Encourage your favorite composer to submit works to the 2024 Composition Contest.
The winner of each division will receive a prize of $1250 U.S.D. The winning compositions will be performed or featured, if possible, at an International Horn Society Workshop. The winning composers will have the option of having the work published by the IHS Online Music Sales.
For the 2024 Contest the Instrumentation of the Divisions follows:
FEATURED DIVISION:
- Compositions for Solo Horn (alone/unaccompanied)
VIRTUOSO DIVISION:
- Compositions for Solo Horn with Vocal Ensemble
- Compositions for Horn Ensemble (two or more players, all horns)
- Compositions for solo horn and keyboard instrument. (Keyboard instruments may include piano, harpsichord, organ, electronic keyboard, or mallet percussion.)
- Compositions featuring Horn with chamber ensemble of three or more players (one horn part only). (The chamber ensemble may include any combination of electronic instruments, acoustic instruments and/or voices. Electronic instruments may be live or pre-recorded. Acoustic instruments may include Wagner Tuben.)
- Compositions featuring Solo Horn featured with large ensemble. (The large ensemble may include any group of electronic, acoustic instruments and/or voices. Electronic instruments may be live or pre-recorded. Acoustic instruments may include Wagner Tuben.)
Information and application procedures may be found at-
https://www.hornsociety.org/about-the-ihs/composition-projects/composition-contest
Entries must be received no later than December 1, 2024.
For more information about the International Horn Society’s Composition Projects, please see the Book: The International Horn Society: The First 50 Years: Chapter Four: The I.H.S. and New Music for Horn, as well as reading the ongoing reports in The Horn Call—including articles in previous issues. Also, please attend the International Horn Society Composition Contest Program on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at our Symposium IHS56: Horns on The Horizon.
