Regulations of National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition

Regulations OF THE competition

1. The forty fourth Polish countrywide Fryderyk Chopin Piano opposition, organised by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, will be held in Warsaw from 24th November to 2nd December 2012.
2. Contestants will carry out in three tiers and their performances could be open to the general public. The finalists (level III) might be followed via a symphony orchestra.
II
The opposition is open to pianists born between 1982–1995 who're Polish nationals.
III
1. Candidates wishing to go into the opposition are required to e mail the software form (konkurs@nifc.Pl) by 6th November 2012 or mail it to Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, Biuro Konkursów, ul. Tamka 43
00-355 Warszawa, postmarked earlier than or at the above-mentioned date.
Files to be attached with the utility will consist of:
a) copy of document bearing the applicant’s date of beginning
b) quick biographical note
c) reference from the track college / department head (for students) or a duplicate of the tune faculty diploma (for graduates)
d) report certifying that a overseas national is reading / has studied at a Polish musical university (for foreigners)
e) record of entrance rate charge
the entrance price of two hundred PLN have to be paid into the bank account no. Eighty four 1750 0009 0000 0000 0627 9139, indicating the Institute’s name and deal with (Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, Biuro Konkursów, ul. Tamka 43, 00-355 Warszawa), the applicant’s name and motive of price.
2. Packages sent after sixth November 2011 will not be generic.
Three. Applicants may be notified with the aid of smartphone or e-mail of their popularity no later than on 15 November 2011. All through the week previous the start of the competition the opposition workplace will notify the a success candidates of the date and time in their first performance.
4. Inside the event of the applicant’s resignation the doorway charge will not be refunded.
IV
1. Contributors are required to register with the competition workplace at the set date.
2. Contributors certified to the 2d level can be assured refund of accomodation prices in Warsaw all through the opposition up to 150 PLN primarily based on shown invoices.
V
1. Contestants will seem within the alphabetical order in their names, starting with the drawn letter. This order will essentially be followed throughout the opposition.
2. In principle no longer greater than fifteen contributors may be exceeded into the second stage and not more than eight into the very last.
3. For agency and programme associated reasons the opposition workplace can have the proper to change the sequence of performances.
VI
The opposition Programme will encompass the subsequent works to be played from memory:
level I
A sonata via Muzio Clementi or Joseph Haydn
one of the nocturnes via Fryderyk Chopin
3 etudes, one from each organization: 
1. Fryderyk Chopin – freely chosen etude, aside from: E important, Op.10 No.Three, E flat minor, Op.10 No.6 and C sharp minor, Op.25 No.7
2. An etude by using Claude Debussy
three. An etude of player’s own selecting
Any composition of the player’s personal deciding on
general performing time: 30-35 minutes.
(The participant can decide not to play the ultimate, chosen piece if the time of all other pieces exceedes overall time of 30 minutes.)
level II
Fryderyk Chopin – player's personal choosing from the given list:
- Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
- Ballade in F essential, Op. 38
- Ballade in A flat essential, Op. 47
- Ballade in F minor, Op. Forty seven
- Barcarolle in F sharp foremost, Op. 60
- Fantasie in F minor, Op. Forty nine
- Rondo in C minor, Op. 1
- Rondo a la Mazur, Op. 16
- Rondo in E flat main, Op. 16
- Scherzo in B minor, op. 20
- Scherzo in B flat minor, Op. 31
- Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op. 39
- Scherzo in E major, Op. 54
- Andante spianato and Polonaise in E essential, Op. 22
- Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op. 44
- Polonaise in A flat foremost, Op. 53
- Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat essential, Op. Sixty one
Claude Debussy's cyclic piece of the player's own selecting or four to six preludes by way of Debussy, or one in every of sonatas with the aid of Alexander Skriabin (except Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 and Sonata No. Three in F sharp minor, Op. 23)
A composition or compositions of the player's own selecting
Works performed in stage II need to be other than the ones played in stage I.
General acting time: forty five–fifty five mins.
Degree III
A piano concerto chosen from the subsequent:
Fryderyk Chopin:
I Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11
II Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No. III in C minor, Op. 37
Piano Concerto No. IV in G foremost, Op. 58
Piano Concerto No. V in E flat major, Op. Seventy three
candidates are requested to signify in the utility form the precise time of appearing each piece.
The portions can be done in any order, besides the obligatory etudes (stage I factors 2 & 3), which must be played one after the other.
VII
1. The Institute Director will rent the Chairman and all contributors of the Jury. Shuld it show essential, the Director might also change the composition of the Jury.
2. The names of the Jurors could be made public.
3. The Jury will compare the members' performances according with the policies accepted through the Institute Director.
VIII
1. In the course of the competition the Fryderyk Chopin Institute will make available practice pianos for all contestants.
2. Contestants can have the possibility to test-play the grand pianos within the Musical college’s halls. Inside the week preceding the start of the opposition every contestant will receive the date and time of take a look at-gambling, and the timetable for working towards on different pianos.
Three. Contestants surpassed into the final could have  rehearsals with the orchestra on the set dates and instances.
IX
1. The Jury will put up the listing of prize winners to the Institute Director for approval.
2. The subsequent prizes could be provided:
1st prize 20 000 PLN
2d prize 18 000 PLN
third prize sixteen 000 PLN
4th prize thirteen 000 PLN
5th prize 10 000 PLN
6th prize 7 000 PLN
special prize of three 000 PLN for the excellent overall performance of a solo piece by way of Chopin
unique prize of 3 000 PLN for the excellent performance of a chunk by way of Claude Debussy
special prize of three 000 PLN for the first-rate overall performance of a piece by using Alexander Skriabin
unique prize of 3 000 PLN for the quality overall performance of a concerto.
The laureates will also qualify for the concert-and-promoting programme run via the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Three. The listing of prize winners, including the offered prizes, could be made public.
X
1. The Jury will have the right to exchange by way of a 2/three majority the prize class, with the proviso that man or woman cash prizes might be neither lower nor higher than the ones specific inside the guidelines, and the overall sum allocated for prizes will now not be accelerated.
2. All selections made by using the Jury might be very last and incontestable.
XI
1. All prize-winners will seem free-of-fee within the prize-winners' live performance remaining the opposition. The concert might be hung on 3 December 2011 in the Musical university's live performance corridor. An unexcused absence from the above-referred to concert will be tantamount to giving up the prize cash.
2. The programme of the prize-winners' concert will be established by the Jury Chairman in session with the performers.
XII
1. All individuals are required to furnish the Institute unfastened-of-fee permission to use their creative performances and to have them at the Institute's disposal on the regions of exploatations as follows:
- protection and multiplexing: production of copies of the performances with the use of optionally available era: magnetic or virtual.
- dissamination: broacasting, re-broadcasting and public gambling and making available the recordings of the performances in this sort of manner that everyone can have get admission to to them in individually selected place and time
XIII
The Director of the Institute will make all selections on agency-related matters exceeding the powers of the Jury. His choices could be very last and incontestable.