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XVIIIème TREMPLIN JAZZ D’AVIGNON / 18th AVIGNON JAZZ CONTEST 2009
6th and 7th August 2009

The «Tremplin Jazz d’Avignon» association will organize the 6th and 7th August 2009 in Avignon (France), a music contest intended to promote some young musicians and some young jazz groups. This jazz contest is open to European groups from duet to sextet playing music in jazz style and improvised music, except awarded groups from past years. In particular, it is required for each band to play - a minima - two of its own composition. Candidatures will be formally recorded after reception of complete candidature file available on our web site at www.trempjazz.com

Candidatures must be sent back before May, 10th 2009 to:

L’Association du TREMPLIN JAZZ D’AVIGNON
15, rue Paul Mérindol. F-84000 AVIGNON
Tél: +33(0)490 82 95 51 mobile: +33 (0)603 63 11 46
e- mail:trempjazz@wanadoo.fr
site: www.trempjazz.com

APPLICATION
a) Spontaneous candidacy: The candidates will only be recorded after having received their full application file, which must include the four following parts:

1. The registration sheet fully completed, signed by the representative of designed band, who will be the only responsible for the whole application process,
2. A detailed presentation of the band (a CV for each musician, a press or information release copy, possibly some pictures...)
3. A recording of good quality (CD), include at least three musical extracts, one of which should have been written by the band,
4. The technical sheet of the band (back-line and installation process).

The completed application forms should be sent to the address below:

ASSOCIATION TREMPLIN JAZZ D’AVIGNON
15, rue Paul Mérindol
84000 AVIGNON / France

All the application forms which are incomplete or contain mistakes after the deadline will not be considered for the pre-selection.

b) Candidacy proposed by a correspondent:
The European countries (even those outside EU) can proposed a correspondent to the Tremplin Jazz d'Avignon Association, in which they engage themselves in proposing bands’ candidacies they have previously chosen. The national contact in each country may centralise the different candidacies, so the bands who want to participate to the contest take directly contact with him (for the modalities, see the annex).

PRE-SELECTION
The pre-selection will be done by a jury panel, all of arts and show business (organisers, musicians, editors...)

Six Europeans bands will be chosen according to the following items:
1. The whole as musical piece (sound quality)
2. The control of the instrument (musician’s abilities)
3. The cohesion of the band as a whole (ability to play together)

The bands will be informed by phone and confirmed by post or e-mail within fifteen days, whether they are selected or not to take part of the contest. The order of the band for the final will be decided by the organisers before the competition according to technical difficulties, and can’t be contested.

FINALS
Six bands will play according to the order of passage, one band after another, during a scheduled period of 2 days. The finals will take place in the Cloître des Carmes in Avignon.

REQUIREMENTS
During the final, each band will have to play at least two pieces, one of which must have been written by the band itself. The performance on stage should not go beyond forty minutes. Ten minutes will be allowed to settle on stage.

BACKLINE
The selected bands will have a piano, a drum set and a bass-guitar amplifier on stage.

DEFRAIEMENT
Each band will nominate a representative to deal with the organizer. In function of the way of travelling chosen and in agreement with the organizer and each representative of each group selected, the transport will only be taken care as follows:0,30 € per kilometer by car (four musicians or two musicians + a double bass by car, motorway toll included in the 0, 30 Euros per kilometer)
-One 2nd class return train ticket for each musician
-One 2nd class return flight ticket for each musician
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The transport mode will be chosen with the full agreement of the organizers.
The accommodation and food expenses for each musician exclusively will be taken care of by the organizers, only during the contest (+ the additional day for the Audience Award).

DELIBERATION
The final’s jury will include Europeans professionals of arts and show business, specialists of jazz, reporters from specialized press, under the presidency of a personality.The panel will gather for the pre-selection in Avignon and at the end of the last evening of the contest in order to select the winner of the Avignon’s Jazz Contest. The deliberation will be held in closed session. It’s a habit for the
bands to have a jam session during the deliberation in order to give the audience a Musical moment, while waiting for the results.The Audience’s Award will be determined by written ballot by the audience.

 

International Kodolányi Jazz Competition
Siófok, Hungary, 6 to 11, May 2009

The Performance Department of the Kodolányi János University College presents the Second International Jazz Competition for Young Musicians, held in Siófok, Hungary. The competition is open for actively working jazz groups from the combo category, with members under age of 30, and the applications must be received by 3rd April 2009. The performance of the jazz groups coming from all European countries will be judged by an international jury, and all applicants will have the possibility to give public concerts.

Jury members: John Hollenbeck (USA) – president of the jury, Hans Glawischnig (USA), Ed Neumeister (USA-Graz), János Gonda (Hungary), Daniel Szabó (Hungary)

Valuable money prizes and awards will be distributed for the winners; the first prize is 5.000 euros.

Date: 6-11 May, 2009.

Application rules: The competition is for actively working jazz-combos, being in a scale of trios, quartets, quintets, sextets and septets. Age limit is 30; all applicants must be born after the 10th of May, 1979.

Application fee: 50 EUR/member

No stylistic restrictions! - within the art of jazz, all musical styles are welcome from traditional to modern, from acoustic to electronic, from mainstream to fusion etc. One musician has the right to apply and perform exclusively in one band! The majority of the group members has to have active studies in a College of Music, but the competition is also opened for graduated musicians or teachers under 30!

Application to upload: www.kodolanyi.hu/jazz

After listening to all demos and evaluating all application materials, the Jury will select the best groups to participate in the competition. The results will be published on the competition website by the 13 April, 2009.

Detailed competition description, presentation of the jury, prizes, and further information is on the official competition site: www.kodolanyi.hu/jazz

For further information please contact the organizers by e-mail: jazz@kodolanyi.hu or by phone: +36 30 377 3495 and address to Gergely Mits (Project Manager)

 

Internationales Atelierprogramm der Stiftung Starke. Artist-in-residence-Programm

Art der Förderung: Vergabe von Stipendien für einen 3- bis 12-monatigen Aufenthalt im Berliner Löwenpalais, Veranstaltung von Konzerten, Vermittlung von Künstlern.

Voraussetzung: International offen für Komponisten bis zum Alter von 35 Jahren.

Kontakt: Stiftung Starke, Koenigsallee 30–32, 14193 Berlin, Tel. 030/825 7685, Fax 030/825 8734, e-mail: info@stiftungstarke.de, Internet: http://www.stiftungstarke.de [10/2008]

Yamaha-Stipendien-Wettbewerb

Art der Förderung: Vergabe von Stipendien in Höhe von 2.000 Pfund Sterling.

Voraussetzung: International offen für Musikstudierende bis zum Alter von 25 Jahren mit Hauptfach in den jeweils ausgeschriebenen Fachrichtungen. Einreichung einer Tonbandkassette zur Vorauswahl der Bewerber.

Kontakt: Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Administration Office, Siemensstr. 22–34, 25462 Rellingen, Tel. 04101/303 888, Fax 04101/303 869, e-mail: barbara_breiter@gmx.yamaha.com, Internet: http://www.yamaha-europe.com [10/2008]

Bucharest International Jazz Competition 2011 (Bands and Vocalists)

Date: 7th to 13 of May 2011
Location: Bucharest (Romania)

Eligible are bands that have up to six performing musicians. Applicants must be born after 1st of May 1976.

Registration deadline is February 10, 2011 (date of postmark or courier service stamp)

Prizes: the total amount is 7.000 Euro, and

More information please see:

jmEvents.ro
C.P. 13-63, Bucharest 13, Romania
Tel. +40-722-383542
Fax +40-21-323-6600
e-mail: office@jmevents.ro
Internet: http://www.jmevents.ro

Second Moscow International Competititon for Jazz Executers 2008 (International Competion for Pianists)

Date: 6th to 13th of April 2008
Location: Moscow, Russia

The organizing committee of the Moiscow International Competition informs jazz executors (piano), that the second international competition for jazz executors (piano) takes place from April, 6 till April, 13th, 2008 in Moscow. Further information and application forms can be requested at www.center-slobodkina.ru (only in russian).

Scale of Premiums

First prize: 300 000 roubles (11.500 US-$) a gold medal and a rank of the winner

Second prize: 240 000 roubles (9.500 US-$) a silver medal and a rank of the winner

Third prize: 180 000 roubles (7.000 US-$) a bronze medal and the rank of the winner

All participants of the third (final) round, who have not become winners, are awarded with a Diploma, a rank of a student and a monetary premium of 30 000 roubles (1.000 US-$) each. The first round of competition is carried out on the basis of sent in music and video data. The terms of submission for all applications must be sent in till February, 28th, 2008. Known pianists and teachers will take part in the work of the jury.

Tel. +7(495) 230-2774, e-mail: mtcc@yandex.ru, e-mail: mtcc_new@mail.ru, Internet: http://www.center-slobodkina.ru

International Massimo Urbani Award (International prize for jazz soloist)

Date: 26 - 27 - 28 MAY 2006
Location: Camerino (Macerata) Italy

The International Massimo Urbani Award will take place from 26 May till 28 May 2006 in Camerino (Macerata) Italy. I.M.U.A. is open to candidates of all the foreign countries and of any age. Non italian applicants are exempt from payng the fee. The award consist of a trophy in order to give memory to the roman saxophonist and a recording with the Philology record Company. Application form will have to reach within the 26 April 2006 with the attachment of CD DEMO, including at least three tracks

Contact:
Associazione Musicamdo
Via G. Leopardi, 42
62032 Camerino (MC)
Italy
e-mail: info@musicamdo.it
Internet: http://www.musicamdo.it

Concorso "Scrivere in jazz"

"Scrivere in Jazz" is a biannual competition for composition and orchestral arrangement, divided into various sections, devised and held for Sassari Town Council by the Associazione Blue Note Orchestra and headed by the Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna. It gives composers, of whatever artistic background or geographical origin, the opportunity to try out their talents by composing pieces and arrangements for a twenty-piece orchestra.
   A committee of prominent Italian and international jazz musicians will select a group of compositions to be performed by the Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna during the first evenings of the finals which will take place in Sassari.
   During the third evening of the finals, a new jury consisting of the members of the selection committee, joined by other prestigious musicians and experts, will announce the winning composers, one for each section of the Competition, each of whom will be awarded a prize. An attendance fee will be paid to all composers who reach the finals.
   Thirteen years on from its happy beginnings, "Scrivere in Jazz", with more than 280 composers from all over the world taking part on the seven occasions it has been held, must be considered as a resounding success for all those who have participated (competitors, juries, financing bodies, organisers...) all of whom have done their utmost, and not without difficulty at times, to promote this ever more important event in the world of Italian and international jazz.
   From the outset, when Scrivere in Jazz was first held, as long ago as 1991, we fixed ourselves some objectives which essentially add up to one vital requirement: maturing. The maturing of composers which comes about by stimulating development and exchange between those who still write music to be performed by musicians rather than machines, and who, despite the ever more widespread invasion of everything that is transmitted via a screen, are still in touch with invention and the creative spark, and try, in the most human way possible, to be different from the predominant standard model (or series of models) which are imposed.
   The maturing of the audience can be achieved by promoting, but without sugaring the pill, the efforts of those, who, like us, love music and cherish the idea that it can do its bit to improve the lot of mankind, and by inciting curiosity about all cultures, whether those close at hand (or within earshot, if you prefer), which is precisely why we don’t stop and look at them (this has led to the creation of the Sardinian music section), or those which are already linked to physical or virtual movements of peoples.
   From migratory movements to Internet, everything helps to enrich the creativity of those who believe that there is not one music but just music, which means everything is precious, whether its “highbrow” contemporary music, Sardinian “a tenores” chants, rock or Italian songs, or music from Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, in fact, anything which stirs the emotions.
   Also, our maturing as an orchestra. We started out in 1989 as a group of young musicians who wanted to study jazz, and over the years with the arrival of children and greying hair (or baldness), we have modified our ambitions somewhat, and are a little different from the band of youngsters we were thirteen years ago. We have worked with the trumpet players Tom Harrell, Flavio Boltro, Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava, Giovanni Amato, the saxophonist Maurizio Giammarco, the clarinettist Paolo Ravaglia, the pianists Antonello Salis, Mauro Grossi and Riccardo Zegna, the singers Maria Pia De Vito and David Linx, the accordion player Richard Galliano, and the conductors Giorgio Gaslini, Giancarlo Gazzani, Bruno Tommaso, Colin Towns; among our original productions have been a "Gershwin Evening" with Antonello Salis; "Homage to Ella Fitzgerald" with Maria Pia De Vito; the “Scrivere in Jazz” Concerto, with the winning pieces from previous Competitions; "The Ugly Duckling" composed and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini, with Maria Pia De Vito and Massimiliano Medda, and also "A Meeting with Classical Music" in which we performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, M. Gould’s Clarinet Concerto, and Stravinsky’s Ebony Concert, the original arrangement by Gil Evans of "Porgy and Bess" with Paolo Fresu, the first european performance of "Time's mirror" with Tom Harrell; "An English concert" composed and conducted by Colin Towns, our records, as well as the planning and organisation work, the Concorso Scrivere in Jazz, the biannual l’Orchestra Jazz review and the Scrivere in Jazz Ricerca seminars, all bear witness to our development as musicians and people, still with the initial enthusiasm we had back in November, 1989.
   That too, for us, is jazz. Happy music-making.

Competition rules

Art. 1 The competition is open to all musicians, both italian and foreign.

Art. 2 The competition is divided into three sections:
Section A: compositions based upon or inspired by ethnic music from Sardinia: Stabat Mater
Section B: original free compositions
Section C: music for images: original compositions for a film soundtrack
The music compositions in section A will have to be based on the Stabat Mater according to the sung version by Cuncordu of Castelsardo. Such version can be downloaded from this website clicking here.
The filmed sequence in section C, to which candidates need to add a sound-track, was specifically created for the competition and is made of cinematographic sequences based on Sardinian traditional feasts. The sequence is by film company Bencast.

Art. 3 All sections must obligatorily include a part dedicated to the improvisation of one or more soloist instruments chosen amongst those forming the orchestra.

Art. 4 The pieces of the three sections must be composed for the following formation:
Flute, 1st AltoSax (optional clarinet), 2nd Alto Sax, 1st Tenor Sax, 2nd Tenor Sax (optional clarinet), Baritone Sax
1st Trumpet, 2nd Trumpet, 3rd Trumpet, 4th Trumpet
1st French Horn, 2nd French Horn
1st Trombone, 2nd Trombone, 3rd Bass Trombone
Piano
Guitar
Double Bass (optional Electric Bass with 6 strings)
Drums
Pieces written for a different formation will not be taken into consideration.

Art. 5 It is permitted to participate, always with one music piece only, in one or more sections. The winners of the past editions are excluded from those sections for which they had received an award. The compositions should not be longer than ten minutes.

Art. 6 The scores (including all the single parts of each single instrument, written clearly and in accordance with the score as far as the dynamic signs and the indications of tempo go, which if not respected can lead to the exclusion from the competition) should indicate the section in which one intends to take part, be signed by the candidate and sent in triple copy (both score and single parts) by registered return post to:

Segreteria del concorso "Scrivere in jazz"
c/o Associazione Blue Note Orchestra
Corso Margherita di Savoia, 4 –
I- 07100 Sassari (Italy)
Italy

by and not later than 15 June 2004. Along with the application for participation, the following personal data must be included: name, date and place of birth, residence, address, telephone number and a declaration of acceptance of competition rules, together with the receipt of payment of the entry fee. The scores and the single parts will not be returned. Please, also include audio material (inc. midi format).

Art. 7 The selecting commission, formed by some of the most authoritative italian and foreign jazz-musicians, will admit six to nine pieces to the final phase of the competition.

Art. 8 The finalist compositions will be played by the Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna during the closing nights of the competition, to be held in in September 2004 in Sassari.

Art. 9 During the closing nights of the competition a jury, composed by the selecting commission and by other renowned representatives of the European music scene, will announce the winning music piece of each section; the winning prizes in money are:
section A: € 1500 (Euro) gross
section B: € 1500 (Euro) gross
section C: € 1500 (Euro) gross
Each of the finalists present at the closing nights of the competition will receive a reimbursement of their travel expenses up to a maximum of € 500 (Euro) (according to the place they have come from). The finalists should contact the organisation to agree upon the means of travelling. The jury, whose judgement is unquestionable, reserves itself the right to point out other deserving music pieces or not to hand out one or more of the money prizes.

Art. 10 The winning compositions could be included in the musical programmes or compact discs produced by the Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna. The event may also be filmed either in part or entirely for radio or television recordings with promotional intentions; the candidates, however, cannot claim any rights apart from those provided by the law on author’s rights.

For further information about the Competition and the Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna please contact:

Segreteria del concorso "Scrivere in jazz"
c/o Associazione Blue Note Orchestra
Corso Margherita di Savoia, 4 –
I- 07100 Sassari (Italy)
Italy
Tel / Fax +39 079 239 465
e-mail: scrivereinjazz@abno.com
Website: http://www.abno.com

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