Announcing the 2012
Choral Composition Contest
Win $1000 for your choral composition!!
The 2012 IL-ACDA Choral Competition Contest has begun!
Illinois composers with a creative voice and clear compositional ability are invited to submit works for treble voices to Illinois-ACDA’s annual Choral Composition Contest. The winning composition will be premiered at the Illinois-ACDA Summer Re-Treat, Summer 2012. In addition, winning composers are invited to display their works at our annual summer ReTreat.
Entries for the 2012 IL-ACDA contest will be accepted from now until April 1st, 2012. Details and forms for submitting your work can found on the following links:
Contest Flyer (Print and Post!)
2011 IL-ACDA Composition Contest Winner
Congratulations to our 2011 winner, Wayland Rogers of Chicago, Illinois, for his winning composition, a setting of William Shakespeare’s poem, “When Daisies Pied.” Mr. Rogers’ work was premiered at the Summer ReTreat by the Director’s Chorus, led by renowned choral conductor and ReTreat headliner, David Rayl. ReTreat participants were given the opportunity to experience the work first-hand in the ReTreat encounter. Mr. Rogers was awarded our monetary prize of $1000. We look forward to continue supporting the art of choral composition in 2012, with the award given to a new work for 2, 3, or 4 part treble chorus.
Past Recipients of the IL-ACDA Composition Contest include:
| 2011 | ~ Wayland Rogers | When Daisies Pied (SATB) | |
| 2010 | ~ Donald Frasier | In Moonlight (TTB) | |
| 2009 | ~ Karen Ball | A Light Exists In Spring (SATB, piano) | |
| 2008 | ~ Edwin Childs | Peace (SSA, piano) | |
| 2007 | ~ Paul Carey | Thou Art the Sky (SATB, piano) | Roger Dean 15/2430R |
| 2006 | ~ Christopher Walters | Weary with Toil (SATB, unaccompanied) | Colla Voce 15-96040 |
| 1999 | ~ Anne Heider | Jesous Ahatonnia: A Huron carol (TTBB, piano) | |
| 1998 | ~ Paul Steg | Vocalise (SATB) | |
| 1996 | ~ Bart Bradfield | To The Thawing Wind (SATB, piano) | |
| 1995 | ~ Clyde Thompson | Three Dickinson Poems (SSA, piano, flute) | |
| 1994 | ~ Joel Ross | Sweet Was the Virgin Song (TTBB, harp) | |
| 1993 | ~ Mark Ray Hollman | Hope is a Thing with Feathers (SAB, piano) | |
| 1985 | ~ Lee Kesselman | Two Meditations on Yeats (SATB) | |
| 1984 | ~ Michael Kosch | spring! may... (SATB, divisi) | |