2025 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest

[Kevin Austin]

2025 Musicworks Electronic Music

Composition Contest

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Greetings from Musicworks! 

  

The 2025 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest is now open. Please help us spread the word by sharing the news with your communities and social circles. Full announcement below, as well as attached media release and flyer. 

  

We greatly appreciate your support!

 

RIDE THE WAVEFORM! 

The 2025 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest is open. 

 

For immediate release: Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2025—The fifteenth annual Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest is now open. We invite you to share the news with your readers, audiences, and communities. 

 

Our annual juried contest spotlights new musical talent from around the world, offering cash prizes and opportunities to be heard and published. In 2024, we received 148 submissions from twenty-four countries, including Canada, U.S.A., Finland, Japan, Italy, Brazil, U.K. and others. 

 

• First prize: $500, a composer profile in Musicworks in 2026, and the composition released on the accompanying Musicworks CD. 

• Second prize: $200 and composer coverage on musicworks.ca in 2026. 

• Third prize: $100 and composer coverage on musicworks.ca in 2026. 

 

•• Marcelle Deschênes Prize in Electronic Music / prix Marcelle Deschênes pour la musique électronique: $300 and a composer profile in 2026. This prize is open to entrants who self-identify as female or non-binary. 

 

REQUIREMENTS 

Compose and submit an experimental piece in any electronic-music genre—acousmatic, electroacoustic, glitch, soundscape, intelligent dance music (IDM), turntable art, or video music. The contest is open to entries from anywhere in the world and from artists at any stage of their careers. Pieces must be previously unpublished (i.e. not released on a commercially available recording at the time of submission). 

 

Maximum length: 10 minutes.  

 

Accepted file types: MP3 or MP4 only. 

 

Contest entry fee: C$30. Unlimited additional entries are C$5 each. 

All entrants receive a one-year print subscription to Musicworks (C$44–$59 value). 

 

 

Contest closes October 31, 2025 

Prize details, eligibility, assessment criteria, rules and restrictions, and the entry portal can be found at: 

 

musicworksmag.myshopify.com/products/2025-musicworks-electronic-music-composition-contest 

 

*Cash prizes and entry fees are listed in Canadian dollars. 

  

For more information, contact Taylor Kozak at man...@musicworks.ca.