Young Composers Project 2025
Registration Information

Registration form is below.   
Deadline is February 23, 2025

​What you need to know for participation in the YCP:

• Children in grades K-7 are eligible – and enrollment is limited.
• Mentoring workshops will be held Tuesday February 25th, Tuesday March 18th, and Tuesday April 22nd at Music Together Headquarters, Hopewell, NJ – younger children 4:30-5:30pm, older children 5:45-7pm.
• Final workshop-rehearsal will be at Music Together Headquarters, Hopewell, NJ the evening of Monday May 12.
• The YCP concert with VCNJ will be held at Music Together Headquarters Monday, May 19.

• Parent or another adult must accompany the child to the workshop/s and the concert.

 

• Compositions/songs
  • Must have a vocal element, which may be performed by VCNJ or the child or both.
  • Children will be mentored to create new works or develop pre-existing ones as part of the project. Compositions should be primarily the child’s creation, with facilitation by parents and/or music teachers, as needed.
  • Compositions may include piano accompaniment, which will be provided for the concert performance (children may choose to play but that is not required).  Compositions may include other instruments, and that must be arranged for by the young composer.
  • As a learning experience, children are encouraged to invent their own notation, with traditional notation for performers supplied as needed by the children’s music teachers, parents, or YCP mentors (at minimal cost).

Young Composers Project 2025
​Registration Form

For questions or to learn more contact
Carole Moore, VCNJ Young Composers Project Administrator
[email protected] or 609-658-2636

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