Early Music Scholars’ Competition

About the Competition:

There are hundreds of masses, motets, chants, and other such works surviving in Renaissance and Baroque manuscripts that have never been transcribed into modern notation. Chalice Consort is interested in helping the public rediscover some of these works written between 1400 and 1750.

The Early Music Scholars’ Competition, as a part of Chalice Consort’s Early Music Mining Conference, is calling for newly discovered and transcribed (i.e. never published or publicly performed) musical works from any country of origin that complement the focal piece of the annual Conference. For the 2010 Conference, the focal piece will be Thomas Ashwell’s Missa Ave Maria.

From the submissions received by December 31, 2009, the top five pieces will be selected to be presented at the Early Music Mining Conference on April 10, 2010. The five featured editors will present their scores to our panel of early music scholars and Chalice Consort will sing the pieces under the direction of our esteemed Guest Directors. From those editions presented at the Conference, two will be selected to be premiered by Chalice Consort at a future concert.

For details on the submission guidelines, the criteria for selection, and the benefits and rewards of participation, please visit: www.chaliceconsort.org/emsc.html



Deadline for submission: December 31, 2009


Guest Directors & Panel Speakers

Davitt Moroney (Moderator & Guest Director), U.C. Berkeley

Jeremy Summerly (Guest Director), Royal Academy of Music

David Trendell (Guest Director), King’s College London

Geoffrey Webber (Guest Director), Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge




Conference Details:

April 10, 2010 - St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco


 

Further Information and Detailed Call for Submissions:

Early Music Scholars' Competition: www.chaliceconsort.org/emsc.html

Early Music Mining Conference and ticket information: www.chaliceconsort.org/emmc.html

Questions? Please email katie@chaliceconsort.org

Feel free to pass this on to any parties you feel may be interested.

Sincerely,

Katie Bank
Chalice Consort
San Francisco, CA USA
katie@chaliceconsort.org