The Eddie Harvey Award for Jazz Arrangement Terms of reference • • •
To perpetuate the memory of Eddie Harvey and to honour his expressed wish to try to ensure that arrangers of jazz compositions receive due acknowledgement of the importance of their contributions to jazz. To that end, to institute an “Eddie Harvey Award for Jazz Arrangement” in accordance with the rules set below. To review and update the details of the Award and its rules as may be indicated by changes in circumstances, or by experience of administering the Award.
Award Rules a) This award is open to British residents of all ages and will be made annually. b) Arrangements should be notated for all the chosen instruments or voices and in Sibelius or other appropriate printed format. Two copies of the arrangement – one showing your name, and one without - should be submitted. Handwritten submissions are not acceptable. c) Submitted arrangements can be of existing or original works and can take any reasonable form, e.g. for orthodox big band, smaller ensemble, or any other realistically sized aggregation of instrumentation (eg not exceeding, say, 25) or voices. d) There is no limitation on length of submitted arrangements, though applicants are encouraged to reflect on the practicalities, from a performance point of view, of submitting arrangements of, say, longer than fifteen minutes. e) Submissions should not have been previously publicly performed. f) Insofar as copyright is an issue it will be retained by the arranger concerned. g) The Award’s administrator will ensure that all references or “clues” to the identity of the entrant will have been removed before passing the submissions to the judges. h) The judges’ decision will be final and not subject to appeal. The judges also reserve the right not to make an award if in their view no submission is of sufficiently high standard.
i) Submissions can be sent to the Scheme’s administrator at the following email address info@eddieharveyaward.com The closing date for submissions to be received by the administrator is 31 July 2014. j)
There will be a public presentation of a cheque for ÂŁ2,000 and performance of the winning submission; see below.
Performance In addition to the winning arrangement, two other entries considered by the judges to be of special merit – and ideally, dependant on the entries received, representing different styles or types of arrangement - will also be publicly performed either at the presentation concert or on another appropriate occasion. If practicable, the organisers will also look to arrange for and contribute financially to subsequent performances of the winning arrangement.
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