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Congratulations to this year’s Competition Winners
This was a very competitive year with 31 submissions in total, so well done to three winners!
You can meet all three composers and hear the winning works at the Young Composers Forum on 25th June. Each work will also be premiered in the Young Musicians Series by a conservatoire quartet during the Festival
Many thanks to this year’s adjudicator Donnacha Dennehy
String Quartet Composition Competition
for Irish citizens/residents under 35
The winning works are premiered at
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival that year
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 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.
15th Young Composers Competition for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival is now open for submissions
” I really felt that the festival was invested in realisation of my music, something that I can’t say I’ve experienced much with festivals in the past.” – Kevin Terry, 2021 winner
• €1000 prize money
• 3 nights at the 2023 Festival 23 June to 2 July
• 2 public performances
• Workshop with competition adjudicator
• Submission deadline: 14 March 2023
We are delighted to welcome back Donnacha Dennehy to adjudicate the 2023 Competition
Entrants must be under 35 years old on 1 January 2023. The work must be scored for string quartet and has not been performed prior to the 2023 Festival
Download the full list of criteria here
We send our congratulations again to our 2021 winners: Kevin Terry, Lindsey Vincent and Luke Smyth.
And many thanks to Deirdre Gribbin for judging the competition.
Earlier winners of the Competition include:
To view a full list of previous winners from 2008 to date, see our Winners pages.
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