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 Venue: Auditorio San Francisco, C/ Valladolid s/n 05004 - Ávila - Spain

Instruments Soloist: violin, viola, violoncello, double bass, piano, clasic guitar, flamenco guitar, lute, harpsicord, and sitar.

President of the Jury: Paola Volpe, pianist (President of  XXXVI International Piano Competition  Agropoli, Italy), Anna Baget (violinist), Elena Sharayeva (cellist), Rodrigo Moro (doublebass), Alfredo Vicent López (guitarrist), Alvaro Lozano (conductor), Naseer Shamma (oud), Ashraf Sharif Khan (sitar).

• Category A: Born from 1st January 2011. Free program 8/10 minutes.
• Category B: Born from 1st January 2005. Free program 10/15 minutes.
• Category C: Born from 1st January 2001. Free  program 15/20 minutes.
• Category D: Born from 1st January 1997 to 31th December 1992. Free programe 25/30 minutes.

1. The contest is addressed to all young people of any nationality.
2. The candidate will present, at the time of his performance, one copy of the scores of each work he will interpret.
3. The Organizing Committee of the Competition will hold a drawing to determine the letter for the order of the tests according to the initial of the first surname of the contestants.
4. The candidate will come with his pianist concert master. In case of need the organization has pianist concert master.
5. Application fee: 60€
6. Application with pianist Category A, one rehearsal + competition: €120
7. Application with pianist other Categories, one rehearsal + competition: €160.
8. Accomodation 42€ single room, 37€ double room. Full abroad breakfast, lunch, dinner included.
9. The list of admitted in each modality will be published in: www.musicaproart.com

 INFO: Giuliana Cesarini tel + 34616951341 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

1. SUBSCRIPTION: 

1. Copy of the applicant's ID or Passport.
2. Curriculum, repertoire, and video or audio registration (minimum 3 minutes).
3. Invoice of payment  €60/ €120 or €160 in concept of Application.
4. The application can be made on the website www.musicaproart.com before May 30, 2019.
5. Will be admitted a maximum of 20 participants in each Modality and by strict order of registration.

OBLIGATION OF THE COMPETITORS:

1. All competitors will be present 15 minutes before the start of the first Prova.
2. The non-attendance to any Prova will determine the elimination of the aspirant. All contestants will be accompanied with their pianist. In case of need the organization can facilitate the contact of two pianists: Alexandra Andreeva and Julia Beatriz Rodriguez Sanchez.
3. The competitors who are winners are required to attend the awards ceremony. In case of not attending, they will renounce their prize.

JURY:

1. After all the Prova, the Jury will make public the results of its deliberation, being able to declare deserts the prizes that it deems appropriate. In any case, the resolutions of the same are unappealable, being empowered to resolve the questions that were not expressly provided in these bases.
2. The public will be admitted in all the tests of the Contest, but the president of the jury will be able to evacuate the room in case of untimely or exaggerated demonstrations, continuing the test in private.
3. All recording, both audio and video by attendees is prohibited.

AWARDS:

CATEGORIA A:

•             First award: 50€ and diploma (20% discount in the  IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila - July 2019).
•             Second award: 40€ and diploma (10% discount in the IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila -July 2019).
•             Third award: 30€ and diploma. 

CATEGORIA B:

•             First award: 60€, diploma and 20% discount in the IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila - July 2019.
•             Second award: 50€, diploma and 10% discount in the IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila- July 2019.
•             Third award: 40€ and diploma. 

CATEGORIA C:

•             First award: 100€, diploma and 20% discount in the IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila- July 2019.
•             Second award: 70€, diploma and 10% discount in the IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila- July 2019.
•             Third award: 50€ and diploma.

CATEGORIA D:

•             First award: 150€, diploma and 20% discount in the IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila- July 2019.
•             Second award: 100€, diploma and 10% discount in the IV Curso Internacional de Formación Musical Ciudad de Ávila -July 2019.
•             Third award: 60€ and diploma.

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE "MÚSICA CALLADA": Participation in the 4th Festival Internacional of Mystic and Teresian Music City of Àvila (Spain) September  2019, at the CITeS during de II Worldwide Congress dedicate to San John of the Cross.

RECORDING RIGHTS AND PROMOTION: The organization reserves the rights to record all the competition and use the registration only for promotion.

VALUATION CRITERIA:

1. In order to assess the contestants, the following criteria will be taken into consideration:
2. Expressivity: correct execution of the works and their indications of tempo, notes, rhythms, phrasing, articulations, dynamics, tuning, etc.
3. Technical control: ability to solve technical difficulties included in the works performed.
4. Sound quality: adequacy of sound style and repertoire.
5. Musicality: artistic expression, formal sense, sense of musical style and ability to print the character to the work.
6. Communication: intention, conviction, security and staging.

                                                  IV INTERNACIONAL MYSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL                                                                   

MONDAY 3 September  2018       

 19.00 H. Inauguration Festival with Competition Winner “Música Callada”                                                                         

Violin Rubén Fernandez Manzanas (Spain)  Partida nº 2 - Johan Sebastian Bach                                                        Guitarrist Julia Arroyo Benito (Spain) music from Francisco Tarrega

TUESDAY 4 September 2018     

19.45 H.: Rodrigo Rodriguez (Spain) Meditation Music for Japan flute ShakuhachiRodrigo Rodriguez plays the Shakuhachi, a Japanese instrument who has about 800 years of history, which in its origins was used as a meditative instrument by various branches of Buddhism. During the Nara period (S. VIII) was introduced as an instrument from China to Japan. At the beginning of Edo Perios, during the sixteenth century, only the "Komuso", a gruop of itinerant Buddhist monks, had the exclusivity to play this flute until losing this permission years later and nowadays it is treated as an other instrument to incorporate in chamber music and intimate environments.

WEDNESDAY 5 September  2018   

19.45 H. Ewa Uryga (voice) y Grzegorz Dowgiallo (voice and piano) o. Mariusz Wójtowicz OCD – voice and flutes (group from Poland)     

Love and Music Universal Language of Humanity              

 Ewa Uryga, Polish singer, she is an excellent and respected vocalist, she has a highly successful track record with a large number music awards. Her artistic activity involves different music styles and genres. She graduated from the Faculty of Jazz and Popular Music at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Nonetheless, she began to sing much earlier.  She has participated in numerous projects along with the following artists: Anna Maria Jopek, Zbigniew Wodecki, Mieczysław Szcześniak, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Ewa Bem, Janusz Szrom, Hanna Banaszak. Ewa Uryga also participated in such workshops as oratorios: ‘Droga Nadziei’ by Janusz Kohuta, ‘Woła nas Pan’ by Włodzimierz Korcz according to Ernest Bryll’s writing and ‘Niepołomice’ by Zbigniew Wodecki. She was the main singer in the following musicals: ‘Zorba’ directed by Jan Szurmiej, ‘Chicago’ directed by Katarzyna Deszcz in collaboration with the Musical Theatre in Gliwice. Currently, she is in the process of preparing material for her next album involving American musicians – the members of ‘New York Jazz Collective’: Mark Soskin, Luques Curtis and Dorota Piotrwoska, with whom she has recently cooperated during her in-house as well as abroad tours. She initiated the cycle of concerts under the name ‘The Meeting Classic and Jazz’ at the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice and became its music director.                                                                                                       Grzegorz Dowgiallo is one of the most charismatic and beautiful voices on the Polish music scene. His vocal qualities and his ability as a pianist allow him to space between several musical genres such as blues, jazz and classical music. These two young stars of Polish music are going to prepare a special repertoire on the occasion of the Festival.                                                                                                                                                                                            

SATURDAY 8 September 2018         

19.30 H.: DOMINA DONNA (Italy) Music and Marian Spirituality in the Italian Baroque  DUO CLAVIERE  Elena Modena voice and Ilario Gregoletto Harpsicord. Ensamble born on 2003 at Centro de Estudios Claviere di Vittorio Veneto (TV) in Italy in order to investigate and spread the medievale music repertoire, in particular the sacred polyphonic production of the XII-XV. Its members have extensive academic training dedicate to vocal and ancient instrumental techniques and musicological reserach.                                                                                                                                                                                     

 DOMINA DONNA Music Program: Alessandro Grandi Tota pulchra es 1577–1630 -  Donna Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana Ave stella matutina 1590-1662 - Girolamo Frescobaldi Recercar con obligo di cantar la quinta parte 1583–1643 - Claudio Monteverdi Salve o Regina 1567–1643 - G. Frescobaldi Toccata decima, in fa - Francesca Caccini Maria dolce Maria 1587–1640 - G. Frescobaldi Toccata prima, in sol - Donna Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana O si sciret- Veni dulcissime Domine A. Grandi O dulce nomen Jesus- Giovanni Gabrieli Canzona en sol 1557–1612 - A. Grandi Egredimini, filiae Sion.

Nato ad Ávila (Spagna) nel 1985, considera che l'aspetto piú importante della sua formazione musicale è stato l'appoggio dei suoi genitori e dei suoi fratelli, soprattutto della sorella Julia con la quale forma un dúo di violoncello e pianoforte. I suoi maestri più importanti sono stati Francisco Pastor (il suo "padre" violoncellistico) nel Conservatorio Superior di Alicante (Spagna) dove completó gli studi con Matricula di Onore e Premio Staordinario Fin de Carrera.

Proseguí la sua formazione durante tre anni con María de Macedo.

È stato finalista nel Certamen Intercentros 2006 e Primo Premio nel Concorso Nazionale di Giovani Interpreti di Xátiva 2011 (Spagna). Ha suonato in diverse orchestre (Orchestra Sinfonica di Alicante, Joven Orquesta della Generalitat Valenciana, Orquesta di Elche, Orchestra  Sinfonica di Castilla y León, Orquesta Bética da Cámara). Ha interpretato come solista Variaciones Rococó di Tchaikovski, Elegía di Fauré, Concierto para dos violoncellos di Vivaldi, Concierto di Lalo. Es profesor del Conservatorio Profesional de Música di Jerez desde 2012. Attualmente ha un duo di violoncello e pianoforte con sua sorella Julia Beatriz Rodríguez.

Benjamín valora soprattutto l'esperienza come docente e gli insegnamenti che come musicista ha ricevuto dai suoi allievi da oltre sei anni nel Conservatorio di Jerez (Spagna); gli alunni dell'anno scorso (Ana Rodríguez, Omar Faiz, Alfonso Gutiérrez, Candela Mier… tra gli altri) e gli alunni di quest'anno: Candela Hernández, Pablo García, Javi Martínez, i fratelli Linares, Javi Martínez oltre agli alunni piú piccoli. I due musicisti che piú lo hanno emozionato e ispirato sono stati Beethoven e Camarón. Attualemente suona frequentemente con la pianista Muskilda Salar.