Workout! Entry Form

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Please fill in the form below to submit your piece to be selected for the first round of Workout!. This form will close at midnight (UK time) at the end of 1st September 2020.

Your full name, as you would like it to appear publicly.
There are no age limits. We need to know your date of birth to take appropriate safeguarding measures. This is private.

Composition

Your composition must be for string quartet (2 violins, viola, cello).

We can include up to 5 minutes of music, and prefer complete works.

The music must be notated as a PDF score. No individual parts needed, as we play from iPads.

Extended techniques, improvisation, graphic scores, electronics, and even extra instruments are all acceptable... but please be practical!
Upload a PDF (up to 64MB). Please include your name on the score itself.
Approximate duration (minutes and seconds)

Publicity information

This information will help us describe and promote your composition as part of the scheme, if it is selected.
Describe your composition, for the benefit of the public. This can be anything that helps the audience appreciate what they are listening to.

You could submit an audio or video description instead. Please upload this to a service like Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud, ensure that anyone with the link can access it, and include the link here.
Describe yourself and your musical background, for the benefit of the public. This can be written in the first or third person.

You could submit an audio or video biography instead. Please upload this to a service like Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud, ensure that anyone with the link can access it, and include the link here.
A photo of yourself (optional, up to 16MB)
Your artist website URL (optional).

Personal information

The answers in this section are optional. They will help us select a broad range of entries and monitor the reach of the scheme.

Everyone is eligible. Entries are strongly encouraged from black and minority ethnic composers, LGBTQ+ composers, those with disabilities, those identifying as women, and those from other underrepresented or disadvantaged groups.

Your answers are private, but we may use them to report aggregated, anonymised demographic data to our current and future funding providers.
Where do you live?
Are you a student?
Let us know if you are studying (full or part-time)
Are you studying (or have you studied) music?
How would you describe your gender?
Select any that apply
How would you describe your sexual orientation?
Select any that apply
Preferred pronouns
Select if you prefer to be referred to using any of these pronouns
Do you consider yourself as belonging to a minority ethnic group?
In any context - e.g. where you live, or within the music industry.
(optional)
Do you consider yourself to have a disability?
If you have other information you'd like to give us, please include it here.
May we share your composition (the score and our recording) and the publicity information given above as part of the Workout! scheme? Your copyright and other rights are unaffected.