CHANTICLEER ANNOUNCES STUDENT COMPOSER OPPORTUNITY
GRAMMY-WINNING ENSEMBLE CALLS FOR ENTRIES
FOR THIRD BIENNIAL STUDENT COMPOSER COMPETITION

San Francisco, July 27, 2005—Chanticleer, the internationally-acclaimed, 12-man vocal ensemble, announces its third biennial Student Composer Competition. The competition is designed to encourage current composition students to write quality works for high school-level choirs. Score submissions must be postmarked between October 1, 2005 and January 31, 2006.

The winning composition will be announced on May 1, 2006 and will be performed at the Chanticleer Youth Choral Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2006. Compositions must be for a cappella SATB High School level choir, three to five minutes in duration. The submitted work must not have had prior public performances or recordings. Only one work per composer may be submitted. Composers should be currently enrolled as students at time of submission. (See attached Call for Entries for details.)

The 2003 competition winner was Eric Barnum, whose work based on a Byron poem, “She Walks in Beauty” was included on Chanticleer’s 2004-05 national tour program. The 2001 competition winner was Kelly Crandell, then a student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, for his setting of the Shakespeare text, “Blow, blow thou winter wind.” Both winning works have been published by Hinshaw Music of North Carolina (www.hinshawmusic.com); the winner of the 2006 competition will also be eligible for publication by Hinshaw.

Hailed by the New Yorker magazine as “America’s favorite choral ensemble” and by the Los Angeles Times for its “luxurious perfection,” the GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has developed a remarkable reputation for its vivid interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to venturesome new music. With its seamless blend of twelve male voices, ranging from countertenor to bass, the ensemble, led by Music Director Joseph Jennings, has earned international renown as “an orchestra of voices.”

Since 1994 Chanticleer has been recording exclusively for Warner Classics, making the group’s recordings available worldwide. In addition to recording and an active touring schedule of some 100 concerts, including a Bay Area subscription season, since 1986 the ensemble has maintained an educational program designed to inspire young singers that has reached thousands of young people in the Bay Area and throughout the United States.

PRESS CONTACT: Nancy Roberts, 415-252-8589 ext.306, nroberts@chanticleer.org
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Call for Entries:
CHANTICLEER BIENNIAL STUDENT COMPOSER COMPETITION
CHANTICLEER, the internationally acclaimed 12-man vocal ensemble, is calling for entries for its third biennial Student Composer Competition.

DETAILS:

1. The length of the work must be between three and five minutes.

2. Compositions must be for a cappella, SATB High School level choir. (Level of difficulty between 3 and 4)
3. Limit of one work per composer may be submitted.
4. Composer must be a enrolled as a student at time of submission.
5. There are no age restrictions for the composer.
6.The submitted work must have not had prior public performances or recordings.
7. Texts must either be original or in the public domain. If texts are copyrighted, proof of permission of use must be provided.

TO ENTER:
Submit two copies of the score along with name, address, phone, e-mail (optional), and a brief biographical profile including name of institution at which you are studying to:

  CHANTICLEER STUDENT COMPOSER COMPETITION
   44 Page Street, Suite 604
   San Francisco, CA 94102

Composers will receive confirmation of receipt of scores, but scores cannot be returned.

DEADLINE:

Entries must be postmarked between October 1, 2005 and January 31, 2006
Winner to be announced on May 1, 2006
Contact: Nancy Roberts, Director of Marketing & PR, 415-252-8589, nroberts@chanticleer.org

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Call for entries pdf file