Music Education Expo 2015 — the UK’s largest exhibition and conference for music teachers, is taking place on the 12th & 13th March 2105, at Barbican Exhibition Hall 2 in London.

Fanfare competition

It is also launching a new initiative aimed at giving young composers a chance to be heard at the event, with a Fanfare Composition Competition.

The aim is to get the Expo hall ringing to the sound of a specially commissioned fanfares with composers aged 16 and under and 18 and under asked to submit a work for up to eight instruments, comprising up to four B flat trumpets and up to four B flat tenor trombones.

Minute and a half

Submissions should last no longer than a minute and a half and the fanfares should aim to grip the attention of the large crowds at the Expo, and be a complete, self-contained musical form.

Scores can be submitted either by email or post. Electronic scores will be accepted in Sibelius, PDF or standard graphic formats.

composers aged 16 and under and 18 and under asked to submit a work for up to eight instruments, comprising up to four B flat trumpets and up to four B flat tenor trombones4BR

Further information

Please email scores to John Barnett, at john.barnett@rhinegold.co.uk, with the text ‘Expo Fanfare Competition’ in the subject line.

For more information, visit: www.musiceducationexpo.co.uk/competitions.

Deadline for entries: 31st January 2015.