SOTTO L'EGIDA DELLA REGIONE ABRUZZO
CON IL PATROCINIO DEL COMUNE DI PESCARA
ASSESSORATO ALLA CULTURA

     Direzione artistica                                             Direzione organizzativa
     Bruno Mezzena                                               Annamaria D'Angelo

Sotto l'egida:
dell'Amministrazione Provinciale di Pescara - Assessorato alla cultura

dell'Amministrazione Comunale di Pescara - Assessorato alla cultura

E con la partecipazione:
della Ditta Angelo Fabbrini
dell'Auditorium Flaiano
dell'Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara

I PREMIATI DELLA 20^a EDIZIONE (2000)

Primo premio                                             non assegnato

Secondo premio                             LORENZO DI BELLA (Italia)

Terzo premio                                   MAXIM PHILIPPOV (Russia)

REGULATIONS

1) Any pianist may apply to the competition with no age limits.

2) The eliminatory audition, the semi-final audition and the final solo audition, will take place at the Concert Hall of the Accademia Musicale Pescarese, Via dei Peligni 152 from 22^th to 25^th September 2003. The final audition with orchestra will take place on 27^S| September 2003 at the Auditorium Flaiano in Pescara.

3) Candidates will have to send the enclosed application form to Accademia Musicale Pescarese, Via dei Peligni, 152 - 65127 Pescara (Italy), no later than June 15^th, 2003 (the postmark on the application form will be valid). The documents mentioned below must be enclosed with application form:
a) birth certificate
b) curriculum vitae by also specifying the name of the current piano teacher
c) 1 photo cm. 9x12
d) application fee of euro 105 (free of bank charges) to be paid by postal order or transfer bank -SWIFT BNLI IT RA PEX - current account no. 858 - in the name of Accademia Musicale Pescarese. Application unprovided with the registration fee will not be accepted.

4) The Competition will consist of the following auditions:
PRELIMINATORY ROUND
SEMIFINAL ROUND
FINAL SOLO ROUND
FINAL ROUND WITH ORCHESTRA

5) Each candidate must report to the competition secretary's office on the day and at the time stated on his/her summons, with an identification document.

6) The order of candidate's participation in the auditions shall be in alphabetical sequence, starting from a letter drawn by lot, in the candidates' presence. Latecomers will be excluded from the Competition. The candidate may request his/her audition to be shifted only for demonstrable reasons of health, family, of force major, compatible with time available and the reason for shifting it.
The communication will have to be given immediately to the competition secretary in order to consider the request.

7) Any candidate who doesn't fulfil all requirements set down in the present Regulations shall immediately lose all right to the Competition and to any refund.

8) An adequate number of pianos shall be available for the candidates. Each candidate will have the possibility to try the piano only the day before the beginning of the competition, accordingly to the timetable arranged by the secretary's office.

9) The audition will be recorded on tape (from the final audition onward). The rights connected with recording of film taken during the auditions and any use of such material shall not involve payment of any kind to the relevant candidates.

10) The pieces played must be published. Candidates must play by memory and before every execution they shall provide the examining committee with the music of their programme, in the edition they are going to use. Compositions with multiple movements must be played integrally, with the exception of those compositions that are normally only partially executed in recitals (e.g. Brahms-Paganini first or second book, single pieces  form "Gaspard de la nuit", "Miroirs", "Images", etc.)

11) The sequence in which the pieces shall be played is up to every candidate.
The distribution of brief intervals between the individual pieces must not exceed the normal recital standard; a 5/6 minute interval may be allowed to devide in two the final solo round.

12) The examining committee consists of distinguished musicians. No persons having relations of kinship or affinity with the candidates, having at the moment, or having had private tuition relations with the candidates in the four years preceding the Competition, may be , in no cases, part of the examining committee. In accordance of what above mentioned, each member of the committee will write down a declaration specifying the own position towards the candidates. Eventual application forms presented by any candidate student of anyone of the member of the jury will not be accepted.

13) At the end of each audition the jury shall vote by means of a signed form, with the presence of the public, in the hall where the auditions will take place. After the scrutiny a list of final results will follow.
Should any member of the examining committee, due to any reason, not be present throughout the whole audition of any candidate, the president may invite him/her not to vote for the same candidate.

14) The candidates shall be evaluated as follows: for the preliminary round with votes from 1 to 100; for the semi-final round and the final solo audition with votes from 50 a 100. For the final round with orchestra the candidates will be evaluated by uncensurable decision of the jury. So that averages may not be influenced by extreme votes, they shall be calculated excluding the lowest and highest vote.

15) In observance with the lists resulting from the auditions, 12 candidates will be admitted for the semifinal round, 6 candidates for the final solo round, 3 candidates for the final round with orchestra, indipendently from the obtained votes.

16) The decisions taken by the jury are final and unappealable.

17) PROGRAMME BY SINGLE AUDITION:

Preliminary round
a) Chopin: one etude
b) Rachmaninov, Liapunov, Skriabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Bartok, Strawin-sky, Ligeti: one etude
c) one piece freely chosen by the candidate Time limit 20 minutes

Semi-final round
a) Liszt: one etude
b) one or more compositions of the Romantic period
c) one or more compositions from Debussy onward Time limit 35 minutes.

Final solo round
A recital programme lasting about 60 minutes, including a classical sonata and musical excerpts not yet played in the before mentioned auditions. Or a recital programme having the same duration, exclusively including compositions of the 20^th century, except for those already played.

Final round with orchestra
One of the following concertos for piano and orchestra:
-Beethoven n. 3, 4, 5
-Chopin n. 1, 2
-Schumann
-Grieg
-Liszt nn. 1, 2
-Rachmaninov n. 2
-Ciaikowsky n. 1

18) PRIZES
The winner of the first prize will receive a cash prize of euro 5200 and will be engaged for the following concerts with the following orchestras:
— Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara
— Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese
— Orchestra Pro-Arte Marche
— Orchestra Sinfonica Haydn di Bolzano

 and for the following recitals:
- Ente Musicale Societa Aquilana del Concerti "B. Barattelli" di L'Aquila
- Societa del Teatro e della Musica "L. Barbara" di Pescara
- Associazione Amici della Musica "F. Fenaroli" di Lanciano
- Istituto Musicale Benvenuti di Conegliano
- Ente Manifestazioni Pescaresi di Pescara
- Associazione Musicale di Monza Rina Sala Gallo
- Associazione "ProPordenone"
- Associazione "Napoli Nova"
The winner of the second prize will receive a cash prize of euro 1300 and eventual concerts with several organizations.

19) In the incensurable opinion of the jury, to all three finalists shall be awarded a prize. No ex-aequo shall be awarded for the first prize.

20) In case of claims the official regulations are those written in Italian.

RECOMMENDED AND ARRANGED HOTELS

HOTEL CARLTON (****)
Viale Riviera, 35 - 65123 Pescara
Tel: (085) 373125 - Fax (085) 4213922

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Single room                              70 euro
Double room                            135 euro

HOTEL ALBA (***)
Via M. Forti, 14 - 65122 Pescara
Tel. (085) 389145-4225097 - Fax (085) 292163

Single room                              40 euro (breakfast included)
Double room                            57 euro (breakfast included)

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