THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF ARTS WOODWIND E-COMPETITIONS
LIST OF UPCOMING WOODWIND COMPETITIONS
January - “Baroque Inventions”: music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.
(J.S. Bach, Jean-Baptiste Luly, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, and G.F. Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Tomaso Albinoni, Arthur Benjamin, Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Michel Blavet , Jean-Marie Leclair , Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Johann Joachim Quantz etc.)
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: January 15th; Prescreening: January 16th-21st; Final Round: January 23rd-25th; Results: January 26th
February - “Solitude”: pieces composed for SOLO woodwind instruments or classical arrangements for solo instrument of any musical era.
(Robert Aitken, Malcolm Arnold, Kees van Baaren, C.P.E. Bach: J.S. Bach, Luciano Berio, Rob du Bois, Eugène Bozza, Howard J. Buss, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, etc.)
Application deadline: February 15th; Prescreening: February 16th-21st; Final Round: February 23rd-25th; Results: February 26th
March, 2021 - “Classical Timeless Echoes”: music composed from approximately 1750 to 1830.
(Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, Johann Christian Bach, Franz Danzi, Franz Joseph Haydn, Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Joseph Bologne , W.A. Mozart, Franz Schubert, Ludvig van Beethoven, Joseph von Blumenthal, Leopold Kozeluch, Antonio Rosetti, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Franz Benda, Domenico Cimarosa, François Devienne, Christoph Willibald Gluck, etc.)
Complete classical period sonatas or concertos, one or several movements may be performed.
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: March 15th; Prescreening: March 16th-21st; Final Round: March 23rd-25th; Results: March 26th
April, 2021 - “Era Amoroso”: Romantic era composers. Music composed from approximately around 1830 to 1900.
(Franz Berwald, Ferdinand David, Edward Elgar, Reinhold Glière, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carl Maria von Weber, Peter Benoit, Gabriel Pierne, Edward German, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Percy Grainger, Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonin Dvořák, Georges Bizet, Franz Schubert, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Saverio Mercadante, etc)
Complete Romantic period sonatas or concertos, one or several movements may be performed.
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: April 15th; Prescreening: April 16th-21st; Final Round: April 23rd-25th; Results: April 26th
May, 2021 - “The Symphonic Standards”: the excerpt theme from any orchestral work can be performed.
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: May 15th; Prescreening: May 16th-21st; Final Round: May 23rd-25th; Results: May 26th
June, 2021 - “Modern Memoirs”: any music written by modern composers
(Miguel del Aguila, Luciano Berio, Howard J. Buss, Gerald Raphael Finzi, Edison Denisov, Henri Dutilleux, Francis Poulenc, Jean Françaix, Paul Hindemith, Bertold Hummel, Gordon Jacob, Charles Koechlin, Francisco Mignone, Timothy Salter, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Charles Wuorinen, Peter Machajdik, Johann Joachim Quantz, György Ligeti, Lowell Liebermann, Flint Juventino Beppe, etc.)
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: June 15th; Prescreening: June 16th-21st; Final Round: June 23rd-25th; Results: June 26th
July, 2021 - “Concerti Classics”: concertos of any musical period in its entire form or just one or two movements can be performed.
(Jean-Marie Leclair , Michel Blavet, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Franz Benda, Saint-Saens, Domenico Cimarosa, W.A.Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawsky, Brahms, Paganini, Sibelius, Franz Danzi, François Devienne, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Peter Benoit, Saverio Mercadante, Samuel Adler, Lowell Liebermann, Flint Juventino Beppe, etc.)
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: July 15th; Prescreening: July 16th-21st; Final Round: July 23rd-25th; Results: July 26th
August, 2021 - “French Impressions”: music written by French composers of any musical era.
(Debussy, Ravel, Boulanger, Cecile Chaminade, Henri Busser, Alphonse DuVernoy, Georges Enesco, Faure, Louis Ganne, Philippe Gaubert, Paul Taffanel, etc.)
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: August 15th; Prescreening: August 16th-21st; Final Round: August 23rd-25th; Results: August 26th
September, 2021 - “Woodwinds Duet”: music written or arranged for two instruments, with the leading voice of woodwind, of any composer can be performed.
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: September 15th; Prescreening: September 16th-21st; Final Round: September 23rd-25th; Results: September 26th
October, 2021 - “Romanza”: any lyrical, sensitive, slow, and melodious work can be performed by SOLO instrument.
Application deadline: October 15th; Prescreening: October 16th-21st; Final Round: October 23rd-25th; Results: October 26th
November, 2021 - “Duo Sonore”: one or several movements of, or entire sonatas written by any composer may be performed.
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: November 15th; Prescreening: November 16th-21st; Final Round: November 23rd-25th; Results: November 26th
December, 2021 -“Merry Holiday Carols and Bright Popular Tunes Arrangements can be performed by solo instrument or group of the musicians with leading woodwind instrument.
(NOTE: if you need an accompanist, The European Academy of Arts will gladly accommodate your request. Please see the requirements below.)
Application deadline: December 15th; Prescreening: December 16th-21st; Final Round: December 23rd-25th; Results: December 26th
Requirements for the accompanist from The European Academy of Arts
1. The music score needs to be send to the office of The European Academy of Arts no later than 10 days prior to the recording date.
2. The recording will take a place in the concert hall of The European Academy of Arts.
3. The schedule for the recording needs to be completed no later that 10 days in advance.
4. The payment for the recording needs to be submitted and received no later than 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the recording.
5. The cost for a rehearsal with an accompanist is either $30/half-hour; or $60/one hour.
Please mail the accompanist fee to:
The European Academy of Arts, 4080 Lafayette Center Drive, Suite 170B, Chantilly, VA, 20151
ELIGIBILITY
The EAA ongoing monthly E-Competition is open to keyboard players of all ages and nationalities.
AGES
Musicians of all ages are encouraged to apply, especially young children who may not have much experience but are enthusiastic about sharing their musical abilities.
PRE-SCREENING
You must perform at least one piece, written by the composer, or composers, to whom the monthly e-competition is dedicated.
Please fill out the E-Competition Application Form here.
FINAL ROUND
If you are approved by the judges to pass prescreening, you will receive an email invitation with instructions on how to apply to the final round.
Please do not be disheartened if you do not advance to the final round, as we receive applications from many talented musicians from all over the world and can only approve a limited number of candidates to advance to the final round. Keep trying and never give up!
If you advance to the final round and grant us permission, you are guaranteed to be featured on our YouTube channel: The European Academy of Arts official YouTube channel
Please click here to learn more details about completing your application.
JUDGING
A panel of distinguished judges shall evaluate your prescreening and final round applications. Please note that the decision of our judges is final and cannot be appealed.
PRIZES
Each category has multiple prizes.
Our judges may award additional special prizes and issue certificates of recognition.
Winners and their music teachers will receive diplomas, their portrait photo and music biography will be published on the results page of our website, and their performance will be shared on our YouTube channel: The European Academy of Arts official YouTube Channel.