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TERMS OF ADMISSION - COMPETITION OPEN 2024
Age limit 34
The competition is open for all nationalities!
The competition is in person (not online)
No tapes or videos required!
Application deadline: 1 September 2024
The 2024 competition is open to all classical guitarists, irrespective of nationality and of any age, who are not represented by an artists agency (impresario).
First Round:
6 September 2024, 10.00
Free choice piece (s): 12 minutes, not shorter than 10 minutes.
Final Round:
8 July 2024, 15.00
Free choice piece (s): 20 minutes, not shorter than 18 minutes.
After the final round, prizes will be awarded to candidate who have a distinctive artistic personality, show charisma and great stage presence and who are able to bring out the poetic value, virtuosity and technical prowess of a varied repertoire.
The instrument used must be a classical guitar (six strings or more).
The program is free choice and must comprise pieces from the classical guitar solo repertoire or transcriptions and may include unpublished pieces.
To enter the competition, the candidate has to send the completed application form.
Deadline : the complete application form must have been received by the organizers of the competition no later than 1 September 2024
The application form can be obtained via the electronic form.
ORGANISATION AND PROGRAM
2024
Application deadline 1 September 2024
6 September 2024
From 08.00- to 10.00 registration and fee payment (if still not paid via bank or paypal transfer)
at the Avani Sukhumvit Bangkok Hotel.
10.00 first round competition (open)
17.45 announcement of the finalists (after the oprning concert)
8 September 2024
15.00 final round competition open
21.00 announcement of winners - awards ceremony
The order of the candidate will be selected on the alphabetic order of surnames.
The candidate may choose in which order his pieces are played.
All pieces must be played from memory.
The pieces played in the first round can not be repeated in the final round.
All the finalists are obliged to be present for the announcement of the results and the prize giving ceremony on Sunday 3 September 2023 or they will forfeit their prize.
AWARDS
Competition (open)
First prize:
Guitar by Karl Heinz Roemmich
Concert at the Asia International Guitar Festival, Bangkok
Concert at the Guitar Festival Forum Gitarre Vienna
AYADAGUITARS guitar accessory set
Savarez Strings / Bag
Knobloch Strings
Certificate
Second prize:
guita by Brahman Woongsoo Gwak
AYADAGUITARS guitar accessory set
Savarez Strings / Bag
Knobloch Strings
Certificate
Third prize:
Visesnut Guitar Case
AYADAGUITARS guitar accessory set
Savarez Strings / Bag
Knobloch Strings
Certificate
Merit prizes:
Savarez Strings / Bag
Knobloch Strings
Certificate
Application Form