The Alpine Fellowship Music Prize 2025
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
Awarded for the best musical or compositional response on the theme of Fear.
Prizes
The winner and runners-up will receive financial support in the following amounts:
First place: £3,000
Second place: £1,000
Third place: £1,000
Rules
Applicants must be aged 18 and above.
All application materials must be in English (music/songs can be in other languages, but application materials themselves should be in English).
You can enter multiple prizes.
Guidance for Applicants
This prize is aimed at those who both compose and can perform new music.
This prize rewards the creation of a new piece of music that responds to our theme.
The piece can be a written song or a piece of instrumental music and can be in any genre, style, or on any instrument.
Pieces should be no more than 20 minutes in length, there is no minimum length required.
Applications from multiple writers/performers are allowed, however, prize money will be split between winners (for example, if you’re a writing team you can expect £1,500 each)
Submission requirements
A brief summary of your music experience or CV.
A video of yourself performing your chosen piece (Don’t worry about production quality, we just want to get a sense of your abilities and style.)
The lyrics/sheet music or any other written supporting information.
A brief statement about how your piece responds to our theme.
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Please note: we reserve the right to change any aspect of our prizes at any point during the submission or judging process, or to not award a prize if we wish.
Previous winners
2025 - On Fear
Winner: Antra Lante
Antra Lante is a Latvian-born guitarist, composer, and performer based in London (UK). She is known for her atmospheric and emotive contemporary instrumental guitar music, which blends original compositions with creative arrangements of covers. Antra holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours and a Master’s in Arts: Popular Music Practice - both completed with First Class Honours from BIMM London. In 2023, she released her debut solo contemporary instrumental guitar EP Walk On Water, and her second EP Given was released in September 2025, representing a modern instrumental fusion genre. She is also part of the La Leona creative development and performance project with the International Guitar Foundation and was chosen to be a commissioned artist by PRS Foundation in 2025 (UK). Along the development of her original music, Antra continues to collaborate on session work as guitarist and also shares her passion for music as an educator.
Photo credit: Rojs Vendiņš
Runner up: Stéphane Clément
Stéphane Clément is a multifaceted artist, designer, producer, trumpeter, and composer of German and Haitian descent. A YoungArts award in Jazz Trumpet (2018, 2019) and selected to be a piece of Ambrose Akinmusire’s ensemble Banyan, he has performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center and the Arsht Center, as well as collaborations on acclaimed projects with artists including Jahari Stampley, Derrick Hodge, Harish Raghavan, and Jason Moran. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under Ingrid Jensen and Nadia Noordhuis, Stéphane continues to expand his practice through interdisciplinary exploration.
He is the co-founder of Ressonnance, a sound installation coterie with Nicolaus Gelin, dedicated to elevating the spirit through sensorial art and sound meditation. Since its founding in 2023, Ressonnance has created transformative experiences that reduce tension, alleviate anxiety, and nurture spiritual well-being, while fostering collaborations with leading voices in both the art and wellness spaces. Together, Clément and Gelin have combined their expertise to produce innovative performances and projects that blur the boundaries between art, music, and healing.
Runner up: Lichon
Music project Lichon is Anisa Arslanagic - a violinist and violist with extensive international experience and a multidisciplinary career - and Alex H Duncan - a prolific composer and multi-instrumentalist. They explore the musical relationship between human and non-human, merging natural processes with human interpretation. Sounds are created with biodata taken directly from plants, fungi and lichen, then interwoven with responses on violin, viola, guitar and synths. A true collaboration between species, their sound worlds are a reflection upon the landscapes and intricate patterns found in flora and fauna.
Anisa and Alex are based on the wild North Devon coast of England. Their debut EP 'It's Always About Us' was released in May 2025, followed by numerous live performances. "Wonderful...what a treat" - Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3.
2024 - On Language
Rafaele Andrade
Rafaele Andrade is a composer, improviser and cellist in the field of classic, pop and experimental music and interdisciplinary practice.
She designed her own string-based instrument, Knurl, and has performed across Latin America and Europe in venues such as Royal Theater Carré (NE), Chigiana Music Festival (IT), Morphine records (DE), Gaudeamus (NL). Her artistic practice has focused on finding a sense of momentum-craftsmanship for music composition and artistic identity through the creation of her own instrument and artistic practice based on a cello, while working on projects and artwork that reveal social transformation and environmental awareness.
She is a member of Netherlands coding Live (NL), iii workspace ( NL), núcleo de composição musical (BR) and research associate at the intelligent instruments lab (IS).