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Moyse Flute Competition 2024
Moyse International Flute Competition Sofia (Bulgaria) NBU
28 June — 2 July 2024
- The competition
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
Président d’Honneur / Honorary president
SIR JAMES GALWAY
Flute Master and student of Marcel Moyse
Music is the most intense and interior art that man has produced, a universal expression that unites places and cultures. It doesn't need translations, it speaks through sensitivity and intellectual values. The musician becomes not only an interpreter, but also a mediator of culture.
The New Bulgarian University and the Italian Embassy in Sofia, intend to support this role and give young performers new possibilities for cultural mediation, organizing together, as proof of a cultural friendship with common aims, an international flute competition, in which new generation interprets make themselves known and recognized in their values.
Luisa Sello, PhD professor at NBU and appointed by the music department for the artistic direction of the competition, created the Moyse International Flute Competition with the aim of expanding the already present friendship between Italian and Bulgarian institutions and internationally promoting the Doctoral Degree section for the PhD in Flute Performance at the NBU.
Marcel and Louis Moyse, internationally recognized flutists, have had a fundamental influence on the flute school of the last century, both in teaching, composing and publishing. The ‘Moyse International competition’ in Sofia, offers some of their works, composed or dedicated to them, together with the most important flute repertoire that privileges the Italian and Bulgarian music, with a view to a cultural friendship between the two countries, developed around interpreters and artists of both side.
The Rules and the Jury are focused on rewarding not only technical skill of the candidates, but also their charisma, intelligence and comprehension of the text as well as their communication skills, such as necessary part in every art. The purpose of the awards will not only be the search for mere technicality, but also the enhancement of the true individual values of the artistic quality.
Winners will receive prizes, benefits and concerts.
All candidates will receive a diploma of participation during the winners' announcement. Certificates for teachers of categories A, A1 and B winners will be given on request.
- Jury
The on-line selection of category B will be made by Sir James Galway e Lady Jeanne Galway
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
The on-line selection of category B will be made by Sir James Galway e Lady Jeanne Galway
JURY IN PRESENCE
MATTHIAS ZIEGLER (Switzerland)
Chairman
Student of Conrad Klemm
JÁNOS BÁLINT (Hungary)
TADEU COELHO (USA- Brazil)
GUOLIANG HAN (China)
LUISA SELLO (Italy)
János Bálint
Born in 1961 in Hungary. Graduated from Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1984. He won many awards at international competitions (Ancona, Leipzig, Markneukirchen ).
He was solo flutist of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 1981-1991
and at the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra 2000-2006.
He was the founder and director of Doppler Flute Institute at Budapest.
At the moment he is a professor at Musikhochschule of Detmold, Germany and guest professor at Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. As soloist he has performed in almost all European contries and also in the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Israel with partners like András Schiff, Martha Algerich, Miklós Perényi, Zoltán Kocsis, Auréle Nicolet.
He has recorded over 30 CD-s with Hungaroton, Capriccio and Naxos.
Every year, he conducts 10-12 master classes all over the world.
In 2008 he was awarded the highest Hungarian recognition for musical performance, the Franz Liszt-prize by the Ministry of Culture and Education of Hungary.
Brazilian-born artist/flutist Tadeu Coelho is professor of flute at the University North Carolina School of the Arts. Recipient of the 2020 and the 2013 UNCSA Excellence in Teaching Awards, Tadeu Coelho is also the recipient of the coveted North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award of 2014. Tadeu Coelho frequently appears as a master soloist and clinician throughout the Americas. He has performed as first solo flutist of the Santa Fe Symphony, the Hofer Symphoniker, Germany, and the Spoletto Festival Orchestra in Italy, among others.
Tadeu Coelho is an avid proponent of new music. He has commissioned, performed, and recorded works by numerous living composers. Tadeu Coelho has embarked on a flute and voice project, Anima Vox, a duo specializing in seamless concert experiences and free improvisation. Dr. Coelho can be heard in several recordings. His newest recording is titled Latino Voices, a collection of newly commissioned works for the Anima Vox duo. His solo CDs include Live from New Orleans; Azules - Enchanting Music for the Soul for Flute and Harp; Nocturnes for flute and piano; Modernly Classic; 18th Century Flute Sonatas, both with former UNCSA colleague Eric Larsen; Flute Music from Brazil; ¡Rompe! - Mexican Chamber Music, and Life-Drawing, for Solo Flute. Dr. Coelho has published the complete works of Pattápio Silva, several works for solo flute, as well as a collection of daily flute exercises with accompanying CDs. Dr. Coelho has recently published his transcription of Paganini’s Caprice no. 24 for solo flute aiming to bring the flute part closer to the original violin score. Tadeu Coelho is a Miyazawa artist.Guoliang Han graduated from the Central Conservatory School of Music in Beijing and Boston University School for the Arts.
In recent years, Guoliang Han has performed in Europe, U.S. and Asia. With China National Symphonic Orchestra he has performed with world-class masters Charles Dutoit, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa, Rostropovich, Li Delun and others, both in China and abroad.
In the last 20 years he has recorded many outstanding records and worked with several famous modern Chinese composers.
Guoliang Han is currently flute professor at the Central Conservatory of Music and principal flutist of the China National Symphonic Orchestra.
He is also President of China Flute Association
Luisa Sello, defined by the New York Concert Review “excellent breath control, brilliant technical rendering, engaging intensity, sonorous range and abundance of charm” is a Flute Miyazawa Artist and an Ambassador of Music and Italian Culture, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Her international career includes collaborations with Teatro allaScala di Milano, Riccardo Muti, Wien Symphoniker Orchestra, Thailand Symphony Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock, Alirio Diaz, Philippe Entremont, Bruno Canino, Karl Leister, Carnegie Hall, Juilliard School, Suntory Hall, Prazak string quartet, the composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Aldo Clementi, Rainer Bischof (première performances). Already Flute Professor at the Academy of Music in Milano and Trieste (Italy), she is actually Professor for doctoral PhD in ‘Flute Performance’ at the New Bulgarian University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and visiting professor at the Universities in Vienna, Madrid, Beijing, Melbourne, New York, Kyoto, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, among others. In obtaining both her ArtD in Performing Arts and her PhD in Linguistic and Literary Sciences, she studied in Paris with Raymond Guiot and Alain Marion, who proclaimed her “very musical, superb,” at the Accademia Chigiana with Severino Gazzelloni, who remarked her “magnificent interpretive sensibility and excellent sound”, and with Conrad Klemm in Rome who wrote about her ‘virtuosity without sacrificing expressiveness’. She records for Stradivarius, Dynamic (Italy) and Millennium (Beijing).
Matthias Ziegler is one of the world’s most versatile and innovative flutists.
He is committed both to the traditional literature for flute as well as to contemporary music and concepts that cross the boundaries between classical music and jazz.Accordingly, his performances take place in a vast range of contexts: he plays principal flute with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, has toured with the percussionist Pierre Favre and performed with the pianist George Gruntz as well as with the American contrabass player Mark Dresser. He is also a member of the ”Collegium Novum Zurich“, where he has worked with Mauricio Kagel, Heinz Holliger and George Crumb.
Concert tours have brought him to the US, Japan, Australia, South America and Israel. Many recordings on CD document his inclusive musical interests.
Matthias Ziegler currently teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts.Searching for new sounds he enormously broadened the expressive potential of the traditional flute and the electroacoustically amplified contrabass flute.
Amplifying the flute allows him to increase the volume of the microsound structures of the flute to an audible level. Inspired by the new dimension of sounds of these instruments, composers such as Michael Jarrell from Switzerland, Benjamin Yusupov from Tadjikistan, Mathias Rüegg from the Vienna Art Orchestra and the American Mark Dresser wrote flute concertos for him.
Matthias Ziegler performs on a flute manufactured by Louis Lot (1880), on a quartertone flute Brannen/Kingma system, on a Alto- and Bassflute by Eva Kingma (Holland) as well as on his own invention, the ”Matusiflute”, a uniquely designed instrument with a vibrating membrane. His contrabassflute has been constructed by Kotato Fukushima (Japan).
Moyse Competition Secretery: moysecompetition@gmail.com
NBU Moyse Competition: https://music.nbu.bg/en/moyse-flute-competition
NBU Music Department https://music.nbu.bg/en/
PhD and ArtD prof. Luisa Sello https://music.nbu.bg/en/adjunct-professors
NBU New Bulgarian University http://www.nbu.bg/index.php?l=851
- Regulation
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
The competition is open to flutists of every nationality between the ages of 10 and 33, calculated on June 28th 2024, the day the competition starts. Each candidate can participate in only one category, even higher than his/her age.
The organization will provide a pianist accompaniment (free of charge with a time limit for the rehearsal), but each candidate can participate with his/her own pianist.
For the categories A, A1 and B the Preliminary round will be online. For this online round the jury will be composed by Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway. The selected candidates will participate at the second and final round in person. Those not selected will have no right to refund of registration fee.
The category C will participate in person for each round.
The order of execution of all categories will be established by draw, on the same day of the competition.
Competitors who are absent at the convocation MEETING, for justified reasons, will be able to take the test at the end of that same day.
Decisions of the Jury are final and there is no right of appeal.
All rounds are open to the public. Study rooms will be available at the Music Department at NBU 5th floor, organized by the Secretariat according to requests.
Marcel and Louis Moyse, internationally recognized flutists, have had a fundamental influence on the flute school of the last century, both in teaching, composing and publishing.
Marcel Moyse (1889-1984) Legendary French flautist and teacher, had a profound influence on flute and woodwind playing in the 20th Century. He studied with Paul Taffanel and Philippe Gaubert at the Paris Conservatory and became one of the greatest flautists of his time. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1949, he became the founder of the Malboro Music Festival. Among his students we can find James Galway, Trevor Wye, William Bennet, Conrad Klemm, Paula Robinson, Carol Wincenc, Robert Aitken, Peter-Lukas Graf, Raymond Guiot and Aurèle Nicolet.
Louis Moyse (1912 – 2007) was a French flautist, pianist and composer, son of Marcel Moyse, who was his teacher together with Philippe Gaubert. He taught many world-class flutists all over the world, including Toronto and Boston University and Malboro College. He is considered one of the most prolific producers of flute music worldwide.
Among the works works dedicated to Marcel Moyse: Philippe Gaubert ‘Sonata n. 2’ / Albert Roussel ‘Joueurs de Flûte’ op. 27 / Jacques Ibert ‘Concerto’.
Works composed and/or edited by Louis Moyse: Louis Moyse ‘Trois pièces faciles’ / Louis Moyse ‘7 Caprice-Etudes’ / Franz Doppler ‘Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise’.
Both Marcel and Louis were friends with Bohuslav Martinu, who wrote his concerto for flute, violin and orchestra for Marcel Moyse and Blanche Honegger Moyse, violinist, conductor and wife of Louis Moyse’. The Concerto was first performed under the baton of Philippe Gaubert (1936).
- Categories
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
ENTRY DEADLINE: May 15th 2024
Each candidate can participate in only one category, even higher than his age
CATEGORY A – A1 - B
Category A / born from 2011 to 2014 (age 10-13)
Category A1 / born from 2010 to 2007 (age 14-17)
Category B / born from 2006 to 2001 (age 18-23)
For categories A, A1 and B the Preliminary round will be online. Videos must be recorded live and full-body for the flutists with a visible part of the piano accompanist. Performances can be separated for each author but cannot be edited. Before each performance the candidate must say his name and surname and specify that the piece is performed for the 'Moyse Competition Sofia'. The video must be uploaded to youtube and sent as a link (the video must be ‘unlisted’ not public mode).
All the videos must be sent by email to moysecompetition@gmail.com within May 15th 2024, together with the application form and the copy of the registration payment. Selected candidates in categories A, A1 and B will participate in person in the following rounds.
CATEGORY C
Category C born from 2000 to 1991 (age 24-33)
The candidates of the Category C will participate in person in each round. The time of the second round will be established after the results of the first round and communicated directly to the candidates. The application form must be sent by email to moysecompetition@gmail.com within May 15th 2024, together with together with the application form and the copy of the registration payment.
FINAL CONCERT
The final concert will take place in public on Tuesday July 2 and the prizes will be assigned before the concert (see the Calendar).
Gallery at NBU
- Repertoire
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
For all categories and performances it is optional and not required to play from memory.
It is possible to play with your own piano accompanist or request the NBU pianist by paying the fee of €30 /60 lev. together with the registration fee, specifying 'pianist request’
Category A born from 2014 to 2011 (age 10-13)
PRELIMINARY ROUND ‘Online’ (max 10’)
Free choice programme (with or without piano, one piece or more, max 10’)
All the videos must be sent by email to moysecompetition@gmail.com within May 15th 2024.
The video must be uploaded to youtube and sent as a link (the video must be ‘unlisted’ not public mode). Selected candidates will be informed by email by June 8, 2024
FINAL ROUND ‘In person’ (10’)
The programme must include:
- Nino Rota ‘5 pezzi facili’ (one movement free choice) for flute and piano
- Louis Moyse ‘Sicilienne’ from the ‘Trois pièces faciles’ for flute and piano
Category A1 born from 2010 to 2007 (age 14-17)PRELIMINARY ROUND ‘Online’ (max 10’)
Free choice programme (with or without piano, one piece or more, max 10’)
All the videos must be sent by email tomoysecompetition@gmail.com within May 15th 2024.
The video must be uploaded to youtube and sent as a link (the video must be ‘unlisted’ not public mode). Selected candidates will be informed by email by June 8, 2024
FINAL ROUND ‘In person’ (12’)
The programme must include:
- Antonio Vivaldi/Nicolas Chedeville ‘Sonata n. 6’ (two movements free choice) from ‘Il Pastor fido’ op.13 for flute and b.c.
- Johannès Donjon ‘Le chat du vent’ from ‘Huit Études de Salon’ for flutte
- Louis Moyse ‘En rôdant’ from ‘Dix petites piéces’ for flute and piano
Category B born from 2006 to 2001 (age 18-23)PRELIMINARY ROUND ‘Online’ (max. 15’)
The programme must include:
- One composition free choice with or without piano
- Antonio Vivaldi ‘Concerto op. X n. 3 “Il Gardellino” for flute, strings and b.c. (pf)
All the videos must be sent by email to moysecompetition@gmail.com within May 15th 2024.
The video must be uploaded to youtube and sent as a link (the video must be ‘unlisted’ not public mode). Selected candidates will be informed by email by June 8, 2024
SECOND ROUND ‘In person’ (15’)
The programme must include 2 pieces, one for solo flute and one for flute and piano chosen from:
-Friederich Kuhlau ‘Capriccio n. 1 op. 10’ for flute solo -CPE Bach ‘Sonata’ in A minor for flute solo (2nd mov) -G.Ph. Telemann ‘Fantasia n. 10’ (from 12 Fantasies) for flute solo -Francis Poulenc ‘Sonata’ for flute and piano (1st mov) -Bohuslav Martinu ‘First Sonata’ for flute and piano (1st mov) -Franz Doppler ‘Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise’ for flute and piano -Albert Roussel ‘Joueurs de Flûte’ op. 27 (Pan and Tityre) for flute and pianoFINAL ROUND ‘In person’ (20’)
The programme must include:
- Antonio Vivaldi ‘Concerto op. X n. 6’ for flute, strings and b.c. (pf)
- Rainer Bischof ‘Quadrifoglio’ (three movements free choice) for flute solo (the part will be sent on request)
- Louis Moyse ‘Pastorale’ for flute solo from ‘7 Caprice-Etudes’
Category C born from 2000 to 1991 (24-33)
PRELIMINARY ROUND ‘In person’ (18’)
The programme must include:
- Gheorghi Arnaoudov ‘Il sentiero degli uccelli’ for flute solo (the part will be sent on request)
- 2 pieces of different style, choosen among the following repertoire: Jacques Ibert ‘Pièce’ / J.S. Bach ‘Partita’ in A minor BWV 1013 (two movements free choice) / Sigfried Karg-Elert ‘Sonata Appassionata’ / Luciano Berio ‘Sequenza I’
SECOND ROUND ‘In person’ (20’)
The programme must include:
- J.S. Bach ‘Sonata’ in E minor BWV 1034 (1st and 2nd mov) for flute and b.c.- Philippe Gaubert ‘Sonata n. 2’ (1st mov) for flute and piano
- Sergei Prokofiev ‘Sonata’ for flute and piano (1st mov)
FINAL ROUND ‘In person’ (30’)
The programme must include:
- Louis Moyse ‘Caprice de Pan’ for flute solo from ‘7 Caprice-Etudes’
- Concerto chosen from the following repertoire for flute and orchestra (pf): Saverio Mercadante ‘Concerto in e-minor’ / W.A. Mozart Concerto KV 313 or Concerto KV 314 / Jacques Ibert ‘Concerto’.
- Calendar
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
The Moyse International Flute Competition and all the events connected will take place at the NBU New Bulgarian University - 1618 Sofia, Bulgaria 21 Montevideo Str.
Friday 28 June 2024 New Bulgarian University – Montevideo 21 – Sofia
- 8:30 – MEETING of candidates cat. A1 (fifth floor – room 501)
- 9:00-12:00 – Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category A1 (Music Department – fifth floor)
- 14:00-16:00 – Final round cat. A1 (Gallery)
- 18:00-19:00 – Interview with the members of the jury ‘Experience and Theory’ (Gallery)
- 19:00 – Announcement of the winners and certificate of participation cat A1 (Gallery)
Saturday 29 June 2024 New Bulgarian University – Montevideo 21 – Sofia
- 8:30 – MEETING of candidates cat. A (fifth floor – room 501)
- 9:00-10:30 – Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category A (Music Department – fifth floor)
- 10:30-13:00 – Final round cat. A (Gallery)
- 19:30 – Announcement of the winners and certificate of participation cat A (Gallery)
- 15:00-18:30 – Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category B (Music Department – fifth floor)
- 20:00 – Opening Concert Moyse Competition 2024 (Hall to be defined) Sofia Music Fest Week Festival 2024 - Jury at the International Moyse Competition
Sunday 30 June 2024 New Bulgarian University - Montevideo 21 – Sofia
- 8:30 – MEETING of candidates cat. B (fifth floor – room 501)
- 9:00-12:00 – First round cat. B (Gallery)
- 12:30-13:30 – Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category B (Music Department – fifth floor)
- 13:30-16:00 – Final round cat. B (Gallery)
- 16:30-17:30 – Lecture PhD Flute Doctorate Antonella Benatti (Gallery) ‘Text and performance in Philippe Gaubert’s work’
- 18:00-19:00 – Interview with Matthias Ziegler and Serena Klemm ‘Homage to Conrad Klemm’ (Gallery)
- 19:00 – Announcement of the winners and certificate of participation cat B (Gallery)
- 19:30-21:10 – Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category C (Music Department – fifth floor
Monday 1 July 2024 New Bulgarian University - Montevideo 21 – Sofia
- 8:30 – MEETING of candidates cat. C (fifth floor – room 501)
- 9:00-12:00 – First round cat. C (Gallery)
- 14:00-17:00 – First round cat. C (Gallery)
- 18:30-21:10 – Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category C (Music Department – fifth floor)
Tuesday 2 July 2024 New Bulgarian University - Montevideo 21 – Sofia
- 8:30 – MEETING of candidates cat. C (fifth floor – room 501)
- 9:00-13:00 – Second round cat. C (Gallery)
- 13:30-14:30 – Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category C (Music Department – fifth floor)
- 14:30-18:00 – Final round cat. C (Gallery)
- 18:30 – Announcement of the winners and certificate of participation cat. C (Gallery)
- 20:00 – Closing concert of the winners and award ceremony cat. A,A1, B,C (Gallery)
All 1° and 2° prize-winners of Cat. A, A1, B,C will play at the closing concert.
- Prizes
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
Prizes in Euro:
Cat. C (24-33)
- 1° (€ 3.000) ° and concert*
- 2° (€ 1.000) # and concert*
- 3° (€ 500) §
Cat. B (18-23)
- 1° (€ 1.000) °° and concert*
- 2° (€ 500) ##
- 3° (€ 250) §
Cat. A1 (14-17)
- 1° (€ 500) §
- 2° (€ 300)
- 3° (€ 150)
Cat. A (10-13)
- 1° (€ 300) §
- 2° (€ 200)
- 3° (€ 100) §§
Premio speciale Conrad Klemm (€ 500) °°°
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° offered by Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria and Confindustria Bulgaria.
°° offered by Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria and Confindustria Bulgaria
°°° offered by Serena Klemm, wife of the famous Swiss flutist, 1° flute in the Orchestra of Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Roma, one of the most talented students of Marcel Moyse, great musician and one of the most important teacher of the XX century.
- offered by Miyazawa Flute Europe
- § offered by Maison de la Musique ''Gatev & Co''
CONCERTS: The concerts will be hosted in one of the 2024-2025 concert Festivals: Sofia Opera and Ballet, Ambasciata d’Italia a Sofia, Sofia Music Weeks International Festival, Amici della Musica di Udine, Sofia Sinfonietta Orchestra Festival .
*The travelling and accomodation costs are at expense of the winner
All the prizes will be awarded during the closing concert ceremony. The prizes include the Bulgarina Government tax of 10%. here will be no remuneration for the participants of the evening concert. The ex-aequo prizes are decided by the jury and the prize will be divided among the winners. Acknowledgment for the teachers of the winners will be given on request. All candidates will receive a diploma of participation at the announcement of the winners.
- Inscription
Moyse International Flute Competition – Sofia NBU
ENTRY DEADLINE:May 15th 2024
The fee must be paid before May 15th 2024 to confirm participation
Registration must be made on the appropriate form ‘Application form’ and sent to moysecompetition@gmail.com together with the copy of the payment fee.
- A 55€ / 110 BGN
- A1 55€ / 110 BGN
- B 65€ / 130 BGN
- C C 75€ / 150 BGN
In all payments must be specified “Registration for the Moyse International Flute Competition’ SOFIA – NBU Cat. ___ Names of Applicant”.
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