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European Classical music has long relied on music competitions to provide a public forum that identifies the strongest players and contributes to the establishment of their professional careers. This is a list of current competitions in classical music, with each competition and reference link given only once. Many offer competitions across a ...
Chopin Competition final (3rd edition, 1937), one of the founding members of the federation.. The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) is an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that maintains a network of the internationally recognized organisations that aim to discover the most promising young talents in classical music through public competition. [1]
The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of age. The competition is named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
In 1957 the competition became one of the founding members of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva. [9] The pre-war editions of the competition as well as three editions after World War II (1955, 1960, 1965) were held in winter, close to the date of Chopin's birth – 22 January. However, due to repeated cases of ...
The competition was born at the behest of Robert J. Vidal, deputy producer of the French radio station. In 2007 a new competition, International Classical Guitar Competition Robert J. Vidal [1] in Barbezieux, France was established in his memory. In 1972 Giuliano Balestra founded International Guitar Competition "Fernando Sor" in Rome, Italy
The Eurovision Song Contest, an example of a music competition. A music competition is a public event designed to identify and award outstanding musical ensembles, soloists, composers, conductors, musicologists [1] or compositions. Pop music competitions are music competitions which are held to find pop starlets.
Some people likely to take part in music competitions can be found in the categories violinists, cellists, ... International classical guitar competitions; 0–9.
In classical music, a concerto competition is a competition whereby contestants perform concertos or movements of concertos in a qualifying round, in order to be selected to play their concerto with an orchestra. Typically, the final round is a public concert featuring the finalists performing with orchestra.