Shure Songwriting Award 2011 Winners Announced

The Shure Songwriting Award 2011 in association with the ICMP has now come to an end.  8 Finalists were chosen by The Ivor Novello nominated band Everything Everything  who judged the competition along with a panel of experts and  public voting. 

The band were impressed by the high level of the entries and chose Two Winners: Bobby Evans for a full scholarship and Alex Losardo for the partial scholarship.

“We gave Bobby first place because we were really impressed with his simple and direct song. It has a great, hooky vocal melody, uses simple but really lovely harmony, and rhythmically his drumming on his guitar is really effective. Overall, a great song performed beautifully.” Quoted Everything Everything

 ”Alex’s song impressed because of his strong voice, creative use of quite jazzy harmony, and relaxed performance. The song takes some unexpected turns and keeps the listener on their toes in a really enjoyable way.” said Everything Everything

Bobby and Alex now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to professionally develop their talent and skills using the best Shure gear along with a free place on the Institute’s one-year Professional Diploma in Songwriting course.

Congratulations to Bobby and Alex from  Sebrina Bea and the Shure UK Team!

Mozart [Un]Rapped Competition

Your chance to Remix Mozart! – Introducing Mozart [Un]Rapped

If you or any of your friends are rappers, vocalists or even producers, then prove your versatility by entering a competition to urbanize Mozarts Music- trust me you won’t get an opportunity like this very often!

There are a bunch of samples available of the Aurora Orchestra playing Mozart for you to mix, mash-up and rap over…. The 3 best freestyles from the under and over 18′s will be chosen and announced on stage by a talented panel of judges at the Grand Finale 24th July 2011 held at  Kings Place.

Some top prizes are at stake including a half day at Shure UK HQ, where the winner can test a range of Shure microphones; then select their own prizes!

You have until 20th July 2011 to create and submit your track to enter the competition! This is not for the faint hearted. If you think you’ve got what it takes, get involved!

 

 

Click here for more information and to enter  http://www.kingsplace-unwrapped.co.uk/