9th International Competition for Young Conductors – October 18-20 2019

The International competition for young conductors is open to young experienced conductors under 30 years of age, born after 21st October 1989 and before 21st October 2001.

Application process

Any incomplete application will not be treated

1. Application and payment of the application fee to the competition until 31st May 2019
2. Results on 30th June 2019
3. Registration of selected applicants and payment of competition fee until  31th July 2019

Admission process – Application form

Admission process requires filling in of the online application form and uploading in the application form or sending (via Wetransfer, Dropbox or other file sharing software) the following documents to competition@artchoral.org:

• ID document (passport)
• Curriculum vitae / biography (in English)
• One colour photo (digital, maximum size 1MB)
• A recommendation letter of a conducting professor / a reputable choral expert / the national choral organisation of the candidate’s country (in English).
• A video recording of a choir concert or rehearsal on which the conducting skills of the candidate can be clearly seen (max. 10 minutes), recording date may not be prior to 1st January 2018

Deadline for applications : 31st May 2019

Applicants will be informed by 30/06/2019 if they have been accepted

Application Fee

1. Application to the competition until 31st May 2019
   Application fee:

   	ECA-EC direct member	ECA-EC indirect member	No member
   Country group 1	40 €	50 €	60 €
   Country group 2	30 €	40 €	50 €
   Country group 3	20 €	30 €	40 €

   > Pay the application fee

2. Registration of selected applicants and payment of competition fee until  31th July 2019
   Competition fee:
   

   	ECA-EC direct member	ECA-EC indirect member	No member
   Country group 1	280 €	300 €	320 €
   Country group 2	200 €	220 €	240 €
   Country group 3	130 €	150 €	170 €

Country groups: people from different countries pay a different participation fee.
The countries are the usual codes for internet domains.
Country group 1: AT, BE, CA, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, HK, IE, IL, IS, IT, JP, LU, NL, NO, SE, SG, UK, US
Country group 2: AR, CN, CO, CY, CZ, EE, GR, MT, PL, PT, SI, SK, TW, ZA and some overseas countries
Country group 3: AL, AM, BA, BG, BY, GE, HR, HU, KZ, LT, LV, MD, ME, MK, RO, RS, RU, TR, UA
If your country is not listed or you are not sure which country group you belong to, please write to competition@artchoral.org

Scholarship: check the Noël Minet Fund

The applicants must be in agreement with the below rules.

• The decision of the Jury is final.
• Using the original pieces is the responsibility of the competitors.
• Official language of the competition is English, also for the rehearsals with the choirs. The choirs will have good knowledge of the repertoire.
• The competition consists of three rounds.

• 2001 : Budapest (Hongrie)
• 2002 : Tallinn (Estonie)
• 2004 : Vienne (Autriche)
• 2007 : Budapest (Hongrie)
• 2009 : Ljubljana (Slovénie)
• 2011: Budapest (Hongrie)
• 2013 : St. Petersbourg (Russie)
• 2015 : Turin (Italie)
• 2019 : Paris/Versailles (France)

Prize-winners of the different competitions include conductors such as Carlo Pavese, Florian Helgath, Dani Juris, Maria Goundorina, Mirga Grazinyte and Maud Hamon-Loisance, who have been and will be conducting Ateliers at EUROPA CANTAT Singing Weeks and festivals, as well as Peeter Perens and David Gálvez Pintado who were invited to the jury in 2011 and Michal Hájek who won the special prize of ECA-EC in 2011, an (assistant) conductorship at a EUROPA CANTAT festival.

Choral organisations in Europe are encouraged to also invite the newly discovered conducting talents from the competitions as workshop leaders to their events.