CHRIST'S COLLEGE GRACE COMPOSITION PRIZE 2017

 

REQUIREMENTS:

Entry Eligibility: All members of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Entry deadline: 1 May 2017

Requirements:  Entrants should provide a choral setting of the Latin College Grace, set to the text below.  The four-part arrangement should be for unaccompanied SATB choir.  The intention is for a choir of former Christ's choristers to perform this piece with minimal rehearsal opportunity.  It should therefore be of a standard that enables a competent group of choristers to perform it after two run-throughs.  The length of the piece should be compatible with a pre-dinner grace.

Grace Text:

Exhilarator omnium, Christe, sine quo nihil suave, nihil jucundum est, benedic, quaesumus, cibo et potui servorum tuorum,

quae jam ad alimoniam corporis apparavisti;

Et concede ut istis muneribus tuis ad laudem tuam utamur,  gratisque animis fruamur : utque, quemadmodum corpus nostrum cibis corporalibus fovetur, ita mens nostra spirituali verbi tui nutrimento pascatur.

Per te Dominum nostrum. 

Competition logistics: Entries must be sent by email to Dr David Rowland, College Director of Music, by 5.30pm on 1 May 2017 Email: der26@cam.ac.uk

The judging panel will comprise Dr Rowland and alumni representatives.  We hope that the college choir will sing shortlisted entries at an adjudication in May 2017 at which the winner will be announced, date yet to be confirmed.

The winning piece will have its first public performance at the alumni reunion dinner on 23 September 2017.

The College will own copyright in the setting.

Prize: The composer of the winning entry will received a cash prize of £200 and an appropriate certificate.