Conditions
1.
Order of application
1.1.
The competition supposes one age category: BASIC (age over 19 years). Top age
limit of the participants is not supposed.
1.2.
For application for participation in the competition it is necessary to fill in
and send the applied questionnaire. The deadline of reception of the
application forms for participation in the competition is September 20, 2010
(the date is determined by a dispatch postage stamp).
The application should be sent to the address:
Organizing committee of the international competition of pianists in memory of
Vera Lothar-Schevchenko, Bolshaya Polyanka street, 23-3, Moscow, Russia, 119180. The following items should be applied to the application: Two glossy photos 13õ18 cm
and one photo 4x6 cm (Please write the name and surname on the reverse side and
do not attach the photo with pins or paper clips); photocopy of the passport or
replacing document (the document must provide the date of birth); DVD meeting
the following requirements:
- The record of excellent quality only, a professional
recording is desirable,
- Duration of record - till 35 minutes,
- Solo record pieces only,
·
îne part of a classical sonata
·
îne virtuoso etude
·
îne composition of the French composer
- Editing of record during the program not supposed,
- The videocassette marked by: the name, surname,
names of pieces in order of their record, timing and date of record.
1.3.
The entrance fee ($100 US) is paid by the participants allowed to the first
round in cash at registration after the arrival to the competition. The fee is
paid in rubles by the exchange rate officially established by the Central bank
of Russia on the date of registration.
1.4.
A sanction about admission to participation is accepted on the basis of
listening of video recordings of the applicants' performances and is announced
by the Organizing committee not later than 20, 2010. All persons allowed to
participation in the competition will receive official invitation of the
Organizing committee with indication of date of arrival and place of holding
the competition.
1.5.
Any changes in the performance program should be reported by the applicant not
later than 20, 2010 and come under the obligatory approval of the Organizing
committee. Later all changes in the participant program are supposed only in
exceptional cases with the jury consent.
1.6.
In case a candidate refuses participation in the competition, the documents,
videocassette and entrance fee are not returned.
2. Order of holding the competition
2.1.
The basic tests consist of three rounds:
Performance of two solo programs and the final
listening with an orchestra. All listenings are conducted publicly. All pieces
should be executed by memory.
2.2.
Twelve participants will be allowed to the second round, and six participants
will be allowed to the final round.
2.3.
The order of performances of the participants is determined by sortition and
shall be preserved up to the end of the competition. All participants of the
competition should be present at the information meeting taking place after
sortition before the first round.
2.4.
The competition participants are obliged to stay in (the place of holding the
competition will be announced additionally) during all time of participation in
the competition.
2.5.
The winners of the competition are obliged to give a free performance in the
final concert of the competition.
2.6.
The competition participants shall not receive any royalties both for performance
at the competition, and for any further use of records and translations of
these performances.
The rights to audio and video recordings, and also TV
translations of performances of the competition participants belong to the
Organizing committee.
- The opening of competition takes place on December
1, 2010.
- The final listening of the competition will take
place from December 8 till December 10. After termination of the final of the
competition on the basis of performances of the participants in all three
rounds the jury makes a decision on distribution of premiums of the
competition. The common final concert and the reward ceremony of the winners
take place on December 10, 2010.
3. Financial arrangements
3.1.
The participants should arrive to (the place of holding the competition will be
announced additionally) on the dates specified by the Organizing committee in
the invitation.
3.2.
After reception of the official invitation for participation in the competition
from the Organizing committee the foreign participants should address the
Russian consulate for visas.
3.3.
Each participant of the competition is granted free hotel accommodation and
meals from the date of arrival, not earlier the target.
3.4.
The participants are granted an option of rehearsals in a class-room (not less
than five hours per day) and one rehearsal before each round on the stage where
the competition will take place.
3.5.
The organizing committee does not provide the participants of competition with
any kind of insurance.
3.6.
The application signed by the person wishing to participate in the competition
is an evidence of competition complete acceptance of the present conditions by
the future participant.
4.Prizes
4.1 Organizing committee of the International competition
of pianists in memory of Vera Lothar-Schevchenko announces:
·
THE FIRST PRIZE in the
Basic Competition USD 10 000
·
SECOND PRIZE in the
Basic Competition USD 7 500
·
THIRD PRIZE in the
Basic Competition USD 5 000
Other prizes are possible, they will be
announced additionally during the sortition before the first round.
4.2 The Jury has the option to divide the prizes between
performers or to declare void any of them.
4.3 The decisions of the Jury are not subject to any
review.
4.4 The prize money to the Competition laureates will be
paid in Russian roubles equivalent in accordance with the exchange rate of the
Central Bank of Russia on the date of payment with the income tax deduction.
4.5 In the event of a controversy over the present Rules for the Vera
Lotar-Shevchenko International Piano Competition, the Russian version will be
considered as the only valid one.
First round of the Competition
·
Total duration: 45
minutes, inducing pauses. The programme can inelude the compositions, recorded
on DVD for selection listening.
·
The programme and its
design will be freely determined by the participant and must consist of works
in various styles, including important works of the piano repertoire.
·
Participants may not
perform works of their own composition
Second round of the Competition
·
Total duration: 60
minutes, inducing pauses. (contestant may choose to make a break of 3-5 minutes
within the performance).
·
The programm must
consist of compositions in various styles and from various periods, including two
large-scale works or one large-scale and one shorter composition and one work
composed after 1960.
·
Participants may
perform works of their own composition.
·
Participants may not
perform works performed during the first round of the competition
Third Round. Final
The finalists shall perform successively two concertos
for piano and orchestra, one from the group A and the other from the group B with
the participation of the symphony orchestra.
Group A:
1.
Mozart. One of the
concertos (except KV. 37, 39, 40, 41 and 107)
2.
Beethoven. Concerto No.
1 in C major, op. 15; Concerto No.2 in B flat major, op. 19; Concerto No.3 in
C minor, op.37; Concerto No.4 in G major, op.58; Concerto No.5 in E flat major,
op.73 "Emperor"
Group
B:
1.
Chopin. Concerto No.l
in E minor, op. 11
2.
Liszt. Concerto No.2
in A major
3.
Brahms. Concerto No.l
in D minor, op. 15
4.
Saint-Saens. Concerto
No.2 in G minor, op.22
5.
Grieg. Concerto in A minor
6.
Tchaikovsky. Concerto
No.2 in G major, op.44
7.
Rachmaninov. Concerto
No.l in F sharp minor, op.l
8.
Scriabin, Concerto in F
sharp minor
9.
Prokofiev. Concerto
No.3 in C major, op.26
10.
Ravel. Concerto in G
major
