Alphonse Nguyen

Update August 20, 2010: The contest has closed. See the results here.

Let’s kick off this contest! Rules for The Feed a Starving Young Canadian Composer Award may be read here. Failure to follow all the guidelines will result in a disqualification, so please read everything very carefully before submitting your piece. If you have any questions or comments, please post them in the Rules section.

Theme/style: this is up to you, so just compose the best music that you possibly can
Orchestration: write for as many instruments as you’d like
Duration of piece: maximum of 5 minutes in length
Judges: a panel of 2-3 musicians (I will be one of them)
Deadline: Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10 pm EST
Winner declaration: to be announced (judges may or may not have the time to provide their own critiques)
Prize: amount to be determined

To enter, simply make a post here in the following format (please note that in doing so, the information you provide will be made public):

Your real name:
Age (but not your DOB):
Short autobiography:
Title of your piece:
Brief description of piece:
Link to mp3/wav/video/etc:
Link to the score:

Good luck! All visitors to this blog are welcome to listen to the entries and provide their feedback in this post.

I’d like to start up a competition to encourage all you young Canadian composers out there. There’s a lot of talent out there waiting to be exposed. Now I feel that winning any music contest should be an award in itself, by why not make the victory all the more sweet with a monetary prize? I haven’t decided on the actual amount yet, but I’ve realized that I can get some help from the internet through donations. Essentially the prize amount will be a combination of what I can afford in addition to what I’ve been given online.

And so, may I introduce . . The (First Annual?) Feed a Starving Young Canadian Composer Award!

I’ll let you guys know the details once I’ve finalized everything. If the ‘donate button’ on the right-hand panel doesn’t work, please let me know.

EDIT: read the rules here and enter the contest here!