EMCY is the European Union of Music Competitions INTERESTED IN … for Youth: a network of over fifty national and international music competitions for young people across Europe. PARTICIPATING? COLLABORATING? Founded in Brussels in 1970 to develop, co-ordinate BECOMING A MEMBER? and nurture a system of music competitions, we now cover nearly thirty countries from Portugal to Russia FURTHER QUESTIONS? and from Norway to Macedonia. Every year thousands of musicians under the age of twenty-five take part GET IN CONTACT! in our competitions and our projects reach audiences across the continent. EMCY European Union of Music Competitions for Youth EMCY represents music competitions the world over Trimburgstraße 2/V · 81249 München · Germany and keeps its members connected, enabling them to Tel: +49 89 871 002 42 share educational, practical and musical know-how. Fax: +49 89 871 002 90 Through our Quality Standards we uphold fairness in www.emcy.org our competitions, as well as helping new competitions [email protected] build up their scope, ambitions and results.
We believe that music competitions stimulate passionate musicianship. For many, they’re a first glimpse of performing in public, playing in ensembles, or of breaking out of orthodox repertoire. They foster a sense of healthy self-assessment, can help conquer EMCY is a non-pro t organisation which is nerves, and motivate practise. We believe young people based and registered in Munich (Germany) can be inspired by experiencing fresh interpretations and run by an international board and o ce and discovering new works, and make new friends from other cultures in the process.
EMCY promotes the prize winners of its member com- Member of Associate Member of petitions, arranging tours and concerts for them, and sending them to master classes to further their talents. Projects we oversee include the EuroRadio Youth Concert: a high-pro le concert in a di erent European city every year, in which some of our most promising prize winners are accompanied by orchestra and aired across the continent by the European Broadcasting Union. But the work we undertake is for the bene t of all participants, and all young musicians, everywhere. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication refl ects the views only We don’t think of competitions as the end of the of the author, and the Commission cannot learning process: for us, they’re the beginning. be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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AUSTRIA BULGARIA POLAND ■ Österreichische Jugendmusikwettbewerbe: Musik der Jugend ■ International Competition Young Virtuosos (So a) ■ International Competition for Young Pianists prima la musica CZECH REPUBLIC Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam (Bydgoszcz) ■ Gradus ad Parnassum ■ International Radio Competition for Young Musicians Witold Lutoslawski International Cello podium.jazz.pop.rock … ‘Concertino Praga’ (Prague) Competition (Warsaw) BELGIUM ■ Smetana International Piano Competition (Pilsen) RUSSIA ■ Bel us Classics DENMARK ■ International Competition for Young Pianists CROATIA ■ Aarhus International Piano Competition (Aarhus) ‘A Step Towards Mastery’ (St. Petersburg) ■ ■ International Russian Rotary Children Music HDGPP – Competitions of the United Music ESTONIA Competition (Moscow) and Dance Teachers ■ International Competition of Young Pianists dedicated to the ■ Moscow International David Oistrakh CZECH REPUBLIC Work of Fryderyk Chopin (Narva) Violin Competition (Moscow) ■ National Radio Competition of the Czech Republic GERMANY ■ Mravinsky International Competition for Youth ‘Concertino Praga’ ■ Anna Amalia Competition for Young Guitarists (Weimar) (St. Petersburg) DENMARK / SWEDEN ■ Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists (Ettlingen) SERBIA ■ Øresund Solist ■ International Competition for Violin, Kloster Schöntal (Schöntal) ■ International Competition of Young Musicians FRANCE ■ International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists (Weimar) ■ ‘Petar Konjovic’ (Belgrade) ■ Concours d’excellence – Confédération Musicale de France International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists (Weimar) SLOVAKIA ITALY GERMANY ■ ■ Peter Toperczer International Piano Competition Košice ■ Adriatic Music Competition (Ancona) Jugend musiziert (Košice) LITHUANIA LITHUANIA ■ SPAIN ■ International Balys Dvarionas Competition for Young Pianists National Balys Dvarionas Piano and String Competition ■ International Piano Competition (San Sebastián) and Violinists (Vilnius) LUXEMBOURG ■ UKRAINE ■ International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists (Vilnius) Concours Luxembourgeois pour Jeunes Solistes (UGDA), ■ International Competition for Young Pianists MACEDONIA including European Competition for Young Soloists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz (Kiev) ■ International Competition for Young Musicians ‘Ohrid Pearls’ (Ohrid) MACEDONIA ■ International Vladimir Krainev ■ Competition of the United Music and NETHERLANDS Young Pianists Competition (Kharkov) ■ Charles Hennen Concours, International Chamber Music Dance Teachers of Macedonia UK / USA Competition for Strings (Heerlen) NORWAY ■ Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists ■ Ungdommens Musikkmesterskap (Norwegian Music Competition for Youth) PORTUGAL ■ Prémio Jovens Músicos SLOVAKIA ■ EMCY Slovakia SLOVENIA ■ TEMSIG - Slovenian Music Competition for Youth SPAIN ■ Concurso Permanente de Jóvenes Intérpretes SWITZERLAND ■ Schweizerischer Jugendmusikwettbewerb (SJMW) Klassik Jazz Rock/Pop