Current New Music Engine Opportunities
2026 Electronic Music Midwest Festival
Deadline: Nov 14, 2025
Open To: All Creators of EA Music
2025 Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra Student Composition Competition
Deadline: Nov 15, 2025
Open To: Composers enrolled in high school, an undergraduate degree program, or a graduate degree program during the 2025-26 academic year.
2025 SCI Jazz Composition Award
Deadline: Nov 15, 2025
Open To: All entrants must be SCI members at the time of submission.
NACUSA / Cascadia: Spring Concert 2026 (Oasis Ensemble)
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
Open To: All Cascadia members in good standing for 2026, except those who had work on our fall concert, Three Rivers. You must become a Cascadia member or renew your membership before the deadline, or your submission will not be considered.
Composers and Friends I, February 2026
Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Open To: Members of NACUSA San Francisco Chapter
2026 Composers Conference
Deadline: Jan 1, 2026
Open To: ALL composers
16th Annual Jack Stone Award for New Music
Deadline: Feb 8, 2026
Open To: Community College students enrolled at least 3/4 time
NACUSA / Cascadia: Delgani String Quartet - Far From Home
Deadline: Mar 16, 2026
Open To: All Cascadia members in good standing for 2026. You must become a Cascadia member or renew by the deadline, or your submission will not be considered.
New Music at the Library: NeoMosaic Ensemble
Deadline: Feb 29, 2028
Open To: Anyone can submit, membership required to present
Other Opportunities
The opportunities below are not hosted by New Music Engine, and are provided as a free service to the broader new music community. NME does not endorse these opportunities and we unable to provide support for them. If you have any questions about these opportunities, please contact the organizer of that opportunity directly.To submit an external opportunity to be listed here, click here. Please note that you must have a free New Music Engine account to submit an external listing.
Dream American workshop and performance opportunity 2025
Deadline:
Aug 26, 2026
Open To:
emerging composers under 40 at the time of the workshop