MALMÖ PIANO COMPETITION
AND FESTIVAL
supported by Yamaha
October 29th to November 2nd, 2024
Hyllie Park Concert Hall, Malmö
Dear friends,
We are happy to invite you to the Malmö Piano Competition and Fesrtival supported by Yamaha !
In October/November 2024 , we will welcome young and talented pianists from all over Scandinavia. This will be a great opportunity for us to discover new talents. Who knows, maybe some of them will be future international artists.
Our little pianists, who just started taking their first steps on their piano journey, will get a wonderful opportunity to perform on a grand piano in a big concert hall. Already from a very early age they will get a feeling of being a real artist and be able to overcome stage fright.
This year there will be opportunities for participants in all categories to participate in Masterclasses and listen to concerts.
This competition could not have been organized without the support of our main sponsor Yamaha Piano Center Scandinavia, who sponsors us with generous prizes . We would also like to express our big gratitude to Hyllie Park for providing premises for the competition ,to Malmö Art Museum , to all other sponsors with their donations and to the people who support us.
I would like to express my personal gratitude to the competition board. Without them I would not have been able to make my dream of the piano competition in Malmö come true.
Enjoy playing the piano! Give joy to the audience with your performance! Don’t be afraid to express your talent and individuality!
Good luck!
Artistic director, Yamaha Artist Scandinavia, Julia Sigova
Rules and regulations
The Malmö Yamaha Piano Competition, MYPC, is open for pianists age 6 to 30 years.
The participant may apply for the competition if one has a citizenship or permanent residency in any of the Nordic Countries.
Participants may be a student as well as professional.
The program must be chosen from the traditional classical repertoire. No cuts in the movements are allowed.
The program must be performed by heart.Repertoire performed in Round 1 can not be repeated in Round 2.
The compulsory work by T.Broström will be send to the participants in Category E by e-mail the day after the application deadline has expired.
The total duration of the program (including breaks in between the pieces) should not exceed the required timing.
Rehearsal on stage and in the practicing rooms will be provided by the competition organization.
The result of the competition will be announced on the competition website.
The decision of the jury can not be appealed.
The members of the jury are not allowed to vote for their own students.
All participants will be awarded a Diploma .All participants will get a feedback from the members of jury.
The winners are kindly requested to send a report of the purpose of the Yamaha scholarship..
During the competition open masterclasses, duration 40 minutes, will be held for Categories C, D and E. The fee for active participation in the masterclass has to be paid together with the competition fee. Categories Debut, A and B will receive feedback.
Prizes
Category Debut
Diploma for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Category A
Diploma for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Category B
1st place diploma, Swedish Piano Antology
2nd place diploma
3rd place diploma
Category C
1st place 2000 SEK
2nd place 1500 SEK
3rd place 1000 SEK
Category D
1st place Yamaha (to be announced )
2nd place 10000 SEK
3rd place 5000 SEK
Category E
1st place Yamaha (to be announced)
2nd place 10000 SEK
3rd place 5000 SEK
Special prize
The best performance of the swedish piece specilaly composed by Tobias Broström 1500 SEK
Scholarship for participation and residence at the Klavier Stadt Einbeck Festival
Scholarship for participation and residence at the Trelleborg Piano Festival
Concert at Malmö Castle Skovgaardsalen
Repertoiare
CATEGORY DEBUT ( 6 to 8 years)
Free program up to 6 min ( no transcriptions are allowed ).
CATEGORY A (8 to 10 years)
Free program up to 8 min ( no transcriptions are allowed with the exception of classical transcriptions such as for example: Bach/Siloti, Schumann/Liszt, piano transcriptions by Horowitz and Volodos )
CATEGORY B (11 to 14 years)
Free repertoare up to 15 min ( no transcriptions are allowed with the exception of classical transcriptions such as for example: Bach/Siloti, Schumann/Liszt, piano transcriptions by Horowitz and Volodos )
CATEGORY C (15-17 years)
The program must be no more than 20 minutes and must include:
One virtuoso etude (for ex. Czerny, Heller, MacDowell, Moszkowski, Köhler)
Free repertoare
CATEGORY D (18-21 years)
First round max 15 minutes
one or several pieces from the Barock period (for ex J.S. Bach, one Prelude and Fuge from DWK (1 or 2 book), or 3 different movements from Partita or 3 different movements from an English Suite, or D. Scarlatti 2 Sonatas or 3 movements from Suite of Händel, Rameau or Soler.
one virtuoso etude (for ex. Chopin, LIszt, Rachmaninov, Scrjabin, Debussy, Prokofiev )
Second round max 25 minutes (only 7 participants will go to the second round)
Free repertoire
CATEGORY E (21-30 years)
First round max 15 minutes
one or several pieces from the Barock period
one virtuoso etude (for ex. Chopin, LIszt, Rachmaninov, Srjabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Bartok, Messiaen, Lutoslawski, Ligetti)
round max 40 minutes (only 7 participants will go to the second round)
the compulsory work by Swedish composer
free repertoire