2024

PRE-SELECTION VIDEO (length 15/20 min.)
1. One Chopin Etude from Op. 10 or Op. 25
2. One piece chosen from the following works: J. Brahms - Ballades Op. 10, Intermezzi Op. 117, Klavierstücke Op. 118
3. Free choice program

The contestants must send one or more links to video files previously uploaded privately on the digital video platforms Youtube or Vimeo.
The required pieces can be recorded in a single session or in different multiple sessions. They must be recent recordings with high audio quality, fixed filming angle, no editing, and with hands and face always visible.
The program recorded in the pre-selection video can be eventually included in the next competition stages.

2025

FIRST STAGE (max. length 25 min.)
1. One Etude chosen by the following composers: F. Liszt, C. Debussy, S. Rachmaninov, S. Prokofiev, A. Skrjabin, B. Bartòk or G. Ligeti
2. One Prélude by C. Debussy
3. Free choice program

SECOND STAGE (max. length 45 min.)
1. One L. van Beethoven Piano Sonata excluding Op. 13, Op. 14, Op. 27 no. 2, Op. 49, Op. 78, Op. 79, Op. 106
2. Free choice program
Competitors cannot include any works already performed in the First Stage

SEMIFINAL (max. length 60 min.)
1. One important work (complete Opus) by one of the following composers: F. Schubert, R. Schumann, J. Brahms (in the possible choice of J. Brahms Op. 35 only one book is accepted)
2. One work by M. Ravel or D. Shostakovich
3. Free choice program
Competitiors cannot include any works already performed in the First and Second Stages

The contestants who wish to compete for the Alessandro Casagrande Special Prize are invited to perform in any of the 3 stages at least 4 pieces chosen from the A. Casagrande work “I Segni dello Zodiaco” (1963) (download) published by Edizioni Curci or the Concert Etude “La Caccia” (1940) (download) published by Edizioni Carisch. 

FINAL WITH ORCHESTRA
The finalists will play a piano concerto chosen from the following:
L. van Beethoven
Concerto in C minor, Op. 37
Concerto in G major, Op. 58
R. Schumann
Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
F. Chopin
Concerto in E minor, Op. 11
Concerto in F minor, Op. 21
C. Saint-Saëns
Concerto in G minor, Op. 22

The Piano Concerto will be performed with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese