Composition Competition

Our annual competition is for the composition of a new string quartet by young Irish and Irish-resident composers. Our Call for Scores goes out in November every year. The four winners are announced by May. Their winning works are rehearsed and premiered at that year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival in June/July.

Past judges of this competition include Donnacha Dennehy, Lera Auerbach, Brett Dean and Deirdre Gribbin.

Competition Winners Announced!

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 12th West Cork Chamber Music Young Composers’ Competition.

Find out more here.

We send our congratulations again to our 2019 winners, Timothy Ethan Doyle, inti figgis-vizueta, Robin Haigh and James May.

And many thanks to Andrea Tarrodi for judging the competition.

Earlier winners of the Competition include:

• Seán Doherty (Assistant Professor of Music at Dublin City University)
• Solfa Carlisle and Amanda Feery (both winners of the Seán Ó Riada competition)
• Robert Coleman (NCH Jerome Hynes competition winner)
• Finola Merivale (a Benjamin Franklin fellow at the University of Pennsylvania).

To view a full list of previous winners from 2008 to date, our Winners pages.