How it works

• Composers are invited to submit works for inclusion in the festival by 1st June and agree with the terms and conditions explained in the festival guidelines
• The application fee (for submitting up to three works) is £40.00, by cheque made payable to "Annual Festival of New Organ Music."
• Works accepted for inclusion in the festival are programmed into the exhibition concerts.
• A new feature, introduced in 2007, is the opportunity to write new music for a historic organ. The instrument selected for 2008 is the 1859 Bryceson organ in St Dominic’s Priory (London). For more details click here.
• Performers will be allocated practice time in the period preceding each concert on the instrument being used.
• Each concert is a public event given by several performers.
• Details of the performers, composers and the works to be performed will be published on the festival website in mid-July and printed in the festival programme on sale at each exhibition-concert.
• Scores and CDs of works by featured composers will be available for sale from a stall at each event.
• All public events will be professionally recorded. The copyright of these recordings belongs to the recording producer. All decisions about issuing recordings for sale will be made jointly by the recording producer, the festival director, the composer and the performer.
• It is expected that one or more music critics will attend each exhibition concert.

Festival website

• The festival website www.afnom.org serves several purposes:
  • composers can use it to register details of their compositions and request inclusion in an exhibition-concert (scores must then be sent to the Festival Director so that a suitable running order can be arranged).
  • every item included in the festival will be listed online in the festival catalogue, together with information about purchasing scores. (N.B. The publisher/composer will receive the full proceeds from all sales as a result of the festival. AFNOM will not at any time take a fee or require any other form of commission).
  • short soundclips of each work will be posted on the website after exhibition-concerts, to provide potential buyers a sample of each new piece
  • in addition to the short soundclips, complete recordings of all exhibition-concerts will be available on the festival website for a period of one year after each concert. No royality or fees will be payable to the composer and/or performer for making these recordings available.