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Just assembling the Creative Music Writing Competition entries for the 2024 Adjudicator, Alberta composer, Kristen Flores # Kristin Flores, composer and want to share some submissions. It always seems like an stunning, exciting amount of creative voice and talent from Alberta young musicians, and this year is no exception. Here is Daybreak by Marina Tinga from St. Albert. She is 17. If you'd like to sponsor a composer award ($100) or honorable mention ($30) please contact me. You can dedicate the award as you wish, eg, in memoriam.

Composition- Daybreak

Fellow musician Charlie Green sent me his friend's recent video answering the ole question "What is Classical Music." Cool and quirky thought process here; informative and fun. Highly recommended!

What is Classical Music? You might know what 'classical music' is, but could you define it for a visiting Martian? Not so easy? Here's why the standard definitions don't make much se...

It's that time of year! The annual Creative Music Writing Competition for amateurs has opened - all ages, stages and levels of unpublished composers welcome. https://aptaonline.net/apta-programs/apta-annual-creative-music-writing-competition/ Closes June 1; score & recording required. There's prizes and a professional performance opportunity in Edmonton in Sept 2024 at the winners & honorable mentions concert. Get started early since it takes a while to notate one's composition.

APTA Annual Creative Music Writing Competition | Alberta Piano Teachers Association APTA Annual Creative Music Writing Competition APTA invites your submissions of an original composition for any solo instrument, including voice, or any combination of instruments, to the annual Creative Music Writing Competition. Entrants will receive a critique of their work by a highly qualified....