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Competitions
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Youth Composition Competition by Music Gift Co.
Violettes by Becky, Music Gift Co., Presents
our 6th Annual Youth Composition Competition
Music Gift Co., Violettes by Becky, gives back to Youth Music Programs, and creates some of its own Youth Music Programs.
Register now HERE. There is a $25 late entry fee**. Send Score and MP-3 or You tube by Feb. 14, 2019 to RMChaffee1@comcast.net. Note that you can register by paying early, but submit entry on Feb. deadline. Thank you.
This year, there is only one category and one age range for judging purposes, unless something surprising happens.
I had the pleasure of presenting Elise with her check in person. And a special music gift, a Violettes by Becky Viola Purse too.
Judges are past winner, Elise Arancio and University of Tennessee, Knoxville Composition Professor Andrew Lloyd Sigler. See more about judges at the bottom of this page.
Thanks so much to our volunteer judges!
Prizes are - First place: $100 or choice of purse or wallet. Second Place: $50 gift Certificate from a Sheet Music Store Third Place: $25 Gift certificate from a Sheet Music Store
Rules:
1. Entries must be amateur composers who are ages 10 thru 18 on Feb. 14, 2019. For judging, (Students must still be in High School).
2. Compositions/Songs must be between two and five minutes in length.
3. Collaborative work accepted (partner must be in same age group). It will be the responsibility of the entry writer to divide the prize. No songs under professional contract may be entered.
4. Submissions must consist of a score, and an MP-3 (or MP-4 or Memory Stick) or video. For ages 10 thru 14, score is not required, but will be given more weight in judging.
5. Top 30 entries in each division will be judged by two independent professional musicians. Students of judges may not enter. (In the case of over 30 entries in a division, Violettes will use a committee to choose the top 30). Each student in top 30 will receive at least one feedback critique from judges.
6. Register (and pay) to enter by Dec. 31, 2018, but submit composition as late as Feb. 14, 2019. Late fee goes up to $25 if you register after Dec. 31.
7. Compositions/Songs are due by February 14, 2019. Submit to Violettes "Contact us" email or RMChaffee1@comcast.net.
8. Winners will be announced on April 15, 2019.
9. Registering for the competition means that you agree that your work is original and that you hold all rights to the composition/song.
10. Entry constitutes permission to use winner's names, likenesses, and voices for future advertising and publicity purposes without additional compensation.
11. Submission constitutes entrant's agreement to release, indemnify and hold harmless Violettes and judges from and against any claim, including, without limitation, of copyright infringement or other misappropriation, arising from any acts or omissions in connection with the contest or its operation.12. If you are interviewed by the press as a result of this competition, you are required to tell the press, they must mention and thank the company, "ViolettesbyBecky.com, Gifts for Music Lovers" in the press release for conducting the competition.
**If you can not afford the entry fee, we can waive your fee. Also, please note that this competition is a labor of love, and the fee does not begin to cover the labor involved. Support us if you can with purchase from Violettes by Becky. Everyone needs to give gifts. Thanks.
Please keep informed by signing up for the Violettes Newsletter.
Judging Criteria
- Judging Criteria for the Compositions will include up to 5 points assigned to each of the following 3 categories: 1. Originality/Creativity, 2.Technical Proficiency 3. Orchestration and Overall Effectiveness
(Note that the majority of entries are entered on just one instrument).
Judges:
Andrew Lloyd Sigler is Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he directs the composition program and teaches audio recording, film scoring, theory, and orchestration. He will be assisted in judging by some of his composition students. His web site link is andrewsigler.com He often gives winners bonus skype composition lessons.
Elise Arancio is a eighteen year old composer based in Atlanta. In 2014 she made her
debut with the premiere of her string orchestra piece Fly By Night at Emory University. Since
then she has attended summer programs at Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Curtis
Institute of Music, where she has participated in masterclasses with composers such as Joan
Tower and John Mackey. Her piece On the Line was a winner of the 2016 National Young
Composers Challenge. The piece Kuma Lisa, premiered at the Curtis Institute of Music, earned
an honorable mention in the Tribeca New Music Young Composers Competition and the
NextNotes High School Composition Competition and her piece Nyctophobia was a finalist in
the 2017 BMI Student Composer Awards. In 2017 and 2018 she served as a judge for the Violettes. She gives excellent detailed feedback!
Composition Competition, and she currently studies with Richard Prior of Emory University. She
is also an active violist currently studying with Yinzi Kong of the Vega Quartet. - Judging Criteria for the Compositions will include up to 5 points assigned to each of the following 3 categories: 1. Originality/Creativity, 2.Technical Proficiency 3. Orchestration and Overall Effectiveness
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Violettes Youth Composition Competition & Songwriter Contest
Violettes by Becky Presents
our 4rth Annual Youth Composition Competition & Songwriter Contest
Register now HERE. There is a $15 entry fee**. Send Score and MP-3 or You tube by Feb. 14, 2017 to RMChaffee1@comcast.net. (Registration after Dec. 31 goes up to $20) Note that you can register by paying early, but submit entry on Feb. deadline. Thank you.
There are separate categories for composition and songwriter entries. Each is divided into 2 age levels for judging and prizes. Thanks to sponsors Violettes by Becky for Gig bags and Cash, Board Member Bennye St. Claire for obtaining Songwriter Grand Prize TBA, Performers Music and Sheet Music Plus for Sheet Music Gift Certificates for prize donations. Thanks to all volunteer judges!
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Bios for Composition and Songwriter Judges can be found HERE.
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Judging Criteria for both Composition and Songwriter entries posted at bottom of this page.
Composition Theme: Being Me Now!
A song is sometimes the melody, sometimes the lyrics and sometimes the heart. However your song comes thru, let it fly. Share your reflections and introspection.Rules:
1. Entries must be amateur composers/songwriters who are ages 10 thru 18 on Feb. 14, 2017. For judging, Junior Division will be ages 10 thru 14 and, Senior Division will be ages 15 thru 18. (Students must still be in High School).
2. Compositions/Songs must be between two and five minutes in length.
3. Collaborative work accepted (partner must be in same age group). It will be the responsibility of the entry writer to divide the prize. No songs under professional contract may be entered.
4. Submissions must consist of a score, and an MP-3 (or MP-4 or Memory Stick) or video. For ages 10 thru 14, score is not required, but will be given more weight in judging.
5. Top 30 entries in each division will be judged by two independent professional musicians. Students of judges may not enter. (In the case of over 30 entries in a division, Violettes will use a committee to choose the top 30). Each student in top 30 will receive at least one feedback critique from judges.
6. Register to enter by Feb. 14, 2017. Registration after Dec. 31, 2016 goes up to $20. You can register and pay early, then send entry on deadline.
7. Compositions/Songs are due by February 14, 2017. Submit to Violettes "Contact us" email or RMChaffee1@comcast.net.
8. Winners will be announced on April 15, 2017.
9. Registering for the competition means that you agree that your work is original and that you hold all rights to the composition/song.
10. Entry constitutes permission to use winner's names, likenesses, and voices for future advertising and publicity purposes without additional compensation.
11. Submission constitutes entrant's agreement to release, indemnify and hold harmless Violettes and judges from and against any claim, including, without limitation, of copyright infringement or other misappropriation, arising from any acts or omissions in connection with the contest or its operation.12. If you are interviewed by the press as a result of this competition, you are required to tell the press, they must mention and thank the company, "ViolettesbyBecky.com, Gifts for Music Lovers" in the press release for the generous competition.
**If you can not afford the entry fee, we can waive your fee. Also, please note that this competition is a labor of love, and the fee does not begin to cover the labor involved. Support us if you can with purchase from Violettes by Becky. Everyone needs to give gifts. Thanks.
Please keep informed by signing up for the Violettes Newsletter.
Prizes for Composition & Songwriter Competition
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* We especially thank our new Board Member, Bennye St. Claire who helped obtain songwriting judges and who is securing songwriter grand prize.
Bennye J. St.Claire - President - Texas Universal Management has been in the country music industry since 1976. He has worked with such artists as The Oak Ridge Boys, Eddie Raven, Gena Roberts-Hamilton (Country Gospel Singer), Gayla Earline (Gospel Singer), and others too many to mention. He has managed several up and coming vocalists. He also acts as a booking agent for South Bound Train, The Jason Helms Band, T.Kaye and Sweetfire and others.
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Judging Criteria
- Judging Criteria for the Compositions will include up to 5 points assigned to each of the following 3 categories: 1. Originality/Creativity, 2. Technical Proficiency 3. Orchestration and Overall Effectiveness
(Note that the majority of entries are entered on just one instrument). - Judging Criteria for the Songwriter Competition
will include up to 5 points assigned to each of the following categories:
1. Emotional Impact, 2. Individuality and Creativity, 3. Meaningful Lyrics, 4. Melody
Points will be deducted for going over the 5 minute time limit for each entry.
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Fun Volunteer Judges for Junior Composers
Thanks to our Junior Composers' Judges
Our 2 volunteer Composers' judges for the Junior Division of the Violettes Youth Composition Competition are fun Music Professionals who love working with children. Both Julie Fischer and Paul Brody have worked extensively with children in their music careers. Bio Information about each is the subject of this blog.
Ms. Julie Fischer
Julie Fischer Junior Composers Judge
Ms. Fischer has always been able to hear harmonically. She harmonized parts to violin music since she was 4 years old! After some formal theory training, she sat at the piano for hours and pretended she was Bach...As a child, she won the Reflections Contest and composed music for Rumpelstiltskin.
She took many composition classes at the New England Conservatory (NEC), and loves working with children.
Julie Fischer is a violin and viola teacher and performer. She has over 20 years of experience teaching kids and adults of all ages and levels. She has taught in university, conservatory, community music school, and private studio settings. She currently teaches privately, at the Music Institute of Chicago and is on the chamber music faculty of the Midwest Young Artists.
She has appeared as soloist with multiple orchestras, a few being the Pacific Palisades Symphony, Evanston Symphony, and Kishwaukee Symphony.
Education:
Graduate Diploma-New England Conservatory -2005; Masters of Music-New England Conservatory-2004; Bachelors of Music-Cleveland Institute of Music-2002
Significant teachers and mentors:
Lucy Chapman, Donald Weilerstein, Almita and Roland Vamos, Thomas Wermuth, Paula Fischer
Awards and achievements:
Julie was previously a member of the Azmari Quartet, in Residence at Northern Kentucky University, where she was a Violin Professor from 2007-2009. Julie was a three time prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and a 2 time winner of the Walgreens National Competition. She has performed at the Perlman Chamber Music Program with Donald Weilerstein, and was also teaching assistant to Donald Weilerstein at NEC.
Favorite practice tip: Practice only on the days you eat!
Mr. Paul Brody
Paul Brody Junior Composers Judge Photo credits: Elena Graupe
Paul Brody is an American composer, writer and trumpeter based in Berlin. Currently he is working on a commission to produce a radio feature for West German Radio using his composition and sound design techniques. His sound installations have been featured in major art venues such as the 2014 Transmedialle Festival of Digital Art and Culture and the 2012 Heimat exhibit at the Jewish Museum Berlin. He has also produced and composed music for a full length feature for NPR about music, sound, and public space in Berlin called, The Fringe Sound of Berlin, to be aired at the end of the year.
He has a number of solo CDs with his jazz and klezmer oriented projects. Paul Brody's Sadawi has three albums on John Zorn's Tzadik Label. The New York/Berlin based group has toured extensively, and played festivals in cities such as Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Berkeley, Mink, Warsaw, and Cracow. His 2014 debut album on the legendary Enja Records, Behind All Words, won the German Recording Prize for composition under the category of "Music that Crosses Borders."
More bio info for Mr. Brody can be found at : Paul's Bio
Violettes would like to thank our Volunteer judges for their enthusiasm and volunteer spirit.
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For Competition Guidelines, See this LINK.
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ViolettesbyBecky 1st Annual Music Composition Competition for Youth Uses two Notable Judges
Judges for Music Competition for Youth are Notable, validating both the children's work and the competition by Violettes itself.
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Paul Brody, judge for ViolettesbyBecky Music Composition Competition appears in April edition of on-line German Time Magazine for his new album The Rose Auslander Project with his band, Sadawi.We are proud of the 2 notable judges for Violettes by Becky 1st Annual Music Composition Competition for Youth. Having such notable judges validates the efforts of the children, in addition to adding to the valildity and excitement of the competition. Signups were submitted to Violettes by Becky in Fall 2013, and entries submitted by Feb. 14, 2014 thru our "contact us" with MP-3 or You Tube submissions. We left rules quite loose this first year to encourage any kind of entries, and we are proud of all the children who entered. Both of our judges have a history of music projects or work with children.
Information about Judge Number 1, Grammy award winning Lucas Richman, Conductor for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, can be found on the symphony web site: http://www.knoxvillesymphony.com/meet-the-orchestra/lucas-richman/
Violettes by Becky 2nd judge, Composer, Writer and Band Leader Paul Brody, has just appeared in the on-line German Time Magazine with the above photo and link: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/paul-brody-rose-auslaender-clueso-meret-becker-jelena-kuljic-a-963949.html
Running this article thru google translater, I get the following. I changed a few words since i know what they are trying to say:
In search of his European roots of American trumpeter Paul Brody came across the work of the poet Rose Auslander . For his just-released Jazz & Poetry CD he has included German artists such as Meret Becker and Clueso .
The German language had Paul Brody since his childhood so fascinated that it was no wonder that it eventually pulled him from the U.S. to Germany . For the first time 20 years ago when he was in Berlin at jam sessions in the Blues Café in Schöneberg contact with the local jazz scene was looking for. Later he taught for many years at the Berlin Academy of Music Hanns Eisler and has composed music for the Grips children's theater. That he would but eventually even turn German poems in jazz music , he would then probably even cannot imagine.
"I knew that my mother could speak German ," says the now 52 -year-old Brody. But like many Jewish refugees she avoided their native language, since it was in 1939 to escape the Nazis on a Kindertransport from Vienna. Son, Paul learned yet the language of the pursuer and came while reading on Rose Auslander . The Jewish poet who died in 1988 had fled during World War II in the U.S. and for years had written only in English. Later foreigner wrote in German again . " Each poem ," says Brody , "was a small explosion , rhythmic, lyrical , traversed by quirky humor , and the pain of dislocation . "
The Rose Auslander Project
For Brody, the poems were "word music " and launched his Rose Auslander Project. For him, this was something completely new. Up to now he had brought out as a trumpeter and bandleader Instrumental CDs with American stars such as John Zorn , creating tension through the fusion of klezmer sounds and contemporary jazz . Now In the poetry project, he wanted to create tension through silence, " by vacancies , where the audience has to wait and see what happens ." Above all, he now had to do it not only with instruments, but also with language - the German language.
For foreigner poems composed the melodies Brody . The he arranged for his band Sadawi and five strings. For the sung and spoken texts , he won first-class artist as performer : the rapping pop singer Clueso , originally from Serbia jazz vocalist Jelena Kuljic and actress Meret Becker. With his trumpet Brody combines the texts ; the poem "Man accidentally" he recites itself, because the foreigner line " I was once a Dog / Heavenly Dog Keeper / threw myself into the world of men / take the dog kingdom " put him moving question of identity and homeland: Whoever you are, wherever do you belong ?
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Meanwhile, the Americans in Berlin feels " very much at home ." " But again, I 'm a strange dog ," Brody said in a radio interview Germany . He grew up in San Francisco and went to his musical studies in Boston with a Broadway production about Duke Ellington for nine months on a European tour . Later, the young trumpeter with the Supremes , Shirley Bassey and Ute Lemper played - a delightful experience for the classically trained musician , the songs of Robert Schumann equally interested in how the sound of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In addition, Brody had - uncharacteristically for artists from the United States - already perceived as a student jazz from Europe , such as Alexander von Schlippenbach avant-garde " Globe Unity Orchestra".
The fact that Brody would end up, in the Old World , was only a matter of time . "In Germany, I discovered not only my European roots , but also what in me is American ," he says. Many German colleagues distinguish him his absolute openness to all musical genres. That is why he could write music for children, for classical theater productions , for klezmer and jazz bands . "But I always want to leave my fingerprint ," he says.
When Rose Auslander CD , he has succeeded . With the project he wants to " express respect for the new home " also his . Since her son lives in Berlin, Brody's mother speaks German again .
Violettes is excited to announce that the new CD , The Rose Auslander Project with Paul Brody's Band, Sadawi, is selling well on Amazon.
The announcement of our Competition Winners should be announced on April 15. Visit us again and see some posts of competition entries.
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Sincerely,
Becky Chaffee
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Music Competition
Here is an awesome Music Competition entry from a 10 year old.
Violettes 1st Annual Composition Competition for Ages 10 thru 17. The music competition entries are currently being reviewed for the first competition, and notable judges are: Grammy Award winner, Lucas Richman, composer and conductor of both the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and Bangor SO; and Klezmer Jazz composer, musician, and writer, Paul Brody, who has records with his band, Sadawi, on Tzadik and Enja records labels. We received wonderful entries nationwide from California to Florida, but no guitar or country music submissions. We hope to see more genres in our next music competition. Next year we would like to pair mentors with students thru skype. If you are interested in being notified about our next competition as a competitor, mentor or judge, please contact us. Violettes has more exciting news. We will have an article in the Spring 2014 Greater Nashville Travel Host Magazine. Famous Nashville Guitar artist is now painting Signature Rob Hendon Guitar Bags for Upscale folks! Violettes Guitar bags with paintings from our in-house artist, Gigi Wright (published in Decorative Painter, Paint Works and Paint it Today) are now for sale in the O gallery in Nashville. We are planning a children's golf game fundraiser at Target Golf driving range in Powell, TN to raise funds for the Joy of Music School of Knoxville, for the end of June. Please sign up for our newsletter to receive updates from Violettes.
"I am inspired by my awesome Composition Competition Students!"
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