The Winner of the 2007 Young Concert Artist Composer Search is Andrew Norman!

The next Composer Search will take place in 2009.

The Start:
The Alumni Association of Young Concert Artists established the YCA Composer Program in 1994.  Originally a two-year Residency, the program is now extended to offer ongoing membership on the YCA roster.

The Program Offers:
During the first two Composer-in-residence years, two YCA commissions of $5,000 are awarded for works written for YCA artists, to be premiered in the Young Concert Artists Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and on tour.  YCA’s ongoing management services include the securing and contracting of commissions and performances, publicity, and promotion.

Application Requirements:
Composers who apply to the program in 2009 must be recommended by a YCA Artist or YCA Alumnus/a, a member of YCA’s Composer Recommendation Panel, ASCAP or BMI.

The composer must be born after September 1, 1981, a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and provide scores and recordings of a minimum of two works: one for piano OR a solo instrument with piano, and one for a chamber group or voice.  An additional work of the composer’s choice is welcome.

Selection Panel and Procedure:
The scores and recordings will be listened to and discussed by a panel of distinguished YCA alumni. In the past, the Composer Panel participants have included Anthony de Mare, Jeremy Denk, Eugene Drucker, Paul Dunkel, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Makoto Nakura, Christòpheren Nomura, Ursula Oppens, Todd Palmer, Susan Rotholz, Fred Sherry, Jeffrey Swann, Ilana Vered, Hiroko Yajima, and Chee-Yun.

Two or three of the composers are chosen by the Panel as Finalists.  Their works are considered by one of the new YCA Artists, who makes the final decision, and then premieres the first work the following season.

Deadlines:
Recommendations must be received by Friday, January 9, 2009.

Composers’ recordings and scores, together with a completed application form, must be postmarked on or before Monday, February 2, 2009.