Pietro Mascagni International Competition
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COMPETITION

Accademia dei Concordi
founded in 1560 by Duke of Ferrara Alphonse II of Este

with
the sponsorship of
the Presidency of the Council of Ministers,
the Lazio Region, the Province of Rome,
the Tourism Board of the Province of Roma and the Municipality of Rome

announces the

1st EDITION OF THE PIETRO MASCAGNI
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
FOR OPERA SINGERS
CITY OF ROME PRIZE
16 - 19 May 2011

The competition will be held in Rome at the Accademia di Romania
(Valle Giulia Piazza José de San Martin, from 16 to 19 May 2011).

1) Participation is open to male and female singers of any nationality who are under 37 years of age at the time of their application.
2) Participants must present their applications no later than 15 May 2011 via e-mail, to the following email address: info[at]accademiaconcordi.it
3) Participants must present five pieces of their choice from the traditional opera repertoire.
4) All Arias must be performed by memory, complete with recitatives and cabalettas, where applicable.
5) All pieces presented must be sung in the original key and language.
6) Participants will be accompanied on the piano by pianists provided by the competition organizers. Participants may also choose to be accompanied by a pianist of their own choice, and must assume all related expenses and responsibilities.
7) Participants must use their own sheet music.
8) In the Preliminary phase, participants must perform two arias among those in their presented programme, to be selected by the candidate.
9) All participants who have been deemed suitable according to the indisputable judgment of the commission will advance to the Semifinals. In the Semifinal phase, participants will be asked to perform one or more arias, chosen by the Judging Commission, among those in the candidate's presented programme.
10) During the Preliminary phase and Semifinals, the Judging Commission may, at its discretion, interrupt the candidate's performance at any moment, ask to hear from participants more than once and/or hear only one of the arias included in the programme.
11) The Preliminary and Semifinal phases will be closed door events. The Finals will be held in a concert open to the public, in the manner described in point 12, below.
12) All participants deemed suitable by the indisputable judgment of the Commission shall be admitted to the Finals. The Finals will be held in a public concert on 14 May 2011 at Teatro Accademia di Romania at 6pm. All participants admitted to this phase of the competition must perform an aria selected by the Judging Commission; the commission will announce the names of the winners at the end of the performance.
13) Winners will be awarded the following prizes:
1st Prize € 2,000.00
2nd Prize € 1,000.00
3rd Prize € 500.00
The "Pietro Mascagni" Special Prize of € 1,000.00 will be awarded for the best execution of an aria from the works of Mascagni.
Special prize of Euro 1.000,00 for the young singers who have not exceeded 27 years of age at the time of registration.
14) The commission may, at its discretion, call a tie (awarding the prize to two worthy candidates) or not assign any prize at all should none of the participants be deemed to meet the necessary artistic requirements.
15) The winners may be called to perform in operas and concerts organized by the Accademia dei Concordi in Rome in collaboration with Arts & Culture of Seoul.
16) The Judging Commission shall be comprised of five members, exponents from the world of international music. The president of the commission shall be Maestro Stefano Trasimeni (Principal Director of the Seoul Philharmonic). www.stefanotrasimeni.it. The definitive composition of the commission will be rendered public before the competition begins.
17) At the beginning of the competition, each member of the Judging Commission will provide a declaration stating the absence of any relationship of kinship with any of the participants.
Members of the Judging Commission who have or have had a public or private teaching relationship with any of the participants in the two years preceding the competition will abstain from the vote. This abstention will be recorded in the final competition report.
18) The president of the Judging Commission, may, at any time, call new members to the Jury should overwhelming circumstances prevent the established members from attending.
19) The decisions of the Judging Commission are indisputable and final.
20) Opinions expressed by the Judging Commission during the Preliminary phases will be limited to "admission" or "non-admission" to the next phase.
21) At the end of each Preliminary phase, the Judging Commission will report its decisions. All participants who have been "admitted" will participate in the Semifinal.
22) Participants who receive a score of no less than 80/100 in the Semifinal phase will be admitted to the Finals.
23) All participants admitted to the Finals will receive a Diploma of Merit from the Accademia, signed by the Judging Commission.
24) During the Final phase of the competition (as in the Semifinals), the opinions of the Judging Commission shall be expressed in a mathematical score, the result of which, shall be the average of the votes given by the individual jury members, excluding the highest and lowest scores.
25) The Final Phase will be open to the public.
26) The competition will be held in Rome at the Accademia di Romania, according to the following schedule:
16 May - Preliminary phase
17 May - Preliminary phase
18 May - Semifinals
19 May - Finals
27) All winners of analogous international competitions may be addmitted directly to the Semifinals. To this end, these candidates must attach their previous titles won to the application, which will be evaluated on 14 May by the Judging Commission before the competition. All participants who have been accepted directly to the Semifinal phase are responsible for verifying the date and order of their auditions on the website, www.accademiaconcordi.it.
28) The performance order in the Preliminary phase will be established by drawing lots on 15 May, and will be maintained for the remainder of the Preliminary phase. Participants are responsible for visiting the website, www.accademiaconcordi.it to receive information about the date and order of their audition. Please note that it is the responsibility of the participant, after having read the date and order of the elimination phase, to arrive at the audition without reminder from competition organizers; participants must bring valid identification document and the sheet music of the chosen pieces.
29) Performance order for the Semifinals and Finals will be established by the Judging Commission.
30) Winners are obliged, under pain of revocation of their prize, to participate in the gala concert and the award ceremony. The organization reserves the right to film, record and broadcast via radio and television the various phases of the competition and participants may request no royalties nor place any restrictions.
31) The awards ceremony will be held in a concert on Saturday 19 May 2011 at 6pm, at the Accademia di Romania.
32) Participants shall not be reimbursed for expenses or travel costs.
33) All prizes are subject to legal taxes. Prizes will be paid directly at the awards ceremony.
34) Payment of the registration fee of €120.00 (One hundred and twenty/00), of which € 20.00 is for processing fees and €100.00 constitutes the registration fee, must be received by the competition administration office, even telematically, by 15 May 2011. In addition to a copy of a document attesting to birthdate, nationality and residence, the participant must also include the programme, copies of sheet music, an artistic-professional Curriculum Vitae in Italian or English and two photos (at least one of which in artistic pose) with the application. Moreover, participants, with respect to point 17 of this announcement, must declare in the application that they meet the conditions described therein. Material accompanying the application will not be returned.
35) Incomplete applications or those without proof of payment of the registration fee will not be taken into consideration.
36) Registration in the competition means that the participant fully accepts the points contained in this announcement, and concedes authorization of the use of biographic data, according to legislative decree n. 196 of 30/06/2003 as well as unqualified release for the use of audio-visual and documentary footage taken during the various phases of the competition to the Accademia dei Concordi of Rome. In accordance with the above-mentioned legislative decree, the data collected will be used by the Accademia, in electronic and paper form, for the sole purpose of the management of the competition.
37) Participants admitted to the competition who do not appear on the day of the convocation are not entitled to reimbursement of the registration fee.
38) Processing fees are absolutely non-refundable.
39) If, for force majeure, the Competition should not take place, all enrollments shall be annulled and all fees reimbursed.
40) Participation in the competition is equal to tacit acceptance of these regulations. To contest the content of these regulations, the only legally valid version is in the Italian language original. The Tribunal of Rome has exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes related to this competition announcement.
41) Participants must verify the day and time of their examination on the Accademia website: www.accademiaconcordi.it
42) All finalists and prize winners are obliged to insert the acknowledgements from their participation in the Pietro Mascagni International Competition in their artistic Curriculum Vitae.
43) At the conclusion of the competition, all the various phases will be published on the Accademia's website.

Secretariat (Enrollment and information)
Accademia dei Concordi Telefax +39.06.39754798
E-mail: info[at]accademiaconcordi.it
Website: www.accademiaconcordi.it

Applications must be mailed to:
Accademia dei Concordi 1st Edition of the
Pietro Mascagni International Competition
Via G. Barzellotti, 4 00136 Rome (Italy)

President of the Accademia dei Concordi Prof. Vincenzo Canali
President of the Jury M°. Stefano Trasimeni
Members of Jury:
Doris Andrews (Swiss)
Jeon Dongsu (Korea)
Pia-Marie Nillson (Svezia)
Giovanni Montanari (Italy)