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• Preference will be given to unpublished works that have not received premieres outside of informal academic settings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 2025-26 concert season
• Possible future publication in Yale Glee Club New Classics Choral Series
• The winner will be announced in June, 2025. 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 2024 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition, Micaela Carballo, for her composition of Nuestra Mirada.
Micaela Carballo is an Argentinian composer and conductor. Her latest films are the animated feature film Norbert (Disney-Spain) and the Argentine feature film Hermanados. Her music won awards for best original soundtrack at international film festivals and were premiered and recorded in Argentina, Vienna, Bratislava, London, Thailand, Costa Rica and Los Angeles. She recently composed the music for the MARVEL’s I am Groot live in Concert for the Tito Puente 100 show that was premiered with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Puerto Rico. She is also the composer and producer for the feature film “La Inmensidad”, recorded in London and mixed in Abbey Road Studios. The music for one of her recent projects, the documentary film Jaguar Spirit (National Geographic) was premiered by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica this year.
Micaela was born in Balcarce, Argentina. She began studying piano at the age of 6 and went on to study Basic Musical Training at Balcarce School of Art. In 2013. Carballo graduated as a Music Composer and later graduated as Choral Conductor from the University of La Plata, Buenos Aires.
In 2015 she was awarded a full scholarship by Fundación Carolina in Spain, to complete her first Master’s degree in Film Scoring at ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya-Barcelona). In 2023, she completed her second Master Degree in Film Scoring at the Royal College of Music.
One of her first projects was the animated argentine film Dubicel, recorded by the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. The score won awards for best original score at Golden Nugget Film Festival (UK), NYCA Cinematography Award from New York and Buenos Aires International Film Festival and was premiere by the “Camerata Argentina de Mujeres” at the CCK “Centro Cultural Kirchner” in the concert tribute to Women’s Day in 2020. Dubicel, also won numerous international awards for best animation film and was screened at the “Gaumont” INCAA’s cinema.
Carballo’s work as a composer includes different styles and musical ensembles. She started by composing choral music, such as “The melancoly dead of Oyster boy” and “Ha ka’awy”, the latter, a piece for chorus and instrumental group in guarani language premiering in La Plata in 2013. She composed music for plays by the Integration through Art Workshops at the Argentine Theater in La Plata and several independent plays in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Barcelona “Dejarse ir”, “Errantes”, “Carbono 14”, “Los inadaptados de siempre”, “Una Furia Patria”, “La niña de la muñeca de trapo”, the last “Paterland”, among others. Carballo has also composed original music for a variety of films such as “La tulipe bleue”, “El chiquillo azul y el hombre de la luna” (Barcelona), “Sr.”, “When the cinema was born”, “The gesture of paint”, “Time for Nostalgia” (La Plata) and for several animation short-film as “Dubicel”, “HB the music of the Universe”, “Match Point” (Buenos Aires). She is currently composing the music for the feature film “La inmensidad”.
She is a member of SCL The Society of Composers & Lyricist, Alliance for Women Film Composer in US, Women in Film and TV in the UK and “Asociación Argentina de Compositores” and “Foro Argentino de Compositoras” in Argentina.
In the last 6 years, Carballo was the deputy conductor of the Argentine Air Force Band and she conducted the first women orchestra of the Armed Forces in Argentina. At the same time she works as an instructor in the field of Audition and Music at the ENERC Film School in Buenos Aires and In Jujuy.
Her works for strings “(In)cierto” and “Pandemia in Buenos Aires” were performed at the Argentine Theater in La Plata and (In)cierto was also played at the Pettoruti Museum in La Plata. Her score “Trascendencia” was premiere in “Teatro Laserre”, Argentina and “El enigma del agua” at the Mozarthaus, in Vienna. Recently, her music “Fly to Buenos Aires” was premiered in London, in a concert supporting Ukraine.
In 2018 and 2020 she was awarded the scholarship from the Argentinian National Endowment for the Arts to compose the music for the opera “La voix d’argent” and for the film “La Inmensidad” and In 2021 she won the “Issachar Fund” to compose a piano work to premiere in Edinburgh.
In 2019 she was selected to attend the Los Angeles Film conducting intensive workshop in Los Angeles, where she conducted and recorded two original pieces of music for symphony orchestra “HB” and “Time for nostalgia” with the Hollywood Studio Symphony orchestra at Warner Bros Studios.
She completed the SCL Mentoring Program for composers as one of the mentees in New York City and she was selected as one of the mentees for the Alliance for Women Film Composer’s mentorship program.