2021 GUIDE TO TOP COMPETITIONS
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Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S Bach Competition |
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ABOUT THIS COMPETITION
For string players ages 16-30. Entrants will submit a videotaped performance of two contrasting movements of a work written by J.S. Bach for unaccompanied string instrument (Sonatas, Partitas or Suites). Application Deadline: October 10, 2021. Finalists will play complete work at the Finals on December 1, 2021. Grand prize: $5000; second place: $1000.
MAIN OFFICE
PO Box 699
Babylon, NY 11702
UNITED STATES
516-639-8575
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ELIGIBILITY
Entrants must be between the age of 16 and 30 on the date of the Finals, December 1, 2021. The competition is open to U.S. and non-U.S. citizens. Entrants may play on either baroque or modern bowed instrument.
ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE(S)
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PANDEMIC & SAFETY
Due to the pandemic, is this competition:
✔ Scheduled?
✔ Accepting applications?
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DETAILS |
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| Travel Covered? | No |
| Frequency | Annual |
| First prize | Less than $10,000 |
| Smallest prize | Less than $5,000 |
| Additional prizes | Performances |
| Jury chair(s) | Competition does not name a jury chair |
| Additional jurors | Colin Carr, cellist, Stony Brook University; Eugene Drucker, violinist, Emerson String Quartet, Stony Brook Univerity Arthur Hass, harpsichordist and organist, Yale School of Music, Stony Brook University. There will be two more jurors. |
| Jury size | 1 to 5 |
| Application fee | $25 |
| Application deadline | October 10, 2021 |
| Application notes | The application for the 2021 competition will be available on July 1, 2021. |
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FINALS (live rounds)
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 1pm
Staller Recital Hall, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY |
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COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?
| ✖ | Semifinals | ✖ | Semifinals streamed |
| ✔ | Finals | ✔ | Finals streamed |
PAST COMPETITION WINNERS
2020 Cellist, Maxime Quennesson
2019 Violinist, Rachell Ellen Wong (winner of a 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant)
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