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| NCEM Young Composers Award 2024 winners Ryan Collins and Charlotte Robertson with Ex Corde |
Each year Young Composers Award is presented by the National Centre for Early Music in association with BBC Radio 3 and for the 2025 award, young composers will be working with the baroque instrumental group The Brook Street Band. Composers are invited to create a short work for two violins, cello and harpsichord – one of the most popular chamber music groupings of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, reflecting the extraordinarily inventive musical heritage of Purcell, Corelli and Handel – and creating a 21st century response to this wonderful music.
The award is open to young composers up to the age of 25 resident in the UK and is divided into two categories: 18 years and under and 19 to 25 years. The Award Day will take place in York on Thursday 15 May 2025. There will be a daytime workshop for shortlisted candidates led by Dr Christopher Fox, and in the evening the compositions will be performed by The Brook Street Band at the National Centre for Early Music in York.
The winning works will be premiered by The Brook Street Band in October 2025 as part of the love:Handel festival and will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show and BBC Sounds.
Registration closes at 12 noon, Friday 7 February 2025, with the deadline for submission of scores on Friday 7 March. Shortlisted candidates will be informed by Friday 12 April and will be invited to attend the Award Day in York on Thursday 15 May. NCEM will meet reasonable travel and accommodation costs from within the UK.
Full details from the award website.
