Composition competition for sacred music
In its current competition, the Festival International de Musiques Sacrées, Fribourg is encouraging compositions inspired by the painting "Vanitas - Still Life with Skull" by Sebastian Stoskopff.
The 13th edition of the competition is organized in collaboration with the Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud Valais Fribourg (HEMU) and Espace 2 - RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) and is dedicated to an instrumental ensemble.
Competition participants must submit a work composed for an instrumental ensemble by October 15, 2017. The submitted work must be composed exclusively for the following instrumentation:
- 1 viola, 1 bassoon, 2 trombones (T + Bb), 2 timpani, 1 harp;
for an instrumental ensemble with 6 instrumentalists
The instrumental piece to be composed is inspired by the painting "Vanitas - Still Life with Skull" by Sebastian Stoskopff (1597-1658), which is exhibited in the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland).
More info: www.fims-fribourg.ch
