The main goal of the Competition is to popularize and revive academic sacred music, and awake the interest in it in both contemporary composers and wider audience, to discover and encourage talented composers, help the realization of their creative abilities as well as to spread and promote new academic sacred music.
Composers of all ages, education spheres, confessions and citizenships can take part in the Competition. The try-out will be conducted anonymously by correspondence, based on the manuscripts sent by mail under a motto. The final audition will take in Saint Petersburg in a form of an open audition in the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic named after D.D.Shostakovich as part of the Lenten Concert Series-2012. The compositions admitted to the Final will be performed by the Mariinsky Theatre Chorus.
- Major sacred choral composition a cappella (length up to 40 min)
- Choral miniature to canonical texts, texts of folklore sacred verses or sacred poems by Russian poets (length up to 7 min., no more than 3 instrumental parts are allowed).
All the compositions must be written to the texts either in Russian or Church Slavonic and have no previous publishing or performance history
The try-outs – till September, 15, 2011
(the date is determined by the stamp on the envelope)
The final audition – February-April, 2012
The participants of the try-outs are determined by the Organizing Committee
of the Competition in the strict accordance with the Provisions of the Competition.
The laureates and diploma holders of the Competition are determined by the international Jury. The list of the participants of the try-outs will be published on the official website of the Competition no later than October, 1, 2011. The results of the try-outs will be published no later than January, 1, 2012.
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