Call for Song Proposals
Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences
13–15 November 2025
School of Music, University of Leeds
Music and the Arts in France – 1925 is an international Conference and Festival that takes 1925 as the confluence for exploring key composers for whom it was a significant date: 1925 was Ravel’s 50th birthday, the year of Satie and Caplet’s deaths and also the birth of Boulez; music and sister arts surrounding these figures, such as Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, Neoclassicism or Abstraction too.
Within the conference we hope to workshop new songs related to the conference theme for voice and piano, with durations of around 3 minutes, and would like to receive proposals for these new pieces. Selected works would be workshopped by Joseph Middleton and singers from Leeds Lieder.
Composition proposals should include:
- projected piece title
- composer’s (or composers’) name(s) and academic affiliation(s) (if any)
- contact email address
- a description of the projected piece of up to 400 words, including an explanation of its relationship to the conference theme. One of the ways you might demonstrate relevance could be the choice of poem/prose you would like to set
- short biographical text(s) of the composer(s)
- the score (and recording, where available) of a completed piece
- any anticipated technical requirements for the projected piece
Please submit composition proposals by email attachment no later than Monday 5 May 2025 to: m.iddon@leeds.ac.uk
The Festival will include a lunchtime narrated concert devoted to Jane Bathori by Art Sung, a concert and Masterclass in association with Leeds Lieder, and a Satie project in collaboration with the Leeds International Piano Competition.