Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition - Competitions - Brief Article

American Music Teacher, Dec, 2003

The University of Louisville School of Music is seeking applicants for its Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition 2005, a $200,000 cash award granted in recognition of outstanding achievement by a living composer in a large musical genre.

The composition can be choral, orchestral, chamber, electronic, song-cycle, dance, opera, musical theater or an extended solo work. The award will be granted for a work premiered during the five-year period between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 2003.

Each entry must be sponsored by a professional musical organization or an individual; a composer may not submit his or her own work.

The deadline for entries is January 26, 2004.

For more information and entry forms, contact the Grawemeyer Music Award Committee, School of Music, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292.