Annual Composition Competition: Call for Scores
When was the last time you attended a musical performance, classical or otherwise, that featured works by female composers?
Women's Orchestra of Arizona not only regularly performs works by noted and under-the-radar female composers, it also encourages and recognizes new compositions by women through its annual Composition Competition.
In the 2023-2024 season, the orchestra is excited to feature the winning entry in the 2022-2023 WOA Composition Competition — "Resilience," composed by Autumn Maria Reed, who is based in Wisconsin.
The 2023-2024 competition will be accepting scores until May 1, 2024; the winner will be announced before June 1, 2024, and the work will be performed by the Women's Orchestra of Arizona in the 2024-2025 concert season. As noted in the downloadable PDF of competition requirements, applicants should identify as female with a minimum age of 16 years old. Works must be scored for a maximum instrumentation of strings, winds, brass, timpani.
The Women's Orchestra of Arizona Composition Competition provides women composers the opportunity to have their original orchestral work recognized and given a premiere performance by the orchestra.
In making the winning selection, the competition committee looks for creative imagination, stylistic originality, and presence of a personal voice.
Past competition winners include Florence Anna Maunders (the United Kingdom), Roxanne Sacketti (Prescott) and Diane Sullivan (Phoenix), former WOA concertmaster.
WOA Composition Competition Winner
Congratulations, Autumn Maria Reed!
Wisconsin-based composer Autumn Maria Reed won the 2022-2023 competition! Women's Orchestra of Arizona was very excited to perform Reed's piece "Resilience" during the Feb. 4, 2024 "Feel the Love" concert.