Giovani in Crescendo - 2024 Music and Singing Competition
Digital Edition XI Edition Pesaro: May 11th 2024
PARTICIPANTS
The competition is open to pupils of primary, middle and high schools, music conservatories, private music schools and academies.
Each school will be able to enter pupils in the competition as individuals or as groups.
In addition, individuals aged between 6 and 25 also have the chance of entering the competition on their own, without applying through a school if they so choose.
New this year: "Belcanto" category aimed at people aged between 18 and 45.
CATEGORIES:
Public school
Private Music School
Conservatories
Indipendent Contestant
The competition is divided into the following sections categories:
“Primary” – For participants aged between 6 and 11 (included)
“Middle” – For participants aged between 12 and 17 (included)
“High” – For participants aged between 18 and 25 (included)
"Belcanto" For participants aged between 18 and 45 (included)
Each category will also be divided in:
Soloists and Small Groups (up to 10 participants)
Large Groups (11 participants or more)
Conditions
GENERAL RULES
Participants can choose any musical genre. The performances for Soloists and Small Groups must not exceed five minutes. The performances for Large Groups must not exceed ten minutes.
Any unpublished piece entered in the competition must not include offensive remarks towards people, institutions, religions and minorities or slurs of any kind, under penalty of exclusion.
The Jury of the competition will be composed of important artists and will evaluate the videos and decide the award winners. The process will include rating every single video and the award winners will be picked from the highest rated performances after the first and last evaluation, without additional phases to the competition.
The Jury decisions will be unquestionable, unappealable and definitive.
The organizers reserve the right to postpone or cancel the Competition, in the latter case we will refund the foreseen fees, already paid.
The video and audio material may be used for information purposes.
All participating schools will receive a certificate of participation, soloists and small groups will receive a personal participation certificate while large groups will receive a single certificate with the name of the group.
About the video performance: the video of the performance must be sent via the Wetransfer web service. The service provides, once the video is uploaded to the platform, a link that can be used to then download it. This link must be attached to the registration form. We will not accept videos sent through any other service. It is mandatory to specify the registration date for the video in the form, the attached video can’t be a recording older than 2023.
AWARDS
- 1st CLASSIFIED - “Primary”
- 1st CLASSIFIED - “Middle”
- 1st CLASSIFIED - “High”
- 1st CLASSIFIED - “Belcanto”
The 1st classified for every category will receive a merit award and their assigned prizes.
The jury reserves the right to assign prizes and mentions to 2nd and 3d classified, where they see fit.
The winning schools will also receive video-lessons concerts from the Rossini Symphony Orchestra, suitable for use as guided listening lessons. Those videos will be sent via email at a later date.
SPECIAL AWARDS
- Ortolani Prize; (only performers who choose to perform with a piece from the repertoire of Riz Ortolani can participate)
- Rossini Award; (only performers who choose to perform with a piece from the repertoire of Gioachino Rossini can participate)
- Symphony Orchestra Rossini Award
- Best unpublished award
- Best instrumental technique award
- Best vocal technique award
- Soloist or chamber ensemble award
- Best orchestra award
- Best choir award
- Best pop music performance
Organization, programm
SIGNING UP
The organization and the realization of the competition require expenses. Therefore it’s requested a small contribution from participants, as indicated below:
€ 20.00 each for soloists;
€ 10.00 each for participants that are part of small and large groups;
The renouncement of participation in the competition does not imply the refund of the fee paid.
Payment of the required fee must be made by bank transfer: Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini – G. Rossini Symphonic Orchestra beneficiary; IBAN: IT 53C0306909606100000067722, Banca Intesa San Paolo Spa C.F 90010660414 P.IVA 01304110412, unique code SUBM70N it is compulsory to specify in the reason for payment: the competition, the name of the school (or of the private participant) and the category with the relative selected section.
Prizes in the competition
How to register:
Registration for the "Giovani in Crescendo - digital edition 2024" competition must take place no later than April 20 th 2024 by completing the:
Registration Form
The following attachments will be required during the registration:
The link for the Performance video
A copy of the bank transfer
A pdf file containing the names and birthdays of all the participants
The link for the video, as well as the copy of the bank transfer, as well as any other information relevant to the participation to the competition must be uploaded to the registration form and to the form only. The organizing staff will not accept any registration that doesn’t have the pertinent information and annexes on the registration forms or any registration received via different means than the above specified form.
If demonstrable technical problems are found, the organizers reserve the right to accept registrations received after the deadline indicated.
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