Grawemeyer® Award for Music Composition 2017 The University of Louisville School of Music is pleased to announce the University of Louisville Grawemeyer® Award for Music Composition 2017. The University will offer an international prize in recognition of outstanding achievement by a living composer in a large musical genre: choral, orchestral, chamber, electronic, song-cycle, dance, opera, musical theater, extended solo work, etc. The award will be granted for a work premiered during the five-year period between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2015. The amount of the award to the composer will be a minimum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00). Previous The Grawemeyer® Music Award Committee invites the submission of scores by outstanding composers throughout the world and has established the following rules and procedures for its selection of the winning work: Winners 1985 1. Each entry for the Grawemeyer® Music Award must be — All materials, including the handling fee, must be Witold Lutoslawski nominated by a professional musical organization or labelled with the name of the composer. Symphony No. 3 individual (performer or performing group, conductor, — Please send only materials requested. Do not 1986 critic, publisher, or head of a professional music school or include press kits, reviews, articles, recordings of department). A composer may not submit his or her own György Ligeti other works, etc. Etudes for Piano work. No more than one work of any composer may be 3. After an initial screening, the Grawemeyer® Music submitted, and entries from previous winners of this award 1987 will not be considered. Award Committee will appoint a jury of three Harrison Birtwistle internationally recognized music professionals: The Mask of Orpheus 2. Each entry must include the following: normally a composer, a conductor and a critic. Each — One bound copy of the full score. (For works with juror will select, from the qualifying scores, up to 1988 – No Award non-English text, it is recommended that an English three works they deem worthy of the Award. These translation or English synopsis be submitted.) selected works are then submitted anonymously 1989 — One excellent quality recording of the complete work. to the Final Committee to be judged by listening Chinary Ung Send only standard audio compact discs (no mp3s or only. The Final Committee will then recommend one Inner Voices other types of sound file); please do not send DVDs of these works to the President of the University 1990 or other media. If possible, provide separate tracks for of Louisville. Upon the recommendation of the President, the Board of Trustees of the University of Joan Tower each movement of multi-movement works. Please omit Louisville will grant the Award. Final approval of the Silver Ladders tuning, opening applause, spoken commentary Grawemeyer® Award winners is subject to approval such as radio interviews or conductor’s remarks, by the University of Louisville Board of Trustees and 1991 or any other extraneous material at the beginning the Trustees of the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. John Corigliano of the CD. Symphony No. 1 — Documentation of the premiere public performance 4. Completed entries for the Grawemeyer® Award of the work between 1/1/11 and 12/31/15. A radio must reach the University of Louisville by January 1992 broadcast or sound recording does not constitute a 11, 2016. The Grawemeyer® Award Committee will Krzysztof Penderecki premiere. The printed program (or a photocopy thereof) acknowledge receipt of all entries by email only. Adagio for Large Orchestra from the premiere performance is preferred. However, Please allow a month after the deadline for such 1993 if this is not available, another form of documentation, notification.Late or incomplete entries will not be Karel Husa such as a published review, or a newspaper or considered. Concerto for Violoncello magazine article, will be accepted. Only one form of and Orchestra documentation should be included. Works may be 5. Submissions and requests for entry forms or further information should be sent to: resubmitted during the period of eligibility. 1994 Grawemeyer® Music Award Committee — Program notes in English School of Music Toru Takemitsu Fantasma/Cantos — Supporting letter in English from the nominator of the University of Louisville entry, which must state nominator’s relation to the Louisville, Kentucky 40292 1995 submitted work and nominator’s belief in the outstanding USA John Adams qualities of the work Entry forms may also be downloaded at Violin Concerto — Composer’s photograph: high-res digital file on disc www.grawemeyer.org. preferred but hard copy acceptable. 1996 Ivan Tcherepnin — Composer's biography in English, which should 6. Announcement will be made in December 2016 and the award will be made during April 2017. Concerto for Violin, briefly outline the composer’s total achievement and Violoncello and Orchestra recognition 7. The University of Louisville will retain all entered — Completed, signed entry form in English scores and recorded materials for inclusion in the 1997 ® — Non-refundable handling fee of forty dollars ($40.00 in Grawemeyer Collection of New Music, a part of the Simon Bainbridge Ad Ora Incerta U.S. currency). Payment may be made by check drawn Library of the School of Music. on a U.S.bank or by international money order, payable 8. No payment will be made to the estate or heirs of a 1998 to the Grawemeyer® Music Award Committee. Contact deceased composer. Tan Dun [email protected] for instructions on payment Marco Polo via credit card (no bank or wire transfers, please). 9. Questions may be addressed via e-mail to [email protected]. — In the case of resubmission, entrants need not resubmit 2000 scores or recordings as these will be retrieved from the Thomas Adès Grawemeyer® Collection; however, all other required Asyla materials must be resubmitted and the handling fee paid. Entry Form (Please type or print. Illegible entries may be rejected.) Composer's Name Title of Work Genre (orchestra, opera, chamber, etc.) Duration Place, Date, and Performer(s) of Premier Composer's Address Telephone Number FAX Number Composer's E-mail Address Place and Date of Composer's Birth Previous Nominator's Name and Position Winners Nominator's Address 2001 Telephone Number FAX Number Pierre Boulez sur Incises Nominator's E-mail Address 2002 The following must be included with this entry: drawn on a U.S.bank or by international money order, Aaron Kernis payable to the Grawemeyer® Music Award Committee. Colored Field 1. One copy of the complete bound score Contact [email protected] for instructions on 2. One compact disc recording of the payment via credit card (no bank or wire transfers). 2003 complete work 9. Required signatures below (composer & nominator) Kaija Saariaho 3. Documentation of the premier of this work during 2011- L’amour de loin No entry will be accepted without this form and all documentation 2015 called for in this form. Late or incomplete entries will not be consid- 2004 4. Program notes in English ered. All materials must be RECEIVED BY January 11, 2016. This 5. Supporting letter from the nominator in English form may be reproduced or downloaded at www.grawemeyer.org. Unsuk Chin Entries should be sent to: Violin Concerto 6. Composer's photograph Grawemeyer® Music Award Committee 7. Composer's biography in English 2005 School of Music 8. Non-refundable handling fee of forty dollars ($40.00 University of Louisville George Tsontakis Violin Concerto No. 2 in U.S. currency). Payment may be made by check Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA 2006 Entry Agreement and Release György Kurtág The undersigned Entrant(s), in submitting the nominated work, including 8. All physical materials submitted become the property of the University of ...concertante..., op. 42 any translations or abstracts (“Work”) for the Grawemeyer® Award in Music Louisville and all entered scores and recorded materials will be included in Composition (“Award”), hereby freely acknowledges the following conditions: the Grawemeyer® Collection of New Music, a part of the Library of the School 2007 1. Entrant shall abide by the rules and procedures of the Award as established of Music. Sebastian Currier by the University of Louisville. 9. Entrant agrees to accept responsibility of all shipping and/or customs charges Static 2. Entrant shall abide by the decision of the Grawemeyer® Award Committee incurred (letter class air mail is suggested for foreign shipments as this normally and the University of Louisville, and the decision shall be accepted as final avoids customs charges). 2008 by Entrant. 10. The winner of the Award will be announced after December 1st, 2016. Peter Lieberson 3. Entrant shall jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless the University The winner will be expected to come to Louisville for a week in April, 2017 to Neruda Songs of Louisville and its trustees, officers, employees or agents, including the make a formal presentation based on the winning idea and to receive the Grawemeyer® Award Committee members, from the cost of any legal Award. This trip to Louisville is mandatory and failure to fulfill this requirement proceeding, claim or other loss sustained in connection with any dispute will result in forfeiture of the Award and the associated cash prize. Any 2009 ® as to any authority over ownership or rights of the Entrant(s) in the Work. exception to this requirement must be approved by the Grawemeyer Brett Dean Executive Committee. During the week of the formal presentation (April 2017, The Lost Art of Letter 4. Entrant shall participate, as appropriate, and cooperate in the production of Date TBA) the winning composer shall be present on the UofL Campus for at any documentary film or other public relations or publicity matters related Writing least five school days to present the formal public lecture, meet with and tutor to the Award, including the execution of any necessary releases and/or student composers, give master classes, seminars, presentations of his or authorizations.