9th International Competition for Young Conductors – October 18-20 2019
In cooperation with the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat
9th International Competition for Young Conductors
October 18-20 // 2019
Programme
18/10/2019: Selection | rehearsals (18 participants)
19/10/2019: Semi-finals | rehearsals (max 12 participants)
20/10/2019: Final round | rehearsals without jury and public // performance with jury (max 6 participants)
Location
- Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
- Philharmonie de Paris
Awards
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes
- Best interpretation of a French baroque music piece (this piece will be performed during the semi-finals)
- Best interpretation of the commissioned work
- Public award
Working language
English
►Application
The International competition for youth conductors is open to young experienced conductors under 30 years of age, born after 21st October 1989 and before 21st October 2001.
Admission process requires filling in of the online application form and sending the following documents to competition@artchoral.org :
- ID document (passeport)
- 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 2017
- a video recording of a performance without a choir and without any sound (no piano or conductor’s voice)
Any incomplete application won’t be treated
Deadline for applications : 31st May 2019
Applicants will be informed by 30/06/2019 if they have been accepted
Application Fee
Detailed programme, participation fees and further information will be published by November 2018
Scholarship: check the Noël Minet Fund
►Rules
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.
Contact :
IFAC – Institut Français d´Art Choral
2 place Aristide Briand, F-86000 Poitiers
Tel: +33 (0)7 83 74 13 81
competition@artchoral.org
The event will be in conjuction with the first International Symposium for Choral Conducting Teachers.
►Previous editions
- 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.
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