International Competition for Young Pianists and Chamber Music (San Sebastián)

Next competition:	March 2011
Next deadline:	2011
Categories for the next competition:	Piano, ensembles

City:	San Sebastián (Spain)
Age range:	8-23
Structure:	One or two rounds depending on age category
Cycle:	every year
Categories:	Piano, ensembles
Organiser:	Asociación para la promoción del piano
Contact:	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Website:	http://www.concursopiano.com/

Rules: The competition is open to pianists and instrumentalists of any nationality. Each candidate may opt for only one individual category. Candidates may not present themselves in the same category in which in previous editions they have obtained a First Mention or a First Prize.

Further informations

Prizes:

	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Elementary 1	Diploma	Diploma	Diploma
Elementary 2	Diploma	Diploma	Diploma
Intermediate 1	Diploma	Diploma	Diploma
Intermediate 2	EUR 500	EUR 250	EUR 125
Intermediate 3	EUR 700	EUR 350	EUR 175
4 Hands Intermediate	EUR 500	EUR 450	---
4 Hands Higher	EUR 900	EUR 450	---
Higher	EUR 3.000	EUR 1.500	EUR 750

All the winners receive a diploma.

Special prizes:
Participants who obtain First Mention will receive a voucher given by ERVITI.
The “Enrique Lartundo Foundation” will give three scholarships of EUR 650 to the three best participants from Gipuzkoa.

Application: To be submitted by the competition deadline:

• Application form completed in full
• Two recent passport size photographs of each participant.
• One photocopy of an official identity card passport of each participant.
• A self-addressed envelope of the participant who does the registration.
• Higher level and 4 Hands Higher: Detailed Curriculum Vitae including musical training, teachers, grades and/or awards.
• A document which accredits the payment of the inscription

Participation fees:

Elementary 1	EUR 42
Elementary 2	EUR 44
Intermediate 1	EUR 46
Intermediate 2	EUR 48
Intermediate 3	EUR 50
4 Hands Intermediate (only one inscription per duo)	EUR 52
4 Hands Higher (only one inscription per duo)	EUR 54
Higher level	EUR 56

Background: The competition began in 1994, thanks to the initative of Laurentino Gómez Beldarrain, a piano teacher at the School of Music and Dance of San Sébastian and of Rosa Zarate Gallego, the director of Noroabe, a private music school.

Both of them founded the Association for Piano Promotion “Ciudad de San Sébastian”, which has had the support from the town hall of the city and Kutxa since then. Nowadays numerous private and public firms also finance it. Read more

Last updated: 16.11.2009