Application:
Inscription Deadline: 1th of October of 2025.
VERY IMPORTANT: Only entries from contestants whose documentation is received in a SINGLE SUBMISSION will be considered valid.
The CIPCE Management will select a maximum of 46 pianists who will enter the Second Round of the Competition, based on the requested registration material and the online video submitted.
We will establish a waiting list of unsuccessful contestants who may be invited to participate in the event that selected contestants drop out of the competition.
Registration must be done through the registration form on our website, or via email to: cipce.secretary@gmail.com, attaching the following documentation:
1. Name and Surnames
2. ID, Family Book or Passport
3. Photo of suitable quality to publish
4. Sex
5. Date and Place of Birth and Nationality
6. Full POstal Address
7. Telephone and email of contact
8. CV (maximum one page)
9. Link (Youtube, Vimeo, or others…), including an audiovisual recording of the participant including one or several works of free choice, with a duration between 15 and 20 minutes, made in the last 2 years.
10. Programme that the contestant performs in the different rounds, indicating the composer, the full name of the work (including key, opus and number if known) and the duration of the works that he/she performs.
11. Request for Piano and Hall auditions.
12. Would you like the organisation to reserve your accommodation?
13. Proof of payment must be included with this registration. No registration will be considered valid until the registration fee has been received. The registration fee is 120€.
All the pieces should be performed by heart, excepting the pieces of the honored composer.
The honored composer of the 25th edition is Father Antonio Soler.
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The registration fee is non-refundable except in case of cancellation of the competition.
It is very important to confirm 10 days before the start of the competition, time and day of arrival.
Awards:
First Prize – 11.000 Euros
Second Prize – 4.000 Euros
Third Prize – 2.000 Euros
Repertoire:
First round (online)
Program of free choice. Duration between 15-20 minutes.
– The video must be sent through a link (Youtube, Vimeo or others), attached to the registration form.
– The recording must be made with a single fixed camera, in which the pianist is visible in every moment.
– All works must be recorded in a single take, however it is possible to stop between works or movements.
– Videos from different days or live concerts may be included, however, they must be united in the same file and link.
– Only piano solo pieces will be accepted.
Second round
Maximum duration of 30 minutes. Free choice program that includes at least two sonatas by our honored composer (Father Antonio Soler).
At least one of the sonatas must be fast. It is permitted to play more than two sonatas if the participant wants.
Semifinal
Maximum duration of 40 minutes. Free choice program.
The Jury will value when awarding the Spanish Music Prize the contestant who includes in this Semi-Final Recital a Spanish Work of free choice, to choose between the 19th, 20th or 21st centuries. Another work by Father Antonio Soler or a work by the composers honoured in previous editions may be performed again: Antón García Abril, Tomás Marco, Xavier Montsalvatge, Manuel de Falla, Carlos Cruz de Castro, Joaquín Rodrigo, Zulema de la Cruz, Gabriel Fernández Álvez, Claudio Prieto, Cristobal Halffter, Joaquín Turina, José Zárate, Salvador Brotons, Isaac Albéniz, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Juan Medina, Alejandro Román, Juan Manuel Ruiz and José Luis Turina, Juan Duran, Pascual Gimeno and Enrique Granados.
The Spanish Music Prize may be awarded to any of the semi-finalists who do not reach the final round.
Final
Virtuosos de Madrid International Orchestra.
A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra will be performed, to be chosen from among the following:
J. S. Bach: all
W. A. Mozart: all
L. van Beethoven: all
F. Chopin: no. 1 and no. 2
R. Schumann: Concerto in A minor
F. Liszt: No. 1 and 2
E. Grieg: Concerto in A minor
P. I. Tchaikovsky: No. 1
S. Rachmaninov: No. 2, 3 and Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
S. Prokofiev no. 1 and 3
More details: https://cipce.org/en/home/