BBC Proms Young Composers

Posted by Sarah Canice Funke Jul 14, 2008

The BBC Proms Young Composers Competition has some winners! The competition, which runs from March-May, has announced the winners and highly commended composers for 2008 on its website. There are two categories: 12-16 year olds and 17-18 year olds.

For the younger category, the judges recognized three winners: Tom Rose for the composition Moth Lamp, Tom Curran for the composition Searching and Men Gei Li for the composition Triquad Variations.

The older category had two winners: En Liang Khong for the composition Black Rain and Alexander Nikiporenko for the composition Awaiting.

Every year, the BBC Proms Young Composers Competition strives to recognize budding young talent and offer them opportunities to attend workshops and spend time with professional musicians, composers and conductors. Winners and Highly Commended competitors get to attend a special workshop on July 26 and Winners get a special commission from the BBC.

However, even those who didn't win also get a chance to develop their skills: on August 6, anyone who entered the competition will have a chance to work with professional musicians and those in the music industry at workshops held in central London.

For more information, please see the BBC Proms Young Composers Competition website.