2010 Annual Music Competition
The Royal Over-Seas League celebrates its centenary in 2010 and to acknowledge the ROSL Annual Music Competition as one of its most significant and enduring achievements, the major awards in the 58th ROSL Annual Music Competition are to be doubled in centenary year.
The First Prize for a solo performer and the two ensemble awards will become £10,000 each and the awards for Keyboard, Strings, Wind, Singers, and Accompanists will be £5,000. The total value of competition awards from 2010 onwards will be in excess of £70,000.
The Competition has four solo awards for Keyboard, Strings, Wind/Percussion and Singers, the winners of which compete for the Competition Gold Medal and First Prize. There are also major awards for Ensembles and Accompanists.
The solo awards are open to citizens of the Commonwealth, including the UK, and former Commonwealth countries for instrumentalists and singers up to and including the age of 30 as at 5 June 2010.
There are two ensemble awards of equal value. One award is for string, string and piano, and piano duo/duet; the other is for wind, percussion, and mixed ensembles. Both awards are open to ensembles where the majority of members are citizens of the Commonwealth and all members are up to and including the age of 30, as at 2 June 2010.
A Centenary Appeal was launched in 2009 to secure endowment of ROSL Annual Music Competition awards in perpetuity. The funds raised are held in a restricted fund within the ROSL Golden Jubilee Trust (registered charity number 30695).
The ROSL offers many performance opportunities to prizewinners after the competition at major venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London and has established a relationship with many leading UK festivals including Brighton, Cheltenham, Dartington International Summer School, Kings Lynn and the Lake District Summer Music Festival. ROSL ARTS own series of chamber music concerts at Over-Seas House Edinburgh is a well established fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Internationally during the past year ROSL ARTS has organised concerts and tours for prizewinners in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe.