Thursday, August 26, 2010

Do You Have Some Great Musical Ideas?

Jared Killey, composing

Mitchell Conservatorium is proud to announce a composition competition for Bathurst residents, aged eight to eighteen. You can write in any style, for any combination of instruments and voices. Your piece could be a solo or for a group.

Full details of the competition are available from the Mitchell Conservatorium office, which is in the right-hand wing of Bathurst Court House in Russell St. Please phone 6331 6622 for more information.

Prizes range from a $50 encouragement prize for 8 to 11 year olds, to a $350 first prize for 16 to 18 year olds.

The entries must be submitted by Friday, 17th September, 2010.

Our adjudicator is distinguished composer, Paul Terracini. You can hear several of Paul's great works at this page, or you might like to check out the Youtube video below, which features Nikki Vasilakis playing his theme for the SBS television program Classical Destinations.