Composer wins competition, gets billed for $19,000

Composer wins competition, gets billed for $19,000

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norman lebrecht

February 07, 2017

The Russian composer Nikita Suhih, a musician at the Bolshoi Theatre, put in for a competition organised by the Australian label, Ablaze. The winner’s prize was to get his work recorded.

Nikita came top of a field of 27 international composers, he was told.

Then he was informed he would have to pay $19,000 ‘towards the cost of the recording’.

He is ever so slightly conflicted….

Well, what would you do?

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