Record your piece
Tell us about your piece: its length and voicing, the package you're interested in, and whether you're applying for the Emerging rate.
For Composers
Hear your choral writing sung by eight professional voices, then recorded, filmed and mastered by our own team.
How it works
01 · Schedule
Shared schedule
We fit your piece into our existing recording days, so you share the cost of singers, venue and production team, and pay a fraction of what a private session would cost.
02 · Forces
Professional voices
Eight professional singers, a recording producer and a videographer, working from your score.
03 · Delivery
A finished recording
One piece of up to three minutes: rehearsed, recorded, edited and mastered, with video if you want it.
Packages
We record, edit and master one piece of up to three minutes.
| Package | Standard | Emerging |
|---|---|---|
| Audio only | £435 | £305 |
| Audio and two cameras | £765 | £525 |
Every package includes rehearsal and recording time, a stereo master in WAV and MP3, and a licence to use the recording in your portfolio, in competition entries, and in funding or academic applications.
Emerging Composer rate
You qualify if you are enrolled on a degree course, or if you graduated within the past three years. Send us evidence with your enquiry. Places at this rate are limited on each recording day.
We ask two things in return: credit and tag us when you post the recording, and let us use a short excerpt in our own promotion.
Add-ons
| Add-on | Standard | Emerging |
|---|---|---|
| Scrolling score video Synchronised to the recording | £100 | £75 |
| Part-dominant mixes Four mixes, each bringing forward one part: soprano, alto, tenor, bass | £130 | £95 |
| Written feedback From the conductor and singers | £105 | £70 |
| Social media feature On Alma Consort's channels | £215 | £150 |
| Commercial release licence Streaming, sale and sync | £275 | £195 |
| Rush delivery Seven days from recording | £140 | £105 |
| Each additional minute beyond 3:00 | £105 | £105 |
| Second piece on the same day | −£100 | −£100 |
The last two are priced the same on both tiers, because they use recording time on the day rather than post-production.
The social media feature
We sing choral and sacred repertoire, and our strongest posts have reached well beyond that audience. A feature puts your video on our channels with full composer credit and a link you choose.
We sell the placement. We cannot promise you a view count. We publish work that suits the channel, and we will tell you when you enquire whether we think yours does. If we change our minds after the recording, we return the fee.
What we need from you
A clear score, in good time, written for the voices we have.
i
Your score, four weeks ahead
Send the score, and the parts if you have them, four weeks before the recording. We will confirm that your piece fits the time available, or tell you what would need to change.
ii
Eight voices
Write for eight voices. Talk to us before you enquire if your piece calls for instruments, electronics or extended techniques.
iii
Forty-five minutes per piece
That covers a well-notated three-minute work of moderate difficulty. Denser writing may need a longer slot, and we will say so when we read the score.