SACRARIUM | Sacred music in our time International Composers’ Competition 2025 – 9th Edition
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KLKNEWMUSIC
SACRARIUM | Sacred music in our time
Lviv Chamber Choir – KLK Symphony Orchestra
International Composers’ Competition 2025 – 9th Edition
City: Lviv (Ukraine)
Sponsored by: Lviv Philharmonic Society
Date: 23 > 29 September 2025
The International Composers’ Competition SACRARIUM was born from the idea to create a project that will work on the meeting of the contemporary music of our time with the writing of sacred music that combines musical genres associated with a sacred or religious theme.
All composers who wish to participate into the International Composers’ Competition SACRARIUM 2025 must write an original work for mixed chamber choir and string orchestra, associated with a religious theme, or tied to a specific liturgical function or must write a music inspired to elevate our souls to God, even without being embedded in a context of religious practice.
The 9th International Composers’ Competition SACRARIUM 2025 is open to all composers of any age and nationality, who want to share their musical and personal journey, attend seminars and opportunities for discussion, on the sacred art of our time, on the contemporary sacred music and on the figure of the Composer in this Third Millennium. The organization will select 12 composers who will have the opportunity to participate in the International Composers’ Competition SACRARIUM 2025 from 23 to 29 September in the city of Lviv (Ukraine), inside Organ Hall.
The 12 composers’ selected works will be performed in the final concert of the event by the KLK Orchestra and Lviv KLK Choir. The concert will be recorded by a sound engineer with the selected works. A movie director will make a video of the concert. The rehearsals will be video recorded in streaming by the page Klknewmusic on Facebook.
The International Music Composers’ Competitions is open to a maximum of 12 composers for each section, of whatever age or nationality.
Each composer must submit – deadline: 21 August 2025 – a music score chosen in the following categories:
a) chamber choir 16 elements;
- b) soprano or mezzosoprano, chamber choir and chamber orchestra 15 / 27 elements ( 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 basson, 1 frenchhorn, 1 percussionist, 6 vl I, 4 vl II, 4 vla, 4 cello, 3 contrabbass;
- c) soprano, mezzosoprano, lyric choir and symphony orchestra max 56 elements ( ottavino, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 english horn, 2 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 french horn, 2 trumpets, 3 trombone, 1 tuba, 1 harp, 3 percussionists, 8 vl I, 8 vl II, 6 vla, 6 cello, 3 contrabbasses. The sacred text can be chosen from the Old and New Testament in Latin or English.
The work must not exceed 12 minutes.
Deadline: 21 August 2025.
All score will be sent by email (only one work for composer), in PDF format, to klknewmusic@gmail.com.
Each email sent to submit a score shall include:
– The score and orchestral parts must be in A4 format (please indicate minutes of the score) as a PDF file (Sibelius or Finale program);
– A second PDF file containing the identity of the composer (name and address, nationality, telephone number, email, website, short CV)
and a statement by the composer stating that the submitted work has never before been published, performed in public and/or broadcast before,
nor prized in any composer’s competition. File formats other than PDF are not acceptable and will result in the submission being rejected!
There is no registration form.
The Composition Staff will select the best composers from all the applications submitted no later than 23 August 2025.
ENTRY FEE
The tuition fee for all participants selected is:
Category a) €690 (euro 690);
Category b) €1100 (euro 1100);
Category c) €1300 (euro 1300);
A 5% Paypal tax must be added to the final fee payment no later than 31 August 2025 by Paypal on email klknewmusic@gmail.com;
The tuition fee includes:
- participation at rehearsals in streaming and checking the sound of the selected composers during the period 23 > 29 September 2025;
- Final concerts in Organ Hall with the works selected and performed by Lviv KLK Choir and KLK Symphony Orchestra;
- professional audio/video recording of the final concerts;
- Certificate of participation.
The tuition fee does not include:
-Food
-Accommodation
-Flight.
The administrative secretary for the International Music Composers’ Competition SACRARIUM 2025 is Ms. Anastasiya Kodola.
For any questions about the tuition fee and payment method, write to anastasiakodola@gmail.com.
Please send a PDF file with your payment check to klknewmusic@gmail.com.
COMPOSITION STAFF
Yuri Laniuk (UKR)– President
Bogdhana Frolyak (UKR) – Composer
Domenico Clapasson (ITA) – Composer
Ferdinando Nazzaro (ITA) – Composer, Artistic Director KLKnewmusic
Three prizes will be awarded.
1 Prize – 800 EURO for the winner category a;
1 Prize – 1200 EURO for the winner category b;
1 Prize – 1500 EURO for the winner category c.
The award-winning scores will be published by Aldebaran Editions.
The Composition Staff reserves the right not to award the prize and to award Special Mentions of merit.
