THE POLISH NATIONAL FRYDERYK CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION

THE POLISH NATIONAL
FRYDERYK CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION
Warsaw
31 January – 7 February 2010
THE FRYDERYK CHOPIN UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC
2 Okólnik Str.
Henryk Melcer Hall
STAGE I
31 January – 1 February 2010
STAGE II
2–3 February 2010
auditions begin at 10.00 and at 16.00
Rehearsals with the orchestra
4 February 2010
The Concert Hall
THE FINAL
5–6 February 2010
auditions begin at 18.00
The Finalists will be accompanied by
the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Monika Wolińska
THE PRIZE WINNERS’ CONCERT
Sunday, 7 January 2010
at 18.00
RULES OF THE COMPETITION
I
1. The Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, organised by
the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, will be held in Warsaw from 31 January
to 7 February 2010.
2. Auditions will be open to the public and will be held in three stages.
The finalists (Stage III) will be accompanied by the Fryderyk Chopin
University of Music Symphony Orchestra.
II
The Competition is open to pianists born between 1980-1993 who are
Polish nationals or foreigners who are / were studying at Polish musical
universities.
III
1. The participation application form, enclosed with these Rules, should be
completed legibly in block letters and mailed (postmarked) no later
than 4 January 2010 to:
Biuro Konkursów Chopinowskich
Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina
Pl. Piłsudskiego 9
00-078 Warszawa
Poland
Supplementary documents will include:
a) short biographical note
b) reference from the music school / department head (for students)
or copy of the music school degree (for graduates)
c) copy of document bearing the applicant’s date of birth
d) document certifying that a foreign national is / was studying at a
Polish musical university (for foreigners)
e) record of entrance fee payment
The entrance fee of 200 PLN should be paid into the bank account no.
84 1750 0009 0000 0000 0627 9139, indicating the Institute’s name
and address (Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, Pl. Piłsudskiego 9,
00-078 Warszawa), the applicant’s name and purpose of payment.
2. Applications sent after 4 January 2010 will not be accepted.
3. Applicants will be notified by phone or e-mail of their acceptance or
rejection no later than 18 January 2010. The Competition Office will
notify applicants of the audition dates during the week preceding the
start of the Competition.
4. In the event of the applicant’s resignation the entrance fee will not be
refunded.
IV
1. Participants are required to register with the Competition Office at the
set date.
2. Participants who are not Warsaw residents will not be reimbursed for
the cost of their travel and stay in Warsaw.
3. Participants will make their own accommodation arrangements. The
Competition Office will not be responsible for the booking of hotel or
private accommodation in Warsaw.
V
1. Auditions will be held in the alphabetical order of the participants’
names, beginning with the drawn letter. This order will in principle be
followed throughout the Competition.
2. In principle not more than fifteen participants will be passed into the
second stage and not more than eight into the Final.
3. For organisation and programme related reasons the Competition
Office will have the right to change the sequence of a day’s auditions. A
contestant may be allowed to perform outside the established
sequence, at the end of the auditions, only in the event of his/her
illness confirmed in writing by a doctor. Such altered order of auditions
will be irrevocable until the end of the Competition.
VI
The Competition Programme will include the following works to be played
from memory:
Stage I
a)
A sonata by Joseph Haydn (a cyclic form in three movements)
Two etudes by Fryderyk Chopin, one from each (a, b) group:
C major op. 10 no. 1
C sharp minor op. 10 no. 4
G flat major op. 10 no. 5
F major op. 10 no. 8
C minor op. 10 no. 12
A minor op. 25 no. 11
b)
A minor op. 10 no. 2
C major op. 10 no. 7
A flat major op. 10 no. 10
E flat major op. 10 no. 11
A minor op. 25 no. 4
E minor op. 25 no. 5
G sharp minor op. 25 no. 6
B minor op. 25 no. 10
One virtuoso etude by any composer (excluding Chopin)
Performing time under 30 minutes
Stage II
Robert Schumann – a piece or pieces of the contestant’s own choosing
Fryderyk Chopin – pieces of the contestant’s own choosing (other than
those performed in stage I), including an obligatory Scherzo or Ballade
Total performing time: 45–50 minutes
Stage III – The Final
A piano concerto chosen from the following:
Fryderyk Chopin:
I Piano Concerto E minor op. 11
II Piano Concerto F minor op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
III Piano Concerto C minor op. 37
IV Piano Concerto G major op. 58
V Piano Concerto E flat major 73
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto A minor op. 54
In the application form the applicant will indicate the exact time of
performing each piece.
The pieces may be performed in any sequence except the etudes (stage I
point 2) which have to be played one after the other.
VII
1. The Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute will appoint Chairman and
Members of the Jury as proposed by the Competition Director.
2. The names of the Jurors will be made public.
3. The Jury will work in accordance with the rules approved by the
Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
VIII
1. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute will make available pianos for all
contestants to practise.
2. Participants will have the opportunity to test the piano in the Musical
University’s concert hall. Participants will receive the date, time and
place of test-playing the concert hall piano and of practising on other
pianos in the week preceding the start of the Competition.
3. Contestants passed into the Final will have two rehearsals with the
orchestra.
IX
1. The Jury will submit the list of prize winners to the Competition
Director for approval.
2. The following prizes will be awarded:
1st prize
2nd prize
3rd prize
4th prize
5th prize
6th prize
Special prize of 3000 PLN for the best performance of a piece by
Chopin
Special prize of 3000 PLN for the best performance of a piece by
Schumann
20,000
18,000
16,000
14,000
12,000
10,000
PLN
PLN
PLN
PLN
PLN
PLN
The laureates will also qualify for the concert-and-promotion programme
run by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
The Institute will arrange for the laureates to appear in:
śelazowa Wola – Chopin’s birthplace
The Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź
Geneva
The United States
3. The list of prize winners including the awarded prizes will be made
public.
X
1. The Jury will have the right to change by a 2/3 majority the prize
category with the proviso that individual cash prizes will be neither
lower nor higher than those specified in the Rules.
2. All decisions made by the Jury will be final and incontestable.
XI
1. All winners will appear free-of-charge in the prize winner’s concert
closing the Competition. The concert will be held on 7 February 2010 in
the Musical University’s Concert Hall. An unexcused absence from the
above concert will be tantamount to giving up the prize money.
2. The programme of the prize winners’ concert will be established by the
Jury Chairman in consultation with the performers.
XII
The Director of the Competition will make all decisions on organisationrelated matters exceeding the powers of the Jury. His decisions will be
final and incontestable.
THE FRYDERYK CHOPIN INSTITUTE
Pl. Piłsudskiego 9, 00-078 Warszawa
tel./fax: 022 827 54 71
www.nifc.pl, [email protected]
Director of the Institute
Andrzej Sułek
Director of the Competition
Albert Grudziński
Competition Office
Pl. Piłsudskiego 9, 00-078 Warszawa
tel.: 022 826 81 90, fax: 022 827 54 71
www.nifc.pl, [email protected]
Head of the Competition Office
Barbara Niewiarowska
tel.: 022 826 81 90, mobile: 608 643 021
[email protected]
The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music
ul. Okólnik 2, 00-368 Warszawa
tel.: 022 827 72 41
(since 30 January 2010)