True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Tucson’s two-time Grammy-nominated professional chamber choir and orchestra, hosts the annual Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition.

ELIGIBILITY: American composers age 18-40 (age as of December 31, 2025)

DETAILS : To enter, please submit an anonymous pdf score (no composer name or identifying info) of a 5-6 minute choral work with audio (high quality live recordings preferred, MIDI realizations acceptable, mp3 or other compressed format). Submitted works should be for chorus (SATB, up to double divisi) with or without piano and/or one obbligato orchestral instrument.

Send all materials to [email protected]. Please include composer name in the body of your email and name documents as your composition title only – no composer name. (Ex. PrayersandRemembrances.pdf)

PRIZE: $2,000 commission for a new work plus $500 travel stipend to attend the premiere.

COMMISSION
The selected composer will be commissioned to write a 5-6 minute work for True Concord to premiere in November 2025. The text will be selected in collaboration with the University of Arizona Poetry Center. The commissioned work will be for SATB chorus with or without piano and/or one obbligato standard orchestral instrument.