Dates

  up to 40

Location

History

1st competition in 1989
22nd competition in 2012
(15th piano competition)

annual
with a three-year cycle

       alternatingly open for
       - piano (2012), and
       - violin (2013), and
       - singers (2014)

since 2004

Audition
(preselection)

solo  --- 4 works

2nd stage
(quarter-finals)

solo  60 min. --- 5 works

3rd stage
(semi-finals)

solo  80 min. --- 4 works

Finals

solo
+ two concertos

Appl. fee

only one prize

 30'000  Euro

Jury 2009

Marcello Abbado (it)
Olivier Bellamy (f)
Boris Berezovsky (rus)
Xavier Darcos (f)
Brigitte Engerer (f)
Jean-Marie Fournier (f)
Ekaterina Popowa-Zydron (pol)
Gabriel Tacchino (f)

Audition
(preselection)

    solo
1 - PF Bach
2 - Etude Ch (spec.)
1 - Romantic work
     (from 2nd or 3rd stage)

1st stage
(quarter-finals)

    solo  (60 min.)
1 - Sonata Bh. (spec.)
1 - Etude Rach. (spec.)
1 - 20th Century own country
     (7 min.)
1 free (virtuoso work)

2nd stage
(semi-finals)

    solo  (80 min.)
1 - Sonata 18th Century
1 - Ch./.../Albeniz
     (composers spec.)
1 - Fauré/Deb./Ravel
1 - Sonata 20th Century

Finals

    solo
Chopin 13th Nocturne (compulsory)
plus works chosen by the jury
from the quarter- and semi-finals
    two concertos
2 from 15 (spec.)

NB

for further specifications
 consult the brochure, or visit
www.montecarlopianomasters.com
 or contact AAF

Jean Marie Fournier
Mme. Chantal Fournier

Monte Carlo World Music Masters
JM Fournier Productions
45, rue la Boetie
F-75008  Paris
France

(+33) 1 - 45626971

(+33) 1 - 42259780

c.fournier@sallegaveau.com

www.montecarlopianomasters.com