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

• Les Pages et Chantres du CMBV (children and adults choirs)

Since its creation in 1987, the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles has a choir, Les Pages & les Chantres, which the number remind the one in activity at the Royal chapel at the end of Louis XIV reign. This choir gather the Pages (25 children) and the Chantres (17 adults, students in superior training of baroco vocal training) – female voices (dessus) et male voice (bas dessus, hautes-contre, tailles, basses tailles et basses) – accompagned by a continuo, the Symphonistes, conduct by Fabien Armengaud.

This training resuscitate the orginal configuration « à la françoise » that gives this unique sound design in Europe. With Olivier Schneebeli as conductor, it has become one of the most appreciate instrument to resuscitate the French musical heritage of 17th and 18th centuries, of the French royal court and the great catherdral time. The choir sings in France and beyond and participate to lyrical production

• Le Chœur des étudiants en direction de chœur d’Île-de-France (Choir of Île-de-France conducting students)

This choir has been created specially for the competition. It gathers students in choir conducting from conservatories of Île-de-France (Paris region) : Conservatories of Boulogne-Billancourt, Cergy and Paris.

• Le Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris (Choir of Paris Orchestra)

1st round – Selection Secular pieces

• Trois poèmes d’Eichendorff, Philippe Hersant (2008, Ed. Durand DF15839)/ German
  • 1 – Auf einer Burg
• Allégories, Philippe Hersant (2000, Ed. Durand DF15152)/ French
  • Enfances III
• Songs of Ariel, Frank Martin (Ed. Universal UE1556)/ English
  • Full Fathom Five
  • III – Act IV, sc.1 – « Before you can say “come and go”
• Nonsense, Goffredo Petrassi (Ed. Zerboni ESZ4924) / Italian
  • N°5 – C’era una vecchia di Polla
• Four songs of love, Sven-David Sandström (2008, Ed. Gehrmans Musikförlag GE11236) / English
  • Let him kiss me

Sacred baroque pieces:

• Parce mihi Domine, Jean-Baptiste Morin, Ed. CMBV
• Tota pulchra es, from bar 113 to the end), André Campra, Ed. CMBV
• Adjuro vos, Henry Du Mont, Ed. CMBV
• Duo Seraphim, beginning until bar 95, Henry Du Mont, Ed. CMBV
• Quae est ista, Henry Du Mont, Ed. CMBV

2nd round / Semi-final

• Transfige H251, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Ed. CMBV
  • 1st extract from beginning to bar 66 (« … animae meae »).
  • 2nd extract from bar 224 ( » Et tu sis solus … ») to the end.
• Requiem, André Campra, Ed. CMBV
  • Introït
• Requiem, Gabriel Fauré, version of 1893, Ed. Hamelle / Leduc – Choir/piano
  • Introit and Kyrie,
  • Agnus Dei,
  • Libera me (from bar 37)

3rd round / Final

• Brightest star, Cecilia McDowall, Oxford University Press
• Vespers (All-night Virgil, Opus 37), Sergej Rachmaninov (Version of 1992, Ed. Musica russica)
  • 3. Blessed is the Man
  • 4. O Gladsome Light
  • 7. Glory to God in the Highest (the six psalms
  • 8. Praise the name of the Lord
  • 10. Having beheld the resurrection of Christ
  • 14. Troparion. Thou didst rise from the tomb

Cecilia McDowall will join the jury for the Final round.

The Institut français d’Art choral, commissions in collaboration with ECA-EC and SACEM, to Cecilia McDowall one piece that will be a part of the final of the competition. The finalists will perform this piece with the Choir of Paris Orchestra.

The piece will be published by Oxford Univesity Press (more information soon).

Specifications

• Secular piece
• Language : English
• Length : 3-5 minutes
• a cappella choir : The Choir of Paris Orchestra.
• The choir is composed by 70 singers Soprano, alto, Tenor and Bass.
• Difficulty : Medium, so that « normal » amateur choirs can also sing it
• The commission a piece that would present different difficulties for the competitors. It has to make use of the different competitors’ skills.

Text

Brightest Star

Composer

Cecilia McDowall

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 7th July 2019
3. Registration of selected applicants and payment of competition fee until  12th August 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 12th August 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 €

> Pay the competition fee

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, SL, 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 // Apply until 31/03/2019 The Noël Minet Fund can cover between 250€ and 500€ of the costs for conductors and composers under 30 to participate in the competition.

Candidates slectionned for the 1st round/Selection

in alphabetical order

Maria AVDEYEVA – Russia

Justus BARLEBEN – Germany

Quintin BEER – United-Kingdom

Matthias BERTELSHOFER – Germany

Kristina BOGATAJ – Slovenia

Tanguy BOUVET – France

Harry BRADFORD – United-Kingdom

Benjamin HARTMANN – Germany

Benjamin KIRK – United-Kingdom

Yeonju LEE – South Korea

Yuan-Hung LIAO – Taiwan

Kuo-Jen MAO – Taiwan

Oleksandra POLYTSIA – Ukraine

Jonas RASMUSSEN – Denmark

Ingrid ROOSE – Estonia

Neringa SIDAUGAITE – Lithuania

Tomasz Marc SIEGRIST – Swizterland

Raimonda SKABEIKAITE – Lithuania

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.

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Communiqués de presse

22 juillet 2019 : Annonce des candidats sélectionnés

9 septembre 2019 : Les candidats participants

25 septembre 2019 : Le programme artistique

14 octobre 2019 : La Finale 9e Concours international de jeunes chefs de chœur

• 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.