PIANO
CAMPUS
2026

The Hotel rooms are available on Thursday afternoon.

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Candidates will be able to use rehearsal studios at the "Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional de Cergy Pontoise". The CRR will be open on Thursday 6th from 5pm.

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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 the day after. 

4 pieces (30 mn maximum) including :

 

> an imposed piece (to play in the beginning of the program) : 

Francis Poulenc - Novelette n°3 en mi mineur «Andantino tranquillo», sur un thème de Manuel de Falla

 

+ 1 piece of the 18th century :

+ 1 piece of the 19th century 

+ 1 piece of the 20th century from Debussy to Ligeti

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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 running order. All candidates have to be present at the announcement of the results. 

10:30 am - Meeting and lunch with the chairman of the jury

Meeting between not selected candidates and the president of the Jury, Michel Beroff 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.

 

2:30 pm / 7 pm - Masterclass with the professor Michel Beroff 

Interpretation lesson, by the professor Michel Beroff, at the CRR of Cergy Pontoise Auditorium. This masterclass is organised only for the candidates that were not selected to the Finals.

> The world Premiere for piano and orchestra of the imposed piece of the guest composer Lise Borel

> Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini in A m, Op.43 - Rachmaninov 

> Vote of the jury and the public

> Results of the final

> Piano Campus Awards given by the chairman of Piano Campus