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Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S Bach Competition
Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition
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 7, 2022. Finalists will play complete work at the finals on December 1, 2022. Grand Prize is $5,000 and Second Place is $1,000.
MAIN OFFICE
PO Box 699
Babylon, NY 11702
UNITED STATES
516-639-8575
WEBSITE
ELIGIBILITY
Entrants must be between the age of 16 and 30 on the date of the Finals (December 1, 2022). The competition is open to U.S. and non-U.S. citizens. Entrants may play on either baroque or modern bowed instrument.
ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE
Strings
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
DETAILS
Travel Covered? Yes
Frequency Annual
First prize Less than $10,000
Smallest prize Less than $5,000
Additional prizes Performances
Jury chair(s) Not provided
Additional jurors Robert Mealy, violinist. director of Historical Performance, Juilliard; Colin Carr, cellist, professor of Music, Cello and Chamber Music, Stony Brook University; Arthur Haas, professor of Harpsichord, Early Music Performance and Continuo, Stony Brook University; Phoebe Carrai, professor of Baroque Cello and Baroque Chamber Music, Juilliard; Ida Kavafian, Nina von Maltzahn Chair in Violin Studies, Curtis Institute of Music. 
Jury size 1 to 5
Application fee $30
Application deadline October 7, 2022
Application notes The application for the 2022 Competition will be available on the Competition website on August 1, 2022.
FINALS (live rounds)
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 1:00-4:30 pm EST, Staller Center Recital Hall, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
COMPETITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?
Semifinals Semifinals streamed
Finals Finals streamed
PAST COMPETITION WINNERS
2021 Lun Li and Tianyou Ma, violinists, joint first prize winners
2020 Maxime Quennesson, cellist
2019 Rachell Ellen Wong, violinist
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