Santa Cecilia International Competition

Deadline: 05/04/2024
Location: Portugal
Disciplines: Piano
From: 22/06/2024 To: 28/06/2024
Age limit: up to 32

Application rules:

The application should be done online on the website: scecilia-competition.com;

Together with the online form the following documents will be required to attach: Recent photo;

Curriculum Vitae – maximum 2 500 characters;

Payment Receipt – attach scan of the check or bank transfer receipt;

Youtube link with video recording;

Application’s deadline / Pre-selection round: 5th of April 2024;

The results of the pre-selection round will be published until the 6th of May 2024;

The candidates that go through this stage can change their repertoire for the competition until the 11th of May 2024;

The competition fee should be paid together with the application. The fees for the main category are: 70 euros for the Pre-Selection Round + 120 euros for the candidates that will continue the competition;

For the candidates going through the pre-selection round, they have until 11th May 2024 to complete the payment of the remaining 120 euros;

The payment can be done through:

Bank Transfer to IBAN PT50 0010 0000 5121 7990 0016 5, BIC BBPIPTPL / Banco BPI – Balcão Foz – Praça do Império (the name, instrument and category of the participant must figure on description);

Check addressed to CMSM – Curso de Música Silva Monteiro, Lda and mailed to: Curso de Música Silva Monteiro // Comissão de Apoio ao Concurso Sta. Cecília // Rua Monsenhor Fonseca Soares, 137 // 4150-335 Porto –PORTUGAL;

Fees will not be returned in case of non-attendance;

In carrying enrolment, competitors are authorizing the use of their image through photography or filming, for the purposes of institutional publicity;

Application will not be accepted in containing incomplete or false data;

Applications will only be validated when all documents are received.

Awards:

First Prize € 30,000
Second Prize € 15,000
Third Prize € 10,000

Repertoire:

Pre-selection (video – youtube link to be sent with the application form)

One Etude by Chopin or Liszt or Rachmaninoff
One movement from a classical sonata (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven)
Work of the participant’s own choice with a maximum of 6 minutes

Eliminatory (max. 20 min)
One Prelude and Fugue by J.S.Bach
One fast movement from a classical sonat (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven)
One romantic piece of the participant’s choice

Semi-final (max. 45min)

Recital Program that includes one classical sonata (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven – participant’s can repeat the one played in the first round) and one piece from the XX or XXI century

Final
One concert chosen from the list below:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concerto No. 9 in E flat Major, “Jeunehomme”, Kv. 271
Concerto No. 20 in D minor, Kv. 466
Concerto No. 23 in A Major, kv. 488
Concerto No. 26 in D Major, “Coroação”, kv. 537

Ludwig van Beethoven

Concerto No. 3, op. 37
Concerto No. 4, op. 58
Concerto No. 5, op. 73

Robert Schumann
Concerto op. 54

Frédéric Chopin
Concerto No. 1, op. 11

Edvard Grieg
Concerto op. 16

Tchaikovsky
Concerto No. 1, op. 23

Rachmaninoff
Concerto No. 2, op. 18
Concerto No. 3, op. 30

Ravel
Concerto in G major, M. 83

Prokofieff
Concerto No. 3, op. 26

More information: https://www.scecilia-competition.com/