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Composers' Competition 2012 The Festival has announced the launch of the 2012 Competition. With a single prize of £1000 (other certificates may be awarded at the Adjudicator's discretion), the competition represents one of two major investments the Festival makes to extend the repertoire available to UK male choirs. The closing date for the competiton is 30th March 2012. Adjudication will take place during April. Participating composers will be invited to a presentation evening at Truro College during the early evening of Friday 14th September 2012 at which the winner will be announced, the prize and any other certificates will be awarded and the winning piece will be sung. Entries for the last competiton in 2010 were of a very high standard and were written for a wide variety of male voice repertoire types. Full rules and the entry form for the competition are now available for download. Potential entrants should remember that male choirs tend to sing from memory, many singers are unable to read music but sing very competently in four (sometimes more) parts. A full background briefing for composers is included in the download. Some composers entered more than one composition in 2010. Please note that one of the rule changes for 2012 is that any entry which is scored incorrectly or written with parts out of the normal singing range for male singers will be disqualified and not included for adjudication. Composers submitting such entries will be notified. In 2010 a special commendation was given to one composer. No guarantee is given or implied that this could be the case in 2012.
Born in Bodffordd, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, Alwyn was Principal Violist of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales before graduating with honours in music at the University of Hull and Trinity College London. In January 2006, the University conferred the degree of Doctor of Music upon him. He became a lecturer at the music department of Mabel Fletcher College, Liverpool and then a staff producer/director at BBC Wales, Cardiff, later moving to HTV before becoming a free-lance television presenter. Alwyn was created an MBE in the Queen’s 2001 New Year’s Honours List for services to music in Wales. His musical arrangements for male choir, numbering over 200, are performed by choirs world-wide, with publications in Britain and America. Listed in the ‘International Who’s Who in Music’, he is frequently in demand as a guest conductor and adjudicator at home and abroad. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the National Chamber Orchestra of Wales and continues to combine his conducting career with that of presenting televised programmes and events, including the National Eisteddfod and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. He also regularly introduces concert broadcasts by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. |
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Download the Composers' Competition |
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Warwickshire County Choristers in Truro Cathedral |
Boni Pueri singing in the Eden Project Mediterranean Biome |
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The Adjudicator, Dr. Alwyn Humphreys, MBE has been described by the Secretary of State for Wales as 'A legend - not only a credit to the world of music, but to the Welsh nation’, Alwyn Humphreys is Conductor Emeritus of internationally acclaimed Morriston Orpheus Choir having conducted it for 25 years. During that time he conducted concerts across the world including the Carnegie Hall, New York and the Sydney Opera House He has recorded albums with the choir (three of which won ‘Best Choral Record‘ awards) and made countless TV appearances.
