30. Juillet 2024 Élan Award 2025

In 2022, IRCAM and the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, two musical bodies with a strong commitment to promoting contemporary creations and a new generation of artists, are joining forces to create the Élan Award, a new international composition competition for an orchestral work, including the “Île de créations” (the orchestral composition competition created in 2010 by the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France) at the IRCAM Academy.

The young composers shortlisted to compete in the Élan Award will enjoy an exceptional creation support platform that combines the expertise of the two bodies in terms of training on composing a work for orchestra and electronic music. They will be guided in their composition work both by musicians at the Orchestra and by IRCAM’s teams, as well as by guest artists who will join the supervising team each year.

General provisions

1. Candidate profiles

The competition is open to composers of all nationalities born after January 1, 1990.

A laureate of a previous ÉLAN Award may not take part in the competition.

A candidate who has been twice finalist of previous ÉLAN Award competitions cannot take part in the competition. 

2. The work

• The candidate will compose a work for orchestra. No concerto or concertante work will be accepted. 
• This work must be composed specifically for this competition, must be original and must never have been performed, in full or in part.
  This condition is mandatory and suspensive. 
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Submission procedure

The candidate must submit the full bid on the ULYSSES platform - www.ulysses-network.eu – by Tuesday November 5, 2024 at 10am CEST. 

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