Project Description

A triennial composition competition established in 1948, the Inter-American Music Awards are open to composers residing in North, Central and South America, with no age limit.

Two major American composers are invited to judge each IAMA competition. In addition to their judging responsibilities, the composer-judges each write a work to be published in the Sigma Alpha Iota IAMA series. Current or former students of either of the announced judges are ineligible to apply.

2009 IAMA Composer/Judges

• Betty Bertaux
• Michael Braz

Each triennium, Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. specifies the particular combination of instruments and/or voices for which entries must be written, and the length of the work. Recent competitions have called for:

1. Brass quintet, no longer than ten (10) minutes in duration, suitable for advanced college performance
2. an instrumental work for no more than 4 performers, with or without piano, the winning composition being for two pianos; and
3. an instrumental work for solo string instrument (violin, viola, or cello), the winning composition being for violin.

2003-2006 Winner - Liduino Pitombeira
Brazilian Landscape, No. 2

2009 IAMA COMPETITION

COMPOSER-JUDGES
Betty Bertaux, Maryland Children’s Chorus
and Michael Braz, Georgia Southern University

PRIZE
$2,500 cash award
Work published by C. F. Peters Corporation
Premiere performance of work at Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention in 2009

THE COMPOSITION
An original work for children’s choir.

ELIGIBILITY
Open to any established composer residing in North, Central, or South America. Prior winners and students of Composer-Judges are ineligible. Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. does not discriminate in matters of nationality, race, creed, or sex.

More details can be found here. (This is a PDF form and will require Acrobat Reader, available for download free.)

Application Procedures

The IAMA competition brochure and application is mailed out and posted online in the middle year of the triennium. The judging takes place in the summer preceding the Convention year. The winner is announced at Convention, and the premieres of the winning work, and of the compositions donated by the composer-judges, take place during the Convention.

The application may be filled out online, printed out, and submitted, or a blank application can be printed out and filled in by hand. It can not be submitted online; these are PDF forms and will require Acrobat Reader, available for download free. When printing the forms, make sure you select "Fit To Paper" in your print window.

Manuscripts submitted for entry must be postmarked no later than May 1, 2008.

The Sigma Alpha Iota IAMA series is published by
C.F. Peters Corporation
70-30 80^th Street
Glendale, NY 11385
Phone: (718) 416-7800
Fax: (718) 416-7805

Chamber Music | Choral Music | Piano Music | Vocal Music

For further information, contact Sara Bong, Project Director. Contact information can be found in the Fall issue of Tempo! or from webmaster@sai-national.org.

Last updated 11/14/2007
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