33rd
   
   INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION
  
   «RODOLFO LIPIZER PRIZE» – GORIZIA
   
   6
   
    th
   
   – 14
   
    th
   
   SEPTEMBER, 2014
  
 
 
 

    RULES
   
  1) The Competition will be held from the 6
  
   th
  
  to the 14
  
   th
  
  September 2014.
  
  It is divided into three stages, eliminatory, semifinal and final, which will be held in public at the Teatro
  
    «L. Bratuž»
   
  in Gorizia, Viale XX Settembre 85.
  2) The Competition is open to violinists of all nationalities who were born after the 14
  
   th
  
  September 1982.
  3) Admission will be decided by the Competition Organizing Committee after checking the required documents and their validity, and will be communicated between May 1
  
   st
  
  and 15
  
   th
  
  2014.
  4) The
  
   net
  
  entrance fee of € 150,00
  
   (both issuing and receiving bank charges excluded)
  
    must be paid upon registration to
   
  Associazione Culturale “Rodolfo Lipizer” ONLUS (no-profit), in one of the following ways:
  
  – from
  
   Internet
  
  : you can useVisa or MasterCard orPayPal (*) account on our e-commerce web site
 
   http://ecommerce.lipizer.it/
  
  – from
  
   Italy
  
  : a) bank transfer to postal account number IT27L0760112400000010780492, or
  
  b) bank transfer to c/c (**) IBAN: IT49S0862212400004000251116
  
   –
  
  from
  
   abroad
  
  : a) international postal order, or
  
  b) bank transfer to the current account 251116 of the (**) SWIFT / BIC: CCRTIT2T96A • IBAN
  
    (compulsory for U. E. countries
   
   )
  
  : IT49S0862212400004000251116
  
  (*)
  
    PayPal users must add 3.4% + fixed 0.35 € + eventual exchange costs.
   
 (**) BCC – Cassa Rurale Artigiana di Lucinico Farra e Capriva, 34070 LUCINICO GO – ITALIA.
 
 Please
 
  indicate name and surname of the competitor
 
  ,
  
   and send a copy of
  
   the bank transfer
  
   receipt along with the
  
   other requested documents
  
 .
 
  The entrance fee will
  
   not
  
  be returned to the competitors that have been accepted, but will instead be returned to the competitors who were not accepted.
  5) Those who won the first prize at previous “Lipizer Competition” cannot enter the competition.
  6) The performing order for each stage will be decided at the beginning of the Competition by ballot held in the presence of the Jury and the competitors. The competitors will have to play their entire program in each one of the three rounds.
  
     Exceptionally, for the first round, in case of a high number of competitors, the organizing Committee, in agreement with the Jury, may decide to shorten the program evenly for everybody.
  7) Competitors must play from memory (except the Sonata and the piece composed for the competition) and use well-known editions for their fidelity to the original texts. In the respect of copyrights they must also own, and bring to Gorizia, the original scores of the musics they will play (
  
   no photocopies admitted
  
  ).
  8) Two Official Pianists will be availablefree
 
  for those competitors who will not have their own
 
  accompanist. The violinists who are considering to choose, for the second stage, point 3BX, a
  
   contemporary piece
  
  ,
 
  will have to be accompanied by their own pianist.
 
  In this case, a copy of the score must be
 
  forwarded to the Organizing Committee within the application deadline.
    9) The Jury will be composed
    
      of the following
     
      members:
      
            Edgar ALANDIA C.
           
           President
          
           ITALY
          
           Myriam DAL DON
          
          Member
         
          ITALY
         
           Evgueni GRATOVICH
          
          Member
         
           UNITED STATES
          
           Alexander JABLOKOV
          
          Member
         
           KAZAKHSTAN
          
           Marnix Willem STEFFEN
          
          Member
         
           CHINA
          
           Zhou QIAN
          
          Member
         
           HOLLAND
          
           Roland XHOXHI
          
          Member
         
           ALBANIA
          
 Representatives of the Ministry of Cultural Activitieswill be able to assist to the Jury’s works, but will not vote.
 10) The admission of each competitor to the semifinals, the choice of the (maximum) six competitors who will be admitted to the finals, as well as their classification, based on the three tests, will be established by the Jury’s majority resolution with an open vote; their decision is final.
 11) Candidates who do not reach the semifinals/finals will be given an opportunity to ask for explanations to the members of the Jury.
 12)
 
   Lodging and half board in students boarding house will
  
   be ensured to all those competitors
  
   admitted to the eliminatory trial, as of
  
    September 6th
   
   , (
   
    excluding
   
   any
   
    accompanist)
   
   , with 50%
  
   of the costs paid by the organization. It will be totally free, instead, for those competitors admitted to the following
  
   rounds.
   
   Hospitality will be ensured to the accompanists against full payment of the costs.
   
 A list of hotels for direct booking will be sent to those competitors who intend to lodge at their own expenses. The competitors must notify the Competition Office where they will be lodging.
 13)
 
    Any competitors or piano accompanists requiring a visa
   
    must indicate this on the application form. The Competition
   
    Secretariat will send them a letter of invitation. The procedures
   
    and relative expenses for obtaining the visa will be charged to the competitor and/or the piano accompanist. The Competition Secretariat is therefore not responsible for failure to obtain the visa.
    14)
   
 All the performances will be broadcast in streaming media on the Lipizer web channel. The final stage and the “Finalists’ Concert” will be broadcast on the radio and television by RAI Italian Radiotelevision Network. The winner of the first prize may have the chance to record a CD. In this case no remuneration is due to the performer.
 
 Representatives of the Supporting Organizations, agents of recording companies and concert agents will be invited as “observers” to the final test and to the Finalists’ Concert.
 15) Each candidate binds himself to the acceptance of all rules governing this Competition upon his signing
 
  the application form,
 
 and consents to the use of his personal information for the purposes of the competition and its artistic promotion, according to the Italian Law 30.6.2003, n. 196.
 16) Only the original Italian text will be considered valid in case of dispute.
 17) Before their performances, the candidates might be required to show an identity document.
    REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTERING THE COMPETITION:
   
 1) The following documents must be sent by registered mail to the address below
 
  not later than April 30
  
   th
  
  2014
 
    (as represented by
   
    the postal stamp):
    
  a)
 
    the request of admission
   
 in which the applicant declares his intention of participating in the Lipizer Prize, along with the following documents:
 
 b)
 
  the application form
 
 , throughly filled in and clearly indicating:
 
 – Surname, Name, gender, language for the correspondence, chosen among English, French, German, Spanish and Italian;
 
 – Place, country and date of birth;
 
 – Birth nationality and Citizenship;
 
 – Curriculum studiorum concerning musical education;
 
 – Professors’ names, addresses andcontacts
 
  , mentioning length and dates of the studies with each of them;
  
  – Chosen programme for each of the three stages;
  
  – Request for the Official contest pianist, if needed;
  
  – whether he/she requires aroom booked by the Competition Office in a student hostel, or prefers to stay in a hotel at his/her expense;
  
  – Date of arrival in Gorizia,
  
   within the 5
   
    th
   
   September 2014
  
  ;
  
  – Signature (if under age, the application is to be signed by a parent or legal guardian);
  
  – Permanent and temporary address
  
   from the 1
   
    st
   
   May to the 3
   
    rd
   
   September2014
  
  , telephone, fax numbers, e-mail and the family’s address in their country of origin;
  
  c)
 
    copy of the bank
   
    transfer receipt relative to the payment of the registration fee;
   
  d) a birth certificate or similar official document (photocopy of a personal document: international passport or identity card);
  
  e) 3 recent artistic close shot colour photographs of the applicant,
 
  with the instrument
 
 , and of good quality(photographs may be sent also by e-mail
 
  ,
  
   max 512 Kb in JPEG format
  
 ). Please show Your full head, avoid poses that may hide Your face and keep the instrument close to Your face;
 
 f)brief biography for the finalist’s concert (presenting the candidate’s musical education and concert career – no more than 1.100 types);
 
 g) schematic curriculum vitae in chronological order, stating the applicant’s musical studies
 
  ,
  
   with declaration of completeness and truthfulness, readable signature.
  
 2) In case of a registered letter requesting missing information, the competitors who have applied to the competition need to reply throughly within 12 days since they receive it.
 3) The entry requests sent by e-mail are considered only as a pre-enrolment booking, and should therefore be confirmed by sending by mail the requested documents and the application form, filled in throughly and signed by the competitor him/herself.
 4) The candidates who are admitted to the competition need to
 
  confirm their participation
 
  exclusively from July 16
  
   th
  
  to July 31
  
   st
  
  2014 only
  
   ,
   
    against contextual payment of a € 50,00
   
    deposit which is fully returned to the competitors
   
    in Gorizia without any further charge.
 5) The competitors who will not comply with such requirements for the entry will be considered renouncers of their right to participate, and will therefore be excluded from the competition without notice.
 6) All correspondence and communications have to be addressed to:
 
 Segreteria
  CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE DI VIOLINO “PREMIO RODOLFO LIPIZER”
  
 Via don Giovanni Bosco 91, 34170 GORIZIA GO, ITALIA
 
 Tel.: 0039-0481-547863 – 280345• Fax: 0039-0481-536710• Handy:347-9236285
 
 E-mail:
  lipizer@lipizer.it
 
 • Website:
  www.lipizer.it
 
 • Skype: lipizer or lorenzo.qualli
  PROGRAMME:
  FIRST STAGE (eliminatory)
  
     1) R. LIPIZER
     
     1895-1974
     
       From Study no. 18 – Variations
       
         “Presto”, “Andante”, “Allegretto”, “Risoluto”, “Allegro moderato”
        
         page 153 ER 2602 or page 155
        
          ER 2964
         
       from “The AdvancedViolin Technique”, with original bowings and fingerings,
       
        immediately available
       
       from the secretary’s office of the Competition by payment of € 24,30 +postal charges for registered mail,
      
        http://ecommerce.lipizer.it/
       
       , following the conditions of payment, as provided in the Rules, point 4.
      
     2) J.S. BACH
     
     Adagio and Fuga from Sonata no. 1 in G minor or
     
     Grave and Fuga from Sonata no. 2 in A minor or
     
     Adagio and Fuga from Sonata no. 3 in C Major or
     
     Allemande, Double, Corrente and Double Presto
     
     from the first Partita in H minor or
     
     Ciaccona from Partita no. 2 in D minor or
     
     Prelude, Loure, Gavotta en Rondeau and Giga from the third Partita in E Major.
     
     3) W.A. MOZART
         First movement and cadenza
        
        among
       
     the following concertos:
     
     G Major KV 216; D Major KV 218; A Major KV 219, with piano accompaniment.
     
   SECOND STAGE
   
    (semifinal)
   
   The duration of the program should be 40 to 50 minutes.
  
     1) N. PAGANINI
     One Caprice for unaccompanied violin from op.1
     
      2)
      
        Carlo PEDINI
        
      1956
     
          Lipizeriana (
         
         2013)
        
        f
       
        or violin and piano
       
     , (duration5minutes). The score will be sent after the1
     
      st
     
     June 2014, to the address given by all the admitted competitors.
     
     3) A Sonata and a virtuoso piece among the following
     
      (A+B)
     
     or
     
      (α+β)
     
     :
     
      A)
     
     19
     
      th
     
     century Sonatas:
     
     L.v. BEETHOVEN
     
     in D Major, op. 12 no. 1; in A minor, op. 23; in F Major, op. 24 “Spring”;in C minor, op. 30 no. 2; in G Major, op. 30 no. 3;
     
     J. BRAHMS
     
     no.1 in G Major, op.78; no.2 in A Major, op. 100; no. 3 in D minor, op. 108
     
     G. FAURÉ
     
     no. 1 in A Major, op.13 (1875-76)
     
     C. FRANCK
     
     in A Major (1886)
     
     E. GRIEG
     
     no. 3 in C minor, op. 45
     
     F. SCHUBERT
     
     in A Major, op. 162 (1817) (D. 574)
     
     R. SCHUMANN
     
     in A minor, op. 105; in D minor op. 121
     
      B)
     
     20
     
      th
     
     century pieces:
     
     L. BERIO
     
     Sequenza VIII for violin unaccompanied (1977)
     
     R. DIONISI
    
       Sonatina
       
        for violin and piano
       
       (1998), (*)
      
     W. LUTOSLAWSKI
     
     Subito for violin and piano
     
     G. MANZONI
     
      Furioso
      
       for violin and piano
      
      (1995), (*)
      
     M. RAVEL
     
      Tzigane (1924)
      
     A. SCHÖNBERG
     
     Fantasia, op. 47 (1949)
     
     K. SZYMANOWSKI
     
     Nocturne and Tarantella, op. 28 (1915)
     
     A. SOLBIATI
     
       Sonetto
       
        for violin and piano
       
        (
       
       1997), (*)
       
     E. YSAŸE
     a Sonata from op. 27 (1924) for unaccompanied violin
     
     Caprice on the Ètude in the form of a Valzer, op. 52 by C. Saint-Saëns
     
     (*)
     
      obtainable
     
     on our e-commerce web site
    
      http://ecommerce.lipizer.it/
     
     or at the Office of the Competition
    
      X either a piece
     
     for solo violin or a piece for violin and piano by
     
      a composer born after 1914
     
      α)
     
     20
     
      th
     
     century Sonata for violin and piano:
     
     C. DEBUSSY
     
     in G minor (1916-17)
    
     G. ENESCU
     
     no. 3 in A minor, op. 25
     
     L. JANACEK
     
     no. 3 (1921)
     
     F. POULENC
     
     (1943)
     
     S. PROKOFIEV
     
     no. 1 in F minor, op. 80 (1938-46) or no. 2 in D Major, op. 94 b (1944)
     
     M. RAVEL
     
     no. 2 in G Major (1927)
     
     A. SCHNITTKE
     
     no. 1 (1963)
     
     I. STRAVINSKI
     
     Duo concertante (1932)
     
      or one of the
      
      following Sonatas
     
     for unaccompanied violin:
     
     B. BARTÓK
     
     (1944)
     
     S. PROKOFIEV
     
     in D Major, op. 115 (1947)
     
      β)
     
     19
     
      th
     
     century virtuoso piece for violin and piano:
     
     A. BAZZINI
     
     La ridda dei folletti, op. 25
     
     E. CHAUSSON
     
     Poema, op. 25
     
     P. CIAIKOVSKI
     
     Waltz-Scherzo in C Major, op. 34
     
     N. PAGANINI
     
     I palpiti; Le streghe; Nel cor più non mi sento
     
     C. SAINT-SAËNS
     
     Havanaise, op. 83 (1887)
     
     Introduction et Rondò capriccioso, op. 28 (1870)
     
     P. de SARASATE
     
     Air bohémien – Zigeunerweisen, op.20
     
     Carmen Fantasia, op. 25
     
     H. WIENIAWSKI
     Polonaise brillante in D Major, op. 4
     
     Scherzo – Tarantella, op. 16
     
     Polonaise brillante in A Major, op. 21
    
      THIRD STAGE (final)
     
     With the Symphony Orchestra (1+2) or (A+B)
     
      1) The f
     
     irst movement with cadenza among the following Concertos:
     
       M. BRUCH
      
       no. 1 in G minor, op. 26 (1868)
      
      F. MENDELSSOHN
      
      in E minor, op. 64
     
      2)
     
     One Concerto to be chosen among the following:
     
     S. BARBER
    
     op. 14 (1940)
    
     B. BARTOK
     
     no. 2 (1937-38)
     
     A. BERG
    
        (1935)
       
         “To the
        
         memory of an angel”
         
     A.I. KACIATURIAN
    
        in D minor (1940)
       
     S.S. PROKOFIEV
     
       no. 2 in G minor,
       
        op. 63 (1935)
       
      A)
     
     Part of one Concerto among the following:
     
     E.B. BRITTEN
    
     The first and second movement from the Concerto in D minor, op. 15 (rev. 1958)
     
     I. STRAVINSKI
     
      3
      
       rd
      
      and 4
      
       th
      
      movement from Concerto in D (1931)
      
      B)
     
     One Concerto to be chosen among the following:
     
     L.v. BEETHOVEN
     
     in D Major, op. 61
     
     J. BRAHMS
     
     in D major, op. 77 (1878)
     
     P.I. CIAIKOVSKI
     
     in D major, op. 35
     
      J. SIBELIUS
      
      in D minor, op. 47 (rev. 1905)
      
        H. WIENIAWSKY
       
        no. 2 in
       
        D minor, op. 22
       
   PRIZES:
  
 First prize «RODOLFO LIPIZER PRIZE» € 12.000,00 (indivisible), Diploma,aplaque by the President of the Italian Republic.
 
 Besides, a violin, offered by the I.I.S.
 
   / I.S.E. – Institute of
  
   Superior Education
  
    –
   
 International School of Violin-Making “Antonio Stradivari” in Cremona, together with a silver trophy offered by the newspaper “IL PICCOLO” from Trieste.
 
 The winner will play on Lipizer’s violin on the 14
 
  th
 
 September at the closing ceremony of the “Finalists’ Concert.”
 
 Moreover, the winner will be engaged for the following concerts by:
 
  –
  
   Cultural Association “R. Lipizer” along with a Symphony Orchestra for one concert in
  
   Gorizia
  
   on 30
   
    th
   
   December 2014;
   
    –
    
    BIG Agency of Bacau – Romania with a symphony orchestra from Romania for one or more concerts, to be agreed, in Romania, and in Italy on
   
    29
    
     th
    
    December 2014;
   
    –
   
   FGMI – Foundation Music Youth in Italy of Milano, for a tour concerts in the main Italian cities;
   
  –
  
     “Società Beethoven”
    
     A. C. A. M. of Crotone;
     
   – and reported for the following concerts:
   
   – AGIMUS – Associazione Giovanile Musicale of Padova;
   
  –
  
     Association “Anna
    
     Jervolino” of Caserta
    
    ;
   
   –
  
   Association Orchestra Cantelli of Milano;
   
    –
    
   “J. Futura” Orchestra from Trento, for a concert in theS Theatre in Trento;
   
   –
   
      Orchestra da Camera
     
      of Caserta
     
     .
    
 In the past years the winner has been engaged in the following concert seasons and we hope this will happen again in the future. This depends on the winner himself or his agent, who is responsible of contacting directly the engaging concert Societies from a list that will be given.
 Second prize € 6.000,00
 
   (indivisible)
  
 and a Diploma.
 
 The second prize winner will be engaged by R. Lipizer Cultural Association for oneconcert in Gorizia during the concert season 2014-2015.
 Third prize € 4.000,00 and a Diploma.
 Fourth prize € 2.5000,00 and a Diploma.
 Fifth prize € 2.000,00 and a Diploma.
 Sixth prize € 1.500,00 and a Diploma.
 – All competitors will receive a participation Diploma.
 
 – The first prize cannot be divided. As concerns the other prizes, the Jury can give an opinion of equal merit for two or more competitors. In this case, the prize assigned to each competitor will derive from the sum of the prizes fixed by the order of merit and equally divided. The next competitor in order of merit will receive the prize following those that have already been awarded. If one or more prizes are not awarded, the eventual finalists (the last on the list of finalists) who won’t result classified within the first six, will be qualified as “finalist” and will be awarded a prize of € 1.000,00.
 
 – The Concurso Internacional Ejecucion Musical “Dr. Luis SIGALL” in Viña del Mar, CHILE – offers, as a special prize to the First-Prize winner of the Rodolfo LIPIZER contest, the automatic admission to the next International Violin Competition, free board and lodging and travel expenses (return ticket from his/her place of residence).
    SPECIAL PRIZES:
   
 The following special prizes will be awarded to talented competitors according to the Jury’s decision:
  First stage (eliminatory)
  
 € 400,00 offered by Prof. ELENA, R. LIPIZER’s daughter, and his nephews Maura and Claudio SORO
 
  for the best performance of Studio no. 18 – Variations from “Advanced Violin Technique”;
 
 € 250,00 offered by the
 
  SALUS S.r.l di Gorizia
  
  to the best interpreter of a Concerto by W.A. Mozart;
  
     € 150,00
    
  offered
 
  by
 
  Giovanna GODDI
 
   and Flavio QUALI,to a
  
    young and deserving competitor;
    
  Second stage (semifinal)
  
 € 500,00 offered by the LIONS “MARIA THERESIA CLUB” GORIZIA,
 
  for the best performer of theLipizeriana (2013)
 
 f
 
  or violin and piano
 
  byCarlo PEDINI
 
 ;
 
 € 520,00 offered by composer Teresa PROCACCINI, president of the “R. Lipizer Prize 1999”, to honour the memory of her parents Vittorio and Maria PROCACCINI,
 
  to the best interpreter of a XXth Century piece or Sonata;
 
 € 520,00 offered in memory of Bruna BRESSAN PIROLO by her sons
 
  for the best semifinalist not admitted to the final stage;
 
 € 400,00 offered by Prof. Lorenzo QUALLI in honour and memory of his mother – Anna PICIULIN, widow of the latest Mr QUALLI – who kindled in him the passion for music,
 
  to a semifinalist of strong artistic temperament;
 
 € 400,00 offered by Prof. Lorenzo QUALLI, the Competition’s creator,
 
  for the best Sonata performed in the second stage;
 
  Third stage (final)
  
   € 500,00 offered by Mrs Laura PECAR and her son and daughters Claudio, Elisabetta and Erica in memory of their husband and father Giuliano PECAR, keen on music and clever trader in the sector of music,
  
    to a finalist, best performer of a virtuoso piece;
    
  € 300,00
 
  offered by SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL ITALIAN CLUB of GORIZIA
 
   to the youngest finalist for his/her talent;
   
 € 150,00 prizeDr. Antonino CHILLEMI, for the best interpreter of a19
 
  th
 
 century Concerto for violin and Symphony Orchestra
  , letter B;
  
   € 150,00 prize Dr. Prof. Elena Rosellini RUGGIERO,
  
     to the best finalist who dialogued with the orchestra most brilliantly.
    
   __________
  
    € 400,00
    
      “Special Audience Prize”
     
     offered by
    
      Sandra ZOTTAR, Federico, Michele and Maria Clara MAGRIS to honor the memory of the Goritian friends and musicians Ucci LEGHISSA, Umberto CORUBOLO, Ernesto LEONARDI and Savino LOVISUTTI, going to the best semifinalist voted by the audience.
     
       Updated December 30
       
        th
       
       , 2013