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Moyse Flute Competition 2025
Moyse International Flute Competition Sofia (Bulgaria) NBU
26 June — 1 July 2025
- The competition
Moyse International Flute Competition 2025– 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.
Winners will receive prizes, benefits and concerts.
All candidates will receive a diploma of participation at the announcement of the winners. Certificates for the teachers of categories A, A1 and B winners will be given on request.
- Jury
Moyse International Flute Competition 2025 – Sofia NBU
Président d’Honneur / Honorary president
SIR JAMES GALWAY
Flute Master and student of Marcel Moyse
The on-line selection of category B will be made by Sir James Galway e Lady Jeanne Galway
JURY IN PRESENCE
CAROL WINCENC (USA)
Chairwoman
Student of Marcel Moyse
MANUEL GUERRERO RUIZ (Spain)
MIHI KIM (France - Korea)
RENATA PENEZIC (Croatia)
LUISA SELLO (Italy)
Carol Wincenc
first prize winner of the Naumburg Solo Flute Competition, the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the both the USA and China National Flute Associations, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music, the 2022 Martha Graham Dance Company’s "Five Fearless Women” Award, and Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Brevard Music Center and Manhattan School of Music. Recently she celebrated a half century as an international, concertizing artist at Weill Carnegie Hall, The Morgan Library and Museum, Merkin Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, Tanglewood Festival and abroad at The Tianjin Juilliard School, and Taiwan's National Concert Halls in Kaohsiung and Taipei. She has appeared as soloist with such ensembles as the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and London symphonies, the BBC, Warsaw, and Buffalo Philharmonics, as well as the Los Angeles, Stuttgart, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras. A Grammy nominee, her recordings have garnered the Diapason d'Or Award for the Rouse Flute Concerto, “Recording of Special Merit” Award with pianist András Schiff, Gramophone magazine's "Pick of the Month" with the Buffalo Philharmonic and NPR’s 2023 “Top 10 Recordings" of the Year with the Joan Tower Flute Concerto. Ms. Wincenc continues to teach on the faculties of The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University for over six decades. She is renowned for her popular series with Hal Leonard/Lauren Keiser Music Publishers, the Carol Wincenc 21st Century Flute.
Manuel Guerrero Ruiz
International artist, flautist Manuel Guerrero has given concerts throughout Europe for meny years. As a solist he has perfarmed in the most pretigious halls in Europe.
The Queen of Holland decorated Manuel Guerrero for his virtuosity and artristy with the hidhest Dutch Honor: the Order van Orange. He has been a flute solist with the Orquesta del Teatro de la Zarzuela en Madrid, Orquesta Sigle XXI. Continues to collaborate with the Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid (opera) and Orquesta Municipal de Valencia. Manuel Guerrero, can be heard on many recordings in series of solo albuns entitted “La Flauta y su Musica” Manuel Guerrero founded the Spanisth Flute Pleyers Association (AFE) in 2009, he organized the firts Internatiobal Convention of flautists in Madrid in 2010. The chair of flute at de Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid “RCSMM” for 25 years.
Mihi Kim is a renowned French-Korean flutist with German cultural roots. She trained with prominent flautists and obtained a DAI-DMA at the Paris Conservatoire CNSMDP. As an international soloist and educator, she has taught internationally and released five CDs. Currently, she is a Professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and heads the Wind Department at the National Conservatory of Issy-Vanves in Paris. Dr Kim is passionate about contemporary music and jazz, and collaborates regularly with living composers. She is also a Miyazawa International Artist, playing a special Miyazawa CRESTA Platinum flute from 2022, one of a kind.
Renata Penezić
One of the most prominent Croatian artists, graduated at the Music Academy in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in the class of Prof. Fedja Rupel. She won several prizes competition in Croatia and Slovenia. Solo flutist of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, she completed the studies at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in the class of Prof. Andras Adorjan. She has performed throughout Croatia, Europe and Asia. She has made several CD-s and one of them (The Christmas Concert) won the Croatian annual award Porin in 2006. She regularly records for the Croatian Radio. Leading Croatian composers wrote and dedicated to her their flute compositions. She won the Milka Trnina Award for 2008 for the premiere of a concerto for flute and orchestra by Alfi Kabiljo with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. She also successfully teaches at the Music Academy in Zagreb. Her students won first prizes at several competitions. She is regularly giving master-classes and has been a member of the jury at various competitions in Croatia and abroad.
Luisa Sello, defined by the New York Concert Review “excellent breath control, brilliant technical rendering, engaging intensity, sonorous range and abundance of charm” is Flute Miyazawa Artist and Ambassador of Music and Italian Culture, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Her career includes collaborations with Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Muti, Wien Symphoniker Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock, Alirio Diaz, Philippe Entremont, Bruno Canino, Karl Leister, Carnegie Hall, Juilliard School, Suntory Hall. Already Flute Professor at the Academy of Music in Milano and Trieste, she is Professor for doctoral PhD in ‘Flute Performance’ at the New Bulgarian University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and visiting professor in Vienna, Madrid, Beijing, Melbourne, New York, Kyoto, Bangkok. 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 and with Severino Gazzelloni and with Conrad Klemm in Rome. She records for Stradivarius, Dynamic (Italy) and Millennium (Beijing).
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 2025– Sofia NBU
The competition is open to flutists of every nationality between the ages of 8 and 33, calculated on June 26th 2025, the day the competition starts. Each candidate can participate in only one category, even higher than his/her age.
Each competitor must present a valid identity document, or they will be excluded from the Competition.
For the categories JUNIOR, A, A1 and B the preliminary round will be on-line. The selected candidates will participate at the second and final round in person. Those not selected will not be entitled to a refund of the registration fee.
The category C will participate in person in each round.
The order of execution in all categories is established in alphabetical order. Competitors who are absent at the convocation MEETING, for justified reasons, will be able to perform at the end of that same day.
Decisions of the Jury are final and there is no right of appeal.
All rounds in person are open to the public.
Study rooms will be available at the groundfloor of the Music Department at NBU, 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 Marlboro 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 Marlboro 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 2025 – Sofia NBU
ENTRY DEADLINE: May 15th 2025
Each candidate can participate in only one category, even higher than his age
CATEGORY JUNIOR - A – A1 - B
Category Junior / born until 2015 (until 10)
Category A / born from 2014 to 2012 (age 11-13)
Category A1 / born from 2011 to 2008 (age 14-17)
Category B / born from 2007 to 2002 (age 18-23)
For categories JUNIOR, 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 2025, together with the application form and the copy of the registration payment. The cost of the transfer is borne by the sender and the inscription fee is not refundable. Selected candidates in categories JUNIOR, A, A1 and B will participate in person in the following rounds.
CATEGORY C
Category C / born from 2001 to 1992 (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 2025, together with the application form and the copy of the registration payment. The cost of the transfer is borne by the sender and the inscription fee is not refundable.
FINAL CONCERT
The final concert will take place in public on Monday July 1 and the prizes will be assigned before the concert (see the Calendar).
Gallery at NBU
- Repertoire
Moyse International Flute Competition 2025 – 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 €50 / 100 lev. together with the registration fee, specifying 'pianist request’
Category JUNIOR born until 2015 (age until 10) 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 2025.
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, 2025.
FINAL ROUND ‘In person’ (10’) The programme must include:
-Carl Nielsen ’The children are Playing’ for flute (the part will be sent on request)
-Louis Moyse ‘Sicilienne’ from the ‘Trois pièces faciles’ for flute and piano (the part will be sent on request)
Category A born from 2014 to 2012 (age 11-13) 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 2025.
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, 2025
FINAL ROUND ‘In person’ (10’) The programme must include:
-Nino Rota ‘5 pezzi facili’ (one movement free choice) for flute and piano (the part will be sent on request)
-Louis Moyse ‘Sarabande’ from the ‘Trois pièces faciles’ for flute and piano (the part will be sent on request)
Category A1 born from 2011 to 2008 (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 to moysecompetition@gmail.com within May 15th 2025.
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, 2025
FINAL ROUND ‘In person’ (12’)
The programme must include:
-Antonio Vivaldi/Nicolas Chedeville ‘Sonata n. 1’ (two movements free choice) from ‘Il Pastor fido’ op.13 for flute and b.c. (the part will be sent on request)
-Paul Hindemith – Acht Stücke (one movement free choice) (the part will be sent on request)
-Louis Moyse ‘En rôdant’ from ‘Dix petites piéces’ for flute and piano (the part will be sent on request)
Category B born from 2007 to 2002 (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. 1 ‘La tempesta di mare’ for flute, strings and b.c. (pf) (the part will be sent on request)
All the videos must be sent by email to moysecompetition@gmail.com within May 15th 2025.
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, 2025
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) (the part will be sent on request)
-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’ (the part will be sent on request)
Category C / born from 2001 to 1992 (age 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’ (the part will be sent on request)
- 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 2025 – 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.
Thursday 26 June 2025 New Bulgarian University – Montevideo 21 – Sofia
14:00 MEETING of candidates cat. Junior (fifth floor – room 501)
14:30-15:30 Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category Junior (Music Department – fifth floor)
15:30-18:30 Final round cat. Junior (Gallery)
19:00 Announcement of the winners and certificate of participation cat Junior (Gallery)
Friday 27 June 2025 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)
13:30-18:00 Final round cat. A1 (Gallery)
18:00-19:00 Meeting with Robert Cart "Moyse and the singing flute" (Gallery)
19:00 Announcement of the winners and certificate of participation cat A1 (Gallery)
Saturday 28 June 2025 New Bulgarian University – Montevideo 21 – Sofia
8:30 MEETING of candidates cat. A (fifth floor – room 501)
9:00-10:00 Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category A (Music Department – fifth floor)
10:00-14:30 Final round cat. A (Gallery)
14:50 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 2025 (Sofia City Art Gallery https://sghg.bg/en/)
Sofia Music Fest Week Festival 2025 - Jury at the International Moyse Competition
Sunday 29 June 2025 New Bulgarian University - Montevideo 21 – Sofia
8:30 MEETING of candidates cat. B (fifth floor – room 501)
9:00 -12:30 First round cat. B (Gallery)
12:30-13:30 Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category B (Music Department – fifth floor)
13:30-16:30 Final round cat. B (Gallery)
17:00-18:00 Lecture - Ligia Verduga ‘Ecuadorian Flute Repertoire’ PhD Flute Doctorate (Gallery)
18:00-19:00 Interview with Carol Wincenc ‘My friendship with Moyse’ (Gallery)
19:00 Announcement of the winners and certificate of participation cat B (Gallery)
19:30-22:00 Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category C (Music Department – fifth floor)
Monday 30 June 2025 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)
14:00-18:00 First round cat. C (Gallery)
18:30-21:00 Rehearsal with piano accompanists for category C (Music Department – fifth floor)
Tuesday 1 July July 2025 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. Junior, A, A1, B, C (Gallery)
All 1° and 2° prize-winners of Cat. Junior, A, A1, B, C will play at the closing concert
The Miyazawa flute exhibition will be held throughout the period of the Competition
- Prizes
Moyse International Flute Competition 2025 – 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° (€ 300)Cat. A1 (14-17) 1° (€ 500)
2° (€ 300)
3° (€ 150)Cat. A (11-13) 1° (€ 300)
2° (€ 200)
3° (€ 100)Cat. Junior (8-10) 1° (€ 150)
2° (€ 100)
3° (€ 50)Special Prize Conrad Klemm (€ 500) °
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All the prizes and concerts are offered by:
Italian Embassy in Sofia
Confindustria Bulgaria
Miyazawa Flute Europe
Amici della Musica di Udine - Italy
Sofia Music Weeks - Bulgaria
Maison de la Musique ''Gatev & Co'' - Bulgaria
° The Special Prize Conrad Klemm is 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.
CONCERTS: The concerts will be hosted in one of the 2025-2026 Festivals: 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 Bulgarian 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 2025– Sofia NBU
ENTRY DEADLINE: May 15th 2025
The fee must be paid before May 15th 2025 to confirm participation. The inscription fee is not refundable
Registration must be made on the appropriate form ‘Application form’ and sent to moysecompetition@gmail.com together with the copy of the payment fee and a copy of identity card.
Cat. JUNIOR 70€ / 140 BGN + pianist request € 50 /100 lev
Cat. A 80€ / 160 BGN + pianist request € 50 /100 lev
Cat. A1 90€ / 180 BGN + pianist request € 50 /100 lev
Cat. B 100€ / 200 BGN + pianist request € 50 /100 lev
Cat. C 130€ / 260 BGN + panist request € 50 /100 lev
In all payments must be specified “Registration for the Moyse International Flute Competition’ SOFIA – NBU Cat. ___ Names of Applicant”.
In Bulgarian currency UBB Bank (United Bulgarian Bank)
Address: 89B Vitosha Blvd., UBB Millennium Center, Sofia, Bulgaria Currency: BGN
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The cost of the transfer is borne by the sender
In European currency
KBC Bank (KBC Group) – The acronym KBC refers to KredietBank and CERA Currency: EUR
Address: Sofia, Bulgaria 1407, 55 Nikola Vaptzarov Blvd, EXPO 2000
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The cost of the transfer is borne by the sender
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