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Original Composition Awards Division I

DESCRIPTION
Open to Undergraduate Members

  • Class A: Large-scale works: No time limit
    • Award: $250
  • Class B: Any form for instrument(s) or voice(s): up to six minutes in length.
    • Award: $200
Rules:
  1. Only unpublished works may be submitted. Composers of songs and choral works must indicate that they have secured permission from authors of texts. No composition may be submitted which has won a prize (honorable mention excepted) in this or any other contest.
  2. No more than one manuscript in each class may be submitted by a contestant.
  3. Composers of winning works will be obligated to furnish Mu Phi Epsilon with a hard copy archival score to be placed in the Mu Phi Epsilon library.
  4. Past winners are ineligible to re-apply.

REQUIREMENTS
Required Materials Checklist:

  1. Current resume, including Mu Phi Epsilon participation
  2. Two current letters of recommendation
  3. Most recent unofficial college transcript
  4. Narrative about the composition
  5. PDF of the full score
  6. Recording of the composition (live is preferred, midi is acceptable)
  7. $25 Application Fee

Please note that there will be no return of application fee for incomplete and disqualified applications.

APPLICATION DEADLINE
March 1

APPLICATION LINK

Questions? For general inquiries about Mu Phi Epsilon grants and scholarships, please contact [email protected]. For questions about this particular award, please contact scholarship chair Isabel de la Cerda at [email protected].All applicants must be dues-paying members in good standing. If you cannot log in to access the application, please contact [email protected].