Call For Compositions
Due: January 20, 2024

Compose For Vox

Multi-instrumentalist Neil Nayyar and Vox Music have teamed up to curate a unique and amazing concert project! This is your chance to contribute to our performance!

We seek compositions for our ASSEMBLAGE: A Concert of Music Featuring Rare and Intriguing Instruments concert project.

We intend to explore the relationship between these rare and intriguing instruments and the choral space. We seek to discover what possibilities might arise when we engage in this unique space. We want to educate our audiences on these instruments and their historical, cultural, and musical contexts.

We seek compositions for women's voices that focus on renewal and healing. These compositions must also be accompanied by one of the rare and intriguing instruments listed below.

Compositions can be already composed or newly composed. We value creativity and ingenuity; so, works that may have been previously written and accompanied by a fairly familiar instrument that you would like to rewrite for one of the rare and intriguing instruments listed below are welcomed. If the work is newly composed, we ask that the work showcase the virtuosity of the rare and intriguing instrument(s) and the capacity of the voices of Vox Musica.

Compositional Guidelines

• Compositions must be written or arranged for women’s voices and can be already composed or newly composed:

  • Already Composed

  • An already composed work accompanied by one of the rare and intriguing instruments listed below (obbligato, ad libitum, or accompaniment).

  • An already composed work whose accompaniment is being rewritten for one of the rare and intriguing instruments listed below, cross-genrefying (obbligato, ad libitum, or accompaniment).

  • Newly Composed

    • A newly composed work accompanied by one of the rare and intriguing instruments listed below (obbligato, ad libitum, or accompaniment).

• Must make use of one of the rare and intriguing instruments listed below. However, we have the capacity to perform in one single piece up to three of the rare and intriguing instruments listed below, and you will have to use looping techniques so that one individual can play all three instruments.

• The text for each composition must align with the theme of renewal and healing and must be in the public domain.

• The work should not exceed the following vocal range (E3 – A5) ~ Scientific Pitch Notation.

• The part-writing can be between 1-10 vocal parts but must not exceed ten notes for the choir in any given chord.

• Works with large instrumental accompaniment will NOT be considered.

• Compositions must not exceed 15 minutes in duration.