fiesole with Fabio Vacchi.
At the same time he received the ABRSM diploma in String Orchestra Direction under the guidance of Fabrizio Dorsi.
As a trumpet player and band leader he performs in several famous jazz-clubs and festivals and he studied with international renowned teachers such as Paolo Fresu, Marco Tamburini, Giampaolo Casati, Avishai Choen, Dave Duglas, Laurie Frink.
His compositional language is influenced both by jazz and the improvised music’s gesture and the theater, art-form dear to him, through a research of “drama”.
