WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

VIOLA PPF 2023

VIOLA PAST PRESENT FUTURE 2023

CALL FOR SCORES

We are pleased to announce the winning score for the 2024 Call for Scores by Women for VIOLA PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE 2023!

First Place Winner:

Sakari Dixon Vanderveer, Bagatelles for Strings: I. Prelude, arr for viola

Bagatelles for Strings: Prelude will receive it’s solo viola version premiere on March 19, 2024 at 7:30PM in Ramsey Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center at the University of Georgia and will be included on the upcoming recording Women’s Works for Viola: Past Present and Future in May 2024.

Runner-up 2nd place:

Alina Ranjbaran, Veiled Light for Solo Viola (2024)

Honorable Mention:

Angela Elizabeth Slater, Dispersions in Watercolor for Solo Viola (2018)

Congratulations to all of the entrants and thank you to everyone for your support of this call for scores by women. So many wonderful scores and compositions out there and more wonderful music to be made in the future!

Thank you to our panel of judges for their contribution to the award decisions - Dr. Emily Koh, Dr. Adrian Childs, Dr. Timothy Lovelace, Barbara Redman. Thank you to the Nora Redman fund of Louisville Kentucky for the funding support for this project.

VIOLA Call for Scores by Women Composers

Maggie Snyder, Professor of Viola at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia, with funding support from the Louisville-based Nora Redman Fund, is pleased to announce an open call-for-scores for viola works by women composers.

Award:

1.     $2,000.00 USD Honorarium

2.     Performance (world premiere preferred) by Maggie Snyder at the Performing Arts Center of the University of Georgia’s Ramsey Recital Hall in March 2024

3.     Consideration for inclusion in a scheduled May 2024 recording featuring works for solo viola and viola and piano by women composers. Project titled: Women’s Works, Past Present and Future;  Past works uncover archival and marginalized manuscripts by English women composers, Current composers (commissions and new works by women), and the Future (call for scores).

Work requirement:

1.     Solo viola, or viola and keyboard instrument (harpsichord, fortepiano, toy piano, or piano, etc)

2.     Estimated 5 minutes in length

3.     Preference given for newly written works considered “world premiere;” this can include works that have been juried but preference given to those works which have not received a professional, audiences attended premiere.

4.     Works cannot be included on another professionally released recording

5.     Composers may send in only one work, not multiple works.

6. Composers are not required to attend the performance as there is no additional monetary support for travel to the performance.

Composer Eligibility:

1.     Composer must identify as a woman

To apply: send the following to maggiesnydervla@gmail.com, Attn “Call for Scores: [Your Name]” by February 5, 11:59pm.  Late entries will not be considered.

1.     Composers resume (1-2 page)

2.     Score (PDF)

3.     Recording (preferred, not required)

4.     Info sheet with composer’s contact information (email, mailing address, phone number), and work information (title, year completed, program notes/description, duration, performance history)

5.     Composer bio and headshot

Additional info:

A panel of 3 judges (TBA) will determine the winner. Winner will be announced within 5 days of the deadline.

Entry Fee: $0.00