LSO Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

We've just been sent fliers for a prestigious conducting competition.  The competition takes place in March 2021, but the deadline for applications is Friday 26 June 2020.

If you're an ambitious conductor, you'd better take a look at the details right now!  

https://lso.co.uk/lso-discovery/donatella-flick-lso-conducting-competition.html

Are You the Next UK Young Musician of the Year?

Congratulations in advance!

https://www.mrssunderlandfestival.com/

You've got to be in it to win it! - so here's the link you're looking for.  We understand it's run in conjunction with the Mrs Sunderland Festival in Huddersfield Town Hall this year.

Scottish Composers, Seize This Opportunity!

Quoting from the Sound-Scotland website:-

Development opportunity for Scotland-based composers

sound is a new music incubator based in North East Scotland, initially set up to give local audiences access to new music. It is now renowned in and beyond Scotland for producing and promoting high-quality work, for its support to composers of all generations and for attracting new audiences through its varied programming and inclusive nature....  [Read about the whole opportunity here.]

Pianists, Violininsts! International Johannes Brahms Competition

When we receive competition announcements, we share them with our readers!  If you're a violinist or a pianist, this may be right up your street!  (Well, it's in Austria, but you know what we mean ...)
 

http://www.brahmscompetition.org/en/

 26th International Johannes Brahms Competition
1st to 8th September 2019 in Pörtschach/Austria

 

 

All details are on the website - just click on the links.  But here's a quick clip from the organisers:-

 

 

Thursday January 31st, 2019Thursday January 31st, 2019 Johannes Brahms Gesellschaft PoertschachAllgemein

The 26th International Johannes Brahms Competition will be held from 1st to 8th September 2019 in the categories piano, violin, voice and chamber music.
The regulations have changed only slightly compared to the past years.

• Piano: L.v. Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4, G major op. 58 replaces Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 in the finals.    
• Violin: P.I.Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 replaces Dvořák, in A minor, op.53in the finals

Registration is possible from March 2019 until July 1, 2019.
The website is currently being redesigned to accommodate this year’s contest.

 

We Found an Event for Young Trad Musicians ...

We picked this competition up at a trad music conference not long ago.  You'll have to be quick, but this is certainly worth a look if you're a trad musician under the age of 24!  It's promoted by St Albans folk music with support from Hertfordshire Folk Association.
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New Roots - An event for young musicians

"This annual event is for young performers of all styles of traditional or contemporary folk, roots or world music, whether you play traditional material or write your own. Categories are under 18 and 18-24."

Interested? We thought you might be!  Follow this link.

Besancon - International Competition for Young Conductors

We've just received notification of this conducting competition, taking place 16-21 September 2019.
Find out more at the competition website:-

http://www.festival-besancon.com/en/besancon-music-festival-news/

Veera Lapinski wins Elaine Campbell Gullan Poetry Competition

Theme: Blue Planet

Last Friday evening, the Whittaker Library hosted the 2018 Elaine Campbell Gullan Poetry Competition. Here is the winner, Veera Lapinski, with the judge, Iain Lowson. Vera not only performed but also wrote her winning poem.  Many congratulations, Veera!

DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION 2018 20–22 November 2018

Here's a great conducting competition - we've just been notified of the call for applications. 

Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition

The competition is 20-22 November, but the deadline for applications is 20 April, so ... time to get your skates on!

Competitive Singer? We Found You a Competition! The Grange Festival ...

Here's part of the press release.  You have to be under 35 years of age.  Most of our singers can manage that! 

"The Grange Festival launches The Grange Festival International Singing Competition, the first country house opera company presenting such a competition

"The Grange Festival today announces that it will present a major new singing competition, The Grange Festival International Singing Competition, formerly The Hampshire National Singing Competition, last held in 2013 and widely regarded as a major forum for young talent from around the country.
As the first country house opera company to present such a competition, the ambitious undertaking underlines The Grange Festival’s desire to extend its work outside the summer opera season, offering a broader and more dynamic range of events than ever before, as well as its artistic vision to nurture the careers of young singers... "

• https://thegrangefestival.co.uk/ 
• International Singing Competition 2017  https://thegrangefestival.co.uk/singing-competition/

The Trump-et Shall Sound (Purely for the Trumpeters)

We shared all those international competitions, but they seemed rather light on brass. So - here are some trumpet competitions.  Enjoy - and good luck!

https://www.musicalchairs.info/trumpet/competitions

Courses and Competitions for Musicians

Although the Whittaker Library doesn't actively collect details of courses and competitions, at this time of year flyers seem to wing their way to us like homing pigeons.  Yesterday was a record - four flyers in one afternoon!  What can we do but share them with our friends?

Conducting, Piano, Organ, Strings, Wind, Vocal, Chamber ...!

• English Choral Experience: ECO Conducting Course, July 22-30, 2017, Herefordshire http://www.englishchoralexperience.co.uk/ (hurry, deadline for applications is 13 March!)
• Allegro Vivo Summer Academy 2017, northern Austria, 5 August - 3 September (master and youth courses, strings, piano, vocal, winds, chamber music, concerts and prizewinner concerts) https://www.allegro-vivo.at/en/ 
• Pianale Piano Academy, Germany, August 13-30 (International Academy and Competition) www.pianale.com
• 23rd Annual Leos Janacek International Competition in Brno (Czech Republic), September 14-21 (Organ and Piano) http://hfenglish.jamu.cz/leos-janacek-international-competition/

Hands Up for Trad - Get Composing!

Last call! Entries for 2016 Collection close at the end of August

If you compose in a trad Scottish style, you really do need to look at this. Fast!  https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/handsupfortrad/the-2016-collection-is-open-for-entries/

Compete in Vienna in 2017 (String Quartet and Piano Trio)

We haven't shared details of a competition for a while, but we've just come across this one - sure to interest some of our RCS performers:-

7th International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna

String Quartet and Piano Trio

The competition is 20 February - 2 March 2017 and the application deadline is 1 September 2016, so hurry! Visit:- www.haydn-competition.com

The Flick of a Baton - Young Conductors Showing Potential

CALL FOR ENTRIES: DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION 2016 

The Whittaker Library likes to share competition opportunities with our performing arts community.  Today, we share with you the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition:-

The Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, created by Donatella Flick in 1990, aims to help a young conductor establish an international conducting career.
The winner of the competition is offered, in addition to an award of £15,000, the opportunity to become Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for up to one year.
The next competition will be held in London on 15–17 November 2016, and is open to conductors under the age of 35 who are citizens of the 28 countries having full membership of the European Union.
Competition entry is open now, and is by online submission only. The deadline is 6pm on 21 April 2016.
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Click here for full details, rules and the entry form
Please share this email among your contacts and students!

Edinburgh Competition Festival Association

We hear there is interest amongst our students in this performance competition opportunity, so we're sharing the website with you:-

Edinburgh Competition Festival Association

Find a Young Musician from Kirklees Metropolitan Area - 2016 Contest!

We received a leaflet from The Kirklees Young Musician of the Year Contest 2016.

It takes placed in Huddersfield on 19 February 2016.  Entries must be submitted by 14 November 2015.

You must be aged 16-25, from Kirklees area!

More info at their website:- Mrs Sunderland Music Festival

What They Played at Paris Conservatoire Competitions

There's a new series of instrumental anthologies, just published by A-R Editions:-

Music from the Paris Conservatoire

We've ordered a set for the Whittaker Library, and the first copies will hit our new books display next week.  Each book contains the best late 19th century contest repertoire for an orchestral instrument accompanied by piano.

• Check out the publishers' page
• Check out what's been added to the Whittaker Library collection

If You're a Competitive Violinist, enter the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition

2015 Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, in Sion Valais

Details:- www.varga-sion-concours.ch

Could you Write a Christmas Carol? BBC Radio 3 Competition

"BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition 2014"

"Write a Christmas carol ..."

Details HERE. 

It Means "The Worlds" To Us (The World Pipe Band Championships)

The Worlds homepage 

Just now, if someone mentions "The Worlds", they aren't talking about the universe, the cosmic galaxy or anything of that nature.  "The Worlds" are a pipe band championship that takes place in Glasgow.  So this is why there was a pipe and drum band in the Thistle Hotel Car-Park late yesterday afternoon ...

The Whittaker Library does have a more than a few CDs of pipe bands, for our staff and students to enjoy when the championships are over ... CLICK HERE.

We are the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, here to assist with the information requirements of our performing arts community.