A professional development opportunity for early career composers

The Presteigne Festival, in partnership with Tŷ Cerdd and with funding from the PRS Foundation, is about to embark on an exciting composer development project to involve a maximum of six emergent music creators with a classical music background of which a minimum of three will have been born or are living and composing in Wales.

The scheme is open to early career composers not in full-time education (no age limit), and will give a £400 commission to each of the selected candidates to write a 5-minute piece for solo cello (for acoustic performance, without electronics), to be workshopped by Clare O’Connell with a live audience at the Presteigne Festival’s Springboard weekend on 18/19 April 2026. A studio performance will be recorded for video.

You will have the opportunity to work with cellists Gemma Rosefield and Clare O’Connell, composer Mark Boden and Presteigne Festival director George Vass.

Apply online by Friday 5 December at 5pm. Download full details here: English / Cymraeg