Call for scores: European Recording Orchestra

Entrants will stand a chance to compete against other composers from their respective continents for a chance to make it to your continent’s leader board. The winners from each continent will go head to head in the final round to determine the global grand prize winner.

• Composers should submit music of any instrumentation.
• There are no restrictions on instrumentation, duration, style, or the composer’s age, ethnicity or experience. They should submit examples of their best music.
• Composers should submit more than one piece and let their creative voice speak for them. Adjudication takes into account the composer's unique compositional voice as displayed across multiple submissions.
• Composers must submit a PDF and mp3 of their music via the form below. MP3s can be notation software audio renderings, MIDI mock-ups or live recorded audio.

All entering composers

• Extended 4-month trial of Dorico Pro 5 and a 20% off Dorico coupon, courtesy of Steinberg and the Dorico team.
• Private access to a FSAE music technology lecture focusing on essential techniques for the creation of realistic MIDI mock-ups and creative uses of sampling and synthesis​​.

​​​​Top 25% of each continent

• Private login to the FSAE Online Platform with access to educational content in MIDI mock-ups, scoring the screen and finding your voice.
• €1 000 (about $1 130) scholarship to the FSAE Online Graduate Diploma in Film & Game Scoring.
• €750 Scholarship to the annual Film Scoring Summer Program on the Black Sea beach.
• Private film scoring lecture hosted live by the Film Scoring Academy of Europe.
• Private access to a lecture in room acoustics, acoustic treatment and principles of sound for composers and conductors.

Top 30 (Top 5 of each continent)​

• One-on-one orchestration lesson with Dr. Norman Ludwin, orchestrator for Michael Giacchino.
• Exclusive access to 15 lessons in Scoring for Games, offered by FSAE Online.
• 35%+ ​Educational Discounts at industry software and hardware manufacturers via enrollment in the FSAE Online CFS Course.
• 50% Discount on all purchases at Edu Prado Sounds and PAS Music.

Winner from each continent

• 17-piece strings recording session with the European Recording Orchestra (ERO) at Doli Media Studio (€475 value).
• Steinberg's Dorico Pro 5 (€579 value).
• Big Bams Epic Hybrid Percussion Library from Edu Prado Sounds (€89 value).
• PAS Music Film Scoring Template for Dorico Pro 5, the industry's most popular film scoring template (€49 value).

​​Global grand prize winner

• 52-piece symphony orchestra recording session with the European Recording Orchestra (ERO) at BNR Studio 1 (€1 175 value).
• Steinberg's Iconica Opus Orchestral Suite (€999 value).
• Steinberg's Cubase Pro 14 (€579 value).
• Steinberg's Absolute VST Instrument Collection (€499 value).
• Rathgar Pipe Organ from Edu Prado Sounds (€129 value)..
• Professionally mixed and edited audio and video from the session to be used in paid promotional materials crediting the composer.

View the original call and submission form here.