BLUE HILL — The Bagaduce

Music Lending Library announces its 17th annual Young Composers’ Competition and Festival, which is open to all Maine students in high school or younger.

Young musicians are invited to submit their new works by Feb. 15 for review by a jury of professional musicians. This year’s judges are Daniel Sonenberg, associate professor of music and composer in residence at the University of Southern Maine; Fred Goldrich, conductor of The Bangor Band; and Beth Wiemann, professor of music and composition at the University of Maine at Orono.

Cash awards and recognition will be presented in two categories: Category I — age 13 and younger; and Category II — age 14 through high school. All participants will be recognized and invited to perform at the Young Composers’ Festival in Blue Hill on April 20. The festival guest speaker will be Daniel Searl, a composer, teacher and musician who is finishing his senior year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

All submissions will become part of the music library’s esteemed Maine Collection. This important archive contains more than 3,000 works, including pieces by R.B. Hall, Frank Churchill, Werner Torkanowsky, Walter Piston and Noel Paul Stookey.

For complete information and entry forms, young composers should contact the music library at 374-5454 or visit www.bagaducemusic.org and click on the “Events” link.