Frequently asked questions

A work is considered commercially published when it has been published and disseminated to the mass market by a corporation whose business is to do so. If you are “self published” your work is not commercially published. Even if you use an entity such as MY SCORE or Sibeliusmusic your work is not considered commercially published. If your work is published and disseminated by a music publishing house it is considered commercially published.

You need to choose a pseudonym, such as Aardvark, to mark your score with; then you’d name your particular files “Aardvark_RAM…”.

We tend to discourage arrangements of existing works and prefer music written for the ensemble presenting, but there’s no rule against it.

No. The work must be for the ensemble, as stated in the call.

No. The deadline is final.

If it’s a non-traditional score, such as a set of instructions for the players, graphic notation, etc., yes. If it’s a sheet of paper which says, “play for 10 minutes”, no.

I’m sorry, that’s not appropriate for this call.

Most certainly. There are no geographic requirements and we’ve had winners from other continents in the past.

You cannot submit it for this call, but we may accept it for future programming consideration.