Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music
The Canada Council for the Arts is committed to equity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from diverse Aboriginal, cultural and regional communities, including people with disabilities.
Deadline
1 June
If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
Please refer to the Prize Guidelines for further details.
Prize Description
Awarded annually, the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music is a competition for Canadian composers that is designed to encourage the creation of new chamber music and to foster its performance by Canadian chamber groups. The $7,500 prize was established in 1978 by the Right Honourable Jules Léger, then Governor General of Canada.
The competition for the prize is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The Canada Council also funds the award, selects and manages the peer assessment committee and promotes the winner. CBC/Radio-Canada broadcasts the winning composition.
Eligibility
This prize is open to professional Canadian composers. To be considered for this prize, you must be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. You do not need to be living in Canada when you apply.
Applicants to the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music competition can also apply to the regular Canada Council grant programs.
Eligible forms of new chamber music are not defined by specific aesthetic categories, but all applicants should be aware that the nature of this prize is to support groundbreaking musical creation, risk-taking and the overall development of Canadian chamber music. Chamber music is traditionally understood as a work with a limited number of instruments, with one performer to a part.
Works may be written for any combination of performers, from a minimum of two to a maximum of 15 (excluding the conductor).
To be eligible, the submitted works must have had a premiere performance of professional quality during the three years preceding the deadline date of the competition. The composer must specify, in each case, the date and place of the first performance and the names of the performers. Revised works are eligible if the revision has a new score, the revised work has had a professional premiere within three years preceding the deadline date of the competition, and if the revised work meets all other criteria. Applicants may submit a maximum of two works.
Further Information
Jeff Morton
Program Officer
Music Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 5111
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
March 2013