Baird Competition

REGULATIONS OF THE LAST COMPETITION

1. The Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers is organised annually by the Management Board of the Polish Composers’ Union.

2. The participants must be Polish composers who on the closing day of the Competition will not exceed the age of 35.

3. The subject of the Competition in 2009 is a work to be performed by 2 to 4 performers using the following instruments: piano, piano, percussion, persussion, about duration of 8-13 minutes. The following combinations of instruments are admitted:
   • 2 pianos
   • 2 percussions
   • piano and percussion
   • 2 pianos and percussion
   • 2 percussions and piano
   • 2 pianos and 2 percussions
   Possible party of percussion may be composed for percussion instruments optionally chosen from among given below:

   marimba 5 octaves, vibraphone 3 octaves, orchestra bells, 4 octobams, 4 tom-toms, bassdrum, snare drum, 3 gongs, darabukka, bongos, 3 cymbals, cajon, bambochimes, metal chimes, shell chimes, 1 rototom, 5 temple blocks, triangle, crasher, Chinese cymbal, bat, vibraslap, flexaton, claves.

   Collate instruments cannot be divided between two drummers.

4. A composition submitted for the Competition may not be performed publicly or awarded in another competition before the results of the Baird Competition have been announced.

5. The competition consists of two stages. In Stage One the jury selects the compositions to be performed at a public concert. The results of Stage One will have been announced by 15^th February 2010. Stage Two decisions will be taken after the concert of selected compositions. The Jury will then grant the prizes. The concert will take place in 2010.

6. The main prize in the Competition in the Tadeusz Baird Award, founded by Alina Baird – the equivalent of 2500 US dollars towards further composition studies. There are also two honorable mentions (distinctions), whose recipients will be given free hotel accommodation and subscription for all the concerts of the “Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music, founded by the Managing Board of the Polish Composers’ Union. The Jury reserves the right to divide the prizes in a different way.

7. The scores, marked with an emblem, ought to have been sent in anonymously
   by 30^th November 2009 (the postal stamp date is decisive) to the following address:
   Polish Composers’ Union
   Management Board
   Rynek Starego Miasta 27, 00-272 Warsaw
   with a note on the envelope: " The Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers”
   Enclosed with the score must be an envelope marked with the same emblem, containing the name, surname, date of birth, address and telephone number of the composer, as well as his or her brief biographical note.

8. The jury will consist of persons invited by the Presidium of the Polish Composers’ Union Management Board.

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