“I was blown away by the level
of talent last year. I’m very much looking forward
to judging this year's trail-blazers”
Howard Goodall,
Competition judge and spokesperson
Entries are now closed - public voting is coming soon
Thank you to all the students who submitted an entry, and to the teachers who encouraged them to do so. We’ve had so many great entries and can’t wait to start the judging process.
What happens now?
A shortlist for each genre and age category will be announced mid-November and published on www.sibelius.com/studentcomposer.
At that point you, friends and family, and anyone else will be able to vote online for their favourite entries from the shortlists. The totals from this online voting will carry the same weight as the choices of one of the star judges, and will be combined with their choices to find the overall winners. These will be announced during December. And the winning pieces will be performed at an awards ceremony at the Royal Academy of Music on Thursday February 12th.
Provided you’ve registered for the competition you will receive email updates at each stage of the judging. If you didn’t register, don’t worry. Simply sign up for our regular email newsletter Sibelius World to keep up-to-date.
Thank you again for supporting the competition.
What file formats are accepted?
You don't have to use Sibelius to enter this competition; we accept music created in any program. All we ask is that you provide entries in one of the following formats:
- Sibelius (.sib) file - any version, including Sibelius Student. Note: Entries in the Film category should upload the video clip they have used alongside the .sib file. Our web upload system allows this
- MP3 (minimum 128k quality recommended)
- AAC (minimum 128k quality recommended)
- You can easily create MP3 and AAC files from other audio formats such as the .WAV files using the free iTunes software from Apple and many other free programs. Unfortunately, non-compressed formats such as .WAV are too big to upload.
- Quicktime (.mov) - Film genre entries only
- WMV - Film genre entries only
- AVI - Film genre entries only
- MP4 - Film genre entries only
(Please do not supply mpeg 1 or 2 files)
Voting and results
November 2008
Public web voting on www.sibelius.com. The combined public vote in each category carries the same weight as a vote from one of the star judges.
December 2008
Winners are announced! If you’ve won, this is when you’ll find out. We hope to have a fantastic awards ceremony and get your name into many newspapers and magazines.
Prizes
Prizes for schools: Winners’ schools will each receive a multi-pack of Sibelius 5 plus audio interfaces, keyboards, speakers and software from M-Audio and Digidesign.
Runner-up prizes: Students who make the shortlist in each category will win a copy of the new Sibelius Student.
Terms & Conditions
- Entrants must submit final entries by 31 October 2008.
- Only one entry per student.
- Entry is only available to residents outside of the USA, Japan and Australia.
- Entrants must be in full-time education and aged 18 or under on 31 August 2008 (extended).
- Entries must be original compositions. Any entries found to contain non-original material will be disqualified.
- Judging will take place in November 2008 and winners will be announced on www.sibelius.com.
- The judges' decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into in regards to judging.
- Prizes on offer may be substituted for product/experience of equivalent value at the discretion of the competition organiser (Sibelius Software).
- No cash or other alternative will be offered.
- Details subject to change without notice.
- E & OE
