The Society of Composers, Inc. is excited to announce a Call for Recordings for our 2021 Fall Student Mixtape. For this mixtape, there are no restrictions on style or ensemble and may be live, studio, or solely fixed-media recordings. The mixtape will have a duration of approximately 60 – 90 minutes in total. Chosen works will be promoted on the SCI website and social media. See the following parameters:

• Composer must be a student (high school, undergraduate, or graduate) in Region IV
  1. Region IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
• Composer must be a member of SCI to be featured on the mixtape; however, membership may be obtained after notification of acceptance.
  1. Membership fees are $15 with complimentary membership for composers who identify as BIPOC

For full guidelines and to apply, please click here.

Submissions are due by June 4th 11:59 EDT. Applicants will be notified of their status by August 23rd, 2021.

All the bests!

Ryne Siesky (he/him)
University of Miami – Frost School of Music
Teaching Assistant | DMA in Composition, ABD

The Society of Composers, Inc. Student Council is excited to announce a call for scores and application for the society’s 2021 National Student Conference. The conference will feature pre-existing works, along with both pre-existing and newly commissioned works performed by Kamratōn. The conference will be virtual, and sessions will be held each weekend in the month of August. Composers may only submit one application.

Deadline to apply is May 10th!

[ Update: the portal for submissions is now closed. ]

We are pleased to announce a call for submission for the 2021 Online National Conference. The conference will take place from May 6-9th, 2021. We recognize the need for a national, peer-reviewed conference for our members and, despite the challenges that COVID-19 presents, we are excited to come together virtually to share music, knowledge, and ideas. The online format of this conference has several key benefits, namely the fact that composers and performers won’t need to travel great distances to participate and the lack of registration fees!

The deadline for submissions is February 19th, 2021. Preference will be given to pieces no longer than 10 minutes. Works may be submitted for any instrumentation, with or without electronics, or for featured ensemble Transient Canvas. Composers whose works will be performed at the online conference will be notified via email no later than March 15th.

For full details and to apply, please visit our Call for Submissions on New Music Engine:
https://www.newmusicengine.org/categories/2021-Society-of-Composers-Online-National-Conference/index.html

[Update: Submissions for the conference are now closed. Thank you to all who applied! We hope you will join us online May 6th-9th.]

We at SCI are pleased to announced that Christopher Zuar is the winner of this year’s Jazz Competition Award. More information about Christopher’s music can be found at http://www.christopherzuar.com.

Congratulations to Christopher!

We also thank the judges for the award: Migiwa Miyajima, Marcus Lewis, and Jordan VanHemert. Many thanks as well go to Greg Simon for leading this contest for SCI.

Last summer, after much discussion among the leadership of SCI, a commitment was made to donate money collected from membership dues during the running of this competition to the non-profit group Castles of Our Skins. We are pleased to have been able to make this donation to support the impressive work they have been doing during the pandemic lock-downs to support the music of BIPOC composers.

To SCI Region V Applicants,

It is with great sadness and an abundance of caution that we have decided to cancel the SCI Region V Conference at Ohio University that was rescheduled to take place in April 2021. Fostering the new music community and encouraging student-composer interactions were some of our main objectives for this conference. We believe it is best to wait until it is safe to resume in-person festivals to best achieve these objectives. Thank you so much for your submissions. A new call for works will be issued when it is safe to schedule a new Region V Festival at Ohio University. We encourage you to resubmit at that time. Stay safe!
Best,
Robert McClure and Mark Phillips
Ohio University

SCI’s Student Council is pleased to announce the release of the Summer 2020 Student Mixtape! The mixtape features works covering a wide range of aesthetics composed by student members who identify as People of Color. Featured composers include Anuj Bhutani (University of North Texas), Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung (Bowling Green State University), Qingye Wu (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music), Jane Meenaghan (Columbia-Juilliard), Ramin Roshandel (University of Iowa), Maxwell Addae (Oberlin Conservatory of Music), Nathaniel Heyder (Cleveland Institute of Music), Corey Dundee (Univeristy of Michigan), and Daniel Gayden (Western Michigan University).

Please click on this link to head right to the mixtape, or select Publications > SCI Mixtapes from the top menu to gain access to all of the mixtapes that have been released so far.

Society of Composers, Inc. is pleased to announce the third annual Jazz Composition Competition. One first prize ($500) will be awarded for an outstanding work for jazz band.

There is no fee to submit to the 2020 competition, but all entrants must be SCI members at the time of submission. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SCI has reduced the cost of a one-year membership for all new and renewing members: full membership is now $30; student membership is now $15, student chapter membership is now $10. Additionally, all new member applicants identifying as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) are eligible for complimentary membership.

Further details regarding the competition, along with the submission form itself, can be found on the New Music Engine.

     

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2020 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission competition: 

Stephen Karukas is the winner in the undergraduate/high school level, for his piece It flows, for alto saxophone and marimba. He just graduated with a BM in composition and percussion performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Here is a link to a performance of his composition.

The high school/undergraduate award carries with it a $1,000 commission fee, premiere at an SCI conference, and recording in SCI CD Series (if qualifying).

Theo Chandler is our graduate-level winner, for his piece Oboe Concerto, for oboe, 3 percussionists, piano, and strings. Theo is pursuing his DMA at Rice University. Here is a link to a performance of his composition.

The graduate award carries with it a $1,500 commission fee, premiere at an SCI conference, recording in SCI CD Series (if qualifying), and score published in SCI Journal of Music Scores.