The Women Composers Festival of Hartford embraces diversity of race, ethnicity, and ability. The mission of the Festival is to feature artists who identify as women, including transgender and gender-fluid individuals. The Festival is open to presentations from composers/performers/speakers who are willing to confront gender and other intersecting identities in their work.
The 2022 Ensemble-in-Residence will be the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (
https://www.hicomusic.org/). The available instrumentation for this Call for Scores is wind quintet and piano (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, piano), and scores using at least three of those instruments (eg. oboe, bassoon, and piano) will be considered.
Applications for the 2022 Call for Scores are open to composers who identify as women, including transgender and gender-fluid individuals. Submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee, including the Ensemble-in-Residence. A WCFH board member not involved in the selection process will remove identifying information to make judging more equitable and transparent.
The Ensemble-in-Residence Concert will be part of the WCFH 2022 Festival, March 11 - 13 at the University of Hartford's The Hartt School. Applications are due on October 1, 2021 at 11:59pm ET, and decisions will be sent via email by December 15th, 2021.
**We acknowledge that, given the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot predict whether our 2022 Festival will be in-person, fully virtual, or a hybrid combination.