Video Game Composition Award

Given the increasing number of students and young people hoping to become professional video game composers, 2026 marks the inaugural Award for Video Game Composition by the Musicians’ Company.

Entrants are invited to submit an audiovisual showreel (video with music) presenting their original compositions for video games. This video should consist of gameplay footage from existing or self-created games and must be no longer than two minutes in duration.

The Winner will receive £750 and one-to-one mentoring from professional video games composers. Both the Winner and Highly Commended entries will be featured on the Company’s website. The mentoring element is designed to give early-career composers rare access to professional insights and industry guidance.

Entrants must be a current undergraduate or postgraduate student at a university, conservatoire, or art school in the United Kingdom.

The deadline for entries for the competition is 12 noon on Friday 6th February 2026. Entries are to be submitted via the following form: https://forms.gle/bX9LdtuSg7WD82Hs9.

The Award will be judged by a panel of leading figures in video game and screen music:
• Alexander Horowitz – Game Audio Director (Electronic Arts, Warner Bros., Fox)
• Peter Michael Davison – Composer and orchestrator (Danny Elfman, John Powell)
• Marcus Hedges – Trailer composer with over 100 million Spotify streams
• Mike Ladouceur – Game and film composer; lecturer at Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge