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COMPOSITION COMPETITION RESULTS
 
Congratulations to Jay Anthony Gach who is the winner of Saxtet Publications Sax Quartet Composition Competition with his score Trains, steam whistles and radiator pipes. The judging panel thinks that it's an exciting, excellently crafted piece of writing, that will make an impressive performance piece in the 2005 Saxophone Congress Gala Concert at Birmingham Conservatoire, where it will be premiered on 13th February.
 
Many thanks to the rest of you who took part in the competition.   We received over 35 - very diverse! -  scores, many of which were imaginative and well-presented.   A significant proportion are really very high quality, appealing works, which we hope will be taken up and performed by sax quartets everywhere. 
 
Listed below are some of the scores that were submitted and several are now available at Sibelius Music.
 
Thanks again to everyone who showed an interest in this competition.
 
 
Title Composer
A la Georgian Fred Momotenko
A Step Around Melanie Thorne
A Touch of the Vespas  # Alun Cook
After The Sun # Melanie Thorne
Argentia Adriana Isabel Figueroa Mañas
At Certain Intervals Adrian Budgen
Atlantis Janina Morris
Caged Squirrel Einion Dafydd
Capricious Yong Won Sung
Energy Peter Lawrance
Escapade # David Weirich
Escaping  # Elen Le Foll
Feeling Funky Jon Halton
Flavours Ryan Searle
Fugal Fantasia # Cedric Peachey
Henry’s Dilemma  # Alun Cook
Lamothe  # Gerrit Ravesloot
Little Suite for Saxes Frank Cranmer
Night Visions Rebecca Luck
Pieces Samuel Petchey
Plaything # Paul Hughes
Purest Green # Paul Hughes
Sax in the City Colin Crabb
Saxophone Quartet - in 3 movements Jenni Watson
Saxatile Ben Gaunt
Saxophone Salute Samuel Watts
Swingin’ on a Riff  # Steve Tayton
Tangosuite Adriana Isabel Figueroa Mañas
The Second Remembrance of the Bad Times Ondrej Sarek
To Scale Simon Pearson
Trains, steam whistles and radiator pipes * Jay Anthony Gach
Vocalize René Borel
Watch and Wait Adam Wilson
Windows of the Sky Valerie McMillan
Work Out # Steve Tayton
 
* Winning Score  
# Link to Sibeliusmusic (please contact us should you wish to remove or add a link to Sibeliusmusic)
 

Saxophone Quartet COMPETITION for performers

SAXTET PUBLICATIONS invites saxophone quartets to enter a competition to celebrate the VIII British Saxophone Congress 2005 in association with The Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain and Birmingham Conservatoire. The winning quartet will be awarded a prize of £500. In addition, the quartet will perform the winning score of the composition competition at the Gala Concert in February 13th 2005. 

The aim of this competition is to encourage a high standard of live performance by saxophone quartets seeking to increase their profile. There will be three stages to the competition: 

First Round

  • Participants will be required to submit a CD or cassette recording of two pieces. 

  • Requirements: One piece must be by a living British composer and the other is a free choice.  The maximum duration of performance i.e. both pieces together should not exceed 15 minutes.

Semi-Final     

  • To be held at Birmingham Conservatoire Sunday 5th December 2004. 

  • Requirements: Three pieces (up to 15 mins total) – one by a living British composer, one from the Saxtet Publication catalogue and a piece of your own choice.  (Works from the previous round may be included).

Final   

  • To be held at Birmingham Conservatoire Sunday 13th February 2005, at the VIII British Saxophone Congress 2005 in association with The Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain and Birmingham Conservatoire.

  • Requirements: Two pieces (must not exceed 10 minutes) – one will be the winning piece of the composition competition (to be sent to finalists by 11th December) and a piece of your own choice, which has not been played in previous rounds.

Winners

  • The winning quartet will be invited to perform at the evening Gala Concert at Birmingham Conservatoire Sunday 13th February 2005.

  • Programme - Two pieces  - as performed in the final.

  • Saxtet Publications will award the winning quartet a cheque for £500.

  • £50 Voucher to spend at SXP to runners up (Highly Commended).

  • All Quartet Finalists may keep the winning composition score & parts.

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COMPOSITION COMPETITION for Saxophone Quartet

SAXTET PUBLICATIONS is launching a new competition to celebrate the VIII British Saxophone Congress 2005 in association with The Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain and Birmingham Conservatoire.

We are looking for an original work for saxophone quartet (SATB), no longer than 5 minutes and in Sibelius format.  

The results and a sample of the winning score will be posted here, along with a feature article on the winning composer.

All submissions will be listed on the Saxtet Publications website after the competition. Should composers decide to self-publish their scores at www.sibeliusmusic.com, a link will be established from Saxtet Publications to that website.     

The winning score will be performed by all of the finalists in the Saxophone Quartet (performance) Competition on Sunday 13th February 2005, during the VIII British Saxophone Congress at Birmingham Conservatoire. The winning saxophone quartet will perform the winning score, at the Gala Concert later that evening.

Saxtet Publications will publish the winning score in summer 2005, subject to it meeting Saxtet Publications’ standard publishing regulations and conditions.

RULES & REGULATIONS
ON-LINE APPLICATION FORM

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