Music Project

The Music Department at McMurry University is dedicated to being on the forefront of musical innovation and supporting the development of new repertoire by established and emerging composers. The McMurry New Music Project seeks to engage the worldwide musical community in premiering new works and promoting projects to be added to the active repertoire. The McMurry New Music Project will actively promote the winning composers via the competition website and will include a link to the composer’s personal website. Utilization of social media resources will include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube with details about the winning submissions and professional quality recordings of winning works. All selected winning compositions will be professionally recorded in separate studio sessions with mastered recordings being released on Spotify and YouTube.

2022 McMurry New Music Project Information

May 6, 2022
7:30 PM

Deadline

All materials must be received via email by 12:00 AM on April 1, 2022. Entries are to include the following:

  • Full Score (PDF format)
  • Individual Parts (PDF format)
  • Sound File (MIDI preferred)
  • Composer Bio
  • Description of Composition

Please submit all materials to newmusic@mcm.edu. Confirmation of materials received will be sent within 72 hours of composer submission. Only complete submissions will be evaluated.

2022 Categories

  • Maximum length of 10 minutes
  • May be continuous or multi-movement
  • May use any combination of B-flat Trumpet, C Trumpet, and Flugelhorn
  • May use any combination of mutes
  • Please stay within standard range of chosen instruments (F#3 to C6)
  • Maximum length of 10 minutes
  • May be continuous or multi-movement
  • May be written for Xylophone, up to 5.0 Octave Marimba, or 3-Octave Vibraphone
  • May be written for 2 or 4-mallet technique
  • Additional instruments may be used, but work must mainly feature one mallet keyboard instrument
  • Maximum length of 10 minutes
  • May be continuous or multi-movement
  • May use any combination of B-flat Trumpet, C Trumpet, and Flugelhorn
  • May use any combination of mutes
  • Please stay within standard range of chosen instruments (F#3 to C6)
  • May be written for Xylophone, up to 5.0 Octave Marimba, or 3-Octave Vibraphone
  • May be written for 2 or 4-mallet technique
  • Additional instruments may be used, but work must mainly feature one mallet keyboard instrument
  • Maximum length of 10 minutes
  • May be continuous or multi-movement
  • May use any combination of B-flat Trumpet, C Trumpet, and Flugelhorn
  • May use any combination of mutes
  • Please stay within standard range of chosen instruments (F#3 to C6)
  • May be written for conventional concert percussion instruments, with the exclusion of timpani or chimes
  • May be written for non-traditional percussion instruments such as pipes, flower pots, etc.

Previous Winners

Category I - Solo Trumpet with Piano Accompaniment

Something Unsettled
Allen Molineux

Category II – Solo Mallet Keyboard with Piano Accompaniment

3′ 44″
Nik Bizzell-Browning

Category III – Solo Flute with Piano Accompaniment

Carnival
Kari Medina

Category IV – Solo Oboe with Piano Accompaniment

Pobres flores mortas
Ivan Lyran

Category V – Solo Voice (soprano) with Piano Accompaniment

Cabaret Songs
Giorgio Spagnoli

Category VI –Chamber Work for Flute, Oboe, Trumpet, Percussion, and Piano with optional Voice (soprano)

Legong Variations
Randall Snyder

Category I – Unaccompanied Trumpet

Echo
Robert Coe

Category II – Mallet Keyboard Solo

Abstracción
José Alejandro García

Category III – Multi Percussion Solo

Composition for Nine Sounds 
Gilberto dos Santos Agostinho Filho

Category IV – Trumpet/Percussion Duo

Transformations
Sy Brandon