Any Composition Competitions for High School Composers?

compmajor
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:28:01 +0000

@compmom‌
The particular problem with notation is that I can’t find notation of a few extended techniques I came up with playing around on my viola and a few I read about. I actually have quite a horrible ear, but I have really good music theory skills. I mainly play percussion, but I also play piano, trombone. and viola. I have pretty good improvisation skills on piano. Although I would like to continue percussion, especially if I go to schools like Eastman or Northwestern where some of my idols teach. But I’m fine continuing my studies in private lessons. To be honest I’d rather spend time studying dance than percussion. I’m fascinated by dance and it’s relation to music and would love to go to a school with a good dance program that is open to working with the music program. Thank you again for your time and compliments!

@musician34‌
My state is sadly lacking in ANY support for young composers, I’ve spent hours checking that.I have several books and scores that my teacher let me borrow for the summer, which is more than anything the local libraries would have. Thank you for your time and comment!

General Up-Date: I found a fantastic competition called Nextnotes (here’s the info for it:http://composersforum.org/sites/composersforum.org/files/2015_nextnotes_guidelines.pdf ) and I signed up for The American Composers forum because of access to the opportunities page and the AMAZING discount for Finale the notation software, which I was going to purchase soon anyways. Thanks for all the help guys!