International Music Youth Competition to be held March 21-29

BELGRADE - This year's international Music Youth competition will be held between March 21 and 29 at the Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, featuring young pianists from nine countries of the world.

A total of 52 young pianists applied for the region's most prestigious competition for musicians aged under 30, with 32 of them selected to compete, representing South Korea, Russia, Canada, China, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Albania, Croatia and Serbia.

The pianists will be assessed by an international jury consisting of renowned pianists and pedagogues Nataliya Trul (Russia), Oleg Marshev and Teresa Trevisan (Italy) and Rita Kinka and Dejan Sinadinovic (Serbia).

The winner of the competition will be announced on Saturday, March 29.

Trul, a professor of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow who is the president of the international jury and the programme selector, and Kinka, a professor of the Novi Sad Academy of Arts, have selected a serious programme in line with the rules of major international competitions.

The programme includes toccatas, preludes and etudes by Liszt, Ravel, Prokofiev, Balakirev, Schumann and Mendelssohn and a compulsory composition by Serbian etude composer Vasilije Mokranjac.

Also included are sonatas by Beethoven and piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Prokofiev and Bartok.

The international Music Youth competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions and has been held annually in Belgrade since its inception in 1971, cycling through competitions for pianists, solo singers, flutists and cellists.

Photo Tanjug, D. Peternek (illustration)