Category A: Participants under 12 years old the 1st of July 2018

Program of free choice with minimum 3 pieces from contrasted periods (par example: baroque, contemporary, romantic). Maximum  10 minutes.

All works must be played from memory.

Category B: Participants from 12 to 15 years old

The competition in Category B will take place in two rounds.

FIRST ROUND :

Duration of program (from minimum  8 minutes  to maximum 12 minutes)

• One virtuoso study
• One piece of western romantic period
• If total duration is under 8 minutes you can add a piece of free choice

SECOND ROUND :

Free program max. 15 minutes must include a piece written after 1900
All works must be played from memory. Only works written after 1960 can be performed with music.

Category C: Participants from 16 to 25 years old

The competition in Category C will take place in three rounds.

FIRST ROUND :

The program must not exceed 13 minutes and must include :

• One Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 or 2 by J. S. Bach
• One Chopin study
• One study by Liszt, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Scriabin, Ligeti, Chin or Rubinstein

SECOND ROUND :

Recital of 45 minutes

The program must include:

• One Beethoven Sonata of free choice
• One piece written after 1960
• One or several pieces of free choice

All works must be played from memory.

Only works written after 1960 can be performed with music.

THIRD ROUND with ensemble 

First mouvement of concerti:

• W.-A. Mozart, Concerto No 9, KV 271, 1st mouvement
• W.-A. Mozart, Concerto No 20, KV 466, 1st mouvement
• F. Mendelssohn, Concerto No 1, opus 25, 1st mouvement
• F. Chopin, Concerto No 1, opus 11, 1st mouvement
• L. van Beethoven, Concerto No 4, opus 58, 1st mouvement