Competition Grame / Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain / Young Composers -Sixth edition

Jury
In 2008 the jury is composed of:
Jean-Paul Dessy, composer, conductor and musical director of Mons-Musiques;
Brice Duval, altiste à l'EOC;
Henri Fourès, composer, director of CNSMD de Lyon;
Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou, composer, artistique director of Grame;
Daniel Kawka, musical director of l'EOC;
Sabine Malnoury-Gamet, professor in ENM de Villeurbanne;
Kaija Saariaho, composer.

How to participate:
Send application to Grame, Centre National de Création Musicale
9, rue du Garet BP 1185 - 69202 LYON Cedex 01 FRANCE
The applications should include:
- a resume
- two or three partitions with sound recording
- a concept explaining the project

Application deadline : .....

Rules: [download PDF]
The competition aims at composers under thirty five years old.
Two prizes are allocated. One of them will be given to a composer residing in the region or who took part in a course of composition study in a musical institution of the Rhône-Alpes region.
The jury: may decide to make the first prize in one of these categories into the second prize of the other category.
Eligibility: a training in new technologies is required for entering the competition designed to boost the creation of mixed music.


The instruments have to be chosen among the following nomenclature :
1fl.1hbt.1cl.1fg.1cor1tp1trb.1perc.2vl.1vla.1vcl.1cb and a sound device.
Composition specificity : instrumentation will be compulsory and the composer will refer to the GRAME/EOC for approval of the use of the related technologies.

The nominated candidates will reside at the Grame´s studios during the time of the composition for one or several residencies of four weeks in total. The successful candidates will benefit from the necessary technical aid in studios and the costs for accommodation and meals will be met. This will also be the case during rehearsal time before the creation. Travelling costs: to be paid by each laureate although GRAME and the EOC will help provide information for alternative solutions

Scores : the main score and its separate parts are paid for by the composer ; all of which will need to be ready by the end of December 2009.
Grame or the EOC take the remuneration of the musical composition in charge for each creation as a governmental commission or as a Grame´s commission and the support of the Rhône-Alpes Region.


Lauréats
1996 : Daniel Sprintz (Argentine), Daniel Augusto D’Adamo (Argentine)
1997 : Michaël Oesterle (Canada), Pierre Jodlowski (France)
1999 : Vsevolod Chmoulevitch (Russie), Frédéric Pattar (France), Marzena Komsta (Pologne)
2002 : Leilei Tian (Chine), Ioannis Kalantzis (Grèce)
2004 : Emanuele Casale (Italie), Stéphane Magnin (France)
2006 : Javier Torres Maldonado (Mexique), Malika Kishino (Japon)
2008 : Luca Antignani (Italie), José-Miguel Fernandez (Chili)



Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
To promote the contemporary music, to interpret the greatest classics of the 20th century, to support creation, to collaborate with many composers and artists, to work the sound, the curve and the musical matter in a full devotion, associating pleasure of the play, search for the style and excellence, such are today's main purposes of the ambition of the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain . Indeed, the EOC is more than a board of high level instrumentalists. The combined richness of the personalities and the crossing of competences, contribute to a great flexibility of overall play, to an extreme "internal listening" which make, undoubtedly, the difference and confer the EOC a "sound" and a true personality. Located in the Rhône-Alpes area and created in 1992 by its current musical director Daniel Kawka, the EOC is an instrumental unit that counts 20 soloist musicians who implement a season with more than 40 concerts in Lyon, in the Rhone-Alps area as well as in France and abroad.
Traduction avec le concours d'Othello et Naïma Chartier


Grane, National Center of Musical Creation
Grame was set up in 1982 by Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou and James Giroudon, and in 1996 it was certified as a "Centre National de Création Musicale". Its mission is to promote the conception, production and distribution of new works, to contribute to the development of scientific and musical research, and to construct vital bridges between creative artists and the public.
Grame organises its different tasks round a number of axes:
• creation, production and distribution, notably in the field of mixed musics, with composers in residence;
• scientific research on computer-assisted composition;
• wide-ranging educational activities.
Since 1992, each March, Grame has been presenting Musiques en Scène, a multidisciplinary showcase for musical creation. It became a biennial in 2002.
International projects are regularly organised in collaboration with partners in other parts of Europe, North America and China, notably in the general framework of programmes supported by the European Commission.



Grame is commisioned by:
Le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication,
la Région Rhône-Alpes et la Ville de Lyon.
l'EOC is in agreement with
le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DRAC Rhône-Alpes),
le Conseil Régional Rhône-Alpes, du Conseil Général de la Loire en Rhône-Alpes, de la ville d'Andrézieux-Bouthéon,
la SPEDIDAM et la SACEM.

Grame, Centre National de Création Musicale
9 rue du Garet BP 1185 - 69202 LYON Cedex 01 - FRANCE