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.

 

3rd Manhattan Music Competition

We've been notified of this competition for piano, strings, and singers. No transport required. Details all online, deadline 28 February 2018:-

• https://www.manhattancompetition.com/

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/

Piano Competition - Mayenne, France 24-26 May 2013

A competition at the Conservatoire of Le Grand Nord in Mayenne, France.

6e Concours International, 'Piano a Mayenne'

24-26 May 2013

For more info, visit the website:-

• Competition details on Conservatoire website 
• Le Grand Nord homepage

Piano competition: Piano a Mayenne, 13-15 April 2012

5e Concours International

"Piano a Mayenne"

13-15 April 2012

Information from the Conservatoire at Le Grand Nord: www.legrandnord.fr

Competition details here.  Registration before 10 March 2012.

The competition will also be posted on Whittaker's Awards, Competitions, Prizes page.

Piano competition, Yekaterinburg (Russia) 2012

Whittaker has just received notice of a piano competition:-

IV International

Competition of Pianists

In the Memory of Vera Lotar-Shevchenko

25 June - 9 July 2012

in Yekaterinburg
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lotar-shevchenko.ru

http://www.lotar-shevchenko.ru/en/ (English)

http://www.lotar-shevchenko.ru/fr/ (French)

This will also be noted on Whittaker Live's Awards, Grants, Prizes page

Spanish piano competition 28 April - 6 May 2011

53 Concurso Internacional de Piano: Premio 'Jaen'. For more details, follow this link. The RSAMD Whittaker Library has a CD of Antonii Baryshevskyi, 2009 Winner of the Jaen Prize International Piano Competition. His recital includes Scarlatti, Ravel, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Mateos.