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As the competition is online, participants are required to perform within their relevant age group and video-record their performance.
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Please note that professional musicians are excluded from this competition.
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REPERTOIRE
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Young musicians category up to 8 years old - 8 minutes
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Young musicians category 9-10 up to 8 minutes
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Junior category 11-12 up to 10 minutes
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Junior category 13-14 years old up to 12 minutes
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Intermediate category 15-16 up to 15 minutes​
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Intermediate category 17-18 up to 15 minutes
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Adults category 18+ up to 20 minutes
All the candidates have a choice of a free program performed from memory.
Each contestant can participate with one solo performance per instrument.
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PERFORMANCE CLARIFICATIONS
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Professional musicians are excluded from this competition.
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Accompanying musical instruments are ALLOWED and must also be a LIVE performance. Play-back performance and play-back music are not allowed and if noticed, the respective participant will be DISQUALIFIED.
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The video recording should be in a good quality format and the performance should be LIVE during the recording (editing is not allowed in the video). Studio recordings, and recorded performances (i.e. TV shows) are not allowed.
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The performance will have to be recorded in a video format as the jury will want to hear and see the participants’ performance.
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The video recording should be within the last 6 months (older video recordings will be disqualified).
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The editing during the performance is NOT ALLOWED and if noticed the video will be disqualified.
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Applicable to all participants: any performance with offensive or violent expressions will not be allowed and will be immediately DISQUALIFIED from the competition.
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Please note that the Judges’ comments will not be visible.
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We wish to give all participants equal opportunities, therefore we opt for the simplest recording without any sort of editing.
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TIPS FOR VIDEO RECORDING
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1. Video has to be recorded in HORIZONTAL camera mode as follows:
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2. Any Video device is accepted.


