INCONTRI CHITARRISTICI DI GARGNANO 2017
with
~ OSCAR GHIGLIA ~
and
ELENA PAPANDREOU
from August 24th to September 4th 2017
including a guitar and lute course especially for music of the Renaissance and Baroque
Instructor: MASSIMO LONARDI
The courses will be held from August 26th to September 4th 2017 and will be concluded by a student concert. The students will receive certificates of attendance.
Students may attend the courses either as active participants (standing an admission test the first day of the course at 5:00 p.m.) or as auditors. In the admission test the students will perform a free choice program of around 10 minutes.
Semifinalists of the competition may attend the courses as active participants without playing in the admission test. However they must send their entry form to incontrichitarristici@comune.gargnano.bs.it
REGISTRATION FEES FOR THE COURSES:
Performers € 200
Auditors € 90
The fees must be paid on Monday the 28th of August 2017 at the local branch of “Unione di Banche Italiane" (piazza Feltrinelli, Gargnano).
42nd INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF GARGNANO
25th – 26th August 2017
1st Prize: € 4.200
2nd Prize: € 1.800
3rd Prize: € 800
For Italian and foreign competitors born after September 1st 1982.
First prize winners or competitors twice awarded the second prize in previous editions are not allowed to enter this contest.
The contest is divided into three rounds:
I. Round (eliminatory):
Competitors are required to upload on YouTube a 10-12 minute long video recording, with a free choice program, including a Renaissance work. The video should be recorded with only one fixed camera and show no signs of editing, even between separate pieces. The video must be uploaded public and must be accessible at least until August 27th 2017.
Competitors must send by e-mail to incontrichitarristici@comune.gargnano.bs.it, no later than the 14th of July 2017, the following:
the competitor’s name, e-mail address and mobile phone number
the link of the video recording
the titles of the works performed in the recording with the names of their authors
the program that the competitors intend to perform in the following rounds (semi-final and final)
a copy of their passport or identity card
the receipt of their registration fee payment. Without proof of payment, the application will not be accepted.
The registration fee of € 50 for the competition must be sent to Unione Di Banche Italiane - agenzia di Toscolano-Maderno, IBAN IT24C 03111 55311 0000 0000 9881, SWIFT/BIC BLOPIT22 (Beneficiary: Comune di Gargnano).
The registration fee must be NET of charges and taxes.
Competition applicants will be notified the result no later than July 31st. A maximum of 12 competitors will be admitted to the Semifinal.
II. Round (Semifinal): a free choice program of no less than 15 and no more than 20 minutes, including one or more movements taken from a work by Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed for guitar and a work from a later period.
The number of finalists will be left to the discretion of the jury and their names will be announced after the semifinal.
III. Round (Final): a free choice program of no less than 25 and no more than 30 minutes, including one work of the 19th century (classic or romantic) and one work of either the 20th or the 21st century, both originally written for guitar.
The program performed in each round (Eliminatory, Semifinal and Final) may not include works from other rounds.
The semifinalists will gather on Thursday August 24th 2017 at 7.30 p.m. at the Centro Civico Multifunzionale "Andrea Castellani" (Via Teatro, 14, Gargnano) in order to draw the number determining the order of their appearance.
Competitors must provide the Jury two copies of the scores of the works they will perform.
The semifinal and the final shall be held on August 25th and 26th respectively and will be open to the public.
REGISTRATION FEE FOR COMPETITORS:
€ 50 (to be sent NO LATER THAN the 14th of July 2017)
The registration fee must be NET of charges and taxes
Information and Registration:
INCONTRI CHITARRISTICI DI GARGNANO
VIA ROMA 47 – 25084 GARGNANO (BS) - ITALIA
TEL. (+39) 0365 -7988305 FAX (+39) 0365-71354
e-mail: incontrichitarristici@comune.gargnano.bs.it