Amadeus Choir from Puebla de la Calzada (Badajoz) announces its IV Choral Composition Contest with the aim/purpose of promoting new compositions and composers and with a special emphasis on music from Extremadura.

For further information visit the official web site of Amadeus Choir where you could find the contest rueles: http://www.coroamadeus.es

As in passed editions works can be presented in two modalities: Mixed Voice modality and Single Voice modality. Furthermore, a special prize will be awarded in any modality to the best work with a theme based on Extremadura. Authors can submit their works in latin, spanish or extremeñu (dialect from Extremadura, Castuo or others). The deadline to present the works is the 31st of December 2009.

Amadeus Contest is part of Contemp-Coralia project, belonging to a greater project called Extremadura y su Música and has been sponsored by Consejería de Cultura y Turismo de la Junta de Extremadura (Regional Cultural Ministry).

We also wanted to point out that Amadeus Contest of Choral Composition not only promotes awarded works with editorial contracts and so on, but tries to spread and publish those works that can be interesting for the choral community.