Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music
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 Information 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 Canadian Music Centre. The Canada Council for the Arts funds the award, selects and manages the peer assessment committee and promotes the winner. CBC Radio 2 and Radio-Canada’s Espace Musique broadcast the winning composition on their English-language and French-language stereo network.
This prize is open to Aboriginal artists and artists of diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Eligibility
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 make your submission.
All your overdue final reports for Canada Council grants must be submitted and approved before you are eligible for this competition.
Candidates for 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 candidates 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 qualify, the submitted works must have had a premiere performance of professional quality during the three years preceding the closing 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 closing date of the competition, and if the revised work meets all other criteria.
Further Information
For further information about the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music, please contact:
Aimé Dontigny
Program Officer
Music Section
Canada Council for the Arts
aime.dontigny@canadacouncil.ca
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free), ext. 5111
Fax: 613-566-4409
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
or
Domenic Montagano
Digital Technician
Canadian Music Centre
dmontagano@musiccentre.ca
416-961-6601, ext. 103
Fax: 416-961-7198
April 2011