V. CALENDAR & COMPETITION PROGRAMME

CALENDAR 2022 15 March

Application deadline

5–8 April

Preliminary Round (video selection)

10 April

Announcement of selected candidates

13 July

Online Recital pre-recorded video deadline

12–18 September

Online Recital broadcast

20 September

Announcement of selected candidates for the Semi-Final Round

23 September

Beginning of the online interactive Workshop on the personal artistic project

23 October

Welcome Ceremony (Geneva)

24–30 October

Semi-Final Round (Geneva): Solo recital, Chamber music, Project

3 November

Final Round with orchestra (Geneva)

PROGRAMME

All pieces must be performed by heart, except for the chamber music programme (Semi-Final) and for the contemporary piece (Online Recital round). Exceptions may be accepted upon request. Candidates may choose the order in which they wish to perform their programme during each round.

A.PRELIMINARY ROUND VIDEO RECORDING (20 – 30 MIN.)

W. A. Mozart or J. Haydn

- 2 contrasted movements from a piano Sonata

J. S. Bach: one among the following pieces at free choice:

- Preludes & Fugues (Well-Tempered Clavier) BWV846 – BWV893 - Partitas (min. 3 movements) BWV825 – BWV831 - Toccatas BWV910 – BWV916 - English Suites (min. 3 movements) BWV 806 – BWV811 - French Suites (min. 3 movements) BWV 812 – BWV817

F. Chopin or F. Liszt: ONE Etude at choice

- Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 or Etudes Op. 25 - Liszt: Transcendental Etudes S. 139 OR - Etude de Paganini S. 141

Fourth piece at free choice (piano solo)

The piece at free choice is meant to show candidates' musical personality. Recording all the movements is not mandatory.

The works chosen for the preliminary round may be performed again during the competition.

Candidates must join to their application a short text or video presentation (max. one page/3 minutes), introducing themselves and explaining why they want to participate in the 2022 Geneva International Music Competition.

B. ONLINE RECITAL (MAX. 30 CANDIDATES – MAX. DURATION 45 MIN.)

Free 45-minute recital, must include a work from the "contemporary" list (see below). The choice of works, their originality and the relevance of their arrangement are an element of the judgement.

C. SEMI-FINAL ROUND IN 3 PARTS: (MAX. 8 CANDIDATES)

Each candidate competes in all three phases, and the jury will decide on all three phases. The three phases count for the calculation of the final evaluation

Solo Recital (60-75 minutes) 45% of the evaluation

- The program of the recital is at the free choice of the participants. It must be constructed as a concert and explained by a programme note (in one of the following languages: French, English, German, Italian,

Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic). - The jury will take into account in its judgment the elaboration of the programme, its interest and of course its execution.

Chamber music / accompaniment (30-40 minute) 35% of the evaluation

- L. v. Beethoven: one of the 5 Sonatas for Piano and Cello at free choice.

The Geneva Competition provides the Cellist. - One of the Song/Lieder cycles from the Annex list «Song/Lieder». The

Concours de Genève provides the Vocalist.

Presentation and defense of a personal artistic project 20% of the evaluation

- The semi-finalist is invited to propose an artistic project to be carried out during the two years following the awarding of a prize in the competition. - The project may take various forms, be purely musical in nature (recital programme, concerts tour) or involve other forms of artistic expression (visual, textual, dance) with other artists. - The artistic project must be an original proposal, intimately linked to the artistic personality of the semi-finalist (no projects already proposed in the past or copied from other artists). - The project may be presented in the form of a text, a projected presentation, a video or any other medium. - The project will be prepared, adapted (if necessary) and further developed during the one-month timeframe between the announcement of the semi-finalists and the arrival in Geneva. Online interactive sessions with professional coaches are organized . - When in Geneva, a journalist will conduct a filmed interview (in French,

English, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese or Arabic) which will allow to better understand the personality of the semi-finalist and the relevance of the artistic project. - The Jury will review the projects at the end of the semi-final phase. It will evaluate the project, taking into consideration its artistic interest, its originality, whether it is adapted to the artist who presents it, and its relevance in the context of the beginning of a career. - The Jury will take into account the report of the specialist(s) who assisted the semi-finalist and examine the stages of realization of the project, judging to what extent they are realistic.

D. FINAL ROUND WITH ORCHESTRA (3 FINALISTS)

At choice, one of the following concertos:

- Ludwig van Beethoven / Concerto n°3 in C minor Op. 37 - Ludwig van Beethoven / Concerto n°4 in G Major Op. 58 - Ludwig van Beethoven / Concerto n°5 in Eb Major Op. 73 - Béla Bartók / Concerto n° 3 Sz 119 - Johannes Brahms / Concerto n°1 in D minor Op. 15 - Frédéric Chopin / Concerto n°1 in E minor - Frédéric Chopin / Concerto n°2 in F minor - Franz Liszt / Concerto n°1 in Eb Major - Franz Liszt / Concerto n° 2 in A Major - Serge Prokofiev / Concerto n° 2 in G minor Op. 16 - Serge Prokofiev / Concerto n° 3 in C Major Op. 26 - Maurice Ravel / Concerto in G - Camille Saint-Saënsl / Concerto n° 2 in G minor Op. 22 - Camille Saint-Saëns / Concerto n° 4 in C minor Op. 44 - Robert Schumann / Concerto in A minor Op. 54 - Piotr Tchaikovsky / Concerto n° 1 in B flat minor

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Maržena Diakun

ANNEX 1 «Contemporary» list of mandatory works to be chosen for the Recital online

- Luciano Berio / Sequenza IV / 12’ - William Blank* / Lightnings / 8’ - Pierre Boulez / 12 Notations / 11’ - Pierre Boulez / 1ère Sonate / 12’ - Elliot Carter / Caténaires / 4’ - Unsuk Chin / 3 Études à choix / env. 15’ - Henri Dutilleux / 3 Préludes / 12’ - Beat Furrer / Voicelessness. The Snow Has No Voice / 10’ - Stefano Gervasoni / Studio di disabitudine / 14’ - György Kurtag / 8 Klavierstücke Op. 3 / 7’ - Michael Levinas / Trois Etudes / 10’ - György Ligeti / 3 Etudes à choix / env. 12’ - Olivier Messiaen / Petites esquisses d’oiseaux / 14’ - Rebecca Saunders / Shadow / 11’ - Salvatore Sciarrino / une Sonate pour piano / 10’ - Karlheinz Stockhausen / Klavierstück IX / 11’ - Stefan Wirth* / Faims II / 5’ - Yannis Xenakis / Evryali / 10’

*Scores available at the Concours de Genève's office

ANNEX 2 « Song/Lieder » list of mandatory Song/Lieder cyces to be chosen for the Semi-final

- M. Moussorgski / Chants et Danses de la Mort / 20’ - F. Liszt / Tre Sonetti di Petrarca / 19’ - H. Wolf / 3 Goethe Lieder / 16’

Ganymed, Der Rattenfänger, Prometheus - C. Debussy / Proses lyriques / 19’ - F. Poulenc / Tel jour telle nuit / 14’ - A. Schönberg / 4 Lieder op. 2 / 13’ - A. v. Zemlinsky / 6 Gesänge op. 13 / 16’ - A. Berg / 7 frühe Lieder / 15’