10TH INTERNATIONAL VIOLA - CELLO COMPETITION “VILLA DE LLANES” 2008
Purpose
The Cultural Section of the Llanes City calls for the 10th International Viola - Cello Competition "Villa de Llanes" in two different categories:
Category A: up to 27 years old.
Category B: up to 16 years old.
In addition, the competition has two specialties:
1) Violin
2) Viola - Cello
Every year we will run one speciality, this year 2008 corresponds to Viola Cello.
This Competition will be held in Llanes, at the Main Hall of the High School, C/ Celso Amieva s/n, from 22 to 24 August.
Category B:
Day 22, at 4 p.m., presentation and beginning of first trial.
Day 23 at 4 p.m., final.
Category A:
Day 23 at 10 a.m., presentation and beginning of first trial.
Day 24 at 10 a.m., final.
Day 24 at 7 p.m., concert and awards presentation.
The rules of the Competition are the same for both categories, except section 2 and works from different trials.
Competition Rules
1º)The Competition is addressed to every young violists and violoncellists, from all nationality and who meet with the rules of the competition.2º) Age limit up to January 1st 2008: Category A, 27 years old and Category B, 16 years old.
3º) The Competition consists of: First Preliminary Trial and Final Trial.
4º) The candidate will submit, at the time of his/her performance, a copy of the score of every work he/she will be playing.
5º) According to the raffle performed by the Organisation Commission of the Competition, the participants will start from letter H, following an ascendant order.
6º)Competitors who took part in previous editions are allowed to participate again, excluding those who were awarded the 1st prize.
REGISTRATION
The registration form, duly filled in and signed, will be enclosed, as well as:
a) Copy of the applicant’s Identity Card or Passport.
b) Brief "curriculum vitae"
c) Two recent pictures (passport type) with the name of the applicant on the back.
d) Bank receipt corresponding to registration fees of 60 € for category A and 40 € for category B. The registration fees will not be refunded in any case as well as the required documentation.
The payment, free of bank charges, will be made to:
Barclays Bank
C/C nº 0065 1213 80 0031000076
IBAN CODE: ES84 0065 1213 8000 3100 0076
BIC (Bank's international code): BARCESMM
C/ Nemesio Sobrino,11.
33500 Llanes. Asturias-Spain
Payable to: Concurso Nacional “Villa de Llanes”. Please detail category A or B and instrument played.
The registration application and the corresponding form will be sent, together with a receipt or copy of the bank payment before June 20 2008 to:
Asociación de Músicos de Asturias
C/ Monte Gamonal, 21-6º D
33012 Oviedo - Spain
Tfno. 985 08 46 90 y 985 25 62 87
Mobile phone: 696 80 17 60 y 650 98 47 98
Web: www.llanesmusica.com
e-mail: mateoluces@telecable.es
Applications received after deadline will not be accepted nor returned. In case the organization remarks the lack of any required document, the applicant will be contacted in order to submit it within a maximum delay of fifteen days. After this date, the application will not be accepted.
Participants duties
When been accepted to the Competition, the candidates will be immediately obliged to participate in the whole established trials at the dates and times foreseen for the Competition. The absence to any of the trials will eliminate the candidate.
Every candidate will bring the necessary instrument or instruments for the competition.
Every candidate will bring his/her accompanying pianist.
The organization will not be responsible in any case for the possible incidents occurred to the musicians or to the instruments during the Competition.
The organization will guarantee the candidates no payment for taking part in the Competition, irrespective of registration fees. Nevertheless, the candidate will pay the transportation expenses and any other during his/her stay, if required.
Jury
The Jury will be composed by the teachers taking part in the MUSIC INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF LLANES, which will be held at the same time. A member of the local government of LLanes will be the Jury’s secretary.
Once the Competition trials finished, the Jury will decide the prizes awards and may declare some of them void, if they consider it appropriate.
Nevertheless, the resolutions will be final and the Jury will be entitled to solve the questions which were not specifically foreseen in the rules.
The jury can block any execution.
Candidates must be informed that indications displayed on the notice board will be the only valid ones..
The audience will be allowed into every trial of the Competition. However, the Jury’s president could evacuate the hall in case of unusual and inconvenient signs of the audience, going on with the trial in private.
Every audio or video recording are forbidden.
Prizewinners Concerts
Only the Organization Committee will nominate the prizewinners taking part in the closing concert, if it is held. These prizewinners are obliged to take part in that concert. In case they do not do that, they would renounce to the prize awarded and couldnot try to cash any money. The Committee will also decide the pieces to be placed. These will be chosen among those presented to the Competition.
Prizewinners from previous "Villa de Llanes” Violin Viola and Violoncello Competitions
1st Competition (National) 1999:
Tatevik Khachatryan ..................................First prize Violin
Oriol Algueró Cama ...................................Second prize Violin
Luis Zorita González ..................................First prize Violoncello
Dmitri Atapine ........................................Second prize Violoncello
2nd Competition (National) :
Category A
Elena Mikhailova.......................................First prize Violin
María Sáiz San Emeterio .............................Second prize Violin
Dmitri Atapine ........................................Second prize Violoncello
Category B
Cristina Blanco Amavisca .............. Second prize Viola
Elisa González-Pola Lucio .............. Second prize Violoncello and special prize for best asturian participant.
Noia Suárez Ogando .....................Third prize Violoncello
Pelayo Tahoces González................Third prize Violoncello
3rd Competition (1st International) 2001:
Category A
Elena Mikhailova..................... First prize ex aequo Violin and special prize for the best interpretation of a Spanish work
Felipe Rodríguez García ............ First prize Violín ex aequo
Evgeny Osokin........................Second prize ex aequo Violoncello
Helena Poggio Lagares..............Second prize ex aequo Violoncello and special prize for the best interpretation of a Spanish work
Category B
Álvaro Ambrosio Montejo ...............First prize Violin
Isabel Cachón Suárez ................... Second prize violin and special prize for the best interpretation of a Spanish work
Andrea Duca ..............................Third prize Violín
Estíbaliz Ponce Miñaur ..................Second prize Violoncello
4th Competition (3rd National) 2002:
Category A
José Luis Obregón Fernández .................... Third prize Violoncello
Category B
Irene Cecilia Cortezón Baquero.................... Second prize Violin
Nicolai Managadze ................................. Third prize Violín
5th Competition (International Year) 2003:
Category A
Tatevik Khachatryan ...............First prize ex aequo Violin
Raul García Marian..................First prize ex aequo Violin
Dmitri Atapine.......................FFirst prize Violoncello and special prize - concert with the OSPA.
Category B
Emil Lioutfaliev ..............................................First prize Violin
María Díaz-Caneja Angulo ..................................Second prize Violín
6th Competition (International Year) 2004:
Category A
Alma Olite Gorraiz ............ Third prize ex aequo Violín
Joan Alonso Ferrer ............ Third prize ex aequo Violín
Yumi Onda ..................... Prize to the best interpreter of Spanish music
Razvan Gabriel Suma ......... Second prize ex aequo Violoncello
Javier Albarés Alberca ........ Second prize ex aequo Violoncello
Josep Trescoli Sanz ........... Prize to the best interpreter of Spanish music
Category B
Miguel Colom Cuesta .........................First prize Violín, Prize to the best interpreter of Spanish music and special prize CajAsturMihai Andrei Tanasescu ..................... Third prize Violin
Aglaya González González ................... Second prize Viola and special prize CajAstur
Beatriz Blanco Barriga ....................... Third prize ex aequo Violoncello
Daniel Claret Mora ........................... Third prize ex aequo Violoncello
7th Competition (National Year) 2005:
Category A / Category A
Emil Lyutfaliev ................................................. Second prize Violín
Pablo Allende Aguilera ......... Prize to the best interpreter of Spanish music
Joaquín Riquelme García ......................................... First price Viola
Blanca Coines Escriche ................................... Second prize Violoncello
Georgina Sánchez Torres .................................. Third prize Violoncello
Category B / Category B
Pedro Rodríguez Rodríguez ........................................ Second prize Violín
Isabel Villanueva Sáenz de Pipó .................... Third prize Viola ex aequo
Andrea Paula Casarrubios García ............ Third prize ex aequo
Violoncello
8th Competition (International Year) 2006:
Modalidad A / Category A
Isabel Jiménez Montes ........................................... First prize violin
Roberto González Monjas ..................................... Second prize violin
Mirka Scepanovic ............. Prize to the best interpreter sof Spanish music
Julio Cesar López Villanueva .................................... First prize viola
Wen Xiao Zheng .................................... Second prize ex aequo viola
Laia Puig Torné ............................. Second prize ex aequo violoncello
Modalidad B / Category B
David Castro-Balbi ................................................ First prize violin
Óscar Piñeiro Mesas ............................................. Third prize violin
Daniel Chirilov ..................Prize to the best interpreter sof Spanish music
Benjamín Beck ..................................................... First prize viola
Alexandre Castro-Balbi .................................. Second price violoncello
Iván Siso Calvo ............................................. Third price violoncello
IX Concurso Internacional de Violín 2007: / 9th Competition
Modalidad A / Category A
Mª Cristina Grifo Serrano ............................... Second prize ex aequo Álvaro Ambrosio Montejo............................... Second prize ex aequo Matia Gotman............................................. Third prize ex aequo
José Francisco Montón López ............................ Third prize ex aequo
Mª Cristina Grifo Serrano.................... Prize to the best interpreter of Spanish music
Modalidad B / Category B
Miguel Ángel Fernández Sonnak .......................... First prize ex aequo Javier López Torrejón ..................................... First prize ex aequo María del Mar Vargas Amezcua ............................ Second prize
PRIZES
(Category A)
First prize CAJASTUR Viola: 3.000 € and Diploma.
First prize CAJASTUR Cello: 3.000 € and Diploma.
Special prize: Concert with the Principality of Asturias Symphonic Orchestra. OSPA.
Second prize: 1.400 € and Diploma.
Third prize: 630 € and Diploma.
Prize to the best interpreter of Spanish music: 300 € and Diploma.
(Category B)
First prize Ayto. de Llanes Viola: 1.350 € and Diploma.
First prize Ayto. de Llanes Cello: 1.350 € and Diploma.
Special prize: Recitals at the Music Week of Cajastur, published and promoted by the Saving Bank and the “Prince of Asturias Foundation”.
Second prize: 700 € and Diploma.
Third prize: 400 € and Diploma.
Prize to the best interpreter of Spanish music: 200 € and Diploma.
The amount of the prizes is subjected to the tax regulations in force.
Information for participants:
If any of the contestants wishes to contact the pianist teachers of the Course to accompany them, please contact the following telephone numbers:
AIDA KVERNADZE: (00 34) 619 57 07 72
ANÍBAL BAÑADOS: (00 34) 699 90 50 07
Accommodation information:
Tourist Office: (00 34) 985400164
http://www.llanes.com
MAP AND LOCATION OF LLANES:
http://www.llanes.com/localizacion_mapas/mapa_nacional/index.php
HOW TO GET THERE:
BY CAR
road information can be found on: www.dgt.es
FROM MADRID
Via de la Plata dual carriageway: Madrid-Llanes 549 km.
VIA BURGOS, follow the itinerary
A-1 Madrid - Burgos. 237 km.
N-627 Burgos - Aguilar de Campoo. 72 km.
N-611 Aguilar de Campoo – Reinosa - Torrelavega. 75 km.
A-8 Torrelavega-Unquera. 42 km.
N-634 Unquera – Llanes 21 km.
Total distance Madrid – Llanes 447 km.
FROM CANTABRIA AIRPORT
A-8 Santander -Unquera. 67 km.
N-634 Unquera – Llanes 21 km.
Total distance Santander - Llanes 88 Km.
FROM ASTURIAS AIRPORT
N-634 Ranón – Avilés 17 Km.
A-8 Avilés – Gijón – Llanes 124 Km.
Total distance from airport to Llanes 141 Km.
BY BUS
ALSA, Information and reservations call: 902 422 242, or www.alsa.es
Main routes to Llanes are: Oviedo Santander Bilbao Irún Madrid
BY TRAIN
FEVE, Information: www.feve.es
Main routes to Llanes: Gijón - Oviedo Santander
Santander:......... 94 220 95 22
Gijón:................. 98 534 24 15
Oviedo:.............. 98 529 76 56
Estación de Llanes: 985 401 182
Other train route from Madrid to Oviedo with RENFE trains www.renfe.es
AIRPORT OF ASTURIAS
National and international flights.
Information and reservations call: 985 12 75 00, or www.aena.es
Distance from Airport to Llanes: 141 km.
AIRPORT OF SANTANDER (CANTABRIA)
Flights from Madrid and Barcelona.
Information and reservations call: 942 20 21 00
www.aena.es
Distance from Airport to Llanes: 88 km.
AIRPORT OF BILBAO
National and international flights.
Information and reservations call: 94 486 96 63
www.aena.es
Distance from Airport to Llanes: 196 km.
