Become a featured composer, hear your piece performed at our next Festival, and win a $500 cash award.

2011 Look & Listen Composers Competition

Welcome to the 2011 Composers Competition. We invite emerging composers of all nations to apply for the 2011 Look & Listen Festival Prize.

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2010 Look & Listen Festival Prize

WINNER

Dan Visconti
Love Bleeds Radiant
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington and John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola), and Jeff Ziegler (vc.).
Recorded live on January 14th, 2006 at Dartmouth College (Hopkins Center)
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FINALISTS

Jacob Gotlib
The Slow Splintering
Ensemble SurPlus
Stefan Häussler (violin I), Thomas Avery (violin II), Jessica Rona (viola), Beverley Ellis (violoncello)
“The Slow Splintering” loosely follows the sonic and physical trajectory of glass shattering — an initial explosion, a cracking and fissuring, a breaking apart into shards, and the settling of those shards — in slow motion, taking place over 12 minutes and 24 seconds.
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Andrea La Rose
Grunt Work for the Avant garde
Anti-Social Music and the individual performers
John Wriggle (solo trombone), Ken Thomson, (clarinet), Hubert Chen (violin), Pat Muchmore (cello), Kamala Sankaram (accordion)
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The Competition:

We invite emerging composers of all nations to apply for the 2010 Look & Listen Festival Prize.

The Prize:

One Winner receives a $500 cash prize as well as a performance of his or her work at the 2010 Look & Listen Festival in New York City. The concerts feature performances of 20th and 21st Century music by talented and rigorous professional performers.

Past Winners:

2003 Mei-Fang Lin
2004 Peter Gilbert
2005 Panayiotis Kokoras
2006 Erin Gee
2007 Izzi Ramkissoon
2008 Nathan Davis
2009 Paul Leary