Compose for Harp

Compose for Harp
A professional development opportunity for early career composers

The Presteigne Festival, in partnership with Tŷ Cerdd and with funding from the Colwinston Charitable Trust, is about to embark on an exciting new composer development project to involve a maximum of six emergent music creators with a classical music background of which a minimum of three will be Welsh or are living in Wales.

The scheme is open to early career composers not in full-time education (no age limit), and will award a £400 commission to each of the selected candidates to write a 5-minute piece for solo harp (for acoustic performance, without electronics), to be workshopped in front of a live audience at the Presteigne Festival’s Springboard weekend on 10/11 May 2025.

Mentors for the scheme are composer Lynne Plowman, harpist Anne Denholm and conductor and Festival Director, George Vass.

Please apply by email by 5pm on Friday 4 October 2024

For full details of the project follow one of the links below:

Cymraig – https://presteignefestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PF2024-Compose-for-Harp-project-CYM.pdf 

English – https://presteignefestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PF2024-Compose-for-Harp-project-ENG.pdf

If you have any problems, please contact
composeforharp at presteignefestival dot com