Search begins to find a composer for a new Christmas carol

By The Newsroom
Published 17th Feb 2010, 09:01 BST
Updated 17th Feb 2010, 11:20 BST
IT might only be February, but an Edinburgh charity is already launching a competition to find a composer to write a new Christmas carol.

Scotland's leading HIV charity Waverley Care is running the unusual Sing A New Song competition to celebrate its 21st birthday year.

New and established composers are being invited to submit carols, scored for four-part choir, which will be considered first by Jenny Sumerling, musical director of Edinburgh-based choir, Cadenza and Scottish composer, Tom Cunningham.

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The final shortlist will then be drawn up by renowned composers, Bob Chilcott and James MacMillan as well as Simon Woods, chief executive of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.