Note: Members of the Student/Collegiate Division should also carefully check NFMC Summer Music Centers Awards, as various age levels are included in Summer Music Center and Camp opportunities.

Students may enter one manuscript with a $20.00 entry fee by March 1. Judges will adjudicate all compositions and determine winners of the awards listed below. Awards are not to be applied for separately.

Class I – Sonata or comparable work for solo wind or string instrument with piano, or for any combination of 3 to 5  instruments, of which the piano may be one.
Class II – Choral work
Class III – Piano solo
Class IV – Vocal solo with piano, organ or orchestral accompaniment.  English text.

NFMC Marion Richter American Music Composition Award  -   $1,100
NFMC Young Composers Award  -   $1,100 and $900
NFMC Devora Nadworney Award for Vocal Solo  -   $400
Hatz Special Recognition Award  -   2 - $50 awards sponsored by Nancy B. and Russell C. Hatz