The International Competition
Above all, Piano Campus is an encounter which strives to be youthful, daring and dynamic. Classical ritual, formal clothes have to be forgotten! Let's think about natural and original behaviour!
If "jeans" and "tee shirts" are not still compulsory, candidates are welcome to play in natural and modern contemporary dress.
A sure way of showing that classical pianists are also “with it”.
Members
of the jury
Welcoming diner for candidates
Thursday, February
9th - 8pm
Novotel, Cergy
The Hotel rooms are available on Thursday afternoon.
Candidates will be able to use rehearsal studios at the "Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional de Cergy Pontoise". The CRR will be open on Thursday 9th from 5pm.
On Thursday evening a welcoming dinner is organized to mix conviviality and encounters between candidates. A draw will be held to determine the order in which candidates will play.
Semi-final
Friday, February 10th
9.30am/1pm - 3pm/7.30pm
Conservatory of Cergy-Pontoise
4 pieces (30 mn maximum) including :
> an imposed piece (to play in the beginning of the program) :
Rachmaninoff - Etude-Tableau Opus 39 n°2 in A minor
+ 1 piece of the 18th century : Scarlatti, Mozart, Padre Soler, Rameau, Handel, Clementi, Haydn...
+ 1 piece of the 19th century : Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Franck...
+ 1 piece of the 20th or 21th century : Debussy, Poulenc, Bartok, Scriabine, Prokofiev, Enesco, Gershwin, Ligeti, Escaich, Dusapin, Schnittke, Shchedrin ...
After the first round, three candidates will be selected for the final. A random draw will take place organized by the Piano Campus competition direction to set up the finalists ordre of turn. All candidates have to be present at the announcement of the results.
Meeting & Masterclass
Saturday, February 11th 11am & 3pm
Conservatory of Cergy-Pontoise
11am - Meeting and lunch with the chairman of the jury
Meeting between not selected candidates and the president of the Jury, Dmitri Alexeev, and few Jury members. Questions about the competition.
Lunch break, organized by Piano Campus. Jury members, all the candidates and the Piano Campus Organizing Committee will be together.
3pm / 6pm - Masterclass with the professor Dmitri Alexeev
Interpretation lesson, by the professor Dmitri Alexeev, at the Auditorium Olivier Messiaen at the CRR of Cergy Pontoise. This masterclass is organised only for the not selected candidates.
Final
Sunday, February 12th
4pm
"Points Communs :
Théâtre des Louvrais"
Pontoise
> The world Premiere for piano and orchestra of the imposed piece " Le chant de Lilith " of the guest composer Elise Bertrand
> Concerto n°4 in G major Opus 58 - Ludwig van Beethoven
> Vote of the jury and the public
> Results of the final
> Piano Campus Awards given by the chairman of Piano Campus