GTM Releases 2021 Criteria for Ben Steinberg Young Composer's Award

The purpose of the Award: 

To encourage gifted young Jewish composers to create worthwhile and appealing music forJewish worship and Jewish concert programming;

To encourage the composition of musically literate, Jewishly appropriate musical settings
which will be of lasting, practical use for religious services or concert performances, following
the compositional form and design to be announced each year;

To encourage Jewish communities throughout North America and beyond, to listen to, perhaps
participate in, and above all to value Jewish musical expressions of quality which are reflective
of its own time.

For more information on the BSYCA, download this PDF