Barbara Wagner Chamber Music Competition

• Ensembles of 3-8 members are eligible to apply.
• Each member must be enrolled in MSU College of Music through Spring 2025.
• Each member of the ensemble needs a signature of approval from their applied faculty professor (UG, MM, or PD students) or DMA committee chair (DMA students).
• Students may only participate in one ensemble per year.
• First prizewinning groups may not enter again. Second and third prizewinning groups may not enter in consecutive years.
• Individual members of prizewinning groups may enter with a new group if this group has only one previous prizewinner.
• Competition winners agree to perform the commissioned work, which may require performances in the following season. It is the ensemble’s responsibility to fulfill these commitments or find a suitable replacement.

• All ensemble combinations are invited to apply.
• Only one ensemble per entrant.
• All members of the ensemble must play in all submitted repertoire.

• Applications must include a video recording of 15-25 minutes of music of contrasting styles that represents a diverse and engaging concert program.
• Variety in repertoire is essential.
• Video submission must include at least one complete movement and should include more than one composer.
• Groups that advance to the final round will be required to submit a 30-40-minute written program of repertoire. This program must include the prelim round repertoire.

Sunday, December 15, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

Application, recording, group bio, and applied faculty permission form must be submitted by this date.

• Videos will be evaluated by external judges, who will select up to 6 groups by late January 2025 to advance to the final round.
• Finalists will have an opportunity to have a masterclass in mid-February 2025 (date TBD) with the preliminary round judges.

• Finalist groups will perform April 6, 2025 at 1 p.m.
• The concert will be at Cook Recital Hall and may be livestreamed.
• Groups will choose their first movement or piece, and judges will choose the rest of the selections from the submitted final round program.
• First, second, and third place winners will be selected.

• Complete the student group application, plus a faculty signature form for EACH member of the group.

• Each ensemble must provide a total of three sets of printed scores of the competition repertoire in the final round.
• All ensembles must abide by federal copyright law.

• No musician can be a member of more than one ensemble in the competition.
• No changes in personnel or prelim round repertoire will be allowed once the application is received.