Open to student composers

Deadline - April 24th 2010

Student composers are invited to enter the third
of our Piece of the Year Competitions, for writing chamber orchestra. Open
to all music students except previous winners of the competition.

All entries will be played in a workshop on July
3rd 2010. Composers
will receive feedback from the orchestra on their pieces, and from the
conductor on questions of notation and score and part presentation. The
orchestra members will vote to select the finalists.

The finalists will have their pieces performed at
a concert in the autumn of 2010, where the audience will vote to select the
winner. Prize - something to put on CVs, and one year's free membership of
Forum London Composers Group. There will be a fee of £25 for taking part.

We are a good quality amateur orchestra, of
single wind and brass, plus strings, percussion, and piano.

Full details of the call for pieces, the
orchestra, and its instrumentation can be obtained from the conductor, Alan
Taylor - alan.taylor@dpmail.co.uk - essential to check these details before
submitting a piece.

About the LCCO - we are a unique orchestra, which has the role
of playing music by developing composers and giving them feedback. We were
recently heard on Radio 3 as part of Making Music's Play to the Nation, and the composer of a piece recorded
by us won the Making Music category in the British Composers Awards in 2008.