General Guidelines and rules:

• Open to composers of all ages and nationalities.
• Compositions submitted must be written for solo guitar.
• Compositions must be written for the six-stringed classical guitar.
• Alternative tunings are acceptable.
• Fixed media and/or live electronics are not accepted.
• Compositions submitted must be no longer than 8 minutes.
• Composers may submit multiple works.
• Compositions submitted must be previously unpublished (not published by a commercial publishing house).
• The competition is organized by the society: Aalborg International Guitar Festival & Competitions.
• The decision of the jury is final. The judging system is an internal system and is not open to public discussion.

Remaining regulations:

• All potential problems and/or situations not covered by the above rules will be decided by the organizers of the competition

Submissions:

Application Deadline: November 1st 2024

Application Fee

• €50/350 kr for each work (ticket fee for Billetto 3,5 €/25 kr. ). 
• Multiple works may be submitted (an additional application fee must accompany each extra work).
• Application materials and fees must be submitted and paid online no later than November 1st 2024, by 11.59 pm.

All submissions to the competition should include the following:

1. First, complete online payment at: Billetto.dk Please make a pdf copy of your payment receipt/ticket, and send it together with your music and mp3 file of your work to: composer@aalborgguitarfestival.com (before November 1st 2024 by 11:59 pm). Application fees are non refundable.
2. The pieces must be notated in a music notation program: We accept Finale, Sibelius, Musescore, and Dorico files. We also accept Music.XML files, as long as the XML is readable by one of the four listed applications.

• You must include a recording as an mp3 file of the work, either a live recording or a computer-generated mock-up.
• All compositions must contain the composer’s name and will be anonymized before being presented to the judges.
• The name/number of the composition and the name of the composer must appear on the payment for participation.
• All files must be sent to composer@aalborgguitarfestival.com (before November 1st 2024, by 11:59 pm).

Prizes

1st prize:

• • The winner will receive a €1,000 prize.*
  • The winning work will be published by “Bergmann Edition”, both on paper and digital.

The 2nd and 3rd prizes will be published as print-on-demand.

Bergman Edition Special Prize 2024: 350 €*

• Judges have the right to award all or some of the prizes or none.
• Winning compositions will be announced at the Award Concert on November 24th 2024, 14.30 and posted online at www.aalborgguitarfestival.com as well as at: https://www.facebook.com/Aalborginternationaleguitarfestival.
• * The winners of the 1. prize and of the Bergmann Edition Special Prize 2024 will receive an email, and €1,000/350€ will be transferred to the winner’s bank account.

Jury:

Chairman: Gerald Garcia, Great Britain
Jurymembers: 
Collete Mourey, france 
Atanas  Ourkouzounov, Bugaria