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The University of Aberdeen Music Prize.
Dates: 27 - 29 April 2007Tel: 01224 274 444
The University of Aberdeen Music Prize is one of the world’s leading music award ceremonies where The University collaborates with the critically acclaimed BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Radio 3 to encourage excellence in contemporary classical composition.
The world renowned competition is one Aberdeen’s most prestigious events staged annually in the latter part of April each year welcomes emerging musical composers from all corners of the globe each year. Following a weekend of workshops, the award ceremony gets underway featuring a plethora of short-listed composers and members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The winner receives a £5000 worth commission for their work to be premiered by the BBC SSO.
This prestigious ceremony also showcases a fascinating weekend of events ranging from talks and musical performances to a host of other events that pull in larger crowds, particularly school parties, University lecturers and students as well as the general public. Musical creativity is also celebrated with a series of practical events including lessons, workshops giving people, young and old an insight into how classical composing works.
People of all ages are invited to unveil their hidden potential with the opportunity to invent their own compositions at the state-of-the-art electronic Create Music Lab. Why not sample it for yourself and see if you have got what it takes to be a great musical craftsman.
Highlights of previous Music Prize events include the sensational Gala Concert courtesy of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra who perform the five new string quartets specially composed for the University of Aberdeen Music Prize. The winner of this unique new prize will be announced at this concert by judges Robert Saxton and Jonathan Harvey. Other interesting events include roundtable discussion chaired by Dr Paul Mealor, composer and Director of this prestigious competition. Topics include for discourse include composition in the 21st century, compositional curriculum in schools and the how art has evolved in contemporary society.
If you plan to visit the next year’s University of Aberdeen Music Prize or perhaps enter if the competition is you are an emerging composer of the 21st Century, you will be enriched and enchanted with the diverse plethora of cultural and artistic events, performances and workshops staged over the course of this weekend event in late April.
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