Choral Composition Festival

Encouraging the creation of new choral music for over four decades, the 43rd Annual Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest is now accepting entries. Compositions should be suitable for high school Mixed Choral Ensembles (SATB – Some divisi acceptable). Three to five minutes performance length is appropriate. Applications must be received by December 1, 2022.  

 The Robert Campbell ’40, M.S. ’50, Endowed Choral Composition Prize will be awarded to the first-place winner in the annual Choral Composition Festival. Winners of first and second place will be awarded the following cash prizes:  

 FIRST PLACE - $1,200 | SECOND PLACE - $700 

 Finalists of the 43rd Annual Choral Composition Contest will be announced December 9, 2022.  

 The Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival will be held Saturday, February 11, 2023 at Ithaca College.  Finalist composers have the opportunity to work with choirs performing their compositions.

 Sponsored by the Ithaca College School of Music and Mark Foster Publishing (a division of Hal Leonard), this competition is open to all composers except for Ithaca College faculty, staff, and students and anyone who has been awarded First Place in this Choral Composition Contest within the last five years. 

 Applications must be received by December 1, 2022. 

Entry Fee of $25 (U.S. Dollars) per score. Make checks payable to Ithaca College.

Send to:

IC Choirs

Ithaca College

953 Danby Rd.

Ithaca, NY 14850

• Electronic submissions: Manuscripts may be submitted via email to ic-choirs@ithaca.edu (checks must still be mailed using the above address)
  • Name must not appear on the score. 
• Snail Mail: If you are mailing a hard copy, include your name, address, phone number, and email in a sealed envelope. 
  
  • Name must not appear on the score. 
  • Size of manuscript must not exceed 8 ½” by 14” 
  • No scores will be returned unless a self-addressed mailer and postage are provided. 

A panel of judges selects a certain number of submissions to be included in the festival, which includes the performance of these works by select high school choruses, and the selection of a first and second composition prize winner. In addition to these performances, the festival features the premiere of a choral work commissioned for performance by the Ithaca College Choir.  Listed below are previously commissioned composers.