Each year, the Emerging Composers Competition (hosted by San Diego New Music) solicits musical scores from college-age composition students across the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. They select the most promising young composers to write a brand-new work for their annual concert dedicated to the music of local students.
Former executive director and current board member of San Diego New Music Eric Starr reports: “The goal from the outset was, and still is, to provide undergraduate college composers with a platform for their work to be heard outside the university.” The composers must either study at a college in San Diego or, if studying elsewhere, have graduated from a San Diego County high school. Starr says, “The local talent is immense and San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum can be proud to be part of the ecosystem that nurtures such talent.”
The composers are selected from a pool of applicants and compose an original piece for the concert. Professional performers collaborate with the composers in the rehearsal process just as they would with a professional composer and do everything they can to honor the music.
Come join us to hear the emergent voices of new classical music in San Diego!