BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin International Music Festival has announced its seventh annual student composition competition for works written for a solo stringed instrument. In 2008, the Festival initiated a competition to encourage student composers through the provision of prize money and production of one new work each summer, in addition to works chosen from among the Festival’s composition students.

The competition is open to all student composers based in the United States who are under the age of 35. A prize of $500 will be awarded to the winning composer, and the selected work will be premiered July 31-Aug. 3.

Compositions must be of five to eight minutes duration. Submissions must not have been published previously or performed in a public concert. Parts must be written for a solo string instrument (violin, viola, cello, or double bass), without any electronic components.

Composers may submit multiple works with $25 entry fee for each submitted work. Works will not be reviewed without payment. Submissions must be received by April 1.

The 2014 competition is for works written for solo (unaccompanied) stringed instruments. For more information and guidelines, visit bowdoinfestival.org.

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