FAVORITE FESTIVALS

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Efrem Briskin,  Artistic Director
 Piero Gaddi,  Administrative Director
Massimiliano Mainolfi,  Program Director

The International Academy of Music in cooperation with the Music School of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana and with the City of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana will conduct its 2022 Season in this medieval town surrounded by the magnificent hills of the Alpi Apuane in the picturesque Tuscany region of Italy.

Our intensive 11 day schedule focuses on close student-faculty collaboration through individual study and chamber music, and will take place from June 27 - July 8, 2022.

Students will have ample opportunity to perform solo and chamber music works in some of Tuscany's beautiful medieval stone castles and churches.

Our program includes individual lessons, master classes, and chamber music coachings.

David Krieger,  Executive Director

Efrem Briskin,  Artistic Director

Adam Kent,  Director of Cultural Outreach                                 

Michael Briskin,  Registrar

Ricardo Porres Ortega,  Coordinator in BurgosBeni Krieger,  Counselor

Burgos International Music Festival, in collaboration with the City of Burgos and representatives of Summit Music Festival, is launching its twelfth season in Spain between the dates of July 8 - July 19, 2022.  

The program is geared for intermediate and advanced students in piano, strings and winds, who seek the highest level of professional training in individual and ensemble performance. Students will have ample opportunity to perform their solo work as well as chamber music.

2023 Southwestern Youth Music Festival
CSULB Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
July 15–16 and July 22–24, 2023

PLEASE NOTE: All string categories will be held on July 22–24.
The Young Violinist/Violist, Young Cellist, Young Pianist, and Young Wind Musician will be held on July 15.

SYMF February 2023 Newsletter
Announcing 2023 Summer Festival & Membership Dues

We were excited to return to in-person auditions last summer at the Bob Cole Conservatory on the campus of California State University, Long Beach.

Health regulations and concerns had forced us to modify our normal audition procedures and that gave us a chance to experiment with new ways of running a competition. We believe that we streamlined our procedures, including notification of winners, trophy pickup and managing audition room crowding. The addition of using the Whova app for answering questions and getting information to teachers and entrants was an especially useful tool and we hope to provide the same service in 2023.

As we gear up for this summer’s competition, SYMF is tentatively planning on the following:

• The Young Musicians categories will be again be limited to the Baroque and early Classical periods (through Beethoven). The Woodwind categories will be included this year.
• Auditions will be open to the public but may be limited in audience size.
• First place winners will be invited to perform at a Winners Recital on the same day of the category’s audition.
• There will be no warm up rooms.
• We are planning a piano masterclass before the summer Festival! Details to be announced soon.

SYMF has updated our Rules and Regulations booklet, Piano Qualified Solo Repertoire booklet, and the Violin Qualified Solo Repertoire list; they can be found at this link: https://symf.org/summer-festival/rules-regulations/

We look forward to seeing you and your students this summer!

Regards,
Way Wong
Executive Director
Southwestern Youth Music Festival
P.O. Box 10342
Torrance, CA 90505
info@symf.org
www.symf.org

SYMF 2023 Summer Festival

The 61st Annual Southwestern Youth Music Festival will be at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music on the campus of California State University Long Beach (CSULB) over two weekends:

• July 15 (SAT)
• July 16 (SUN)
• July 22 (SAT)
• July 23 (SUN)
• July 24 (MON)

SYMF 2023 Member Dues: $80

• All fees must be paid ONLINE and are NON-REFUNDABLE.
• This form is for ALL Members (Current, Re-Instating, and New)
  • Current Members are teachers who paid SYMF Dues in 2022.

Deadline for submitting 2023 Member Dues

• May 1, 2023 (11:59 PM PT)
  • After May 1, 2023, Member Dues: $100 (includes $20 late fee)

SYMF Materials

Current SYMF Materials (Rules & Regulations and Repertoire Lists) are available at: https://symf.org/summer-festival/rules-regulations/

Dates & Deadlines

• May 1: Last day for TEACHERS to pay SYMF Member Dues for 2023
  • without a $20 Late Fee
• May 15: Last day for TEACHERS to pay SYMF Member Dues for 2023
  • with a $20 Late Fee
• May 15: Last day for TEACHERS to enter students for the 2023 Festival (teachers must use the online Student Entry Form)
  • without the $10 late fee PER ENTRY
• May 22: Last day for TEACHERS to enter students for the 2023 Festival (teachers must use the online Student Entry Form)
  • with the $10 late fee PER ENTRY
    • REMINDER: Students entered between May 16 and May 22 will incur a late fee of $10 PER ENTRY
    • The absolute last day to enter students is May 22
• May 23: Last day for PARENTS/STUDENTS to submit online Entry Fees Payment and Consent Waivers

Entry Fees

• Entry Fees for all Solo Categories: $60
• Entry Fees for all Ensemble Categories: $30 per performer
• Entry Fees for all Young Musicians Categories: $80

SYMF Trophies

1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-Place Winners will receive an SYMF trophy with an engraved personalized nameplate.

Questions?

Please e-mail: membership@symf.org

Dear Satori Community,

The Satori Summer Music Festival 2023 registration is now Open. The registration deadline is May 23th 2023 23:59 pm.
The registration site is at https://eventregistration.satoricm.net/
Please follow the instructions found on the website to navigate to the category that you wish to participate in.

We will be hosting this event at Azusa Pacific University.
Please note: This event will take place over four days rather than two.
Piano:
Day 1 (Saturday July 8th, 2023) will be all Open and Prodigy categories of Piano.
Day 2 (Sunday July 9th, 2023) will be all Qualified categories and Grand Prize Contest of Piano.
Strings:
Day 3 (Saturday July 15th, 2023) will be all Open and Prodigy categories of Strings.
Day 4 (Sunday July 16th, 2023) will be all Qualified categories and Grand Prize Contest of Strings.
The competition schedule will be posted on our website three weeks after registration closes.
Please make sure to check our event page for detailed instruction.
String:  http://event.satoricm.net/satori-strings-contest/
Piano: http://event.satoricm.net/satori-young-pianist-contest/
We are also preparing a booklet of instruction right now, and will post on our site once it ready.   

Grand Competition and Scholarship:
We have confirmed the majority of scholarships for this year’s competition.   We also add a new “Satori C.M. Sponsor Scholarship”.  This year, AMAC violin center will give out three sponsor scholarship for $100 each. The winner will be chosen by AMAC violin center directly.
Details about the sponsor scholarship and other Satori CM awards can be found at: http://www.satoricm.net/content/award-scholarship  

Important Note:
Some people reported not being able to receive registration confirmations from us during last year’s event. That is due to the spam preventing filter which some of the email service implemented, such as Gmail and Yahoo. We have updated our email services and improved the deliverability of our email system. But, we still can’t guarantee that 100% of emails will be on time. (Yahoo can delay the email up to 72 hours, and Gmail may be even longer). If you have experienced such issue last year, you can add info@satoricm.net and eventregistration@satoricm.net to your email contact list.  Doing so may help avoid the problem of emails being blocked or delayed by your email service. You can also contact us at  satoristrings@live.com.  Our staff will forward you the confirmation or any other information accordingly.

Good luck to all our performers!
Sincerely,

Satori C. M.
Tel: (626) 446-4638; Fax: (626) 446-0698
Email: satoristrings@live.com
Web site: event.satoricm.net

Pre-Category: born in 2012 or younger   

Programme of choice (max. duration 5 minutes) / Pre-Category is not competitive

1st Category: born in 2011 or younger

Programme (max. duration 10 minutes):

1. Two pieces of contrasting character with piano (it may be two movements of a single sonata/concerto)
2. A piece for cello solo (it may be an etude)

At least one piece in every category should be from the country of the competitor's education

2nd Category: born in 2009 or younger

Programme (max. duration 15 minutes):

1. A movement of concerto/sonata with piano (two contrasting movements if a pre-classical sonata)
2. A piece for cello solo (it may be an etude or a capriccio)
3. A short piece of choice

At least one piece in every category should be from the country of the competitor's education

3rd Category: born in 2007 or younger

Programme (max. duration 20 minutes):

1. A movement of concerto/sonata with piano (two contrasting movements if a pre-classical sonata)
2. A piece for cello solo (it may be an etude or a capriccio)
3. A slow piece of choice
4. A virtuoso piece of choice

At least one piece in every category should be from the country of the competitor's education

4th Category: born in 2005 or younger

Programme (max. duration 25 minutes):

1. A movement of concerto/sonata with piano (two contrasting movements if a pre-classical sonata)
2. A piece for cello solo (it may be an etude or a capriccio)
3. A slow piece of choice
4. A virtuoso piece of choice

At least one piece in every category should be from the country of the competitor's education

5th Category: born in 2003 or younger

Programme (max. duration 30 minutes):

1. A movement of concerto/sonata with piano (two contrasting movements if a pre-classical sonata)
2. An etude/capriccio of an appropriate level
3. A movement of a suite for cello solo by J. S. Bach
4. A slow piece of choice
5. A virtuoso piece of choice

At least one piece in every category should be from the country of the competitor's education

6th Category: born in 2001 or younger

Programme (max. duration 50 minutes for both rounds):

1st Elimination Round:

1. An etude or a capriccio
2. A slow piece of choice
3. A movement of concerto (from J. Haydn forward)

2nd Round - Finals:

1. A movement of a suite for cello solo by J. S. Bach
2. A complete sonata for cello and piano (from L. van Beethoven forward)
3. A virtuoso piece of choice

At least one piece in every category should be from the country of the competitor's education.

ROTARY MUSIC COMPETITION IS COMING UP FOR HIGH SCHOOL AGE STUDENTS

Dear music teachers, musical theater teachers and directors, music lovers, and previous contestants:

Temecula Sunrise Rotary has scheduled its 24th annual Music Competition for Tuesday night, February 13, 2024, at 6:30 pm, again at Grace Presbyterian Church in Temecula.  Attached is a letter about the competition, plus an application for participation.  Please share the application and information with all your students, or if you are not a teacher, please feel free to forward this to anyone else you think might be interested.  This is for high school age music students.

The dates have also been decided for the finals at the University of Redlands.  The dates are listed in the attached information.    

If the date of Tuesday, February 13, does not work for your contestants, other area Rotary clubs are also having competitions: Temecula noon, Murrieta, Wildomar, and Lake Elsinore, and possibly several others.  I do not yet have their dates, 

but I can guide you the right way.

It is important to make the contestants aware of the dates of the finals and of the District event for winning performances.  They have to be able to commit to those dates, as every Rotary club pays a $75 entry fee for each contestant.    The performances for the three grand prize winners will be at the Rotary District Paul Harris Society and Polio Plus dinner at the Victoria Country Club in Riverside on March 16, 2024.     

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Marti Treckman, 

Temecula Sunrise Rotary and 

Rotary District 5330 Music Competition Chair

951-698-6116

We believe in continuing our work by investing in the next generation of musicians. Towards this aim, every year the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus hosts its Young Artists Competition. Founded by Clifford Graves in 1960, the competition is one of the oldest of its kind and open to singers, ages 18-30, and instrumentalists, ages 14 to 26, from San Diego County and Baja California. The competition provides these talented young artists an opportunity to earn prestige, perform as soloists with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, serve as role models to their peers, and earn $8000 in cash prizes. Many Young Artists Competition winners go on to join our ensemble and to prestigious professional careers in music.

For over 35 years, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition has attracted some of the world’s finest young string players to San Francisco each June to compete for cash and performance prizes totaling over $30,000. The Klein Competition has achieved international recognition as one of the most prestigious classical music competitions, recognized for the high caliber of the contestants, its unique, nurturing environment, and its commitment to the commissioning of new works.

Past Klein prize winners comprise a who’s who of the classical music artistic community. They include notable soloists and educators Alyssa Park (1989), Jennifer Koh (1993), Vadim Gluzman (1993), Alban Gerhardt (1989), Caroline Campbell (2002), David Requiro (2006), Tessa Lark (2008) and Nikki Chooi (2009); and principal chairs in many of the finest U.S. orchestras, including the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony.

The Schoenfeld International String Competition will be held from 5 to 18 September 2023 in Harbin, China.

The Schoenfeld International String Competition was founded in 2013 in honour of the violinist Alice Schoenfeld and the cellist Eleonore Schoenfeld, both legendary performers and pedagogues. The competition is held biennially in Harbin since 2014 and became a member of World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) in 2017. The Schoenfeld aims to build a multifaceted platform for gifted violinists, cellists, and chamber music performers all over world.

VOCE

Voice | Orchestral Instruments

 Chamber Ensembles 

• POLICIES & PROCEDURES FOR VOCE TEACHERS 2022-2023
• VIDEO RECORDING SUBMISSION POLICIES 
• 2023 VOCE Regionals Coversheet 
• A Parent’s Guide to the VOCE Regionals Payment Process 2022-2023 

VOCE is a prestigious competition for vocalists, strings, winds/brass, and chamber music at the Regional and State levels. In 1971, cellist Gretchen Kuehny Geber and pianist Eleonor Dalton of MTAC’s San Fernando West Valley Branch created VOCE as a means of providing solo and chamber ensemble opportunities for students. The group was named for Vocalists, Orchestral Instrumentalists, and Chamber Ensembles.

Goodlin Scholarship Competition is open to pianists, organists, and instrumentalists who reside in San Diego County. 

The purpose of our competition is to honor outstanding San Diego County music students.

AUDITIONS

1. Preliminary Round: Video Audition

• Preliminary video submission deadline: Monday, May 1, 2023 at 11:00 PM
• Finalists notification date: Saturday, May 13, 2023

2. Finals Round: Live In-person Audition

Chair: Yuko Maruyama