Peter Rosser Composition Award Announced

Peter Rosser

Peter Rosser Composition Award Announced

Competition commemorates composer, writer and educator who died in 2014.

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble and the Peter Rosser Foundation have announced the 1st Peter Rosser Composition Award.

Peter Rosser was a composer, writer and educator. Born in London, he moved to Belfast in 1990 and subsequently had a substantial impact on music in Northern Ireland and further afield, both as an artist, teacher and as a music journalist for a range of publications (including The Journal of Music). Rosser passed away in 2014.

The organisers of the award write:

Peter championed local composers and performers, inspired young people through his teaching, and was unafraid to question the musical status quo of his adopted homeland through his journalism. It is our intention through this competition to encourage a new generation of Irish and Northern Irish composers by challenging them to create exciting new work for the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble. 

The award is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Contemporary Music Centre, Cormac O’Kane of Red Box Recording Studio in Belfast and donations made in the composer’s memory by friends and colleagues.

The Peter Rosser Composition Award is aimed at emerging composers, though they can be of any age. Compositions should be written specifically for the award and the deadline for submissions is 29 April.

For full details, see below.

Published on 21 January 2016

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