PROGRAMMES

“Contemporary Composer” Section

for piano or ensembles with piano up to a quartet.

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Preselection: a video* lasting up to 15 minutes including the execution of one or more pieces composed from 1920 onwards.

Final phase (face-to-face): execution of a program up to 25 minutes including pieces (of one or more authors) composed from 1920 onwards. At least one piece must be composed before 1980 and at least another after 1980. Contestants are allowed to re-use pieces already presented in the preselection.

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“Marco Gennaioli” Section

for piano

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Preselection: a video* lasting up to 15 minutes which must include the first movement of a sonata taken from Hayden, Clementi , Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and one or more pieces of which at least one by another composer of different period and style.

Final phase (face-to-face): execution of a free choice program up to 30 minutes including at least one piece from Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov. Pieces already presented in the preselection can be re-used. 

Playing from memory is required in this section, apart from pieces of contemporary composers.

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“Paola Baschetti”Section

for piano

Preselection: a video* lasting up to 15 minutes including one virtuoso étude by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Bartok, Scriabin, Strawinskij, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ligeti and one or more pieces of which at least one by a different composer from the étude.

Final phase (face-to-face): execution of a program up to 40 minutes including at least two different composers of different periods and styles. Pieces already presented in the preselection can be re-used. 

Playing from memory is required in this section, apart from pieces taken from contemporary composers.

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* The Preselection videos must be of good quality, must fully frame the performer, the keyboard with hands well visible and must reproduce a performance without cuts within each song presented. The recording date of the video must not be before 2022.