2023 Emerging Composers Competition

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTED COMPOSITIONS:

• Mixed choir (SATB, divisi possible)
• Unaccompanied, with keyboard accompaniment, or with instrumental accompaniment of not more than three individual instruments
• Three to five minutes duration 
• Preference will be given to unpublished works that have not received premieres outside of informal academic settings
• 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 2023-24 concert season
• Possible future publication in Yale Glee Club New Classics Choral Series
• The winner will be announced in May, 2023. 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.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
 
• Online submissions of one PDF copy of the composition and a brief resume outlining prior musical experience and education received no later than April 1, 2023 are preferred. Only one composition per entrant may be submitted. Please send submissions to sean.maher@yale.edu
 
OR
 
• Five (5) copies of the submitted score and a brief resume outlining prior musical experience and education must be postmarked no later than April 1, 2023. Only one composition per entrant may be submitted.
 
• Names must not appear on the score
 
• The winning score will be reproduced solely for performance by the Yale Glee Club. Copies will be destroyed in the event of future publication.
 
• The Yale Glee Club will have a non-exclusive, world-wide perpetual license to perform the winning score. The Yale Glee Club shall have the right to record the inaugural performance for archival and other purposes, including distribution and sale of such recording. 
 
• No scores will be returned.
 
If electronic submissions are not possible please use the following address(es)
 
U.S. Mail address:
Jeffrey Douma, Director
Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition
PO Box 201929
New Haven, CT 06520-1929
 
Fedex address:
Jeffrey Douma, Director
Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition
165 Elm Street, Room 201
New Haven, CT  06511
 

Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition, Corrine Klein, for her composition of to be one with each other. 

Corinne Klein (b. 2002) is a composer and musician based in Chicago, IL. Originally from Green Bay, WI, Corinne is now studying Music Composition and Music Education at DePaul University with the goals of fostering creative expression in the classroom as well as making music accessible and enjoyable for all types of learners. 

Corinne began composing as a way to channel her complex internal emotions and turn them into something that can be universally experienced. The expressivity and tonal ambiguity of her music seeks to replicate feelings of specific abstract concepts often difficult to describe. 

Corinne has studied composition under Dr. Osnat Netzer, Dr. Frederick Gifford, and Dr. Christopher Jones, and has had works performed by the Pyrenean String Quartet with the Fulcrum Point New Music Project as well as Kyle Bruckmann and Matt Ingalls of sfSound.