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Diaphonia Edizioni is pleased to announce the call for score “Voice2choir”.

RULES

The Call for Scores is open to all composers, regardless of their age or nationality.

The score(s) must be written for mixed, women, men or childrens choir from 2 to 8 voices with or without instrumental accompaniment (in this case the instrumental part must be not prevalent). Short divisi may be accepted.
Creative elaborations of existing pieces are also allowed: these pieces must be in the public domain or the author must have all permissions for publication.

Accepted languages are: latin, Italian, sicilian, English, French, german, Spanish. Other languages will be accepted as long as there is transliteration in one of the languages indicated above.
The text must be in the Public Domain or the author must have all permissions for publication.

The composition(s) should be between 2-5 minutes in length. Longer or shorter score(s) will be accepted at valuation comitee discration.

We accept compositions which have been already performed but not published.

Multiple submissions are possible. We request a fee of € 35 for the first score and € 25 for any additional scores.

In order to participate, please submit the Google Form at this link: https://www.diaphonia.net/voice2choir-form and send the document as attachment to the e-mail address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We request the following document:

• A recent photo in high resolution and a short biography (in English and/or in Italian)
• The proposed score in PDF format only.
• A short description of the piece
• A copy of the receipt of payment
• An audio recording of the score(s) although it’s not mandatory (no midi, please).
• The signed declarations form that may be downlodad here https://www.diaphonia.net/voice2choir/Modulo_privacy.pdf

ENTRY FEE

The entry fee should be paid by Bank transfer. The bank details are as follows:
IBAN: IT82N0760116500001029771688
BIC/SWIFT: BPPIITRRXXX
payable to Diaphonia società cooperativa, via Maroncelli 46, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) 98051 – Italia.


It is also possible to pay by this paypal link: www.paypal.me/diaphonia

The submission deadline is the 31th March 2021.
For info, please, mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

PRIZES

The jury, composed by members of Diaphonia Edizioni artistic comitee, will evaluate and choose a flexible number of scores.

Prizes are:

First prize
€ 150 and publication of the score

Second prize
€ 100 and publication of the score

Third prize
€ 50 and publication of the score

The jury may decide not to award some prizes or to award the same prize to more than one scores. Some non-winning but deserving scores could be chosen to be published anyway.

The permission for the publication is a necessary condition for being able to declare oneself winners.
The winners will be notified by e-mail and they will receive a contract proposal by 30/04/2021.

The organizer can decide to cancel the competition if the number of participants is not enough. In this case, the amounts already paid will be returned.