February 2021

The Musical America Guide to Top COMPETITIONS Editor’s Note With the arrival of the vaccines, a sliver of light has begun to emerge at the end of a long tunnel. Most presenters and event planners are still in a wait-and-see mode, ever trying to guess when they can return to a semblance of normal business. For competitions, which range from annual to quintennial in their life cycles, this has been particularly challenging: The Musical America Guide to Top Postpone the date of the finals (if you dare predict that far in advance) and consider the cascading impact on every other date in the cycle, from the application deadline to the quarter- and semifinals. Will the venues booked still be available? How about the judges? Will COMPETITIONS they and the contenders be allowed to travel? As such, we have added a few features in the annual Guide to Top Competitions, such as “Pandemic policies and procedures” for each entry, including the option to respond “TBD” for dates and venues. Some have moved the earlier stages of the cycle online, waiting to schedule live rounds until they get the go-ahead from health authorities. Others, like the Bescançon International Competition for Young Conductors, have pushed the application deadline ahead, while maintaining the rest of the original schedule. Perhaps the most novel, not to mention generous, decision was that of the American Pianist Awards, which held its solo semifinals online to choose the finalists and, rather than award one prize to the winner, divided it among the five finalists. It is a testament to all involved that, whether postponing deadlines, changing venues, restructuring the jury, or being forced to make any number of other alterations, these competitions have persevered. Their commitment to bringing new, exceptional talent into the limelight persists, and with that, their continued nourishment and renewal of the field. Regards, Susan Elliott Editor, News and Special Reports

COVER PHOTO: Belvedere Singing Competition 2019 in Villach, Austria. Left to right: 2nd Prize Opera: Boikhutso Owen Metsileng (tenor, South Africa); 1st Prize Opera: Valeriia Savinskaia (soprano, ); 3rd Prize Opera: Slávka Zámečníková (soprano, Slovakia). CREDIT: © Ferdinand Neumüller THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 1 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 The following listings were drawn from the 2021 Musical America Worldwide database. COMPETITIONS Note that the majority have first-prize monies of $10,000 and over. American Pianists Awards...... 3 International Competition Rotterdam...... 22 The 10th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition...... 41 Sing Finzi 2021...... 50 The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions International Music Competition Cologne...... 23 PianoArts...... 42 The Solti Foundation U.S...... 50 in the Performing Arts...... 4 International Competition of Orléans...... 23 Piazzolla Music Competition...... 42 Sphinx Competition...... 51 ARD International Music Competition...... 4 International Competition of Indianapolis...... 24 PIMF Online Virtual Competition...... 43 Wilhelm Stenhammar The Azrieli Music Prizes...... 5 International Violin Competition Stuttgart...... 25 Plowman Chamber Music Competition...... 43 International Music Competition (WSIMC)...... 51 2021 Gina Bachauer International Junior & International Vocal Competition ’s-Hertogenbosch...... 25 Primrose International Competition®...... 44 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition...... 52 Young Artists Piano Competitions...... 6 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition...... 26 Princess Astrid International Music Competition...... 45 Stulberg International String Competition...... 53 Banff International String Quartet Competition...... 6 The Jinji Lake International Piano Competition...... 26 Queen Elisabeth Competition—Belgium – ...... 45 Sydney International Piano Competition...... 53 Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S Bach Competition...... 7 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover...... 27 The Queen Sonja International Music Competition...... 46 Takamatsu International Piano Competition...... 54 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021...... 7 Johansen International Competition Rapido!® A 14 Day Composition Contest...... 46 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2022...... 55 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition...... 8 for Young String Players (Ages 13-17)...... 27 The 16th International Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition...... 55 Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors...... 9 The Lotte Lenya Competition...... 28 Piano Master Competition...... 47 37th Valsesia Musica International Competition 2021...... 56 Blue Danube/Béla Bartók International Opera Conducting The Gerda Lissner Foundation Lieder Song VC in Association Paloma O’Shea Santander International Walgreens National Concerto Competition...... 57 Competition 2021 (8th Edition)...... 9 with the Liederkranz Foundation...... 29 Piano Competition...... 47 16th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition...... 57 William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition...... 10 10th International Piano Competition Schadt String Competition...... 48 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition...... 58 Canadian International Organ Competition...... 11 Weimar-Bayreuth 2021...... 29 Schmidt Vocal Competition...... 49 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition...... 59 National Chopin Piano Competition of the United States...... 11 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition 2021...... 30 and Modern Music...... 49 Young Concert Artists International Auditions...... 59 Christmas Carol Commission Competition...... 12 Liszt Competition ...... 31 Cleveland International Piano Competition...... 12 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition...... 31 Sixteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...... 13 La Maestra International Competition Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival...... 14 for Women Conductors...... 32 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Virtual Competition...... 14 The Mahler Competition...... 32 Concours Musical International de Montréal—CMIM...... 15 Malko Competition for Young Conductors...... 33 The Cooper-Bing Vocal Competition...... 15 Fourth International Éva Marton Singing Competition...... 33 International A Cappella Video Competition—Cork Eleanor Mccollum Competition...... 34 International Choral Festival...... 16 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...... 35 Dublin International Piano Competition...... 16 Midwest National Chamber Music Competition...... 35 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition...... 17 Monte Carlo Piano Masters...... 36 Geneva International Music Competition...... 18 MTNA National Student Competitions...... 37 Global Music Awards...... 18 Music International Grand Prix...... 37 The 17th International Piano Competition...... 19 National Association of Teachers of Singing Competitions ...... 38 The Musical America Guide to Top 2022 Hilton Head International Piano Competition...... 19 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition...... 39 Honens International Piano Competition...... 20 The New York International Piano Competition...... 39 The Hong Kong International Piano Competition 2022...... 21 Carl Nielsen International Competition...... 40 International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn...... 21 The International Oboe Competition of Japan...... 40 COMPETITIONS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 2 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 AMERICAN PIANISTS AWARDS

The American Pianists Awards are held every two years to discover the best aspiring American jazz or classical pianists. Winners receive cash and two years of career advancement and support valued at over $100,000, making this one of the most coveted prizes in the music world. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Due to the pandemic, the schedule for the 2021 MAIN OFFICE Awards was altered, with the solo recitals moving 4603 Clarendon Road to an online format. All five finalists were awarded Suite 030 a cash prize of $50,000 to address the dire situation Indianapolis, IN 46208 musicians are living with at the moment. UNITED STATES 317-940-9945 Solo Recitals (May 23 – June 23, 2021): Over the email website course of five weeks, each finalist will perform a solo recital to a livestream audience. ELIGIBILITY American citizens between 18 and 30 years old. FINALS (live rounds) Celebration Weekend (June 26-28, 2021): The culmi- ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano nation of the American Pianists Awards brings all five PANDEMIC & SAFETY finalists together for adjudicated performances across Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: multiple genres: Friday night chamber music with ✔ Scheduled? Dover Quartet; Saturday night with the In- TBD Accepting applications? dianapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz; Sunday afternoon solo pieces and the nam- DETAILS ing of the winner of the Awards and Christel DeHaan Travel covered? Yes Fellowship. All rounds take place in Indianapolis, IN. Frequency Biennial First prize More than $50,000 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Smallest prize $11,000 to $50,000 ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed 2021 AMERICAN PIANISTS AWARDS Additional prizes ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Performances, Management, Recording PAST COMPETITION WINNERS LIVESTREAMING ON FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE @APAPIANISTS Jury chair(s) Not provided 2017 Drew Petersen, classical SOLO RECITALS MAY 23, 30, 2021 | JUNE 6, 13, 20, 2021 Additional jurors TBA 2015 Sullivan Fortner, jazz CHAMBER MUSIC WITH DOVER QUARTET JUNE 25, 2021 Jury size 11 or more 2013 Sean Chen, classical CONCERTOS WITH INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNDER MAESTRO GERARD SCHWARZ Application deadline Not provided 2011 Aaron Diehl, jazz JUNE 26, 2021 Application notes 2009 Grace Fong & Adam Golka, classical Applications are accepted by nomination only. CELEBRATION CONCERT AND WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT JUNE 27, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS REGISTER FOR UPDATES AT AMERICANPIANISTS.ORG/NEWSLETTER

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 3 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE AMERICAN PRIZE NATIONAL ARD INTERNATIONAL NONPROFIT COMPETITIONS IN THE PERFORMING ARTS MUSIC COMPETITION

The American Prize provides evaluation, recognition, DETAILS One of the most renowned and large-scale DETAILS and reward to America’s finest performing artists, Travel covered? No competitions of its kind takes place every year in Travel covered? No ensembles, composers, and directors based Frequency Annual four varying categories. The invitation to participate Frequency Annual on recorded performances. Categories include First prize Less than $10,000 in this competition is extended to young musicians First prize €10,000 to €50,000 professional, college/university, community, high Smallest prize Less than $5,000 who are ready to launch an international career. Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 school. No age limits. No live competition. Additional prize Performances Additional prizes Jury chair David (Volosin) Katz MAIN OFFICE Performances, Recording The American Prize is proud to have awarded nearly Additional jurors Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD Jury chairs $100,000 in cash prizes in all categories since 2010. Sharon Sweet, voice; Susanne Mentzer, voice; c/o Bayerischer Rundfunk Horn: Froydis Ree Wekre; Piano Duo: Rundfunkplatz 1 MAIN OFFICE Jeffrey Biegel, piano; Lorin Hollander, piano; Andreas Groethuysen; Voice: Felicity Lott; Judith Zaimont, composition 80335 Munich Violin: Mihalea Martin 25 Hamilton Drive, Suite 100 The Opera Cottage Jury size 1 to 5 Jury size 6 to 10 Application fee +49 89 5900 42471 Application fee Danbury, CT 06811 email website UNITED STATES $50 individuals; $90 ensembles €10 application fee, €90 / €110 participation fee 203-746-2694 Application deadline August 3, 2021 ELIGIBILITY (soloists/piano duos) email website Application notes The Competition is open to musicians of all nations: Application deadline March 31, 2021 Deadline for composers, chamber musicians, horn and violin—born between 1992 and 2004; Application notes ELIGIBILITY instrumental soloists, classical vocalists and pianists voice—born between 1989 and 2001; piano duo— Online application starting from mid-February Open to all U.S. citizens, whether living in this is July 7, 2021. Deadline for conductors, ensembles, total age maximum 60, single members not younger SEMIFINALS (live rounds) country or abroad, and to others currently stage directors, arts administrators, and American than 17 and not older than 35. living, working and/or studying in the U.S., its music performance is August 3, 2021. There will • Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich, protectorates, and territories. likely be some flexibility in these dates, based on the ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Germany: Piano Duo: September 5, 2021 state of the pandemic. Piano • Strings • Voice • Horn • Piano Duo • Prinzregententheater, Munich, Germany: Horn, ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES September 7, 2021; Voice, September 9, 2021; Violin, Conducting • Piano • Strings • Voice • Composition FINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY September 10, 2021 • Chorus • Band • Opera Companies • Arts Adminis- The American Prize jurists judge recorded perfor- Pandemic policies and procedures for this tration • Chamber Ensembles • Instrumental Soloists mances only, submitted via online links or on disc. Competition FINALS (live rounds) Semifinalists, Finalists, Runners-Up and Winners Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: • Prinzregententheater, Munich, Germany: Voice, PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Scheduled? September 11, 2021 Pandemic policies and procedures for this are announced separately over the course of the contest year. ✔ Accepting applications? • Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich, Germany: Competition Piano Duo, September 8, 2021; Horn: September 10, Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? 2021; Violin: September 12, 2021 ✔ Scheduled? ✖ Not open to the public ✔ Accepting applications? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 4 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE AZRIELI MUSIC PRIZES Azrieli Music Prizes offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in new concert music by awarding three ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Music Composition prize packages each valued at $200,000 CAD. PANDEMIC & SAFETY The Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music is awarded to a Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: composer who has written the best undiscovered ✔ Scheduled? work of Jewish music. ✔ Accepting applications? The Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music DETAILS encourages composers to creatively and critically Travel covered? Yes engage with the question, "What is Jewish music?" Frequency Biennial The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music invites First prize $10,000 to $50,000 Canadian composers to creatively and critically Additional prizes engage with the complexities of composing Performances, Recording concert music in today. Jury chairs MAIN OFFICE Jewish Prizes: Boris Brott (L’Orchestre classique 22 St. Clair Avenue West, Suite 202 de Montréal) / Canadian Prize: Ana Sokolovic Toronto, ON M4T 2S3 (Université de Montréal) CANADA Jury size 6 to 10 Application fee 0 416-322-5928 x326 Application deadline May 2, 2021 email website Application notes ELIGIBILITY • The Call for Scores and Proposals for the 2022 The 2022 Azrieli Music Prizes are calling for works for AMP Competition will open February 1, 2021. • The symphony orchestra. Composers will have the option Azrieli Commissioning Prizes have a deadline of to also include up to two (2) solo instruments. May 2, 2021. • The Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music has a deadline of August 1, 2021. • Submissions will be Both Jewish Music Prizes are open to composers accepted via our Accepted online application site. worldwide. Scores, proposals, and supporting • The 2022 AMP Laureates will be publicly documents are accepted from nominators and announced mid-November 2021. • Visit the individuals of all genders, faiths, backgrounds, and competition website for more information. affiliations. The winning submissions are chosen by the AMP Jury for Jewish Music. FINALS (live rounds) The 2022 AMP Gala Concert will be held mid- The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music is October in , Canada. offered to a Canadian composer to create a new musical work that creatively and critically engages COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? with the challenges of composing concert music in ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed Canada today. ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 5 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 2021 GINA BACHAUER INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR & BANFF INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS PIANO COMPETITIONS STRING QUARTET COMPETITION

Postponed from 2020; the selected competitors of DETAILS Since 1983 BISQC has celebrated the art of chamber PANDEMIC & SAFETY the Bachauer Junior and Young Artists Competitions Travel covered? No music while providing career support for emerging Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: continue their quest for medals and their share of Frequency Biennial string quartets. Join the most dedicated chamber ✔ Scheduled? $62,000 in cash prizes in June 2021. First prize $10,000 to $50,000 music audience on the planet for a once-in-a- TBD Accepting applications? Smallest prize Less than $5,000 lifetime experience. Outstanding music-making, MAIN OFFICE Additional prize Recording enlightening lectures, passionate discussions, DETAILS 138 West 300 South, Suite 220 Jury chair Douglas Humpherys delicious food, and spectacular mountain vistas Travel covered? Yes Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Additional jurors await you. Frequency Triennial UNITED STATES Alvin Chow (USA), Rae de Lisle (New Zealand), First prize $10,000 to $50,000 801-297-4250 Miyoko Lotto (Japan/U.S.), Frank Weinstock (U.S.), MAIN OFFICE Smallest prize Less than $5,000 email website Eleanor Wong (Hong Kong), Bernd Zack (Germany) 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive Additional prizes Jury size 6 to 10 PO Box 1020 Performances, Recording ELIGIBILITY Banff, AB T1L 1H5 Jury chair The 2021 Gina Bachauer International Piano Application fee $150 Application deadline September 15, 2019 CANADA Barry Shiffman, director, BISQC Competition is open to pianists of any nationality, 403-762-6231 Jury size 6 to 10 ages 11-14 (Junior) and ages 15-18 (Young Artist). SEMIFINALS (live rounds) email website Application fee $200 CDN ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano June 13-27, 2021 Rose Wagner Performing Arts Application deadline Center Salt Lake City, UT ELIGIBILITY Applications will open October 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY • The Competition is open to string quartets of all Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: FINALS (live rounds) nationalities whose members are under the age of SEMIFINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? June 19 and 20, 2021 Rose Wagner Performing Arts 35 on August 29, 2022. September 4, 2022, at the Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff TBD Accepting applications? Center Salt Lake City, UT • First and second prize winners of any previous Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB, Canada Banff International String Quartet Competition (three quartets advance to the finals) COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? (BISQC) are ineligible to apply.* ✔ TBD Semifinals Semifinals streamed • Quartets may compete in BISQC a maximum of two FINALS (live rounds) ✔ TBD Finals Finals streamed times only. Quartets that have already competed September 4, 2022, at the Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB, Canada SOCIAL LINKS twice in BISQC are excluded from participation.* *For the purposes of rules 2 and 3, a quartet will be COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? considered the same quartet if 50 percent of the ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed personnel are returning. ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 6 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 LILLIAN AND MAURICE BARBASH BBC CARDIFF J.S BACH COMPETITION SINGER OF THE WORLD 2021

For string players ages 16-30. Entrants will submit DETAILS BBC Cardiff Singer of the World is known throughout DETAILS a videotaped performance of two contrasting Travel covered? No the world as one of the premiere Travel covered? Yes movements of a work written by J.S. Bach for Frequency Annual showcases for young professional singers at Frequency Biennial unaccompanied string instrument (, Partitas First prize Less than $10,000 the start of their careers. It is broadcast on BBC First prize €10,000 to €50,000 or Suites). Application deadline: October 10, 2021. Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Television, Radio, and online, and can be seen and Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Finalists will play a complete work at the Finals Additional prize Performances heard throughout the world. The Main Prize is for Additional prize Performances on December 1, 2021. Grand prize: $5000; second Jury chair opera and oratorio with orchestra; the Song Prize is Jury chair place: $1000. Competition does not name a jury chair for art song with piano. Aidan Lang, general director, Welsh National Opera Additional jurors Additional jurors To be confirmed MAIN OFFICE Colin Carr, cellist, Stony Brook University; Eugene MAIN OFFICE Jury size 1 to 5 PO Box 699 Drucker, violinist, Emerson String Quartet, Stony BBC Cymru Wales Application deadline August 31, 2020 Babylon, NY 11702 Brook University; Arthur Hass, harpsichordist Central Square Application notes UNITED STATES and organist, Yale School of Music, Stony Brook Cardiff CF10 1FT Deadline for the competition was 31 August 2020 516-639-8575 University; two more jurors will be announced WALES email website Jury size 1 to 5 +44 7872 968098 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) email website Main Prize Preliminary Rounds: four concerts, June ELIGIBILITY Application fee $25 Application deadline October 10, 2021 13-16, 2021, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. Entrants must be between the age of 16 and 30 ELIGIBILITY Song Prize Preliminary Rounds: Four recitals, on the date of the finals, December 1, 2021. The Application notes Open to singers of any nationality, at the beginning The application for the 2021 Competition will be June12-17, 2021, at Royal Welsh College of Music Competition is open to U.S. and non-U.S. citizens. of their professional careers, who will have probably and Drama, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. Entrants may play on either baroque or modern available on July 1, 2021. studied at a conservatoire of music or equivalent. bowed instrument. FINALS (live rounds) Entrants must have been born between June 20, FINALS (live rounds) 1988, and June 11, 2003. See the rules on our Main Prize Final: June 19, 2021 • Song Prize Final: ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Wednesday, December 1, 2021: 1pm, Staller Recital Hall, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY website for more details. June 17, 2021 • Both at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, PANDEMIC & SAFETY Wales, U.K. COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice Pandemic policies and procedures for this COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Competition ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed TBD Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ ✔ Scheduled? SOCIAL LINKS Scheduled? ✔ Accepting applications? TBD Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 7 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 INTERNATIONAL HANS GABOR BELVEDERE SINGING COMPETITION

Since 1982 the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Jury chair Singing Competition is one of the world’s best John Mordler, artistic director, Opera Monte Carlo networked singing competitions with qualifying Additional jurors rounds in more than 70 cities worldwide each year. Additional jurors include Henning Ruhe, künstlerischer betriebsdirektor, Bayerische MAIN OFFICE Staatsoper; designated artistic director, Seidengasse 32/3/52 Göteborgsoperan; Christina Scheppelmann, 1070 Vienna general director, Seattle Opera; Florian Scholz, AUSTRIA intendant, Konzert Theater Bern; Christoph Seuferle, +43 681-110400572 operndirektor, Deutsche Oper Berlin; Diane Zola, email website assistant general manager, Metropolitan Opera. ELIGIBILITY Jury size 11 or more Singers (males/females) of all nationalities are Application fee invited to enter the Competition, born between €48 registration fee; €168 finals fee 1989 and 2003. See the rules on our website for Application deadline more details. Varies according to the 70 qualifying rounds ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice SEMIFINALS (live rounds) June 21 -27, 2021: Enrollment, 1st Rounds, PANDEMIC & SAFETY Semifinals and Finals at the Theater Erfurt, Erfurt, Pandemic policies and procedures for this Germany competition Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: FINALS (live rounds) First prize: ✔ Scheduled? June 27, 2021: Finals Concert with orchestra at the 30 000 TBD Accepting applications? Theater Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany Euro DETAILS COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Travel covered? No ✔ Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed Frequency Annual ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed First prize Less than €10,000 SOCIAL LINKS Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Additional prize Performances

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 8 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 BESANÇON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION BLUE DANUBE/BÉLA BARTÓK INTERNATIONAL FOR YOUNG CONDUCTORS OPERA CONDUCTING COMPETITION 2021 (8TH EDITION)

Established in 1951, the Besançon Competition Jury chair Paul Daniel Competition tests (during three rounds) how well a DETAILS is the most complete conducting competition in Additional jurors conductor works with a professional opera house’s Travel covered? No the world with classical, Romantic, 20th-century, Camille Pépin, composer; Jacques Mercier, orchestra, choir, and soloists. The jury evaluates Frequency Biennial and contemporary music, oratorio, opera. It is conductor; Jean-François Verdier, conductor; the conductors’ ability to rehearse verbally and Additional prize Performances the only one where candidates are selected Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor; three last members also guide and inspire those on stage non-verbally, Jury chair during live preliminary rounds (and not on their to be confirmed through gesture and command. Maestro Igor Dohovic, intendant, Slovak National documentation). Jury size 6 to 10 Theatre Košice Application fee €250 MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors MAIN OFFICE Application deadline February 10, 2021 Blue Danube Musikimpresario GmbH Maestro Nayden Todorov, opera and symphonic Festival de musique Application notes Strozzigasse 31 conductor, Bulgaria; Maestro Selmeczi György, 2 rue Morand Registration subject to availability. A-1080 Wien (Vienna) conductor, Hungarian Opera, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 25000 Besançon AUSTRIA Maestro Larry Newland, opera and symphonic FRANCE SEMIFINALS (live rounds) +43 1 405 4030; +43 660 944 1659; +43 660 944 1658 conductor, U.S.; Maestro Niels Muus, opera and +33 381250585 • Berlin, Germany: Date and place to be confirmed email website symphonic conductor, Austria/Denmark email website • , : Central Conservatory of Music, to be Jury size 1 to 5 confirmed • Montréal, Canada: Faculté de musique ELIGIBILITY Application fee ELIGIBILITY de l’Université de Montréal • Besançon, France: No age limit. Conductors must submit their CV; €50; deposit: €325; balance fee: €620 The Competition is open to candidates of Conservatoire à rayonnement régional du Grand recent video/audio tapes of opera, symphonic or Application deadline May 3, 2021 any nationality under the age of 35; no prior Besançon • , France: École normale de musique other conducting; and complete the application Application notes qualifications are required. Alfred-Cortot form found on the Competition’s webpage. Acceptance based on training and experience Open until 65 conductors apply, are accepted, and ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Conducting FINALS (live rounds) appropriate for such a Competition. confirm their Competition places with deposits. Final rounds in Besançon, September 13-18, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) 1st round Symphony • 2nd round Symphony • Semi- ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Conducting Pandemic policies and procedures for this The first two rounds take place with State Opera final Oratorio & Opera • Final Symphony and World Competition PANDEMIC & SAFETY Stara Zagora/Bulgaria June 14-25, 2021, with their Premiere Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: entire opera company: orchestra, choir, soloists, ✔ Scheduled? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Scheduled? pianists, stage manager, and stage director. TBD Accepting applications? ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed ✔ Accepting applications? FINALS (live rounds) ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed DETAILS The final (3rd) round takes place June 26-29, 2021, Travel covered? Yes SOCIAL LINKS with State Opera Stara Zagora’s entire company: Frequency Biennial orchestra, choir, soloists, pianists, stage manager, First prize €10,000 to €50,000 and stage director. Additional prizes Performances, Management COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✖ Finals streamed

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 9 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 WILLIAM C. BYRD YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION WILLIAM C. BYRD YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION (cont’d)

The William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition was ELIGIBILITY DETAILS SEMIFINALS (live rounds) started by William C. Byrd, conductor of the Flint Contestants cannot have an agent. Instrumentalists Travel covered? No 2022: Winds & Brass, March 5, 2022, semifinal round, Symphony Orchestra, for the purpose of helping cannot be older than 32 on the day of the Byrd Frequency Annual 8 am to 5 pm, (times may vary), Flint Institute of launch careers for young musicians. Following his Competition, and vocalists cannot be older than 35 First prize Less than $10,000 Music, Flint, MI untimely death, the St. Cecilia Society of Flint, MI, on the day of the Competition. Smallest prize Less than $5,000 has continued to sponsor the annual classical music Additional prize Performances FINALS (live rounds) competition. The upcoming competitions are: ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Jury chair(s) N/A 2022: Winds & Brass, March 5, 2022 (five finalists in 2021—Postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic Woodwinds & Brass (2022) • Voice (2023) • Piano Jury size 1 to 5 concert, 7 pm), Flint Institute of Music, Flint, MI (2024) • Strings (2025) • 2022—Woodwinds & brass • 2023—Voice Application fee $75 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? • 2024—Piano • 2025—Strings PANDEMIC & SAFETY Application deadline January 12, 2022 ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed MAIN OFFICE Pandemic policies and procedures for this Application notes ✔ Finals ✖ Finals streamed c/o Flint Institute of Music Competition Applications for the 2022 Competition will be 1025 East Kearsley Street Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: accepted beginning November 1, 2021 through Flint, MI 48503 ✖ Scheduled? (Postponed for 2021, but resumes January 12, 2022. UNITED STATES in 2022) 810-964-9399 TBD Accepting applications? email website

VOICE violin clarinet flute THE QUEEN SONJA 2021 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION 31 March – 10 April 2022

AUDITIONROOM, 15 – 16 JUNE 2021 OSLO, 13 – 20 AUGUST 2021 An opportunity of a lifetime!

First prize € 50.000 / Career development session / Masterclasses / Concert opportunities Application deadline 1 April 2021

www.qsimc.no CARLNIELSENCOMPETITION.COM

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 10 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 CANADIAN NATIONAL CHOPIN PIANO INTERNATIONAL ORGAN COMPETITION COMPETITION OF THE UNITED STATES

Competitors from around the world will be meeting DETAILS The next National Chopin Piano Competition will be Jury chair in Montréal for the chance to win over $95,000 Travel covered? Yes held in 2025. Open to U.S. citizens who demonstrate Kevin Kenner, faculty member, Frost School of USD in cash and other prizes. They are immersed Frequency Triennial a professional level of performance and held every Music, University of Miami in an intensive program, with an international jury First prize $10,000 to $50,000 five years, the National Competition follows the Additional jurors and supportive CIOC team, allowing them to leave Smallest prize Less than $5,000 rules of the International Chopin Competition in Ning An, U.S., winner of 2000 National Chopin Montreal as more confident musicians. Additional prizes Warsaw. U.S. winners are automatically accepted to & 2003 William Kapell Int’l Piano Competitions; Performances, Management, Recording compete in Warsaw. Edward Auer, U.S., prizewinner of the 1965 Int’l MAIN OFFICE Jury chair Chopin Competition; Dean Kramer, U.S., prizewinner 1200, rue de Bleury Jean-Willy Kunz, artistic director, Canadian MAIN OFFICE of 1975 Int’l Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Montréal, QC H3B 3J3 International Organ Competition 1440 79th Street Causeway, Suite 117 in Warsaw; Jon Nakamatsu, U.S., gold medalist CANADA Additional jurors Miami, FL 33141 at 1997 Van Cliburn Int’l, 1995 National Chopin 514-510-5678 Martin Baker (U.K.); Bernard Foccroulle (Belgium); UNITED STATES Competitions; Ewa Poblocka, Poland, prizewinner of email website Michael Kapsner (Germany); Rachel Laurin (Canada); 305-868-0624 the 1980 Int’l Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition email website ELIGIBILITY William Porter (U.S.); Louis Robilliard (France); in Warsaw; Antonio Pompa-Baldi, U.S., winner of the The CIOC is open to organists of all nationalities Dong-Ill Shin (South Korea); Patricia Wright (Canada) ELIGIBILITY 1999 Cleveland International Piano Competition; born after October 21, 1985. To be admitted to Jury size 6 to 10 The National Chopin Piano Competition is open to Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, Poland, acclaimed the CIOC, candidates must send a completed Application fee $112 pianists holding U.S. citizenship (native born and piano pedagogue and competition juror; Margarita registration file bearing a postmark prior to January Application notes naturalized) between the ages of 16 and 30. Shevchenko, Russia/U.S. prizewinner of the 31, 2020. Only complete files will be processed. The The application deadline for our 2021 Competition Cleveland and Chopin Int’l Piano Competitions First Prize winner of any previous CIOC competition is already passed. ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano Jury size 6 to 10 Application fee $100 is ineligible to apply. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Application deadline TBD ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Organ Organ performance: October 17-18, 2021 at Saint- Application notes Jean-Baptiste Church in Montréal, QC, Canada. ✔ Scheduled? PANDEMIC & SAFETY TBD Accepting applications? This competition is held every five years. Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: FINALS (live rounds) DETAILS FINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? Organ performance: October 22, 2021 at Maison Piano, February 2025 in Miami, FL TBD Accepting applications? symphonique in Montréal, QC, Canada. Travel covered? No Frequency Quinquennial COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? First prize More than $50,000 ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ ✔ Semifinals Semifinals streamed Smallest prize $5,000 to $10,000 ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Additional prizes SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS Performances, Recording

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 11 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 CHRISTMAS CAROL CLEVELAND COMMISSION COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir announces DETAILS Fifteen days of exquisite performances, informative DETAILS its 12th annual Christmas Carol Commission Travel covered? Yes round-table discussions, and parties. Audiences Travel covered? Yes Competition as part of its commitment to the future Frequency Annual experience the best of the best and the First Prize Frequency Quadrennial of choral music. First prize Less than $10,000 winner takes home an award of $75,000, a Carnegie First prize More than $50,000 Jury chair(s) Not provided Hall recital debut, a recording on the Steinway & Smallest prize Less than $5,000 MAIN OFFICE Jury size 1 to 5 Sons label, and the launch of a U.S. concert career. Additional prizes 4600 Sunset Avenue Application deadline May 31, 2021 Performances, Management, Recording Lilly Hall 040A Application notes MAIN OFFICE Jury chair Matti Raekallio Indianapolis, IN 46208 Compositions must be in PDF format and emailed 20600 Chagrin Boulevard, Suite 1110 Additional jurors UNITED STATES to [email protected]. No consideration Shaker Heights, OH 44122 Hung-Kuan Chen, Noriko Ogawa, Matan Porat, Muza 317-940-9057 will be given to entries received after the deadline. UNITED STATES Rubackyte, Margarita Shevchenko, Balázs Szokolay, email website Submitted materials will not be returned. Questions 216-707-5397 Mira Yevtich email website ELIGIBILITY may be e-mailed to [email protected]. Jury size 6 to 10 Composers 35 years of age or younger (as of There is no entry fee, although a submission form ELIGIBILITY Application fee $150 December 1, 2021) who are U.S. citizens or legal must accompany the composition. Open to pianists of any nationality between the Application deadline Not applicable Application notes residents may submit one composition. Submitted FINALS (live rounds) ages of 18 and 32. Eligibility for the Competition works must be original, unpublished, and have is determined by the contestant’s age as of This Competition was postponed from 2020; The winner will be notified by September 30, 2021, contestants have already been selected. not been publicly performed; between three and and the selected composition will be performed August 8, 2020. five minutes long; written for SATB, mixed adult by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir at its annual ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano FINALS (live rounds) choir; and may be a cappella or utilize keyboard Festival of Carols performances in Indianapolis, IN. A August 6-7, 2021, Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH accompaniment. Text and language are at the cash prize of $2,500 plus travel and lodging for the PANDEMIC & SAFETY discretion of the composer and should be suitable world premiere in December 2021 will be awarded Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ ✔ for a Christmas/holiday performance. to the winning composer. ✔ Scheduled? Semifinals Semifinals streamed TBD Accepting applications? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Composition COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? SOCIAL LINKS PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✖ Not open to the public Pandemic policies and procedures for this SOCIAL LINKS Competition Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Accepting applications?

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 12 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 SIXTEENTH VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

50th Anniversary (1972-2022) Cash and career management prize packages are DETAILS valued at over $2 million, including concert tours, Travel covered? Yes publicity packages and training, websites, and Frequency Quadrennial individualized artistic and financial consultation. First prize More than $50,000 JULY 25-AUG 5, 2022 Widespread exposure for participants features Smallest prize Less than $5,000 global media coverage; an HD, fully produced Additional prizes Applications open from webcast to millions internationally; and large-scale Performances, Management, Recording media projects. Jury chair April 30 to October 18, 2021 Marin Alsop, music director, Baltimore Symphony MAIN OFFICE Orchestra www.santanderpianocompetition.com 201 Main Street, Suite 100 Contact: [email protected] Additional jurors Fort Worth, TX 76102 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, pianist; Rico Gulda, pianist UNITED STATES and head of artistic planning and dramaturgy, 817-738-6536 Wiener Konzerthaus; Andreas Haefliger, pianist; Wu email website Han, pianist and co-artistic director of The Chamber ELIGIBILITY Music Society of Lincoln Center; Stephen Hough, Age 18 to 30. First-prize winners of previous Cliburn pianist; Anne-Marie McDermott, pianist, artistic Competitions are not eligible to compete. director of the Bravo! Vail Music, and Chamber Music Co-produced by INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AND curator for Mainly Mozart Festival; Gabriela Montero, ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano pianist; Orli Shaham, pianist; Lilya Zilberstein, pianist ACADEMY FOR WOMEN CONDUCTORS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Jury size 6 to 10 Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Application fee $125 2nd edition ✔ Scheduled? Application deadline October 14, 2021 3 - 6 March 2022 ✔ Accepting applications? SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Paris - France Piano, June 8-12, 2022, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX 1st Prize - € 20,000 Professionnal engagements 2nd Prize - € 10,000 + and career support FINALS (live rounds) 3rd Prize - € 5,000 for 2 years Piano, June 14-18, 2021, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX

APPLICATIONS COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed 1 March - 3 September 2021 ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS www.lamaestra-paris.com | [email protected]

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 13 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL CONCERT ARTISTS GUILD JUNIOR PIANO COMPETITION AND FESTIVAL VICTOR ELMALEH VIRTUAL COMPETITION

Quadrennial international competition for 13- to DETAILS CAG is committed to supporting the highest level ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES 17-year-old pianists held in Dallas, TX, on the Travel covered? Yes of musician by recognizing their full potential in an Piano • Strings • Voice • All solo instruments campus of SMU and at Meyerson Symphony Center. Frequency Quadrennial ever-changing world. Prizes include: International • Chamber Ensembles All performances webcast live and on demand. Final First prize $10,000 to $50,000 management (North American and European); Round performances with the Dallas Symphony Smallest prize Less than $5,000 performances at both Merkin Concert Hall in New PANDEMIC & SAFETY Orchestra. Jury chair(s) Not provided York and Wigmore Hall in London; professional Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Jury size 6 to 10 career development and coaching. Scheduled? ✔ MAIN OFFICE Application deadline January 10, 2023 Accepting applications? 201 Main Street, Suite 100 MAIN OFFICE Application notes DETAILS Fort Worth, TX 76102 Applications will open in January 2022. Concert Artists Guild UNITED STATES 135 East 57th Street, 7th Floor Travel covered? No 817-738-6536 FINALS (live rounds) New York, NY 10022 Frequency Annual email website Piano: June 2023 (TBA). Meyerson Symphony Center. UNITED STATES First prize Less than $10,000 Dallas, Texas. Three finalists perform full concertos 212-333-5200 Additional prizes ELIGIBILITY with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Webcast live email website Performances, Management Competitors must be 13 to 17 years of age. and on demand. Jury chair(s) Not provided ELIGIBILITY Jury size 6 to 10 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? The 2021 competition is open to all instruments, Application fee $130 PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed voice, and chamber ensembles. See website for the Application deadline March 25, 2021 Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed full list. Application notes ✔ Age limits as of March 25, 2021: The early bird deadline is February 25, 2021 (save Scheduled? SOCIAL LINKS TBD Accepting applications? • Solo instrumentalists: 28 • Instrumental ensembles $40 on the application fee) (including those with one singer): average age of 30 • Solo singers: 30 • Vocal ensembles: average age of 30 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) —If you are over the age limit, you must include a April 2021, online submission statement explaining why you are in the early stages FINALS (live rounds) of your professional career. The final round will consist of a virtual —No individual member of an instrumental announcement of the winners which will be live- ensemble may be over age 35; no individual streamed on June 8. member of a vocal ensemble may be over age 40 —Ensembles should have been in existence with COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? the same membership since at least March 25, 2020 ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed (12 months prior to the competition deadline). ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Please note: CAG represents solo singers for recitals, SOCIAL LINKS chamber music, and orchestral engagements only, but not for opera.

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 14 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 CONCOURS MUSICAL THE COOPER-BING INTERNATIONAL DE MONTRÉAL—CMIM VOCAL COMPETITION

The CMIM is one of the world’s most highly regarded DETAILS The purpose of the Cooper-Bing Competition is to DETAILS classical music competitions; one of only two Travel covered? Yes discover, recognize, and encourage young operatic Travel covered? No competitions in North America to be held annually Frequency Annual talent. Opera stars perform in a new competition Frequency Annual and present three disciplines (voice, violin, piano) First prize More than $50,000 format, with a top prize of $10,000. First prize $10,000 to $50,000 in a three-year rotation. Prizes total $150,000 Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Smallest prize Less than $5,000 dollars per cycle and winners benefit from many Additional prizes MAIN OFFICE Jury chair(s) Not provided professional opportunities. The schedule—CMIM Performances, Management, Recording 55 East State Street Additional jurors 2021: Piano; CMIM 2022: Voice; CMIM 2023: Violin; Jury chair Columbus, OH 43215 Barbara Lynne Jamison, general director/CEO, CMIM 2024: Piano. Zarin Mehta, président CMIM UNITED STATES Kentucky Opera; Evans Mirageas, Harry T. Wilks Additional jurors 614-461-8101 artistic director, Cincinnati Opera; third judge TBD MAIN OFFICE Addition jurors have not yet been announced email website Jury size 1 to 5 305, Mont-Royal avenue East Jury size 6 to 10 ELIGIBILITY Application fee $50 Montréal, QC H2T 1P8 Application fee $117 ($150 CAD) Application deadline February 24, 2021 CANADA All applicants must be between 22 and 35 years of Application deadline December 5, 2021 age on May 16, 2021. Application notes 514-845-4108 Application notes Each applicant must submit an application form email website Voice 2022—interested future applicants are ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice online via YAP Tracker. February 24, 2021 is the ELIGIBILITY referred to the Competition website. PANDEMIC & SAFETY deadline for online application, payment, and the supplemental materials. Voice 2022 age limits: born between 1989 and 2004 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Pandemic policies and procedures for this (inclusive) • Violin 2023 age limits: born between Piano 2021—April 26 – May 14, 2021; online here Competition FINALS (live rounds) 1994 and 2007 (inclusive) • Piano 2024 age limits: Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Opera, May 16, 2021, Southern Theatre, born between 1994 and 2008 (inclusive) FINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? Columbus, OH Piano 2021—April 26 – May 14, 2021; online here ✔ Accepting applications? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Piano • Strings • Voice COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ ✔ Semifinals Semifinals streamed TBD Finals TBD Finals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Scheduled? SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 15 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 INTERNATIONAL A CAPPELLA VIDEO COMPETITION— DUBLIN CORK INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

We are excited to announce the expansion of our ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Choral Music The Dublin International Piano Competition is an in- DETAILS international competition program. For the first ternationally renowned competition attracting par- Travel covered? No time this year we are launching a new International PANDEMIC & SAFETY ticipation of the most outstanding young pianists Frequency Triennial A Cappella Video Competition in which choirs from Pandemic policies and procedures for this in the world, adjudicated by a distinguished jury. First prize €10,000 to €50,000 around the world can enter without needing to Competition Smallest prize Less than €5,000 travel abroad! Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: MAIN OFFICE Additional prize Performances ✔ • The choir is not requested to travel to Cork to Scheduled? c/o Axa Insurance Building Jury chair ✔ participate in the competition • National dress is Accepting applications? Dublin Road Dr John O’Conor, artistic director, Dublin encouraged if applicable • There should be no verbal Bray, Co. Wicklow A98 DT89 International Piano Competition DETAILS IRELAND announcements at any point during the presenta- Travel covered? No Additional jurors tion • Finalists will be judged by our international +353 (0)1 2721523 TBD; details will be posted on our website Frequency Annual email website jury • Competition categories are: Female/Upper First prize Less than €10,000 Jury size 11 or more Voices; Lower/Male Voices; Children’s Voices (all sing- Smallest prize Less than €5,000 ELIGIBILITY Application fee ers must be under 18 years of age); Mixed Voices Jury chair(s) Not provided The Competition is open to professional pianists of €200 plus online/acceptance fee Application deadline November 1, 2021 MAIN OFFICE Jury size 1 to 5 all nationalities who were born before May 13, 2004, Cork International Choral Festival Application fee €20 and after May 13, 1992. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Application deadline February 28, 2021 Civic Trust House ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano May 21-22, 2022, Dublin, Ireland. Check website for 50 Pope’s Quay, Cork Application notes updates on the rounds and venues. IRELAND Closing date for receipt of completed applications is, PANDEMIC & SAFETY +353 (0) 21 4215125 usually, 31 October of the preceding year. Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: FINALS (live rounds) ✔ May 24, 2022, Dublin, Ireland email website FINALS (live rounds) Scheduled? ✔ Accepting applications? ELIGIBILITY April 28 – May 2, 2021 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ ✔ • Open to any international choir (excluding Semifinals Semifinals streamed COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland) ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed • Minimum 3 voices / No maximum • Each choir can ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS enter only one competition category. No person may compete as a member of more than one SOCIAL LINKS choir • The video should not have been published previously. After May 2, 2021, the choir can upload the Competition video on their own online channels • Should a high number of applications be received, the Festival reserves the right to shortlist finalists • Depending on the number of entries received, the Festival reserves the right to adjust the Competition categories.

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 16 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION

The 48th Annual Fischoff National Chamber Music DETAILS Competition takes place May 14-16, 2021, in Travel covered? No South Bend, IN. For everyone’s safety, this year’s Frequency Annual Competition will occur virtually. First prize $10,000 to $50,000 Smallest prize Less than $5,000 MAIN OFFICE Additional prize Performances 119 Haggar Hall Jury chair(s) Not provided Notre Dame, IN 46556 Additional jurors UNITED STATES Senior String Division: Julio Elizalde, piano; 574-631-0984 Liz Freivogel, viola; Michael Kannen, ; email website Rachel Barton Pine, violin ELIGIBILITY Senior Wind Division: Valerie Coleman, flute; The Competition is open to instrumental ensembles Louis Hanzlik, trumpet; Chien-Kwan Lin, saxophone; only. Eligibility is open to U.S. and non-U.S. residents. Gail Williams, horn The Competition is unable to accommodate Junior String Division: Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, ensembles that have more than one piano, are vocal cello; James Howsmon, piano; Karen Kim, violin in nature, or require more than three minutes set-up Junior Wind Division: Peter Ellefson, trombone; and tear-down. All members of the ensemble must Kari Landry, clarinet; Zachary Shemon, saxophone perform on separate instruments throughout the Jury size 11 or more Competition but can use various instruments. No Application fee individual may enter or compete in more than one Trios $125; Quartets $165; Quintets $205; ensemble. Sextets $245 Application deadline March 3, 2021 Junior Division ensemble members must not be more than age 18 on May 14, 2021. Senior Division SEMIFINALS (live rounds) ensemble members must not be more than age 35 May 14-16, 2021. For the safety of all, this year’s on May 14, 2021. The average age of Senior Division competition will occur virtually. ensemble members must not exceed 30 years on FINALS (live rounds) May 14, 2021. (The ensemble’s age must average For the safety of all, this year’s Competition will less than 31 years old.) Senior Division ensembles occur virtually. may include members who are age 18 or younger. COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES ✖ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Piano • Strings • Winds • Brass ✖ Finals ✔ Finals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY SOCIAL LINKS Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Accepting applications?

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 17 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 GENEVA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION GLOBAL MUSIC AWARDS

Founded in 1939, the Geneva Competition is one DETAILS The Global Music Awards is a highly rated, well- PANDEMIC & SAFETY of the world’s leading international music competi- Travel covered? No known international music competition that Pandemic policies and procedures for this tions. It aims at discovering, promoting, and sup- Frequency Annual celebrates independent musicians. Global Music Competition porting young talented artists, giving them the nec- First prize €10,000 to €50,000 Awards is widely recognized by industry insiders as Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: essary tools to launch an international career. Next Smallest prize Less than €5,000 giving legitimacy to talented artists. “Global Music ✔ Scheduled? Competition is Cello & Oboe: October 16-29, 2021. Additional prizes Awards is recognized as music’s golden seal of ✔ Accepting applications? Performances, Management, Recording approval.” It is a competition strictly on merit. MAIN OFFICE Jury chairs DETAILS Concours de Genève International Music Cello: Ivan Monighetti, Russia; Oboe: Alexei MAIN OFFICE Travel covered? No Competition Ogrintchouk, Russia 7946 Ivanhoe Avenue, Suite 201 Frequency Annual Bd de Saint-Georges 34 / CP 268 Additional jurors La Jolla, CA 92037 Jury chair 1211 – Genève 8 Cello: Thomas Demenga, Switzerland; Michaela UNITED STATES Thomas Baker, Ph.D., founder, Global Music Awards SWITZERLAND Fukacová, Czech Republic; Ophélie Gaillard, France; 858-779-1420 Additional jurors +41 22 328 62 08 Qin Li-Wei, China/Australia; Shauna Rolston, Canada email website Charles Denler, composer, Gold Medal/Emmy email website Winner; Darlene Koldenhoven, soprano, Oboe: Nora Cismondi, France; Diana Doherty, ELIGIBILITY Australia; Gordon Hunt, U.K.; Evgene Izotov, Russia; Humanitarian, Gold Medal Winner; Ricky Kej, ELIGIBILITY Open to all artists and composers. Submissions composer-conservationist, Gold Medal/Grammy Cello & Oboe 2021: open to candidates born after Yiu Song Lam, China; Marie-Luise Modersohn, may be of any genre, any length. We look for Germany Winner; Elisabet Franch, classical flute, Gold Medal October 29, 1991. artists and composers with outstanding emotional Winner; John Daversa, composer, Jazz Band, Gold Jury size 6 to 10 communication, the ability to transcend, to make ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Application fee €220 Medal Winner; Amanda Abizaid, female vocalist, the listener experience something that is new and Gold Medal Winner; Melissa B, female vocalist, Piano • Strings • Voice • Flute • Oboe • Clarinet • Cello Application deadline April 30, 2021 compelling. We want to be surprised and moved by • Viola • String Quartet • Percussion • Composition Gold Medal Winner; Malek Jandali, composer- SEMIFINALS (live rounds) what we hear. We want to be convinced that those humanitarian, Gold Medal Winner; Berta Moreno, PANDEMIC & SAFETY Geneva, Switzerland: Cello, October 24, 2021; Oboe, we honor can really move an audience. The musical jazz instrumentalist. Gold Medal Winner; Tri Nguyen, Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: October 26, 2021 joy of artists we select must be infectious. We want zither master-fusion, Gold Medal Winner; Dorothy ✔ Scheduled? the artist to remind us why we care about music so Hindman, composer, Gold Medal Winner ✔ Accepting applications? FINALS (live rounds) much in the first place. Jury size 1 to 5 With the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at Victoria ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Application fee $50 Hall, Geneva, Switzerland: Cello, October 28, 2021; Application deadline November 30, 2021 Oboe, October 29, 2021 Conducting • Piano • Strings • Voice • Album • Band • Chamber Music • Classical • Classical Crossover Application notes COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? • Experimental • Jazz • Indie Country & Pop Quarterly entry deadlines: See website. ✔ ✔ Semifinals Semifinals streamed • Instrumental • Live Performance • Operatic Music FINALS (live rounds) ✔ ✔ Finals Finals streamed • Original Score/Sound Track Movie & TV • R&B & No live rounds. Soul • Sound Editing/Sound Mixing • Symphonic SOCIAL LINKS Music • Vocal Group • World Music & Beats COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✖ Not open to the public SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 18 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL 2022 HILTON HEAD EDVARD GRIEG PIANO COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

The Competition will take place at Troldhaugen, DETAILS First prize: $15,000; winner’s recital at Weill Hall Jury chair Grieg’s picturesque home in , , Travel covered? No at Carnegie Hall; return engagement with Hilton Jon Kimura Parker, professor of piano, September 17-25, 2021. Competitors will reside Frequency Biennial Head Symphony Orchestra and other performance Rice University with host families, and those who do not advance First prize €10,000 to €50,000 opportunities. Second prize: $10,000 • Third Additional jurors to the Second Round Semifinal or Final will perform Smallest prize Less than €5,000 prize: $5,000 • Medalist Prize (2): $1,000 • Sascha Competition Jury: Fabio Bidini, chair, piano at a paid concert in the Bergen area. First prize is Additional prize Performances Gorodnitzki Memorial Prize: $1,000. department, Colburn Academy; Olga Kern, €30,000. Jury chair professor, Manhattan School of Music; Tonia Leon, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Norway MAIN OFFICE composer/conductor/professor, Brooklyn College; MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors 7 Lagoon Road, Suite 100 Robin McCabe, professor of Piano, University of KODE Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen Noriko Ogawa, Japan; Uta Weyand, Germany; Pablo Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 Washington; Awadagin Pratt, piano professor, CCM Troldhaugveien 65 Galdo, Spain; Lilya Zilberstein, Germany; Christian UNITED STATES at University of Cincinnati; Logan Skelton, professor N-5232 Paradis – Bergen Ihle Hadland, Norway; Robert Levin, U.S. 843-842-5880 of Piano, University of Michigan NORWAY Jury size 6 to 10 email website Selection Jury: , professor of Piano, +47 55 92 29 92 Application fee €100 Oberlin Conservatory; Marina Lomazov, professor email website ELIGIBILITY Application deadline April 20, 2021 Pianists ages 18 to 30 of Piano, Eastman School of Music; Boris Slutsky, ELIGIBILITY Application notes professor of Piano, Peabody Institute The Competition is open to pianists of all The application and application fee must arrive by ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano Jury size 6 to 10 nationalities born in the years 1987 – 2004. 23:59 CEST on April 20, 2021. PANDEMIC & SAFETY Application fee $135 Pandemic policies and procedures for this Application deadline September 30, 2021 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Application notes Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen, Bergen, Competition PANDEMIC & SAFETY Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Application will be available online on June 1, 2021. Norway: Submission deadline is September 30, 2021 Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: 1st round, solo piano, September 18-20, 2021 • 2nd ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Scheduled? round, solo piano, September 21, 2021 • Semifinal, ✔ Accepting applications? SEMIFINALS (live rounds) ✔ Accepting applications? solo piano & chamber music, September 22, 2021 DETAILS Hilton Head, SC: Rounds I and II (non-elimination)— Travel covered? Yes Monday-Thursday, March 7-10, 2022 • Round III FINALS (live rounds) (semifinal)—Saturday, March 12, 2022 Final, piano soloist with The Bergen Philharmonic Frequency Triennial Orchestra, September 25, 2021, Grieg Hall, Bergen, First prize $10,000 to $50,000 FINALS (live rounds) Norway Smallest prize Less than $5,000 First Presbyterian Church, Hilton Head, SC: Finals Additional prizes (Round III)—Monday, March 17, 2022 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Performances, Recording ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 19 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 Last day to register for 2021: March 1 HONENS www.musicinternationalgrandprix.com INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION (703) 257-9815 [email protected] The Honens International Piano Competition takes Additional prizes Registration for 2022 opens in September place every three years and is considered one of Performances, Management, Recording the world’s most prestigious events of its kind, Jury chair(s) Not provided awarding $100,000 (CAD) and a comprehensive Additional jurors International Music Competition — Carnegie Hall Winners Concert — May 2021 Artist Development Program. Honens prepares Applicant Screening Jury: Jon Kimura Parker, its Laureates for the rigors of professional careers Honens artistic director; Bernadene Blaha; David Voice, Piano, Strings, Winds in music, creating opportunities for growth and Jalbert; Hyeyeon Park Carnegie Hall Winners Concert exposure. First Jury: Katherine Chi; Loie Fallis; Roman Four Age Categories, No age limit Rabinovich; Gilles Vonsattel Sponsored in part by Appcompanist.com MAIN OFFICE $5000 Grand Prix Award, thousands in other awards Flexible accompaniment anywhere, anytime Second Jury: Michel Béroff; Earl Blackburn; Imogen Esteemed Panel of International Judges 1170-105 12 Avenue SW Cooper; Janina Fialkowska; Stewart Goodyear; Ick- 2021 Guest Star: Adam Pascal Calgary, AB T2G 1A1 Choo Moon; Orli Shaham Semifinals in the USA, Canada, , Asia, Australia CANADA Jury size 6 to 10 Promotion on MIGP Social Media 403-299-0130 Application fee $125 New: Adding Percussion and Ensembles in 2022! email website Application deadline October 30, 2020 ELIGIBILITY Application notes Pianists who are no younger than 20 years of age on Applications are now closed for the 2021 October 14, 2021, and no older than 30 years of age Competition. Please check the Honens website for on October 22, 2021. Previous Honens Laureates application details about the 2024 Competition if and professionally managed pianists, are not eligible you are interested in applying. to apply. 70th ARD International Music Competition 2021 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Munich ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano Piano, October 14-18, 2021, Calgary, Canada August 30 to September 17 PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINALS (live rounds) Pandemic policies and procedures for this Piano, October 21-22, 2021, Jack Singer Concert Hall Application deadline Competition at Arts Commons, Calgary, Canada March 31, 2021 Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Accepting applications? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Further competition: DETAILS SOCIAL LINKS September 2022 Travel covered? Yes piano, flute, trombone, Frequency Triennial string quartet First prize More than $50,000 Smallest prize Less than $5,000 www.ard-musikwettbewerb.de Voice Horn Piano Duo Violin

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 20 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL TELEKOM INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2022 BEETHOVEN COMPETITION BONN

Applicants send video recordings; quarter finalists Jury chair(s) The Competition focuses on works by Beethoven DETAILS selected and asked to submit video recordings; 15 No single chairman. Chairmanship by College from every phase of his creative life, along with Travel covered? Yes semifinalists chosen and asked to submit full recitals of Jurors compositions by his predecessors, contemporaries, Frequency Biennial of a free repertoire. Nine who are not chosen to be Additional jurors TBD and successors. Candidates may add works of their First prize €10,000 to €50,000 among the six semifinalists receive performance Jury size 11 or more choosing to the compulsory program. Next Compe- Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 fees. Three prizes awarded in finals. Application fee $150 tition will take place from December 2-11, 2021. Additional prize Performances Application deadline January 31, 2022 Jury chair MAIN OFFICE Application notes MAIN OFFICE Prof. Pavel Gililov, artistic director and chairman of Room 1909, 19th Floor, St. George’s Building, Applications to reach the office of the Competition c/o Beethovenfest Bonn the jury No.2 Ice House Street, Central any time from October 1, 2021 until January 31, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 3 Additional jurors HONG KONG 2022. Should the applicant have problems meeting 53113 Bonn Fumiko Eguchi (Japan); Leslie Howard (Australia); +852 9027 1429 this deadline, he/she should contact our office to GERMANY Yoheved Kaplinsky (U.S.); Daejin Kim (Republic email website agree on an acceptable alternative date. +49 228 181 11 181 of Korea); Marian Lapšanský (Slovakia); Jacques email website Rouvier (France); Konstatin Scherbakov (Russia); ELIGIBILITY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Pianists from all over the world whose dates of birth ELIGIBILITY Yaara Tal (Israel) October 10-17, 2022, Hong Kong City Hall Concert Jury size 6 to 10 are on or later than January 1, 1992 Hall, Hong Kong: full piano recitals by each one of Pianists from all nations, as well as stateless persons, who are between 18 and 32 years old at the time of Application fee €50 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano the 15 semifinalists. Two recitals per day, at 17:00 and Application deadline May 14, 2021 at 20:00, except on October 17, when the last recital the competition are eligible. PANDEMIC & SAFETY Application notes will take place at 17:00, after which there will be jury ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano The application, including all required documents, Pandemic policies and procedures for this deliberation and announcement of six finalists. Competition PANDEMIC & SAFETY must be carried out entirely via our website. Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: FINALS (live rounds) Pandemic policies and procedures for this SEMIFINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong Competition December 8, 2021, Telekom Zentrale, Friedrich- ✔ Accepting applications? • October 19-20, 2022: Finals, Part One—Chamber Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Ebert-Allee 140 53113 Bonn, Germany. Music, three finalists each day, starting at 19:00 ✔ Scheduled? DETAILS • October 22-23, 2022: Finals, Part Two—Concertos, ✔ Accepting applications? FINALS (live rounds) Travel covered? Yes three finalists each day, starting at 19:00 December 10, 2021, chamber music final Telekom Frequency Triennial Zentrale, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee, Bonn, Germany First prize $10,000 to $50,000 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? December 11, 2021, orchestra final Telekom Forum, ✔ Smallest prize $5,000 to $10,000 Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed Landgrabenweg, Bonn, Germany Additional prizes ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed Performances, Recording COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 21 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTING COMPETITION ROTTERDAM

Summer 2021 the International Conducting Additional jurors Competition Rotterdam (ICCR) will see the light Michel van der Aa; Roberta Alexander; of day. Presenting a completely new format with Anja Bihlmaier; Deborah Borda; Martyn Brabbins; multiple rounds during which young conductors Jonathan Darlington; Sian Edwards; Iván Fischer; get a chance to work with numerous orchestras, Jane Glover; Ara Guzelimian; Antony Hermus; such as Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ton Koopman; Sophie de Lint; James MacMillan; Budapest Festival Orchestra. Wayne Marshall; Kenneth Montgomery; Franck Ollu; Lahav Shani; Ed Spanjaard; Anna Thorvaldsdottir; MAIN OFFICE ; Benjamin Wallfisch; Ganzenmarkt 14 George Wiegel; Elmar Weingarten; Xian Zhang 3552 ES Utrecht Jury size 11 or more THE NETHERLANDS Application fee €150 +31 306966144 Application deadline January 7, 2020 email website Application notes Deadline has passed ELIGIBILITY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) The Competition will be open to professional There is no elimination in this Competition, all 5 conductors of all nationalities who are at least 23 conductors chosen at the selection rounds will years and maximum 35 years of age at the start of perform in the entire Competition. A prize will the Competition (May 31, 2021). be awarded to the best specialist per round. In ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Conducting addition, one conductor will receive the Grand Prix for the best all-rounder. PANDEMIC & SAFETY Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: FINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? In 2021, at De Doelen Rotterdam, The Netherlands ✖ Accepting applications? • May 23, 2021: Round 1, Contemporary • May 25-27, The international music competition for 2021: Round 2, Historically informed practice • May instrumentalists and ensembles in honor of DETAILS 28-29, 2021: Round 3, Concertos • May 24 & 29-30, Astor Piazzolla’s music and 100th birthday. Travel covered? Yes 2021: Round 4, Proms (outdoors) • June 1-2, 2021: Frequency Triennial Visit piazzollacompetition.com to apply. Prizes include Round 5, Opera • June 3-2, 2021: Round 6, Large PERFORMANCES, TOURS, RECORDINGS, and CASH PRIZES. First prize €10,000 to €50,000 Symphonic Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 Jury headed by GRAMMY-winning pianist and composer PABLO COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ZIEGLER and includes DANIEL VILLAFLOR PIAZZOLLA, HÉCTOR Additional prizes DEL CURTO, and DANIEL BINELLI. Performances, Management, Recording ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Jury chair(s) Not provided ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS Submissions open January 26th - April 15th 2021 piazzollacompetition.com

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 22 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL PIANO MUSIC COMPETITION COLOGNE COMPETITION OF ORLÉANS

Besides technical virtuosity, the aim of the IMWK DETAILS Since 1994, the International Piano Competition DETAILS is to award contestants who wish to find new Travel covered? No of Orléans has revealed the talent of young artists Travel covered? No interpretation approaches. Along with a high level Frequency Triennial who play piano repertoire, while promoting music Frequency Biennial of artistic achievement, IMWK requires young artists First prize $10,000 to $50,000 from 20th and 21st centuries. The Competition has a First prize $10,000 to $50,000 to present themselves in a self-confident manner, Smallest prize Less than $5,000 strong international reputation and is affiliated with Smallest prize Less than $5,000 prepared to be innovative and have a versatile Additional prizes the World Federation of Music Competitions. Additional prizes artistic personality. Performances, Recording Performances, Management, Recording Jury chair MAIN OFFICE Jury chair(s) Not provided MAIN OFFICE Prof. Kai Wessel, Germany Orléans Concours International Jury size 6 to 10 Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Additional jurors 5, place de la République Application fee €100 Wettbewerbsbüro IMWK Michael Hofstetter, Germany; Prof. Piotr Kusiewicz, F-45000 Orléans Application deadline December 2021 Unter Krahnenbäumen 87 Poland; Mariyana Lipovšek, Slowenia; Prof. Brigitte FRANCE D-50668 Köln Lindner, Germany; Dr. Birgit Meyer, Germany; +33 (0)2 38 62 89 22 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) GERMANY Johannes Mannov, Denmark email website April 7, 2022: Piano recital—seven candidates at +49 221-28380-251 Jury size 6 to 10 Salle de l’Institut, Orléans, France email website ELIGIBILITY Application fee €100 Pianists of all nationalities, born on or after FINALS (live rounds) ELIGIBILITY Application deadline May 14, 2021 January 1, 1986 April 10, 2022: Piano—three candidates at Théâtre Singers from all nations before their 31st birthday SEMIFINALS (live rounds) d’Orléans, Orléans, France (until September 18, 2021) ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano September 14-16, 2021, Konzertsaal, HfMT Köln, COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice Germany PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? Pandemic policies and procedures for this September 17, 2021: Final Round in the Konzertsaal, TBD Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS Competition WDR Orchester, HfMT Köln, Germany Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: September 18, 2021: Preisträgerkonzert mit dem ✔ Scheduled? WDR Funkhausorchester im WDR Großer Saal, Köln, ✔ Accepting applications? Germany COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? TBD Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 23 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS 11TH QUADRENNIAL INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN WWW.VIOLIN.ORG Hailed by musicians, media, and critics as one of the Jaime Laredo, Jury President world’s most important competitions for launching Deadline for application: February 28, 2022 a professional career in violin, The Indianapolis COMPETITION will celebrate its 11th Quadrennial Competition in September 2022, searching the globe for the OF INDIANAPOLIS finest young talents and propelling them onto the Application fee $125 September 9 - 25, 2022 concert scene. Application deadline February 28, 2022 Application notes MAIN OFFICE Accepting applications as of January 1, 2022. 32 East Washington Street, Suite 1320 The Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN 46204 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) might well be the UNITED STATES September 16-19, 2022, Eugene and Marilyn Glick world’s leading 317-637-4574 Indiana History Center, 450 West Ohio Street, violin competition in email website Indianapolis, IN *All dates and venues subject to change. terms of cumulative ELIGIBILITY prizes and career We invite applications from violinists of all nationali- FINALS (live rounds) development for ties who will be at least 16 years of age and younger With East Coast Chamber Orchestra: September its winners. than 30 years of age at the time of the Competition, 21-22, 2022, Howard L. Schrott Center for the Richard Lin – The Strad and who are prepared for a concert career. Performing Arts at Butler University, 4600 Sunset 2018 Gold Medalist Leonidas Kavakos Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Augustin Hadelich Marco Rizzi ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Liviu Prunaru Stefan Milenkovich With Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, David Chan Robin Sharp Bin Huang September 23-24, 2022, Hilbert Circle Theatre, Ioana Cristina Goicea Dami Kim Yura Lee PANDEMIC & SAFETY David Kim Svetlin Roussev Yuval Yaron Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: 45 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, IN Yuriko Naganuma Barnabás Kelemen ✔ Scheduled? *All dates, venues, and ensembles subject to change. Anna Lee Luke Hsu Bella Hristova Ivan Chan Chin Kim Simone Lamsma Benjamin Beilman ✖ Accepting applications? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Jinjoo Cho Nai-Yuan Hu Antal Zalai Andrey Baranov Judith Ingolfsson DETAILS ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Jaakko Kuusisto Susie Park Travel covered? No ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Haoming Xie Ida Kavafian Soovin Kim Pavel Berman Frequency Quadrennial PAST COMPETITION WINNERS Juliette Kang Ye-Eun Choi First prize More than $50,000 Sungsic Yang Frank Huang 2018 Richard Lin Mihaela Martin Ji Yoon Lee Smallest prize Less than $5,000 2014 Jinjoo Cho Alina Pogostkina Andrew Haveron Additional prizes 2010 Clara Jumi-Kang Soyoung Yoon Yoojin Jang Andrés Cárdenes Performances, Management, Recording Risa Hokamura Annick Roussin Shannon Lee 2006 Augustin Hadelich Virginie Robilliard Jury chair 2002 Barnabas Kelemen Martin Beaver Ju-Young Baek Olivier Charlier Jaime Laredo, jury president Kyoko Takezawa Ji Young Lim Michiko Kamiya Celeste Golden Boyer Clara-Jumi Kang Tessa Lark Additional jurors TBA SOCIAL LINKS Jury size 6 to 10 FOUR DECADES OF DISCOVERY

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 24 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL VOCAL COMPETITION VIOLIN COMPETITION STUTTGART ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH

From July 18-25, 2021, in cooperation with Additional prize Performances Sole classical vocal competition in the Netherlands DETAILS University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Jury chair that involves opera and oratorio, as well as art Travel covered? Yes the Guadagnini Foundation will host the 1st Ingolf Turban (Munich), president song for singer/ pianist duos. Much attention Frequency Annual Stuttgart International Violin Competition. The Additional jurors paid to 20th- and 21st-century music. Finals First prize €10,000 to €50,000 partnerships with the HMDK Stuttgart and the Harald Eggebrecht (Munich); Tobias Feldmann with symphony orchestra, master classes, Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra set the stage with (Würzburg); Rudolf Koelman (Zurich); Natalia media training, feedback from jury members, Additional prize Performances excellent artistic conditions and beautiful spaces Prishepenko (Dresden); Josef Rissin (Karlsruhe); career development, travel refund possible, Jury chair(s) TBA from the outset. Christian Sikorski (Stuttgart) accommodation at host families. Additional jurors TBA Jury size 6 to 10 Jury size 6 to 10 MAIN OFFICE Application deadline Not applicable MAIN OFFICE Application fee Guadagnini Stiftung Application notes Prins Bernhardstraat 8 €50 (prelims) - €150 (main competition) per Lied Postfach 150502 Applications closed on July 31, 2020. On October 1, 5211 HE’s-Hertogenbosch duo (singer + pianist) 70077 Stuttgart 2020, 24 violinists received an invitation to take part THE NETHERLANDS Application deadline June 1, 2021 GERMANY in the competition, chosen out of 266 applicants +31 736900999 +49 170 80 578 32 from 43 countries. email website FINALS (live rounds) email website Voice + Piano (LiedDuo division), August 24-29, SEMIFINALS (live rounds) ELIGIBILITY 2021, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands • Voice ELIGIBILITY Location: University of Music and Performing Arts The IVC is open to candidates of all nationalities. (Opera | Oratorio division), June 22 – July 1, 2022, Violinists of all nationalities who are not older than 28 Stuttgart Participants must have completed conservatory ’s-Hertogenbosch | Eindhoven, Netherlands (period years of age at the date of the registration deadline July 19-20: 1st round of competition; July 21: 2nd training or have reached an equivalent level of under consideration) are entitled to participate. The decisive date for this round of competition training. Age limit: singers born on December 7, is the date of birth specified in the terms and condi- 1987 or later. All candidates must be at least 18 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? tions for the respective Competition. Violinists whose FINALS (live rounds) years of age. ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed teachers are on the jury of the International Violin The final round will take place on July 24 in the ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Competition Stuttgart are excluded from entry. concert hall (Konzertsaal) of the Stuttgart HMDK. ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Piano • Voice The four finalists will be accompanied by the SOCIAL LINKS ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings PANDEMIC & SAFETY Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. All Competition Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: PANDEMIC & SAFETY rounds are open to the public and can also be TBD Scheduled? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: followed online worldwide via live stream. ✔ Accepting applications? ✔ Scheduled? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✖ Accepting applications? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed DETAILS ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Travel covered? No SOCIAL LINKS Frequency Triennial First prize €10,000 to €50,000 Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 25 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 JENSEN FOUNDATION THE JINJI LAKE VOCAL COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

The Jensen Foundation auditions 100 of America’s Smallest prize Less than $5,000 The Competition invites the most gifted young DETAILS most promising young opera singers and chooses Jury chair pianists of all nationalities to Suzhou to compete Travel covered? Yes 12 to perform in its Finals Competition. Singers Oliver Worthington, Jensen Foundation board chair, for the highest recognition of their mastery, Frequency Biennial compete for more than $40,000 in awards, including Butler University adjudicated by an internationally renowned panel First prize €10,000 to €50,000 $15,000 for First Place. Additional jurors of judges. Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 Carleen Graham, Jensen Foundation trustee, Additional prize Performances MAIN OFFICE Houston Grand Opera; R. Benjamin Leaptrott, Jr., MAIN OFFICE Jury chair Laurent Bayle 220 North Tryon Street Jensen Foundation vice chair, Brenau University 1 Guanfeng Street Jury size 11 or more Charlotte, NC 28202 Jury size 1 to 5 SIP, Suzhou Application deadline September 10, 2021 UNITED STATES Application fee $25 CHINA 704-641-4691 Application deadline March 14, 2021 +86 0512 62899504; +86 0512 62899728 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) email website Application notes email website December 4-8, 2021: Suzhou Jinji Lake Concert Hall, Suzhou, China ELIGIBILITY 2021 Virtual Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition ELIGIBILITY To be eligible, you must: applications accepted via Yaptracker January 8 – Open to pianists of all nationalities born FINALS (live rounds) • Not be a previous first-, second-, or third-place March 14, 2021. after November 3, 1993, and on or before December 13-14, 2021: Suzhou Jinji Lake Concert award winner of the Competition • Be a permanent SEMIFINALS (live rounds) November 3, 2005. Hall, Suzhou, China legal resident of the U.S. • Be between the ages of 25 Preliminary judging of submitted aria video and 35 • Submit a résumé that demonstrates your ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? recordings takes place March 15 – April 18, 2021. ✔ active pursuit of a career in opera • Not be a past or Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed There is no in-person performance component for PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed current recipient of a contract for a principal role the 2021 Competition. Preliminary Judges choose Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: with an OPERA America Budget Level I company or 12 finalists whose video recordings are judged by TBD Scheduled? its international equivalent • Submit a completed finals Judges. ✔ Accepting applications? application online by Sunday, March 14, 2021. FINALS (live rounds) ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice Finals judging takes place the week of May 10, 2021, PANDEMIC & SAFETY and the 2021 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition Pandemic policies and procedures for this Grant Winners will be contacted on Tuesday, May Competition 18, 2021. All finalists have the opportunity to receive Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: feedback on their video recordings from the finals ✔ Scheduled? Judges via a Zoom meeting. ✔ Accepting applications? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? DETAILS ✖ Not open to the public Travel covered? No SOCIAL LINKS Frequency Annual First prize $10,000 to $50,000

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 26 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 JOSEPH JOACHIM JOHANSEN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION HANNOVER FOR YOUNG STRING PLAYERS (AGES 13-17)

We are seeking inquisitive minds who demonstrate DETAILS Total of $67,000 in prizes, with equal prizes for each DETAILS an impeccable command of their instrument while Travel covered? Yes instrument. The JIC is funded by a charitable trust Travel covered? No remaining humble servants of great composers Frequency Triennial established by Anna Storch Johansen, who wanted Frequency Triennial and their scores; young artists who bravely strive First prize €10,000 to €50,000 to encourage young musicians with significant prize First prize $10,000 to $50,000 for individuality, making bold musical statements Smallest prize Less than €5,000 awards at a time when they need it most. Smallest prize Less than $5,000 with the violin; musicians whose voice inspires deep Additional prizes Additional prize Performances emotions and shows an exceptional degree Performances, Recording MAIN OFFICE Jury chair(s) Not provided of versatility. Jury chair Carolin Widmann 9202 Whitney Street Additional jurors Additional jurors Silver Spring, MD 20901 Judith Ingolfsson, violin; Ralph Fielding viola; MAIN OFFICE Ana Chumachenco; Suyoen Kim; David Takeno; UNITED STATES Bion Tsang, cello Stiftung Niedersachsen Donald Weilerstein; Eleonore Büning; Robert Levin; 301-825-5515 Jury size 1 to 5 Sophienstr. 2 Andrew Manze (from the semifinal round on); email website Application fee $130 30159 Hannover Christine Schäfer Application deadline TBD, see below GERMANY ELIGIBILITY Jury size 6 to 10 Students of violin, viola, or cello, ages 13 through Application notes +49 (511) 9905432 Application deadline March 25, 2021 The next Competition has been postponed and email website 17 years. Eligible contestants may not be younger than 13 or older than 17 on the final day of the will take some time in 2022, exact dates TBD. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Applications are being accepted, but the deadline ELIGIBILITY Ages between 16-32 Leading a chamber orchestra on October 4-5 and Competition. A copy of the applicant’s birth certificate or passport is required as proof of will not be until later in 2021. ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Recital with one movement from a string quartet on October 6-7, 2021 age. Applicants must not be under professional SEMIFINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY management. Violin, Viola, and Cello 2022, exact dates TBD FINALS (live rounds) Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Washington, DC ✔ Scheduled? With NDR Radiophilharmonie on October 10, 2021 ✔ Accepting applications? PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINALS (live rounds) COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Violin, Viola, and Cello 2022, exact date TBD ✔ ✔ Pandemic policies and procedures for this Semifinals Semifinals streamed Washington, DC ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Competition Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS Scheduled? ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed TBD Accepting applications? ✔ Finals ✖ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 27 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE LOTTE LENYA COMPETITION THE LOTTE LENYA COMPETITION (cont’d)

A unique international theater singing contest ELIGIBILITY DETAILS SEMIFINALS (live rounds) that emphasizes wide-ranging repertoire and Open to singer/actors of all nationalities, ages 19 Travel covered? To be determined ONLINE the acting of songs and arias within a dramatic to 32 Frequency Annual context. The Competition recognizes talented First prize $10,000 to $50,000 FINALS (live rounds) young singer/actors who are dramatically and ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Smallest prize Less than $5,000 TBD Voice • Musical Theater • Opera musically convincing in repertoire ranging from Jury chair(s) Not provided COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? opera/operetta to contemporary Broadway scores, PANDEMIC & SAFETY Jury size 1 to 5 ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed including the works of Kurt Weill. Pandemic policies and procedures for this Application deadline February 16, 2021 TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed Competition Application notes MAIN OFFICE The deadline to submit an online application SOCIAL LINKS The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ with video audition for the preliminary round is 7 East 20th Street, 3rd Floor Scheduled? ✔ February 16, 2021. New York, NY 10003 Accepting applications? UNITED STATES 212-505-5240 email website

DEADLINE EXTENDED Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition #SING For string players ages 16-30 FINZI Application Deadline October 10, 2021 2021 Finals will be held Finals will be held at A major international singing competition to The Staller Recital Hall, University of Stony Brook, NY celebrate Gerald Finzi’s 120th birthday year on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Online Submissions Grand Prize: $5000 | Second Place: $1000 First-place singer prize £5000 • First-place pianist prize £2000 Competition open from 5th October 2020 - 14th July 2021 jsbachcompetition.org For entry details, visit www.boosey.com/singfinzi

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 28 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE GERDA LISSNER FOUNDATION LIEDER SONG VC 10TH INTERNATIONAL FRANZ LISZT IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE LIEDERKRANZ FOUNDATION PIANO COMPETITION WEIMAR-BAYREUTH 2021

The Gerda Lissner Foundation was created by Mrs. DETAILS In Weimar, musicians from all over the world will be DETAILS Lissner, a Metropolitan Opera subscriber for 77 Frequency Annual able to meet at eye level, compare their abilities, Travel covered? No years, to provide young opera singers with the First prize Less than $10,000 and learn from each other. Feedback from a top- Frequency Triennial financial support they need to pursue their craft Smallest prize Less than $5,000 level international jury helps them in this regard. First prize €10,000 to €50,000 and excel in the world of opera. We believe that Jury chairs Attractive prizes will reward the best of the best. Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 the encouragement and assistance to young artists Midge Woolsey and Scott Barnes, trustees of The Additional prize Performances toward achieving their goals are imperative for the Gerda Lissner Foundation MAIN OFFICE Jury chair continuation of this demanding art form. Additional jurors TBD Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar Gerlinde Otto, Weimar, Germany Jury size 1 to 5 Competition Office Additional jurors For the Competition, the repertoire cannot be Application deadline July 1, 2021 Platz der Demokratie 2/3 Dana Borsan Boris Bloch, U.S./Germany; Dana changed once it has been submitted. The winners’ Application notes D-99423 Weimar Borsan, Romania; Wolfgang Döberlein, Germany; concert will be November 4, 2021; the venue will be Applications must be received by Thursday, July GERMANY Carsten Dürer, Germany; Gábor Farkas, Hungary; announced. 1, 2021, 3 pm EST by email and must be typed. +49 (0)3643 555 150 Pasquale Iannone, Italy; Eugene Skovorodnikov, email website MAIN OFFICE Submission of the application does not guarantee Russia/Canada; Zhu Xiao-Mei, China/France 15 East 65th Street an audition or grant. All application PDFs must ELIGIBILITY Jury size 6 to 10 New York, NY 10065 be submitted with typed responses. Handwritten The Competition is open to pianists of all nationali- Application fee €100 UNITED STATES applications will not be accepted. ties who were born after January 1,1990. The man- Application deadline June 1, 2021 212-826-6100 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) agement may make exceptions in certain cases. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) email website Preliminaries: September 28-29, 2021, venue TBD. ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano November 4, 2021, 3 pm and 7:30 pm; University of ELIGIBILITY Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, Festsaal Fürstenhaus, FINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY Weimar, Germany To be determined, please check the website for September 30, 2021, New York, NY updates. Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? FINALS (live rounds) COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? November 6, 2021, 7:30 pm | Weimarhalle Weimar, ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Opera ✖ ✔ Accepting applications? Not open to the public Germany PANDEMIC & SAFETY Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Accepting applications? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 29 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 FRANZ LISZT INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2021

Filharmonia Hungary is happy to announce the Additional jurors PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, which Tamás Vásáry, pianist, conductor - Doyen; Olga Kern, MUSIC FESTIVAL will take place in September 2021 in Budapest, pianist; Cyprien Katsaris, pianist; Wu Ying, pianist; Hungary. The genius of Liszt imbues and inspires Boaz Sharon, pianist; János Balázs, pianist; Gábor the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, Farkas, pianist making it one of the most prestigious Hungarian Jury size 6 to 10 SEMI ANNUAL and international events. Application deadline April 15, 2021 Application notes MAIN OFFICE Early bird application fee of €120 to be received ONLINE 52. Felsomalom Street by March 15, 2021; application fee of €180 to be Pecs 7626 received March 16 – April 15, 2021. Along with a HUNGARY completed application form, applicants need to CONCERTO +36 72 891 400 submit a composition of 20 to 25 minutes chosen email website and played by the applicant on an HD-quality ELIGIBILITY (minimum resolution 720px) video recording COMPETITION that may not be edited and should be recorded The competition is open to pianists of all Four Age Divisions: 8-11 | 12-14 | 15-18 | 19-25 nationalities born after January 1, 1989. without stops. Open To All Instruments Applications can only be submitted using the SEMIFINALS (live rounds) online application form. Venue: Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano • Pre-selection: May 31, 2021 • First round: September 13-14, 2021 • Second round: PANDEMIC & SAFETY September 15, 2021 • Semifinal: September 17, 2021 Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? FINALS (live rounds) Prizes Include: ✔ Accepting applications? Final will take place September 18, 2021 at Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary. Competitors • Festival Scholarships DETAILS will perform the repertoire of the final with Travel covered? No the contribution of the Hungarian National • Performance in PIMF Winner’s Circle Concert Frequency Annual Philharmonic Orchestra. First prize €10,000 to €50,000 with Members of The Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Additional prize Performances TBD Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed • Private Recital in Philadelphia: July 2021 Jury chair Olli Mustonen, pianist TBD Finals TBD Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS Application Deadline: March 31st, 2021 PIMFOnline.org

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 30 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 LYON INTERNATIONAL LISZT COMPETITION CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION

The Liszt Competition actively presents, develops, DETAILS Member of the WFIMC. More than 1100 chamber DETAILS and promotes piano talents from around the world. Travel covered? Yes artists have taken part in the CIMCL since 2004. Travel covered? No The Competition was founded in 1986 and has built Frequency Triennial Broadcast on France musique radio and streaming Frequency Annual a reputation as one of the world’s most prestigious First prize €10,000 to €50,000 on NoMadMusic. A large audience follows the First prize €10,000 to €50,000 piano competitions. Role model for the Competition Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Competition in the most beautiful halls of Lyon city Smallest prize Less than €5,000 is pianist, composer, and visionary Franz Liszt. Additional prizes (Opéra, Auditorium, Université Hall, Conservatories). Additional prize Performances Performances, Management, Recording Jury chair(s) TBD MAIN OFFICE Jury chair Alexander Rinnooy Kan MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors Ganzenmarkt 14 Additional jurors 11 place Tobie Robatel Nora Chastain, violin, Zürich/U.S.; , 3512 GD Utrecht Idil Biret, Turkey; Andrea Bonatta, Italy; Frederic 69001 Lyon piano, Paris/Israel; Liana Gourdjia, violin, San THE NETHERLANDS Chiu, U.S.; Nino Gvetadze, Georgia; Leslie Howard, FRANCE Sebastian, Russia; Diana Ketler, piano, U.K./ +31 0306966144 U.K.; Janina Fialkowska, Canada; Cyprien Katsaris, +33 6 52 14 80 45 Latvia; Régis Pasquier, violin, France; Georges email website France/Cyprus; Igor Roma, Italy email website Pludermacher, piano, France; Ulf Wallin, violin, ELIGIBILITY Jury size 6 to 10 ELIGIBILITY Germany/Sweden Open to pianists between 20 and 29 years old Application fee €150 All nationalities, artists under 30 years old Jury size 6 to 10 Application deadline TBD Application fee €150 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Application deadline January 15, 2020 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Piano • Strings • Voice • Trio Violin, Cello & Piano PANDEMIC & SAFETY Application notes September 22-27, 2022 • String Quartet • Duo Violin & Piano • Duo Voice & Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: About January of each year. Applications are closed Piano • Duo Cello & Piano • Woodwind Quintet ✖ Scheduled? FINALS (live rounds) for 2021 competition (2020 competition postponed) September 29, 2022 TBD Accepting applications? PANDEMIC & SAFETY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Pandemic policies and procedures for this March 2021: violin and piano duo, streaming on ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Competition https://www.classic-at-home.com/ ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? FINALS (live rounds) SOCIAL LINKS TBD Accepting applications? April 24, 2021: violin and piano duo, Salle Molière, Lyon, France, and streaming on https://www.classic-at-home.com/ COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✖ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 31 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 LA MAESTRA INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR WOMEN CONDUCTORS THE MAHLER COMPETITION

La Maestra is an international competition and DETAILS The Competition is one of the most important DETAILS academy for women conductors co-directed by the Travel covered? Yes events of its kind anywhere in the world. It has Travel covered? Yes Paris Mozart Orchestra and the Philharmonie de Frequency Biennial attracted entries from over 2,000 young conductors Frequency Triennial Paris. In 2022, La Maestra will provide a high-profile First prize €10,000 to €50,000 of all nationalities. Only 80 candidates have been First prize €10,000 to €50,000 platform for 14 outstanding women conductors Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 invited to Bamberg and of those barely 12 have Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 who will compete in front of an international jury. Additional prize Performances made it to the finals. Additional prizes Jury chair(s) Not provided Performances, Management MAIN OFFICE Jury size 6 to 10 MAIN OFFICE Jury chair(s) TBA 28 place Saint-Georges Application fee €100 Bamberger Symphoniker—Bayerische Additional jurors TBA 75009 Paris Application notes Staatsphilharmonie Jury size 11 or more FRANCE The application period will begin on March 1, 2021. Mussstrasse 1 Application deadline November 30, 2019 +33 6 43 24 61 79 D-96047 Bamberg Application notes email website SEMIFINALS (live rounds) GERMANY Applications will be available in 2022 March 5, 2022 (six semifinalists) at Salle des +49 951 964 7100 ELIGIBILITY Concerts, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris, email website SEMIFINALS (live rounds) The Competition is open to women conductors of Paris, France Conducting, 2023, Konzerthalle, Bamberg, Germany all nationalities without age limit. ELIGIBILITY FINALS (live rounds) Young conductors not older than 35 years on FINALS (live rounds) ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Conducting March 6, 2022 (three finalists) at Grande Salle Pierre January 1, 2023 Conducting, 2023, Konzerthalle, Bamberg, Germany Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France PANDEMIC & SAFETY ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Conducting COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed TBD Accepting applications? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS TBD Accepting applications?

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 32 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 MALKO COMPETITION FOURTH INTERNATIONAL FOR YOUNG CONDUCTORS ÉVA MARTON SINGING COMPETITION

The Malko Competition is the Danish National DETAILS Éva Marton International Singing Competition is an DETAILS Symphony Orchestra’s international competition Travel covered? No unmissable opportunity to enter the international Travel covered? No for conductors. It has been held every three years Frequency Triennial opera scene. Members of the jury are looking for Frequency Biennial since 1965. The goal is to identify and bring out First prize €10,000 to €50,000 artists who seem to be capable of realizing what Éva First prize €10,000 to €50,000 those great young musical talents who will one day Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 Marton achieved, whose career is founded on an Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 grace the podiums of leading orchestras all over the Additional prize Performances incredible level of hard work and much learning. Additional prize Performances world. Jury chair Jury chair Ms. Éva Marton Fabio Luisi, principal conductor of The Danish MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors MAIN OFFICE National Symphony Orchestra Secretariat of the International Anatoli Goussev; Peter Dvorský; Larisa Gergieva; DR-Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20 Jury size 6 to 10 Éva Marton Singing Competition Peter Mario Katona; Miguel Lerín; Andrea Meláth; DK-0999 Copenhagen Application fee €50 Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Szilveszter Ókovács; Dmitry Vdovin DENMARK Application deadline November 18, 2020 8 Liszt Ferenc Square Jury size 6 to 10 email website 1061 Budapest Application fee €200 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) HUNGARY ELIGIBILITY Application deadline March 16, 2020 June 10, 2021 +36 1 4624600 / 139 Application notes Open for young conductors of all nationalities email website between 18 and 35 years of age (age calculated FINALS (live rounds) We are not accepting applications now. June 7, 2021) June 12, 2021 ELIGIBILITY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) The contest is open to singers from all nationalities August 28 – September 3, 2021, Budapest, Hungary ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Conducting COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? aged minimum 18 years on the opening day of the ✔ ✔ Semifinals Semifinals streamed Competition. Female candidates must have been FINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: born on or after September 6, 1988, male candidates September 5, 2021, Budapest, Hungary ✔ on or after September 6, 1985. Scheduled? SOCIAL LINKS COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Accepting applications? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice TBD Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY Pandemic policies and procedures for this SOCIAL LINKS Competition Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? TBD Accepting applications?

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 33 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 William C. Byrd ELEANOR MCCOLLUM COMPETITION Young Artist Competition The Eleanor McCollum Competition and Concert DETAILS of Arias is the primary recruitment tool for the HGO Travel covered? Yes Saturday, March 5, 2022 Studio. Applicants can be considered for the Frequency Annual Auditions 8am ~ 5pm HGO Studio, the Competition, or both, and First prize Less than $10,000 Finals 7pm applicants do not need to be a prize winner to Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Winds Flint Institute of Music be invited to the Studio. Jury chairs Flint, Michigan Patrick Summers, Ana María Martínez, and a guest MAIN OFFICE judge Sponsored by the St. Cecilia Society, 510 Preston Street Jury size 1 to 5 & an Affiliate of the Flint Institute of Music Houston, TX 77002 Application deadline September 20, 2020 First Prize - $6,000 and a performance with the UNITED STATES Application notes 713-546-0227 Flint Symphony Orchestra Applications for the 2021-22 Studio and the email website Brass Second Prize - $2,500 2021 Eleanor McCollum Competition are closed; Plus Three $1,000 Finalist Prizes ELIGIBILITY applications for the 2022-23 Studio and the 2022 Application deadline will be January 12, 2022 All classical singers of any age and nationality. Eleanor McCollum Competition will be announced in summer of 2021. ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice www.ByrdArtists.com SEMIFINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY Preliminary auditions will be held in Houston, Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and New York City in ✔ Scheduled? November-December 2021. Semifinal auditions The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir announces its twelfth ✔ Accepting applications? will be held in Houston in late January/early annual Christmas Carol Commission Competition as part of February 2022. its commitment to the future of choral music. FINALS (live rounds) Submitted works must be original, unpublished, and have not Final auditions will be held in Houston in early February 2022, culminating in the Eleanor been publicly performed; between three and five minutes McCollum Competition and Concert of Arias long; written for SATB, mixed adult choir; and may be a on February 4, 2022. cappella or utilize keyboard accompaniment. Text and COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? language are at the discretion of the composer, and should be ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed suitable for a Christmas/holiday performance. ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed All submissions must be received no later than SOCIAL LINKS 11:59 p.m. (EST), May 31, 2021.

For more information, visit indychoir.org

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 34 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 METROPOLITAN OPERA MIDWEST NATIONAL NATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions DETAILS The Midwest National Chamber Music Competition DETAILS is a program designed to discover promising young Travel covered? Yes is designed to provide an educational as well as Travel covered? No opera singers and assist in the development of their Frequency Annual a competitive experience for young chamber Frequency Annual careers. The Auditions take place in 39 appointed First prize $10,000 to $50,000 ensembles. Overall winning ensembles will each First prize Less than $10,000 districts and 12 regions throughout the U.S., Canada, Smallest prize Less than $5,000 receive a cash prize of $1000 and will perform on a Additional prize Performances and Mexico. Jury chair(s) Not provided future Winners’ Recital. Jury chair(s) TBA Jury size 6 to 10 Jury size 6 to 10 MAIN OFFICE Application fee $30 MAIN OFFICE Application fee The Metropolitan Opera Application deadline 878 Lyster Road $100 for non-MYAC Ensembles 30 Lincoln Center Plaza Deadlines will be posted in July 2021 Highwood, IL 60040 Application deadline February 1, 2021 New York, NY 10026 Application notes UNITED STATES Application notes UNITED STATES Various deadlines by audition date will be updated 847-926-9898 Applications AND performance videos are due by 212-870-4515 July 2021 email website 11:59pm (CST) on February 1st, 2021. email website SEMIFINALS (live rounds) ELIGIBILITY FINALS (live rounds) ELIGIBILITY The Metropolitan Opera, April 24, 2022, New York, NY The Competition is open to chamber ensembles February 2021, virtually See website for details including birthdates, in grade 12 and younger. Ensembles may consist citizenship, and more. FINALS (live rounds) of three to eight musicians. Ensembles may use no COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? The Metropolitan Opera, May 1, 2022, New York, NY more than one piano. ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice TBD Finals TBD Finals streamed COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✖ Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed Piano • Strings • Brass • Percussion • Woodwinds SOCIAL LINKS Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed ✔ Scheduled? PANDEMIC & SAFETY TBD Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Accepting applications?

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 35 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 MONTE CARLO PIANO MASTERS MONTE CARLO PIANO MASTERS (cont’d)

Reserved to winners or laureates of international ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Piano • Strings • Voice Application fee COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? competitions; one single final prize. €50 (pre-inscription) and for the competition (€150) ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY Application deadline March 20, 2020 ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed MAIN OFFICE Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: 45 rue La Boétie ✔ Scheduled? SEMIFINALS (live rounds) 75008 Paris ✔ Accepting applications? At the Opéra de Monte Carlo: June 16-19, 2021 (first FRANCE two rounds June 16-18) +33 6 74 82 62 80 DETAILS email website Travel covered? Yes FINALS (live rounds) Frequency Annual At the Opéra de Monte Carlo: Finale with Orchestra ELIGIBILITY First prize €10,000 to €50,000 on June 19, 2021 For artists under 40 years old and finalists of the Jury chair(s) Not provided international competitions. Jury size 6 to 10

Belvedere.21.1.:Layout 1 11.01.21 11:10 Seite 1

11. INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB

https://schubert.kug.ac.at CHAMBER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL SINGING COMPETITION COMPETITION FOR YOUNG 05. – 14.02.2022 OPERA SINGERS 2021 GRAZ / AUSTRIA qualifying rounds worldwide – APPLY UNTIL jury members of 12.10.2021 the most important opera houses – DUO FOR VOICE TRIO FOR PIANO, VIOLIN many engagements – AND PIANO (LIED) AND VIOLONCELLO final rounds 2021 in Erfurt, Germany Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz Leonhardstraße 15, A-8010 Graz / [email protected] | T +43 316 389 1900 www.belvedere-competition.com

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 36 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 MTNA NATIONAL MUSIC INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS GRAND PRIX

The purpose of the Music Teachers National PANDEMIC & SAFETY International Music Competition culminating in a Jury chair(s) Not provided Association Performance competitions is to provide Pandemic policies and procedures for this Winners Concert at Carnegie Hall. $5000 Grand Additional jurors educational experiences for students and to Competition Prix Award, thousands in other cash prizes. Additional jurors include Diane Wittry, music direc- recognize exceptionally talented young artists and Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Esteemed panel of Judges. Video submissions tor, conductor, Allentown Symphony Orchestra; Per their teachers in their pursuit of musical excellence. ✔ Scheduled? followed by live semifinals and finals (Zoom Brevig, trombone faculty, Juilliard; Terrence Wilson, ✔ Accepting applications? available). Four age categories (no age limit for Grammy-nominated pianist; Adam Pascal, Broadway MAIN OFFICE adults). star (Rent, Chess, Aida); Mark Cortale, artist manag- 600 Vine Street, Suite 1710 DETAILS er; Avguste Antonov, piano faculty, Conservatoire de Cincinnati, OH 45202 Travel covered? No MAIN CONTACT Chateaubriant; Dr. Carter Pann, competition chair, UNITED STATES Frequency Annual email website University of Colorado, Boulder; Dr. Daniel Sher, 888-512-5278 First prize Less than $10,000 professor of piano, University of Colorado, Boulder; email website Smallest prize Less than $5,000 N/ ELIGIBILITY Dr. Steven Rainbolt, voice faculty, Peabody Conser- Jury chair(s) A ELIGIBILITY As this Competition has four different age categories vatory. Jury size 1 to 5 All entrants must be a U.S. citizen or hold a U.S. visa starting with Youth at age 7, all the way up to Jury size 11 or more Application fee Adult, we encourage all aspiring and professional Application fee $150 ($200 if late) or permanent residence ID (green card) that is valid Ranges from $50 to $120 throughout the competition year. All entrants must musicians to apply. Application deadline March 1, 2021 Application deadline September 15, 2021 Application notes study with a teacher who is (1) a member of MTNA; ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Application notes The final deadline for the current Competition is or (2) has paid the Nonmember Teacher Fee of $150. Piano • Strings • Voice • Winds • Brass • Percussion The MTNA—Stecher & Horowitz Two Piano March 1, 2021. Applications will then reopen for the MTNA active membership dues must be paid before • Ensembles Competition application deadline is 2022 Competition in September 2021, with a dead- submission of the application to avoid the $150 January 3, 2022. nonmember fee. PANDEMIC & SAFETY line of December 1, 2021. Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: • Elementary Division (ages 5-10) • Junior Division SEMIFINALS (live rounds) FINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? (ages 11-14) • Senior Division (ages 15-18) • Young The MTNA Student Competitions consist of three Voice (Popular and Classical), Piano, Strings, Winds/ ✔ Accepting applications? Artists Division (ages 19-26) • Chamber Music levels: State Competition, Division Competition, Brass Finals: in New York/on Zoom: April 30, 2021. (average age of ensemble must be 18-26) and National Finals DETAILS Winners Concert: Scheduled for Zankel Hall at *All ages as of January 1, 2022 FINALS (live rounds) Travel covered? No Carnegie Hall, NY: May 1, 2021. Frequency Annual March 26–30, 2022: The 2022 MTNA National COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES First prize Less than $10,000 Conference, Minneapolis, MN ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed Piano • Strings • Voice • Composition • Brass Smallest prize Less than $5,000 • Woodwind • Chamber Music COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? TBD Finals TBD Finals streamed ✔ ✖ Semifinals Semifinals streamed SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Finals ✖ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 37 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SINGING COMPETITIONS

MAIN OFFICE 9957 Moorings Drive, Suite 401 Jacksonville, FL 32257 UNITED STATES 904-992-9101 NATS ARTIST AWARDS (NATSAA) email website The biennial NATS Artist Awards Competition is designed to assist singers prepared to launch a NATS ART SONG COMPOSITION AWARD professional career. The NATS Art Song Composition Award program’s purpose is to stimulate the creation of quality ELIGIBILITY vocal literature through the cooperation of singer Applicant must be at least 21 but not more than 35 and composer. The performance of the first-place years of age as of September 13, 2021; either the winning composition will be premiered in 2022. applicant or his/her teacher for the last year must be a full or associate member of NATS for at least one ELIGIBILITY year prior to September 13, 2021. Competition is open to any composer. The work Frequency Biennial More than $50,000 in prizes; launching must be: a song cycle, group of songs, or extended Cash prizes More than $50,000 careers of classical singers since 1955 single song approximately 15 minutes in length; for Application deadline September 13, 2021 single voice and single instrument; to a text written in English, for which the composer has secured SEMIFINALS and FINALS (live rounds) copyright clearance; composed within the last two Early January, 2022, New York, NY (date TBD) years (after January 1, 2020). The first national competition NATS NATIONAL STUDENT AUDITIONS Frequency Annual A competition to stimulate the for the musical theatre soloist The program offers national rounds for classical, Cash prizes More than $5,000 creation of quality vocal literature A national round of evaluation Application deadline December 1, 2021 musical theatre, contemporary musical styles, and with more than $30,000 in prizes (in alternating years) the Hall Johnson Spirituals and NATS NATIONAL MUSICAL THEATRE American Negro Spirituals competitions. COMPETITION As the first national Competition for musical theatre ELIGIBILITY soloists, winners are finding success on Broadway, Student singers advance through NATS Regional The official journal of NATS A dynamic database of voice national tours, and theaters across the country. Auditions — times vary. since 1944, with a complete and voice science resources Frequency Annual digital library on nats.org for all levels of learning View session recordings online ELIGIBILITY Cash prizes More than $35,000 from past NATS conferences All singers age 20-28 as of September 15, 2021. Application deadline April 9, 2021 and workshops Frequency Biennial Cash prizes More than $14,000 SEMIFINALS and FINALS (live rounds) Application deadline September 15, 2021 Summer 2021 (dates/location to TBD) SEMIFINALS and FINALS (live rounds) SOCIAL LINKS Early January, 2022, New York, NY (date TBD)

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 38 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 MICHAEL LUDWIG NEMMERS PRIZE THE NEW YORK IN MUSIC COMPOSITION INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

In 2003, the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Composition A first in the world of competitions and a unique PANDEMIC & SAFETY at Northwestern University established the Michael feature of the NYIPC, no participant is eliminated Pandemic policies and procedures for this Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, a PANDEMIC & SAFETY throughout the Competition. The Foundation Competition biennial award honoring classical music composers Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: presents a cash award to each of the contestants Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✖ of outstanding achievement. Northwestern Scheduled? not receiving a major prize. The NYIPC includes ✖ Scheduled? ✔ sponsors five Nemmers Prizes, the others in the Accepting applications? seminars, master classes, ensemble playing, and TBD Accepting applications? fields of economics, mathematics, medical science, DETAILS concert and recital appearances. and Earth sciences. DETAILS Travel covered? Yes MAIN OFFICE Travel covered? No MAIN OFFICE Frequency Biennial The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation Frequency Biennial Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University First prize More than $50,000 119 West 57th Street, Suite 1401 First prize $10,000 to $50,000 Patrick G. and Shirley West Ryan Center Additional prize Performances New York, NY 10019 Smallest prize Less than $5,000 for the Musical Arts Jury chair(s) Not provided UNITED STATES Additional prize Performances 70 Arts Circle Drive Jury size 1 to 5 212-581-8380 Jury chair Tong Il-Han Evanston, IL 60208 Application deadline February 1, 2021 email website Additional jurors UNITED STATES Application notes Lydia Artymiw, Ian Hobson, Janet Lopinsky, email website There will be no 2020 winner of the Nemmers ELIGIBILITY John O’Conor, Esther Park Prize in Music Composition. We have extended the Open to pianists of all nationalities. Applicants must Jury size 6 to 10 ELIGIBILITY deadline for nominations to February 1, 2021 and be between the ages of 16 and 22 during the time Application fee $150 Composers must be nominated, preferably by hope to announce a winner in 2021. of the Competition. Application deadline December 4, 2019 recognized authorities in the field of classical music, via a letter to the Selection Committee. COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✖ The Prize is international and open to any living Not open to the public ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed classical composer without regard to citizenship or SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed institutional affiliation. The names of the nominators will not be made public; anonymous nominations SOCIAL LINKS will not be accepted. Nominators may nominate any number of candidates. Former or present members of the Northwestern University faculty and employees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are not eligible. Nominations must be submitted by email from the nominator’s professional affiliation.

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 39 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 CARL NIELSEN THE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OBOE COMPETITION OF JAPAN

The first Carl Nielsen International Competition Jury chair Sony Music Foundation has been presenting DETAILS was held in Odense in 1980. After nearly four Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, president, Carl Nielsen this competition since 1985. Solely dedicated Travel covered? Yes decades, the violin, clarinet, and flute competitions International Competition to the oboe, it has established a reputation as a Frequency Triennial have established themselves as some of the Additional jurors TBD unique competition, with past winners becoming First prize €10,000 to €50,000 most inspiring and rewarding in the world, each Jury size 6 to 10 internationally known soloists or principals in Smallest prize Less than €5,000 offering winners the chance to launch a significant Application fee €100 world-renowned orchestras. A member of the World Additional prize Performances international career. Application deadline Not provided Federation of International Music Competitions. Jury chair(s) Not provided Application notes Jury size 6 to 10 MAIN OFFICE Late summer / early autumn 2021—dates to be MAIN OFFICE Application deadline TBA c/o Nordic Artists Management A/S announced Secretariat of The International Oboe Competition Vesterbrogade 72, 1 of Japan FINALS (live rounds) DK-1620 Copenhagen V SEMIFINALS (live rounds) c/o Sony Music Foundation To be announced DENMARK Clarinet—April 5, 2022, Pro Musica Hall, Odense, SME-Rokubancho Building +45 2244 5405 Denmark 4-5, Rokubancho, Chiyoda-ku COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ email website Flute—April 6, 2022, Pro Musica Hall, Odense, Tokyo 102-8353 Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed ✔ Denmark JAPAN Finals TBD Finals streamed ELIGIBILITY Violin—April 6, 2022, Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense email website SOCIAL LINKS All competitions (flute, clarinet, and violin) are open Denmark for all nationalities under the age of 30 on the first ELIGIBILITY day of the Competition. FINALS (live rounds) Age 18 to 30, except for past first-prize winners. Clarinet—April 9, 2022, Pro Musica Hall, Odense, ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Denmark ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Oboe Strings • Violin • Clarinet • Flute Flute—April 9, 2022, Pro Musica Hall, Odense, PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY Denmark Pandemic policies and procedures for this Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Violin—April 8 and 10, 2022, Carl Nielsen Hall, Competition ✔ Scheduled? Odense Denmark Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✖ TBD Accepting applications? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Scheduled? TBD Accepting applications? DETAILS ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Travel covered? No ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Frequency Triennial SOCIAL LINKS First prize €10,000 to €50,000 Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Additional prizes Performances, Recording

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 40 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE 10TH OSAKA INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION PIANO | FESTIVAL | COMPETITION

The Osaka International Chamber Music Jury chair Competition had two sections in 2020: Section One Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi/cello, director general, Suntory for String Quartet and Section Two for Piano Trio Foundation for Arts and Piano Quartet. The next competition will be Additional jurors held May 16-23, 2021. Martin Beaver/violin, former Tokyo String Quartet NICOLAS member; Weigang Li/violin, Shanghai Quartet; MAIN OFFICE Kazuki Sawa/violin, president, Tokyo University of 1-3-50 YTV1F, Shiromi Chuo-ku the Arts; Monika Henschel/viola, Henschel Quartet; Osaka 540-8510 Mai Motobuchi/viola, Borromeo String Quartet; JAPAN NAMORADZE Seppo Kimanen/cello, former Sibelius Quartet +81 6 6947 2184 member; Vincent Coq/piano, Trio Wanderer; Eckart email website Heiligers/piano, Trio Jean Paul; Shigeo Neriki/piano, 2018 HONENS PRIZE LAUREATE ELIGIBILITY professor, Toho Gakuen School of Music Applicants shall be ensembles of musicians of any Jury size 6 to 10 “ ... the kind of musician whose artistry Application fee None nationality whose members are 35 years old or is like a compelling novel where you younger. Application notes We will not accept any new applications for 2021. can hardly wait for what comes next.” ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Piano • Strings –Gramophone SEMIFINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY May 19 (section two) and May 20 (section one), Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: 2021; Izumi Hall, Osaka, Japan ✔ Scheduled? ✖ Accepting applications? FINALS (live rounds) May 21 (section two) and May 22 (section one), DETAILS 2021; Izumi Hall, Osaka, Japan Travel covered? Yes Frequency Triennial COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? First prize €10,000 to €50,000 TBD Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Smallest prize €5,000 to €10,000 TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed Additional prizes SOCIAL LINKS Performances, Recording NEW ARTIST OF THE MONTH MUSICAL AMERICA

York Bowen’s Fragments from Han Andersen & Studies now available at hyperion-records.co.uk

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 41 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 PIANOARTS PIAZZOLLA MUSIC COMPETITION

PianoArts semifinalists perform solo recitals and Additional jurors Piazzolla Music Competition is the international mu- only submissions will be disqualified • Individual partner with a Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Semifinal and final Competition jury: Alan Chow, sic competition for instrumentalists and ensembles contestants may participate in both the soloist and violinist or cellist to rehearse and perform duo Eastman School of Music; Boris Slutsky, Peabody in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of ensemble categories • The following contestants recitals. They speak about music and rehearse Institute and Yale School of Music • Preliminary Astor Piazzolla, presented in collaboration with Fun- arenot eligible: 1) family members of judges, 2) staff their presentations with a speaking coach. Finalists video Competition chair: Lydia Artymiw, University dación Astor Piazzolla and with the involvement of members of competition sponsors, 3) staff perform complete concertos with the MSO. of Minnesota School of Music the composer’s family. Any musical work composed members of The Piazzolla Competition, and 4) staff Numerous prizes include PianoArts fellowships and Jury size 6 to 10 by Astor Piazzolla will be accepted. Video submis- members of PARMA Recordings. performances for diverse audiences. Application fee $150 sions must contain a minimum of four minutes of Application deadline February 9, 2020 musical performance. There is no maximum dura- ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES MAIN OFFICE Application notes tion. If a submission has more than ten minutes of Conducting • Piano • Strings • Accordion 2642 North Summit Avenue The preliminary round video submission was due on musical performance, the contestant will be judged PANDEMIC & SAFETY Milwaukee, WI 53211 February 23, 2020. The jury selected 10 semifinalists on the first ten minutes of their performance. Video UNITED STATES Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: to perform in Milwaukee in March and June 2021. recordings (audio only not acceptable) must be ✔ 414-962-3055 Scheduled? performed by the applicants. Each contestant must ✔ Accepting applications? email website SEMIFINALS (live rounds) upload his/her video to YouTube, Vimeo, or other Ten pianists, selected as semifinalists, will perform ELIGIBILITY public streaming platform. Videos can be posted DETAILS two 45-minute non-eliminating Competition recitals publicly or be unlisted. Contestants must then sup- Travel covered? No For pianists, ages 16-21, of any nationality, living or in Milwaukee: solo recital and a collaborative recital studying full time in North America. ply the URL link to the video as part of their submis- Frequency Annual in March that includes a violin or cello duo with a sion. Download links will not be accepted. First prize Less than $10,000 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano partner from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Smallest prize Less than $5,000 as well as the first movement of a concerto with a Proceeds from the 2021 Piazzolla Music Additional prizes PANDEMIC & SAFETY second pianist. Semifinalists also speak about and Competition will benefit music education charities. Performances, Recording Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: perform examples from a North American work and Jury chair ✔ Scheduled? a concerto. MAIN OFFICE Pablo Ziegler, Grammy-winning pianist and TBD Accepting applications? FINALS (live rounds) 223 Lafayette Road composer DETAILS Three pianists, selected as finalists, will perform North Hampton NH 03862 Jury size 10 or more Travel covered? No complete concertos in live performances with the UNITED STATES Application fee Frequency Biennial Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in Milwaukee, WI, email website • Category A, Soloists: $90 • Category B, Ensembles: First prize $10,000 to $50,000 $60 per ensemble member (duo: $120; trio: $180; in 2021. To prepare for the final round, finalists will ELIGIBILITY Smallest prize Less than $5,000 quartet: $240; quintet: $300; sextet: $360) rehearse the concerto three times: with the conduc- The Competition is open to artists of any nationality, Additional prize Performances Application deadline April 18, 2021 tor, with a chamber ensemble from the Milwaukee state, or country of residence • All contestants Jury chair Application notes Symphony Orchestra, and with the full orchestra. must be 13 years of age at the time they appear Semifinal and final rounds: Pavlina Dokovska, Submissions must be received no later than in their video submission • Submissions for piano chair at the Mannes School of Music at the COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? April 18, 2021, 11:59 pm EST (GMT-5) Category B: Ensembles must have no more than six New School ✔ Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed members • Contestants must submit a video that SOCIAL LINKS conforms to all video requirement listed. Audio- SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 42 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 PIMF ONLINE PLOWMAN VIRTUAL CONCERTO COMPETITION CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION

Musicians in four age categories will compete for DETAILS Since 2006, The Plowman Chamber Music Competi- DETAILS $25,000 in music festival scholarships and several Travel covered? No tion (Plowman) has provided an opportunity for Travel covered? No performance opportunities including a private Frequency Annual aspiring chamber musicians to perform live in Frequency Biennial recital in Philadelphia for the Grand Prize winner, First prize Less than $10,000 front of an audience and a panel of judges for cash First prize $10,000 to $50,000 and a “Winners Circle” concert performance at PIMF, Smallest prize Less than $5,000 awards totaling over $10,000, including $5000 Smallest prize Less than $5,000 featuring members of The Philadelphia Orchestra Jury chair(s) Not provided Grand Prize. See website for more details. Additional prize Performances and the first-, second-, and third-place winners. Jury size 1 to 5 Jury chair Amit Peled (Peabody) Application fee $45 MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors MAIN OFFICE Application deadline March 31, 2021 c/o Odyssey, First Baptist Church TBA. Past judges included Dale Clevenger, horn 2954 East Grant Avenue Application notes 1112 East Broadway (Indiana University), Sergei Babayan (Juilliard, Williamstown NJ, 08094 First 100 applicants will receive an automatic $150 Columbia, MO 65201-4910 Cleveland), Joel Krosnick (Juilliard), Peter Wiley UNITED STATES scholarship to PIMF 2021. UNITED STATES (Curtis). email website 573-864-6921 Jury size 1 to 5 FINALS (live rounds) email website ELIGIBILITY Application fee $40 per person This Competition will take place entirely online via Application deadline February 12, 2021 All instrumentalists ages 8 to 25 are invited to recorded video submissions and will be adjudicated ELIGIBILITY participate. Musicians will compete in one of four Open to instrumental ensembles of three to Application notes by Philadelphia International Music Festival faculty, Due to COVID-19, the 10th Plowman Competition is age groups. including members of The Philadelphia Orchestra. six players. Members must be interested in, or already pursuing a career in music. Ensembles with postponed, to be rescheduled to either spring 2022 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? management as of March 2022 are not eligible. or 2023. Piano • Strings • Woodwinds • Brass ✖ Not open to the public The ensemble may not have more than one piano, SEMIFINALS (live rounds) the only keyboard instrument permitted. The PANDEMIC & SAFETY SOCIAL LINKS Spring 2022 or 2023, First Baptist Church, Columbia, Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Competition is unable to accommodate groups that MO ✔ Scheduled? require more than five minutes of set-up and tear- ✔ Accepting applications? down time (i.e., numerous percussion instruments, FINALS (live rounds) complex electronic set-ups, etc.). The ensemble is Spring 2022 or 2023, Missouri Theatre, Columbia, responsible for arranging for, and/or bringing their MO own instruments and music. COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES ✔ Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed Piano • Strings • Woodwinds • Brass • Percussion ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY SOCIAL LINKS Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? TBD Accepting applications?

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 43 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 PRIMROSE INTERNATIONAL VIOLA COMPETITION® PRIMROSE INTERNATIONAL VIOLA COMPETITION® (cont’d)

Founded in 1979 as the first international career. The Competition welcomes applicants of all DETAILS SEMIFINALS (live rounds) competition solely for violists, the Primrose nationalities, ethnic origins, religions, and genders. Travel covered? No December 16, 2021: Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA International Viola Competition features the world’s All applicants must be current members in good Frequency Triennial best and most promising young violists. In 2021, 24 standing of the American Viola Society and are First prize $10,000 to $50,000 FINALS (live rounds) invited quarter-finalists will compete for cash prizes required to submit a nonrefundable application fee Smallest prize Less than $5,000 December 18, 2021: Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA and awards over $30,000. of $125 U.S. dollars. Jury chair(s) TBD COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Additional jurors TBD ✔ ✔ MAIN OFFICE ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Semifinals Semifinals streamed Jury size 6 to 10 ✔ ✔ 200 South Grand Avenue Finals Finals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY Application fee $125 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Application deadline SOCIAL LINKS UNITED STATES Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ June 11, 2021, by 11:59 PM Pacific Time email website Scheduled? TBD Accepting applications? Application notes ELIGIBILITY The online application will be available in March The Primrose International Viola Competition® 2021 2021. Applicants invited to the live rounds will be is open to violists born after December 1, 1991, notified on or by July 23, 2021. who are ready to embark on an international solo

Cologne | Germany Informations www.imwk.hfmt-koeln.de 1 3 . – 1 8 . 0 9 . 2 0 2 1 Application deadline 14 May 2021 International Contact Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Unter Krahnenbäumen 87 Music Competition D-50668 Köln Cologne Phone: (+49) 221-28380 -251 [email protected] Singing NEW DATE IN 2021 Foundation Hohnen

NEUER TERMIN

2021

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 44 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 PRINCESS ASTRID QUEEN ELISABETH COMPETITION— INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION BELGIUM – BRUSSELS

Established in 1953, this biennial Competition DETAILS Established in 1951 on the initiative of Her Majesty DETAILS hosted by the Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera Travel covered? No Queen Elisabeth of Belgium as a successor to the Travel covered? Yes rotates between violin and conducting. A worldwide Frequency Biennial Eugène Ysaÿe Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Frequency Annual scope of talented candidates is assessed by an in- First prize €10,000 to €50,000 Competition very soon became one of the leading First prize More than €50,000 ternationally distinguished jury. Princess Astrid Mrs. Smallest prize Less than €5,000 international competitions for violinists, pianists, Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Ferner is patron of the Competition. The Competi- Additional prize Performances singers, and, since in 2017, for cellists. Additional prizes tion is for violin in 2021 and conducting 2022. Jury chair Performances, Recording , Lithuanian violinist and conductor MAIN OFFICE Jury chair Mr. Gilles Ledure MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors Rue aux Laines, 20 Jury size 11 or more Kjøpmannsgata 46 Since we have postponed the 2020 Competition, B-1000 Brussels Application fee €100 Trondheim we are working on reconfirming the rest of the jury BELGIUM Application deadline December 9, 2020 NORWAY for 2021. +32 2 213 40 50 Application notes +47 90 09 31 39 Jury size 6 to 10 email website Applications for the 2021 Piano Competitions are email website Application fee €25 ELIGIBILITY closed; applications for the 2022 Cello Competition ELIGIBILITY Application deadline June 1, 2021 The Queen Elisabeth International Music will open in November 2021 The Competition is open to violinists of all Application notes Competition of Belgium is holding sessions Applications reopened in January 2021 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) nationalities below the age of 31 at the time of the for pianists, violinists, singers, and cellists. This Venue: Flagey, Brussels, Belgium—First Rounds and Competition. The candidate must give mandatory SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Competition is for musicians who have completed Semifinals information such as name, date of birth, nationality, November 15-16, 2021: First and second rounds, their training and who are ready to embark upon Piano 2021, May 3-15 • Cello 2022, May 9-21 • Voice address and e-mail, as well as upload a CV, recital concerts with pianist (open to the public), an international career. The Competition is open 2023, May 14-18 biography, artist picture, and two application videos. Trondheim, Norway to candidates of all nationalities who are aged The Competition is not open to previous winners at least 18 and who have not yet reached the age FINALS (live rounds) of the first prize. By submitting an application the FINALS (live rounds) of 30 for the instrumental sessions and 32 for the Venue: Brussels Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, candidate automatically agrees to the Competition November 18, 2021: Final round, Trondheim, Norway voice competition. Belgium—Finals rules and regulations, and is obliged to follow these Award ceremony and public concert with Piano 2021, May 24-29 • Cello 2022, May 30-June 4 throughout the competition. Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera in Olavshallen ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Piano • Strings • Voice • Voice 2023, May 25-27 at 7:30 p.m. ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Conducting • Strings PANDEMIC & SAFETY COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Pandemic policies and procedures for this TBD Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed Competition TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this competition: ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Scheduled? SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS TBD Accepting applications?

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 45 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE QUEEN SONJA RAPIDO!® INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION A 14 DAY COMPOSITION CONTEST

Through master classes and career development Jury size 6 to 10 Rapido!® A 14-Day Composition Contest was DETAILS sessions with an international jury of influential Application fee €90 founded by the Atlanta Chamber Players & Travel covered? Yes figures within the opera world, the Queen Sonja Application deadline April 1, 2021 The Antinori Foundation in 2009 to promote Frequency Biennial International Music Competition offers young artists Application notes new chamber music compositions. The contest First prize Less than $10,000 a valuable kick-start to their careers, along with Applications open February 1, 2021. challenges composers of all ages to submit an Smallest prize Less than $5,000 concert engagements and considerable cash prizes. original chamber work of four to six minutes Additional prize Performances SEMIFINALS (live rounds) composed in just 14 days, following a specific theme Jury chair MAIN OFFICE To accommodate possible travel restrictions, the and instrumentation. Robert Spano, music director, Atlanta Symphony Universitetsgaten 14 preliminary rounds with 40 selected singers will Orchestra 0164 Oslo be completed virtually (live) June 15-16, 2021. All MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors TBD NORWAY 40 selected participants must prepare a live video PO Box 20013 Jury size 1 to 5 +47 22 99 21 05 performance of one aria and one Lied, accompanied Atlanta, GA 30325 Application fee $40 email website by piano. The participants are expected to provide UNITED STATES Application deadline May 31, 2020 their own pianist for the preliminary round but may 404-594-3445 Application notes ELIGIBILITY ask the Competition for assistance if needed. The email website Singers of all nationalities born in 1989 or later may We are not accepting applications at this time as we jury will select 12 singers to perform during the are in the final round of the current cycle. We are apply to take part in the 2021 Competition. semi-final in Oslo. The semi-finalists must register ELIGIBILITY The contest is open to composers of any age and looking at June 2022 to accept submissions for the ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice in Oslo on Friday, August 13; the semifinal will next cycle. take place at the Norwegian Academy of Music on level of experience who are residents or full-time PANDEMIC & SAFETY Sunday, August 15. student residents of one of the 50 United States. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Pandemic policies and procedures for this ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Mixed Ensemble Virtual Competition FINALS (live rounds) Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Six candidates will be admitted to the final. PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINALS (live rounds) ✔ Scheduled? The repertoire is chosen by the jury from the Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: January 2023, Atlanta, GA ✔ Accepting applications? contestant’s list of arias and the Competition’s list ✔ Scheduled? of duets. The pieces are to be performed with the COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? TBD Accepting applications? ✖ ✖ DETAILS Norwegian National Opera Orchestra. The final Semifinals Semifinals streamed ✔ ✔ Travel covered? No concert is held in the Norwegian National Opera Finals Finals streamed Frequency Biennial & Ballet, Main House, and will be broadcast by the SOCIAL LINKS First prize €10,000 to €50,000 Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Additional prize Performances COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Jury chair ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Birgitta Svendén, CEO, the Royal Opera in Stockholm ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 46 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 THE 16TH ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN PALOMA O’SHEA SANTANDER INTERNATIONAL PIANO MASTER COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

Competition Dates: April 18 – May 3, 2021. Stage I: DETAILS In its 50th anniversary, the aim of the Santander DETAILS Recitals (35-40 minutes) • Stage II: Recitals (50-60 Travel covered? Yes International Piano Competition remains Travel covered? Yes minutes) • Final Stage (three concerts): Chamber Frequency Triennial unchanged: to help young pianists worldwide, Frequency Triennial Music, Classical Concerto, Grand Concerto. First prize $10,000 to $50,000 offering them opportunities at a key moment in First prize €10,000 to €50,000 More than $120,000 cash prizes; free hotel Smallest prize Less than $5,000 their lives, when they have finished their education Smallest prize Less than €5,000 accommodation; partial coverage of flight expenses; Additional prize Performances and are ready to take their first steps into the Additional prizes a practice piano in each hotel room. Jury chair demanding professional world of music. Performances, Management, Recording Arie Vardi, pianist, conductor and piano pedagogue Jury chair(s) TBA MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors TBA 9 Bilu Street Hung-Kuan Chen; Thomas Duis; Taiseer Elias; Fundación Albéniz Jury size 6 to 10 Tel Aviv 6522214 Christopher Elton; Alexander Gavrylyuk; Tomer Lev; C/ Luis Martínez 21 Application fee €100 ISRAEL Ewa Poblocka; Menahem Pressler; ; 39005 Santander Application deadline October 18, 2021 +972 3 6856684 Additional members TBD SPAIN email website Jury size 11 or more +34 942 31 14 51 SEMIFINALS (live rounds) email website July 2022, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, ELIGIBILITY Application fee $150 Santander, Spain The Competition is open to pianists of all Application deadline October 1, 2019 ELIGIBILITY nationalities, 18 to 32 years of age. Application notes Pianists not older than 32 years old. FINALS (live rounds) Applicants already admitted to the 2020 postponed August 2022, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano Competition were automatically admitted to the ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano Santander, Spain PANDEMIC & SAFETY 2021 Competition. PANDEMIC & SAFETY COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? ✔ April 25-27, 2021, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Scheduled? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed TBD Accepting applications? Israel ✔ Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS FINALS (live rounds) April 29 – May 3, 2021, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Charles Bronfman Auditorium, Tel Aviv, Israel COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 47 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 75e CONCOURS DE GENÈVE SCHADT STRING COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION Begun in 1997 following a bequest to the DETAILS Allentown Symphony Association from Edwin H. Travel covered? No and Leigh W. Schadt, the Competition alternates Frequency Biennial biannually between violin and cello. The first First prize $10,000 to $50,000 prize includes a cash award of $12,000 and a Smallest prize Less than $5,000

: TWKS.CH — PHOTO© BERTRAND COTTET solo concerto engagement with the Allentown Additional prize Performances

Symphony Orchestra. Jury chair DESIGN Diane Wittry, music director MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors 23 North 6th Street Jury members are to be confirmed for the 2022 Allentown, PA 18101 Violin Edition. Previous jury members include Janet UNITED STATES CELLO & OBOE Sung, Joel Smirnoff, Almita Vamos, Ilya Kaler, and 610-432-7961 x310 16-29 OCT. 2021 Nicholas Mann, among others. email website Jury size 1 to 5 ELIGIBILITY Application fee $75 Application deadline Eligibility Programme, rules, registration • Competition alternates annually among cello, Application deadline December 17, 2021 30 April 2021 Candidates born after 29/10/91 concoursgeneve.ch classical guitar, and violin • Age 18-30 (must be Application notes 18 or not have reached 31st birthday by Monday, SSC 2022: Violin 12/17/2021; SSC 2024: Cello December 20, 2021) • Must be a current resident or 12/15/2023 citizen of the U. S. Proof of citizenship is required. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) 2021–2022 If not a citizen, a copy of your visa or green card Violin: March 5, 2022, Miller Symphony Hall, is required with entry • Competition is not open Allentown PA MTNA Music Teachers National Association to prior first-place winners of the Schadt String Competition FINALS (live rounds) Stecher and Horowitz Violin: March 6, 2022, Miller Symphony Hall, ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Allentown PA TWO PIANO COMPETITION PANDEMIC & SAFETY COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Acclaimed duo pianists, Melvin Stecher and Norman Horowitz, have taken their support of two piano ✖ Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? performance to a new level with the MTNA–Stecher and Horowitz Two Piano Competition. ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed ✔ Accepting applications? The MTNA–Stecher and Horowitz Two Piano Competition consists of two rounds: SOCIAL LINKS a Preliminary Round, by video submission only; and a Final Round, which will take place live at the MTNA National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 26–30, 2022. Open to pianists ages 18–29 Application and video upload deadline: January 3, 2022 For more information, visit www.MTNA.org.

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 48 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 SCHMIDT VOCAL COMPETITION FRANZ SCHUBERT AND MODERN MUSIC

The Schmidt Vocal Competition is a program of DETAILS Its uniqueness is the combination of traditional DETAILS Schmidt Vocal Arts held at 17 regional locations Travel covered? No and contemporary music so that not only the Travel covered? No across the country. The day-long Competition Frequency Annual participants but also the audience get in touch Frequency Triennial affords singers an opportunity to perform live in First prize Less than $10,000 with both genres. Participants will perform First prize €10,000 to €50,000 front of an audience and a chance to win cash Smallest prize Less than $5,000 contemporary pieces that are results of composition Smallest prize Less than €5,000 awards/scholarships. Master classes with premier Jury chair(s) Not provided competitions that were particularly established for Additional prizes artists is also offered. Jury size 1 to 5 this Competition. Performances, Management, Recording Application fee $45 Jury chairs MAIN OFFICE Application deadline MAIN OFFICE Joseph Breinl (Lied duo) & Chia Chou (piano trio) 6 East 5th Street, Suite 406 Varies by regional locations University of Music and Performing Arts Graz Additional jurors Covington, KY 41011 Leonhardstraße 15 Lied duo: Lina Maria Akerlund; Christine Lemke- UNITED STATES FINALS (live rounds) A-8010 Graz Matwey; André Morsch; Anthony Spiri; Christianne 513-783-2583 Please see website for all Competition dates and AUSTRIA Stotijn; Robin Tritschler; Roger Vignoles email website locations. +43 316 389-1900 Piano trio: Kirsten Dawes; Ellen Margrete Flesjo; email website ELIGIBILITY COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Lucy Gould; Stefan Heinemeyer; Chloe Herteleer; Participants must be high school sophomores, ✔ Semifinals TBD Semifinals streamed ELIGIBILITY Catherine Klipfel; Minna Pensola juniors, or seniors, and recommended by a voice or ✔ Finals TBD Finals streamed Up to 35 years (born after February 15, 1985) Jury size 6 to 10 choral teacher. Application fee SOCIAL LINKS ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES €140/voice duo; €210/piano trio ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice Piano • Strings • Voice • in the form of Duo for Voice Application deadline October 21, 2020 and Piano (Lied) and Trio for Piano, Violin, and Application notes October 12, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Violoncello Pandemic policies and procedures for this SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Competition PANDEMIC & SAFETY February 10-11, 2022: Trio for Piano, Violin and Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Violoncello, MUMUTH (House of Music and Music ✔ Scheduled? ✖ Scheduled? Drama), Graz, Austria ✔ Accepting applications? TBD Accepting applications? February 11, 2022: Duo for Voice and Piano (Lied), Palais Meran, Graz, Austria FINALS (live rounds) February 13, 2022: Duo for Voice and Piano (Lied) and Trio for Piano, Violin and Violoncello, MUMUTH (House of Music and Music Drama), Graz, Austria COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 49 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 SING FINZI 2021 THE SOLTI FOUNDATION U.S.

To celebrate Gerald Finzi’s 120th birthday year The Additional jurors Honoring the memory of legendary conductor Sir PANDEMIC & SAFETY Finzi Trust and Boosey & Hawkes are launching an Anne Schwanewilms, celebrated singer; Eric Owens, and his dedication to helping young Pandemic policies and procedures for this international online singing competition offering celebrated singer; Roderick Williams, celebrated artists. Awards: $30,000 Solti Conducting Fellow Competition the chance to perform for a renowned panel and singer; Iain Burnside, leading pianist, artistic includes door-opening introductions, ongoing Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: win a cash prize of £5000 for the first-place singer director of Ludlow English Song Weekend; Helen professional mentoring, and introductions to Lyric ✔ Scheduled? and £2000 for the first-place pianist. Lewis, executive producer at Decca Classics; Joseph Opera of Chicago and Chicago Symphony Orchestra; ✔ Accepting applications? Middleton, leading pianist and director of Leeds and The Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance MAIN OFFICE Lieder Festival; Michelle Williams, head of casting at Award (amount varies). DETAILS B&H Music Publishers Ltd. (UK) English National Opera Travel covered? No Aldwych House, 71 - 91 Aldwych Jury size 6 to 10 MAIN OFFICE Frequency Annual London WC2B 4HN Application fee Free to enter 1555 Sherman Avenue, Suite 310 First prize $10,000 to $50,000 UNITED KINGDOM Application deadline December 31, 2021 Evanston, IL 60201 Jury chair +44 20 7054 7200 UNITED STATES Elizabeth Buccheri, artistic and awards committee email website SEMIFINALS (live rounds) 847-448-8329 Jury size 1 to 5 There are no rounds; rather, a set period of time email website Application deadline January 15, 2021 ELIGIBILITY for online submissions only. Submissions must be Entrants must be aged 18 years or over (please see made before December 31, 2021. Please use this ELIGIBILITY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) the terms and conditions on the website for more form on the competition webpage to send in your Applicant must be a career-ready artist in the field No live rounds information). YouTube recording. of conducting; developing a career as a symphonic/ operatic conductor; a citizen or permanent resident FINALS (live rounds) ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Piano • Voice FINALS (live rounds) of the U.S.; no more than 38 years of age as of No live rounds PANDEMIC & SAFETY There are no rounds; rather, a set period of time January 15, 2021; applicants must apply for awards. COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Due to the pandemic, is this competition: for online submissions only. Submissions must be The award will be based on professional experience ✖ Not open to the public ✔ Scheduled? made before December 31, 2021. Please use this in the field of conducting; demonstration of ✔ Accepting applications? form on the competition webpage to send in your advanced conducting technique; a written proposal SOCIAL LINKS YouTube recording. for use of the funds (see application requirements). DETAILS Travel covered? No COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Conducting Frequency Annual ✖ Not open to the public First prize Less than $10,000 SOCIAL LINKS Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Jury chair(s) Not provided

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 50 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 WILHELM STENHAMMAR SPHINX COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION (WSIMC)

The Sphinx Competition offers young Black and DETAILS Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music DETAILS Latinx classical string players a chance to compete Travel covered? Yes Competition (WSIMC) started 2006 in Norrköping, Travel covered? No under the guidance of a renowned panel of judges. Frequency Annual Sweden, by Sonja Stenhammar and has been held Frequency Biennial Its primary goals are to encourage, develop, and First prize $10,000 to $50,000 every second year since. The Competition has First prize €10,000 to €50,000 recognize classical music talent in the Black and Smallest prize Less than $5,000 an obligatory part, where the contestants must Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Latinx communities. Additional prizes perform a work of Wilhelm Stenhammar, the famous Additional prize Performances Performances, Management Swedish composer. Jury chair(s) TBA MAIN OFFICE Jury chair(s) Not provided Additional jurors 400 Renaissance Center, Suite 2550 Jury size 6 to 10 MAIN OFFICE Nader Abbassi, conductor, Kairo/Geneva; Georges Detroit, MI 48243 Application fee $35 Holmengatan 14 Delnon, opera director, Hamburg, Germany; Göran UNITED STATES Application deadline October 20, 2020 602 32 Norrköping Gademan, casting director, , Sweden; 313-877-9100 x712 Application notes SWEDEN Franziska Maria Kaiser, casting director, Copenhagn, email website https://app.getacceptd.com/sphinxmusic +46 11 218668; +46 11 218669; Denmark; Olga Kondina, soprano/professor, Sankt (cell) +46 706167806; (cell) +46 730356854 ELIGIBILITY Petersburg, Russia; Karin Veres, soprano/former SEMIFINALS (live rounds) email website artistic director, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, The Competition is open to all junior high, high January 27, 2022, Detroit, MI school, and college-age Black and Latinx string ELIGIBILITY Sweden; one more jury member will be engaged players residing in the U.S. FINALS (live rounds) Criteria: 6 opera arias from different periods, 2 from Jury size 6 to 10 Junior Division Finals: January 28, 2022 WSIMC obligatory repertoire • 3 arias from oratorio, Application fee €130 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Senior Division Finals: January 29, 2022 passion, mass, cantata, or concert aria repertoire Application deadline February 17, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY • 4 Lieder/songs in different styles • 1 piece by SEMIFINALS (live rounds) COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Wilhelm Stenhammar. Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed June, 11-16, 2021, Louis de Geer Concert Hall, ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice Norrkoping, Sweden TBD Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINALS (live rounds) Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: June 18, 2021, 6-8 pm: Final and Prize ceremony, ✔ Scheduled? Louis de Geer Concert Hall, Norrkoping, Sweden TBD Accepting applications? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 51 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 SHANGHAI ISAAC STERN SHANGHAI ISAAC STERN INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION (cont’d)

The third biennial Shanghai Isaac Stern International ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Additional jurors SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Violin Competition (SISIVC), Shanghai’s world-class Martin Campbell-White; Glenn Dicterow; Ning Feng; August 16-22, 2021: Shanghai Symphony Hall, violin competition, will be held August 10-29, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Emmanuel Hondrè; Weigang Li; Philip Setzer; Hagai Shanghai, China in Shanghai, China. The Competition has a grand Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Shaham; Joel Smirnoff; Kyoko Takezawa; Maxim ✔ prize of $100,000. Scheduled? Vengerov; Jian Wang FINALS (live rounds) TBD Accepting applications? Jury size 11 or more August 27-29, 2021: Shanghai Symphony Hall, MAIN OFFICE Shanghai, China DETAILS Application fee $100 No. 1380 Middle Fuxing Road Application deadline January 31, 2021 Shanghai 200031 Travel covered? Yes COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Application notes ✔ ✔ CHINA Frequency Biennial Semifinals Semifinals streamed No new applications will be accepted. Only ✔ ✔ email website First prize More than $50,000 Finals Finals streamed Smallest prize $5,000 to $10,000 contestants who finished the 2020 SISIVC online ELIGIBILITY Additional prizes application, before 23:59 GMT+8, on the 20th of SOCIAL LINKS The Competition is open to all participants between Performances, Recording January 2020, will be qualified to submit or replace the ages 16 and 33. Jury chairs their pre-selection video. David Stern & Vera Tsu Weiling MTNA 22 – 29 2021–2022 Music Teachers National Association Sept STUDENT COMPETITIONS The MTNA student competitions provide educational experiences and recognize exceptionally 2022 talented young artists and their teachers in their pursuit of musical excellence. Finalists compete in the national finals at the MTNA National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 26-30, 2022. The competitions are divided into five age groups: Elementary (ages 5–10; composition only), Junior (ages 11–14), Senior (ages 15–18) and Young Artist (ages 19–26) and Chamber Music (ages 18–29). Application THE deadline Competitions include Composition, Brass, Piano, String, Voice, Woodwind and Chamber Music. SCHUBERT 1 September 2021 Elementary, Junior, Senior and Young Artist application deadline: September 15, 2021 EDITION www.liszt.nl Chamber Music application and video submission deadline: December 1, 2021 For more information, visit www.MTNA.org.

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 52 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 STULBERG SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL STRING COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

Established in 1975, the Stulberg is one of the DETAILS In 2021 The Sydney International Online Piano DETAILS longest-standing string competitions in the country. Travel covered? No Competition will occur July 2-18. Competitors will Travel covered? Yes Its uniqueness stems from its focus on young string Frequency Annual submit pre-recorded videos for an international Frequency Quadrennial musicians, its high caliber of judges, its reputation First prize Less than $10,000 jury and compete for career-building prizes and First prize $10,000 to $50,000 for excellence, and its longevity. Smallest prize Less than $5,000 opportunities. The Sydney continues to present Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Additional prize Performances events at the highest international level and inspire Additional prizes MAIN OFFICE Jury chair(s) Not provided pianists and audiences alike. Performances, Management, Recording 359 South Kalamazoo Mall, Suite 14 Additional jurors Jury chair Kalamazoo, MI 49007 Mitchell Newman, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; MAIN OFFICE Piers Lane AO, artistic director UNITED STATES Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello PO Box R104 Additional jurors 269-343-2776 Jury size 1 to 5 Royal Exchange NSW 1225 Olivier Cazal; Mark Coughlan; Olga Kern; email website Application fee $130 AUSTRALIA Vladimir Tropp; Xiaohan Wang; Mira Yevtich +61 2 9241 3291 ELIGIBILITY Application deadline February 1, 2021 Jury size 6 to 10 email website Application fee $200 The Stulberg International String Competition is SEMIFINALS (live rounds) open to students of violin, viola, cello, or double ELIGIBILITY Application deadline May 22, 2021, 9 am and 4 pm, Dalton Center December 4, 2023 [for 2024 Competition] bass from around the world. Applicants must be Recital Hall, Western Michigan University campus, Must be 18 to 32 years of age under the age of 20 on January 1, prior to that year’s Kalamazoo, MI ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano SEMIFINALS (live rounds) Competition. Proof of date of birth will be required Online Competition 2021: Preliminary Round, if selected as a semifinalist. Current students of that FINALS (live rounds) PANDEMIC & SAFETY July 2-9, 2021; Semifinal Round, July 10-13, 2021 year’s judges are not eligible to apply. May 22, 2021, 2021, 7:30 pm, Dalton Center Pandemic policies and procedures for this Recital Hall, Western Michigan University campus, FINALS (live rounds) ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Competition Kalamazoo, MI Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Online Competition 2021: July 14-18, 2021 ✔ PANDEMIC & SAFETY COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Scheduled? COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed TBD Accepting applications? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 53 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 TAKAMATSU INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

To provide a forum to bring together top musicians worldwide as well as to encourage young people to Additional jurors pursue their dreams and goals of self-development. Pianists: Susumu Aoyagi, Edward Auer, Vincenzo Balzani, Dang Thai Son, Pascal Devoyon, MAIN OFFICE Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Piotr Paleczny, Central Tamachi Building 6F Andrey Pisarev, Antti Siirala 11-5 Tamachi, Takamatsu Composer: Shinichiro Ikebe Kagawa 760-0053 Jury size 11 or more JAPAN Application deadline September 20, 2021 +81 87-812-5583 email website SEMIFINALS (live rounds) March 22-23, 2022, Sunport Hall Takamatsu, ELIGIBILITY Takamatsu, Japan Individuals born between January 1, 1987 and January 1, 2007 FINALS (live rounds) March 26-27, 2022, Sunport Hall Takamatsu, ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano Takamatsu, Japan PANDEMIC & SAFETY COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Accepting applications? PAST COMPETITION WINNERS DETAILS 2018 Yasuko Furumi Travel covered? Yes 2014 Chloe Jiyeong Mun Frequency Quadrennial 2010 Alexander Yakovlev First prize $10,000 to $50,000 2006 Pavel Gintov Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Additional prize Performances SOCIAL LINKS Jury chair Shuku Iwasaki, pianist

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 54 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 TORU TAKEMITSU ROSALYN TURECK COMPOSITION AWARD 2022 INTERNATIONAL BACH COMPETITION

Total awards are ¥3,000,000 (approximately $29,000) DETAILS The Competition welcomes pianists 8-28 from DETAILS each year. The judge may withhold the prize. Travel covered? Yes the world over who pursue the musical ideals Travel covered? No The composers whose works are selected to be Frequency Annual espoused by the late Mme. Rosalyn Tureck. The Frequency Triennial performed at the final selection will be invited First prize $10,000 to $50,000 Competition consists of eight categories divided by First prize Less than $10,000 to attend. Smallest prize Less than $5,000 repertoire difficulty. A competitor may compete in Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Jury chair Brian Ferneyhough up to three categories and is required to perform a Additional prizes MAIN OFFICE Jury size 1 to 5 contemporary work. Performances, Recording 3-20-2 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku Application fee Free Jury chair(s) TBA Tokyo 163-1403 Application deadline September 30, 2021 MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors TBD JAPAN Application notes 23 West 73rd Street Jury size 1 to 5 +81 3 5353 0770 Please submit two copies of the bound score, New York, NY10023 Application fee $180 email website together with a completed entry form by the above UNITED STATES Application deadline October 15, 2022 deadlines. Mailed entries must be received by the 212 8736087 Application notes ELIGIBILITY email website Any person, regardless of nationality, who is not above dates. Receipt of entries on the last day will Preliminary unedited DVD with repertoire to be over 35 years old at the end of the year his/her close at 6:00 pm (Japan time). ELIGIBILITY intended to perform deadline: 10/15/2022 application is submitted. FINALS (live rounds) 8 to 28 years old, based on eligibility for certain SEMIFINALS (live rounds) categories ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Composition Sunday May 31, 2022 at the Tokyo Opera City December 2022 Concert Hall, Tokyo, Japan ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Piano PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINALS (live rounds) Pandemic policies and procedures for this COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? PANDEMIC & SAFETY December 2022 ✖ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed Competition Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Finals ✖ Finals streamed ✔ Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Scheduled? ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? TBD Accepting applications? ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 55 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 37TH VALSESIA MUSICA 37TH VALSESIA MUSICA INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2021 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2021 (cont’d)

Valsesia Musica Competition (former Viotti Valsesia) ELIGIBILITY Smallest prize Less than €5,000 FINALS (live rounds) started in 1981 to promote young talented Open to violinists, singers, and pianists from all over Additional prize Recording Teatro Civico in Varallo (VC) Italy, exact dates to be musicians as well as Valsesia, the greenest valley the world up to 37 years old Jury chair(s) TBD determined: in Italy. It is divided in different sections: violin and Additional jurors TBD Spring 2021, violin and orchestra; October 2021, orchestra, piano, voice, and a junior contest for ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Piano • Strings • Voice Jury size 1 to 5 voice piano, strings, and chamber music. PANDEMIC & SAFETY Application fee €100 Application deadline TBD COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ ✖ MAIN OFFICE Application notes Semifinals Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? ✔ ✖ corso Roma, 35 Violin and orchestra: spring 2021; Voice: autumn Finals Finals streamed I-13019 Varallo (VC) TBD Accepting applications? 2021 SOCIAL LINKS ITALY DETAILS +39 347 8317568 Travel covered? No SEMIFINALS (live rounds) email website Frequency Annual Teatro Civico in Varallo (VC) Italy, exact dates TBD First prize Less than €10,000 Spring 2021: violin and orchestra; October 2021: voice

FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL FISCHOFF FIND DISCOVER NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION YOUR YOUR

To be held virtually PERFECT PERFECT May 14-16, 2021 HIRE JOB Entry Deadline: March 3, 2021 www.fischoff.org

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 56 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 WALGREENS 16TH INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL CONCERTO COMPETITION HENRYK WIENIAWSKI VIOLIN COMPETITION

The Walgreens National Concerto Competition is DETAILS The Competition started in 1935 and is the oldest DETAILS one of the largest youth concerto competitions Travel covered? No violin competition in the world. Among the Travel covered? Yes in the nation with over 200 applicants each Frequency Annual prize winners: , Ida Haendel, David Frequency Quinquennial year. Winners receive $1000 and performance First prize Less than $10,000 Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh, Wanda Wilkomirska, Charles First prize €10,000 to €50,000 opportunities with the Midwest Young Artists Smallest prize Less than $5,000 Treger. It is conducted every five years. Contestants Smallest prize Less than €5,000 Conservatory (MYAC) Symphony Orchestra and on Additional prize Performances perform with piano and chamber orchestra and Additional prizes the radio programs From the Top and Introductions Jury chair(s) Varies each year with symphony orchestra (two concertos, including Performances, Management, Recording (WFMT-Chicago). Additional jurors one by H. Wieniawski). Jury chair Augustin Dumay National panel of respected music educations and Additional jurors MAIN OFFICE artists. MAIN OFFICE Agnieszka Duczmal; Daniel Stabrawa; 878 Lyster Road, Highwood Jury size 6 to 10 Swietoslawska str. 7 Piotr Anderszewski Illinois, 60040 Application fee 61-840 Poznań Jury size 11 or more UNITED STATES $0 for non-MYAC participants POLAND Application fee €50 + €150 847-926-9898 Application deadline December 1, 2021 +48 61 852 2642; +48 60 3255 272 Application deadline November 15, 2021 email website Application notes 11:59pm email website Application notes ELIGIBILITY ELIGIBILITY November 15, 2021; for more information go to the FINALS (live rounds) Competition website. All participants must be in the 12th grade or below. December 28-30, 2021: Open Division—MYA The Competition is open to violin players of all Senior Division is grades 9 through 12, Junior Conservatory Center, Highwood, IL nationalities born between 1991 and 2006. SEMIFINALS (live rounds) division is grades 8 and under. MYA Division—Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings October 12-16, 2022, Adam Mickiewicz University ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES Festival, Highland Park, IL Auditorium, Poznań, Poland PANDEMIC & SAFETY Piano • Strings • Voice • Woodwinds • Brass COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? FINALS (live rounds) • Percussion Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Semifinals ✖ Semifinals streamed ✔ Scheduled? October 18-20, 2022, Adam Mickiewicz University PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔ Finals ✖ Finals streamed TBD Accepting applications? Auditorium, Poznań, Poland Pandemic policies and procedures for this SOCIAL LINKS COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Competition ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed ✔ Scheduled? ✔ Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 57 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 th WIGMORE HALL/BOLLINGER 10 International Franz Liszt Apply Piano Competition INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION now! Weimar-Bayreuth The Competition celebrates the art of the song DETAILS recital and honors the Lied’s place at the heart of Travel covered? No the genre. The Competition has grown in status and Frequency Biennial 27 October – 7 November prestige since its foundation in 1997 and continues First prize €10,000 to €50,000 to attract international singers and pianists keen to Smallest prize Less than €5,000 2021 embark on significant recital careers. Additional prize Performances Jury chair MAIN OFFICE John Gilhooly OBE, director, Wigmore Hall Application Deadline: 1 June 2021 Wigmore Hall www.hfm-weimar.de/liszt Additional jurors Full jury TBA 36 Wigmore Street Jury size 6 to 10 London W1U 2BP Application fee UNITED KINGDOM £25 (initial) plus £35 (if selected) +44 0207 258 8244 Application deadline March 18, 2021 email website Application notes Deadline TBD ELIGIBILITY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) All singers and accompanying pianists must be Wigmore Hall, London, September 7, 2021 under 34 at the start date of the Competition for which they are applying. FINALS (live rounds) Wigmore Hall, London, September 9, 2021 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Voice COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? PANDEMIC & SAFETY TBD Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed TBD Scheduled? TBD Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 58 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 WIGMORE HALL YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL STRING QUARTET COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL AUDITIONS

The Wigmore Hall International String Quartet DETAILS Young Concert Artists Inc. is a nonprofit DETAILS Competition is one of the most prestigious quartet Travel covered? No organization dedicated to discovering and Travel covered? No competitions in the world. The Competition is held Frequency Triennial developing the careers of extraordinary classical Frequency Annual under the auspices of Wigmore Hall, the U.K. leading First prize €10,000 to €50,000 musicians. The sole criteria are exceptional First prize Less than $10,000 venue for chamber music. It attracts the best young Smallest prize Less than €5,000 musicianship, virtuosity, and individuality. The Smallest prize Less than $5,000 quartets and offers excellent career development Additional prize Performances musicians compete against a standard of excellence, Additional prizes opportunities to prizewinners. Jury chair not each other. There is no set number of winners. Performances, Management John Gilhooly OBE, director, Wigmore Hall Jury chair MAIN OFFICE Additional jurors MAIN OFFICE Daniel Kellogg, president Wigmore Hall Jonathan Brown, viola, Casals Quartet; Hélène 1776 Broadway, Suite 1500 Additional jurors TBA 36 Wigmore Street Clément, viola, Doric Quartet; Simin Ganatra, violin, New York, NY 10019 Jury size 11 or more London W1U 2BP Pacifica Quartet; Louise Hopkins, cello, head of UNITED STATES Application fee UNITED KINGDOM strings, Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Laura 212-307-6656 $55 early deadline / $85 final deadline +44 0207 258 8244 Samuel, violin, leader BBCSSO and ex-Belcea email website Application deadline August 2, 2021 email website Quartet; Kyril Zlotnikov, cello, Jerusalem Quartet ELIGIBILITY Application notes ELIGIBILITY Jury size 6 to 10 Applicants at the beginning of a musical career, who Early deadline: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 All members of quartets wishing to apply must be Application fee offer repertoire within the categories listed, provide Final deadline: Monday, August 2, 2021 £25 (initial) plus £35 (if selected) under 35 at the start date of the Competition for two appropriate letters of recommendation, and are SEMIFINALS (live rounds) which they are applying. Application deadline October 2021 not under U.S. management. Application notes November 2021, New York, NY ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Strings Application deadline will be mid-October 2021 ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES FINALS (live rounds) Piano • Strings • Voice • Brass • Woodwinds November 2021, New York, NY PANDEMIC & SAFETY SEMIFINALS (live rounds) • Chamber Ensembles Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: Wigmore Hall, London, April 8, 2022 COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? ✔ Scheduled? PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✖ ✖ FINALS (live rounds) Semifinals Semifinals streamed TBD Accepting applications? Due to the pandemic, is this Competition: TBD Finals ✔ Finals streamed Wigmore Hall, London, April 9, 2022 ✔ Scheduled? ✔ COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? Accepting applications? SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Semifinals ✔ Semifinals streamed ✔ Finals ✔ Finals streamed SOCIAL LINKS

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 59 musicalamerica.com • February 2021 MORE ON THE

WEB Advertiser Index Stephanie Challener In addition to the Competitions featured in this special report, the Musical America database of more Publisher and Managing Editor than 450 music competitions worldwide is free of charge for the month of February 2021! American Pianists Awards...... 3 Susan Elliott ARD International Music Competition Munich...... 20 Editor, News and Special Reports A Musical America Guide to Competitions 5 Top Competitors: Lessons Learned from The Azrieli Music Prizes...... 5 [email protected] Our Special Report on the top competitions in the Winning and Losing Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition...... 28 Frances Wan world. International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition...... 36 Design Director | Database Publishing Specialist William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition...... 34 Jamie Barton: Competitor Extraordinaire Howard Roth Christmas Carol Commission Competition...... 34 Business Consultant The Grand Competition Evolution of the Cooper-Bing Competition...... 58 21st Century What Do the Judges Look For? Clive Paget Dublin International Piano Competition...... 22 Features Editor, Musical America Directory Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition...... 56 Competition Insights from the Horse’s Choosing the Best Competition for YOU Geneva International Music Competition...... 48 Bill Esposito Manager of Listing Services Mouth Honens...... 41 [email protected] International Music Competition Cologne...... 44 International Piano Competition of Orléans...... 44 Tony Maiorino Advertising Sales Representative International Violin Competition of Indianapolis...... 24 609-448-3346 ß [email protected] 10th International FRANZ LISZT Piano Competition Weimar – Bayreuth...... 58 Carolyn Eychenne (Europe) Franz Liszt International Piano Competition 2021...... 8 Advertising Sales Representative ß Liszt Competition...... 52 33.1.39.58.14.01 [email protected] La Maestra International Competition for Women Conductors...... 13 Andrea Rancati (Italy) Music International Grand Prix...... 20 Advertising Sales Representative ß Music Teachers National Association–Stecher and Horowitz 39.02.703.00088 [email protected] Two Piano Competition...... 48 Debra Kraft In The Next Issue… Music Teachers National Association Student Competitions...... 52 Account Coordinator National Association of Teachers of Singing Competitions...... 38 [email protected] Carl Nielsen International Competition...... 10 FESTIVALS Philadelphia International Music Festival Online Concerto Competition...... 30 PUBLISHED BY A 2021 Summer Guide Piazzolla Music Competition...... 22 Coming 6 April 2021 Queen Sonja International Music Competition...... 10 Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition...... 13 Schadt String Competition. Violin – Allentown Symphony Orchestra...... 17 Questions? Email [email protected] PERFORMING ARTS RESOURCES, LLC Franz Schubert and Modern Music...... 36 PO Box 1330, Hightstown, NJ 08520 Sing Finzi 2021...... 28 609-448-3346 . [email protected] 5th Takamatsu International Piano Competition...... 54

THE MUSICAL AMERICA GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS 60 musicalamerica.com • February 2021