GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTED COMPOSITIONS:
• Mixed choir (SATB, divisi possible)
• Unaccompanied, with piano accompaniment, or with instrumental accompaniment of not more than three individual instruments
• Three to five minutes’ duration
• Unpublished works which have not received a premiere performance, only
• Rights to text must be cleared and evidence of copyright holder’s permission must be shown
• Secular or sacred text
• Level of difficulty suitable for a college choir or community choir
PRIZES:
• $1500 plus travel expenses to New Haven for attendance at premiere performance by the Yale Glee Club during its 2021-22 concert season
• Possible future publication in Yale Glee Club New Classics Choral Series
• The winner will be announced in May, 2021. All entrants will be notified by e-mail. The winner will also be announced on the Yale Glee Club web site (www.yalegleeclub.org) at this time.
Congratulations to the winner of the 2020 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition, Matthew Swartz, for his composition of In Singleness.
Connecticut-born composer and pianist Matthew Swartz (b. 1988) has resided in Los Angeles County since 2010. He holds degrees from Claremont Graduate University (D.M.A. and M.A., Music Composition) and the University of Connecticut (B.M., Piano Performance). During his musical studies, Swartz has been fortunate to receive mentorship from prominent American composers Peter Boyer and Kenneth Fuchs as well as acclaimed pianist Neal Larrabee.
In recent years, Swartz has increased focus on his love for writing choral music. In September 2019, Swartz’s original carol Arise, Arise, the Morning Bells was chosen by ChoralArt as the winner of the 2019 New England Carol Contest. In June 2018, Swartz participated as one of seven Composition Fellows in Choral Arts Initiative’s PREMIERE|Project Festival, for which his piece I Shall Not Live in Vain was commissioned. Swartz received his first international premiere in October 2016 with his award-winning German setting Zueignung.