In 2010, AAF will offer support to the following competitions


   -  April 2010: Vietri sul Mare (Italy), the Int'l Piano Competition Premio A. Napolitano (AAF)
   -  April 2010: Kiev (Ukraine), the Int'l Competition for Young Pianists in memory of Vladimir Horowitz
   -  April 2010: Gdansk (Poland), the Baltic International Piano Competition (AAF)
   -  April/May 2010: Wernigerode (Germany), the Neue Sterne International Piano Competition (AAF)
   -  May 2010: Madrid (Spain), the Delia Steinberg International Piano Competition (AAF)
   -  May 2010: Napoli (Italy), the Sigismund Thalberg Competition (AAF)
   -  August 2010: Marianske Lazne (Czech Rep.), the Fryderyk Chopin Int'l Piano Competition
   -  August 2010: Muenchen (Germany), the ARD International Music Competition (AAF)

  The AAF support is given for the arrangement of a special reception for all the contestants.

  In the case that one of the above selected competitions cannot organise the reception, AAF's offer 
  will be passed on to another competition (also selected by the notary; see below).

To arrive at this selection, the following procedure was followed :


On December 28th, 2009, Notary Mr. D.L. Rang conducted an official draw.

At that time, there were 110 AAF member competitions and organisations.
71 of these were scheduled to take place in 2010.
A few competitions could not or preferred not to be considered for the AAF support (e.g. for organisational reasons).
Thus, 55 AAF member competitions were included in the first draw.

From these 55, six were randomly chosen by Mr. Rang.

Mr. Rang selected two more competition from another group of international piano competitions, which were not AAF members.
To be considered, a few additional conditions had to be fulfilled.
In total, 6 non-member international piano competitions taking place in 2010 were included in the draw.

Go to the top of this page to see the list of the eight chosen competitions.

Mr. Rang also selected six more AAF competitions, in case some of the first selected ones are unable to organise the AAF reception.
These "runners-up" are, in order of their selection:

1. the Rotary International Piano Competition in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) [May 2010]
2. the CCC International Piano Competition, Toronto (Canada) [November 2010]
3. the Grand Prix Animato, Paris (France) [December 2010]
4. the International Johannes Brahms Music Competition, Poertschach (Austria) [September 2010]
5. the International Piano Competition Ennio Porrino, Cagliari (Italy) [October 2010]
6. the International Piano Competition Dedication to Ferenc Liszt, Moscow (Russia) [Nov./Dec. 2010]

and two additional ones from among the remaining eligible non-member competitions:

1. the Concours International de Piano in Lagny sur Marne (France) [February 2010]
2. the Concours International Jean Francaix in Vanves (near Paris, France) [April 2010]

 

 


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