Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti was held for the first time in 1994. The event discovers and promotes the values of the new generation of
classical music
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, supports young artists in building a successful career and provides a platform for multicultural dialogue that encourages performance.
The idea of establishing this competition started from the desire of a musician to provide in a former communist country,
Romania
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and to create a chance for young artists to participate in an international competition in their country and to benefit from the same conditions as anywhere in the world and to give them a chance to promote cooperation with international and European musical institutions .
The event is named after Romanian pianist
Dinu Lipatti
Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti (; 2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy. He comp ...
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“I like the idea of Jeunesses Musicals because it makes music accessible to children, allowing young people of modest origins to enter into a realm that otherwise wouldn’t really be open to them.”
Dinu Lipatti, Geneve, 1950.
History
Held annually since 1994, the contest has included different disciplines – piano, violin, flute, clarinet, composition, horn, trumpet, singing.
In 2011, "Jeunesses Musicales International Competition Bucharest" became "Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti", in honor of Lipatti, who supported and encouraged young musicians.
Alongside the competition, the event includes workshops and master classes led by artists and music teachers from European academies.
Participants
The competition has three age categories, encouraging young musicians from the earliest ages to a master competition category: 10–14 years, 14–18 years, 18–30 years.
Usually, this competition brings together around 100 musicians from 30–40 countries, as a platform for communication and cultural dialogue.
Jury
Jury is formed by recognized artists and professors appreciated in the field with experience in identifying new talent, reconfirmation of their decisions being the laureates professional path.
* Gabriel Croitoru
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– France
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Peter Stoyanov
* Marin Cazacu
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Valentin Gheorghiu
Valentin Gheorghiu (; born 21 March 1928) is a Romanian classical pianist and composer.
Biography
Gheorghiu was born in Galaţi, Romania in 1928. He was first a pupil of Constanța Erbiceanu at the Bucharest Academy of Music and then of Lazare ...
* Stefan Gheorghiu
* Eugenia Moldoveanu
* Alexandru Tomescu
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Violeta Dinescu
Violeta Dinescu (born 13 July 1953, in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982.
Romania
Violeta Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory ''Ciprian Porumbescu'' in Bucharest, c ...
*
Doina Rotaru
Doina Rotaru (born 14 September 1951, Bucharest) is a Romanian composer best known for orchestral and chamber works.
Biography
Marilena Doinița Rotaru was born in Bucharest and studied with Tiberiu Olah Tiberiu Olah or Tibor Oláh (2 January 19 ...
* Aurelian Octav Popa
Progress
The competition takes place in areas with historical and cultural tradition:
Athenaeum
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Books and periodicals
* ''Athenaeum'' (German magazine), a journal of German Romanticism, established 1798
* ''Athenaeum'' (British magazine), a weekly London literary magazine 1828–1921
* ''The Athenaeum'' (Acadia U ...
, Royal Palace – Hall Auditorium, Arcub – Center for Cultural Projects of Bucharest,
Central University Library
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
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, the Philharmonic Sibiu –
Thalia Hall
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Laureates
1994 – REMUS Azoitei
Is a famous violinist of sec. XXIII that currently is a violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music London, known in Romanian audience for charitable and anniversary concerts given together with the Royal Household and through its evolution along the prestigious Nigel Kennedy, the Palace Hall Bucharest.
1995 – Alexandru Tomescu
He is the winner of Stradivarius violin. He played with Jeunesses Musical Youth Orchestra and as a soloist in 1997 and 1998 tournaments in the USA and Japan. He was also present at the most famous concert halls in Europe, such as: Tonhalle Zurich, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Concert House, Berlin, Musikverein, Vienna.
1996
Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti was the first competition in Romania which was recognized by the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth.
1999
Simina Croitoru was born into a family of musicians and since childhood has shown extraordinary talent, winning the first "Jeunesses Musicales" Bucharest prize.
2000
Trumpet
Piano
Clarinet
2001
Violin
Flute
2002
Piano
Clarinet
2003
Violin
Flute
2004
Piano
Clarinet
2005
Violin
Flute
Composition
2006
Piano
Composition
Clarinet
2007
Violin
2008
Composition
Flute
Clarinet
2009
Violin
2010
Piano
2011
Flute
2012
Violin
2013
Piano
2014
Flute
2015
Violin winners will be chosen from the 107 competitors representing 40 countries: Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, South Korea, Denmark, Egypt, Switzerland, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, UK, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, USA, Sweden, Taiwan – China, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, Venezuela .
2016
2016 edition will be held from May 14 to 21 with the reference instrument-piano.
See also
Official ISME News Blog
References
External links
{{official website, http://jmevents.ro/events/jeunesses-international-music-competition-dinu-lipatti
Music competitions in Romania
ro:EUROPAfest#Jeunesses International Music Competition