29.8.2025
14th Rivers Awards International Composition Competition 2025
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
The Rivers Awards International Composition Competition (RACC) aims to promote extensive exchange between Chinese and Western music, encouraging innovative and explorative composition for Chinese and Western musical instruments, and build a
high-end platform to introduce outstanding original musical works to the public.
The competition is open to participants under the age of 40 (born after January 1, 1985) regardless of their nationality, location and profession. Professional composers, teachers or students specializing in composition are all welcomed. There is no participation fee required for the application.
The submission must be composed for a mixture of listed Chinese and Western musical instruments (targeting a number of three to nine performers in total). The ensemble set must imperatively include at least one Chinese instrument with one Western instrument from below: One Dizi-bamboo flute (doubling Xiao), one Pipa, one Erhu, one piano (excluding prepared piano), two violins, one viola, one cello, one double bass (four-strings).
The duration of the music should be 5-8 minutes.
1st prize 10 000 USD
2nd prize 5 000 USD
3rd prize 1500 USD
Finalist prize 1 000 USD