November 2026 Meetup and Composition/Arrangement Competition

Composition Competition

Own arrangement or composition

Following the success of last year’s competition, this month we have a special composition/arrangement competition.

Judges: Francisco Correa, Tony Lewis and Helen James.

Terms and conditions apply!

• The competition is only open to current BCGS members
• It must be your own composition or arrangement, written or finished in 2026
• From 2026, AI-assisted compositions must be declared as such and accompanied with a declaration of how AI was used in the composition and your role in the creative process. Fully AI-generated compositions with no human role beyond prompting are not permitted. Compositions which are AI assisted, but which do not declare this, will be disqualified.
• You must not have used this composition as an entry for any previous competition (including outside BCGS)
• You consent to a video or recording of your composition going on the BCGS website
• If it’s an arrangement, it should be fairly novel, rather than just slight tweaks on a common arrangement (e.g. just a different key)
• First prize £100, runner-up prize: £50 and a set of D’Addario strings
• If you can’t confidently play your composition, you may ask someone else to perform it for you
• The first prize winner of the previous year’s competition is excluded from winning again, but is welcome to participate again this year and receive an Honourable Mention award.

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