2014The Aeolus International Competitionfor Wind Instruments Flute Horn Clarinet

IN T E R N AT I O N A L E R AE O L U S BL Ä S E RW E T T B E W E R B

The prize winner’s concert will be recorded and broadcasted by the radiostation Deutschlandfunk.Member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions

September 9th to14th, 2014Düsseldorf Media Partner of the Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments

Organizer

Organizer of the Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments isthe Sieghardt Rometsch-Stiftung.It is the mission of the Sieghardt Rometsch-Stiftung to support talentedyoung musicians.While there is general awareness in our society for the need to fosteryoung scientific talent, the same is not true for encouraging highly talen-ted young artists. This foundation aims to make a contribution towardsredressing the balance between scientific and artistic education. To thisend, the foundation focuses on the discovery and support of musicaltalent in young people, so that “Man shall not neglect himself”, as Schillerdemanded in his letters of aesthetic education. For music addresses thesoul, mind and body in equal measure. It promotes intelligence and self-confidence as much as social behaviour.

The Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments is at thecentre of the foundation’s strategy to encourage the gifted youth. Itintends to encourage wind musicians to exceptional achievements, tocreate for them a yardstick for performance standards, and finally to offerthem a platform for public performance.

Partners– the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf– the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker – Deutschlandfunk, Cologne | Radiostation

Partners

Stefan Blunier Chair

Stefan Blunier, born in 1964 in Bern, Switzerland, is a Swiss conductorand pianist. He is General Music Director of the city of Bonn and at the same time Chief Conductor of the Beethoven Orchestra, Bonn andthe Bonn Opera.

Blunier studied piano, horn, composition and conducting in his nativetown Bern and the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. He already played international recitals during his studies. He has been awarded prizes at conducting competitions (Besancon 1990 and 1992 in Kopenhagen)and has started a worldwide career as a conductor.

Stefan Blunier started conducting at the Theatre of Mainz and Augsburg,became 1. Kapellmeister at Nationaltheater Mannheim and General Music Director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt from 2001 to the end of 2008. Blunier was guest of nearly all German Rundfunk-Orchestras,the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig as well as leading orchestras inDenmark, Belgium, Italy, Korea, France, Munich, Hamburg, Leipzig etc.Since 2008/09 he has a close cooperation with the Komische OperaBerlin and is in addition “Premier Chef Invité” of the Orchestra Nationalde Belgique in Bruxelles.

Jury

François Benda Clarinet

Born in Brasil François Benda comes from a longline of professional musicians. He completed hisstudies in Graz and Geneva (clarinet, composition,conducting) and gave his solo debut in 1988 at Zuerich’s Tonhalle and at the Victoria Hall inGeneva. In 1991 Francois Benda was awarded thePremio Internationale per le Arti dello Spettaccoloin Rome. Today Francois Benda performs at all the important music venues (Berlin’s Philharmonie,the Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw Amster-dam, Wigmore Hall London, the Tonhalle in Zuerich)and appears as a guest artist at music festivalswith many leading orchestras.

Francois Benda is professor for clarinet at theUniversität der Künste, Berlin and is also teachingas a professor at the Hochschule für Musik of thecity of Basel. His students were prize winners ofmany international music competitions. He is regu-larly giving master classes for clarinet worldwide.

Emily Beynon Flute

Emily Beynon born in Wales, Great Britain, began her flute studies as a junior at the Royal College of Music with MargaretOgonovsky and then went on to study with William Bennett atthe Royal Academy of Music and with Alain Marion in Paris. In2002 Emily was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.Emily Beynon is the principal flutist of the ConcertgebouwOrchestra in Amsterdam.

Equally at home in front of the orchestra as in its midst, Emilyhas performed as concerto soloist with, amongst others, TheRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, themajor BBC Orchestras, NHK Symphony, the English ChamberOrchestras and the Acadamy of St. Martin in the Fields.

As a chamber musician she works regularly with her sister, the harpist Catherine Beynon and the pianist Andrew West.

Aa a passionate and dedicated teacher, Emily is regularly invited to give masterclasses all over the world. Together withbusiness women (and amateur flautist) Suzanne Wolf Emily hasset up an exciting new flute summer school, the Netherlandsflute academy which launched in 2009.

Jury

Andrea Lieberknecht Flute

Andrea Lieberknecht was born in Augsburg. She studied music underProfessor Paul Meisen at the academy of music in Munich. In 1988, even before finishing her studies, she became soloist flute player with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 1991 she changed to the same position in The West German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. Moreoverduring the years 1993 to 1996 she was the soloist flute player at theRichard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.

As a soloist and member of a chamber music group she has won manyinternational competitions: i.e., the international music competition “Prager Frühling” in 1991, international Flute Competition Kobe in 1993.With the ARCIS Quintett prize winner of the German Music Competition1996 and the international competition for chamber music at the ARD,Munich, in Colmar, Belgrade, Tokyo and Trapani.

Recitals, solo concerts and chamber music concerts with well-known musicians and famous orchestras have taken her around the world.Numerous compact disc recordings with solo and chamber music, some of the prize winning, document her versatile artistic activity.

Since 2002 she has been a professor of flute at the academy of music in Hannover. Since 2011 she is flute professor at the University for Musicand Performaning Arts in Munich.

Ralph Manno Clarinet

With only 29 years old he became professor for clarinet at the Hochschule fürMusik Cologne and is leading one of the most successful masterclasses for clarinet in Europe. He is one of the leading clarinettists of his generation and is performing as soloist on many international festivals and concert halls.

After his studies in Cologne he received national and international scholarshipsas the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” and the “Herbert-von-Karajan-Academy” of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and he was prize winner of the “Deutsche Musikwettbewerb”. Already at the age of 20 he became thesolo-clarinetist of WDR Orchestra Cologne before Sergiu Celibidache called him to join the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

As soloist he has been performing with renown orchestras on national andinternational concert stages and festivals such as Suntory Hall – Tokyo, LincolnCentre – New York, Téatro Colon – Buenos Aires etc. He dedicates himself withgreat enthusiasm to chamber music. He is giving concerts and master classesregularly in the USA, Japan, South America, Australia and Europe.

Ralph Manno’s discography is huge and contains monst of the famous com-positions for clarinet by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann as well as 20th century composers from Hindemith, Strawinsky, Messiaen, Bartok etc.

“Phenomenal intensity” writes the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” about Ralph Manno’sclarinet playing. “Highlights of classic” is the headline of the “New York Times”.

Jury

Markus Maskuniitty Horn

In Rauma, Finland born, Markus Maskuniitty studied atthe Sibelius Academy as a student of Timo Ronkainen,Helsinki and with Radovan Vlatkovic in Berlin.

He played principal French horn with the Finish RadioSinfony Orchestra. In 1994 he became Principal FrenchHorn with the Deutsche Sinonieorchester Berlin andheld the same position at the Berliner Philharmonikerfrom 1997 to 1999.

Markus Maskuniitty was voted “Brass Player of theYear” in Finland in 1992. He has won prices at severalinternational soloist competitions, including the inter-national French horn competition in Markneukirchen in 1991 and the ARD-Wettbewerb in Munich in 1994.

Markus Maskuniitty has held a professorship in theFrench horn at the Academy of Music in Hannover,Germany, since 2000.

Jury

Raimund Wippermann

Raimund Wippermann studied music teaching, sacred music and choirmaster at the Universityof Music in Cologne and Duesseldorf. Postgraduate studies at the conservatory in Stockholmfollowed (amongst others with Professor Eric Ericson); several years’ engagement as churchmusician; 1991 appointment as Director of Music at the dome in Essen where he was entrustedwith the direction of the dome choir and the formation of the girls’ choir.

Since 1997 is Raimund Wippermann professor for choir conducting at the Robert SchumannHochschule in Düsseldorf where he already started as a teacher in 1990. A special emphasis of his work as professor is the choir master teaching of students of sacred music.

Since August 2004 he has been the director of the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.

Raimund Wippermann is the founder and artistic director of the chamber choir Cantemus. From 1995 until September 2000 he was also choir master of the Städtischer Musikverein in Düsseldorf.

He has been a price winner of the German choir competition with his chamber choir Cantemusin 1990 in Stuttgart and the first price in the 8th German choir competition 2010 with his girlchoir of the Dome in Essen.

He is a regular guest conductor of the radio choir of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Paul van Zelm Horn

Paul van Zelm studied modern horn and natural horn withAdriaan van Woudenberg at the Sweelinck Conservatory inAmsterdam and with Hermann Baumann at the FolkwangMusikschule in Essen, Germany. As a student, he played in various orchestras under such illustrious conductors as Eugen Jochum, Claudio Abbado and Leonhard Bernstein.

Paul van Zelm has been a member of the Radio SymphonyOrchestra in Cologne and the Netherlands Radio SymphonyOrchestra in Hilversum. In 1993 he was appointed first solo horn with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Germany, and since1994 is principal horn with the Netherlands Radio PhilharmonicOrchestra. Additionally Paul van Zelm plays in a number ofensembles, including the Linos Ensemble, Germany, and theCombattimento Consort Amsterdam which he recorded Mozarthorn concertos with. He is in demand as a soloist throughoutEurope as well as in the USA, South America and Japan.

Paul van Zelm is principal horn with the WDR SymphonyOrchestra Koeln.

Since 1999 Paul van Zelm has been teaching as professor on the faculty of the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany.

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The jury operates to set rules. The decisions of the jury are final.There is no right to legal appeal.

During the competition, competitorsmay be neither advised nor taught bymembers of the jury.

Judgment criteria are:– artistic personality– musical interpretation– technical proficiencyto a level which may be expectedfrom young soloists of sufficientmaturity for public performance.

Only the jury decides on the award of a prize. The jury may suspend the awarding of the prizes. Prizes may beawarded, but the jury is not required to do so. Prizes maybe divided.

Jury Rules

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Concert InvitationsThe scholarship prizes are being provided by the Meyer-Struckmann- Stiftung.The scholarship prizes are stipends to be used for concert performances. Concerts may be arranged in cooperation with the concert agency Jens GunnarBecker in Herdecke.

The distribution of prizes is as follows:

a) Jury-PrizesFirst Prize EUR 10.000 EUR 7.000 cash prize and EUR 3.000 scholarship

Second Prize EUR 7.000 EUR 4.000 cash prize and EUR 3.000 scholarship

Third Prize EUR 6.000 EUR 3.000 cash prize and EUR 3.000 scholarship

Special Prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music EUR 5.000 EUR 2.000 cash prize and EUR 3.000 scholarship

b) Audience Award EUR 2.000

All prizes will be awarded for the competition as a whole rather than for each instrument.

The overall winner shall be granted the title of“First Prize Winner of the Aeolus InternationalCompetition for Wind Instruments 2014”.

The second and third runners-up are entitled to the title“Prize Winner of the Aeolus International Competition forWind Instruments 2014”.

5All participants in the third round will be awarded a diploma.

Prizes

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2Compulsory Programme for Flute

First Round, to last no longer than 15 minutesa) Luciano Berio, Sequenza I for flute solo (from memory)b) Albert Roussel, “Joueurs de Flute”, 1. Pan., 2. Tityre

Second Round, approximately 30 minutesa) One solo piece of free choice for flute solo,

composed after 1980b) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Sonate e-minor,

BR WFB B 17c) Jolivet, concert (from memory)

The Finale and prize winner’s concertWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, concert d-major, KV 314 (from memory)

Third Rounda) Debussy, L’aprés-midi d’un faune for flute and piano

(UE or Edition Jobert)b) Prokofjev, Sonate

The jury reserves the right to have the required pieces played whole or in part.

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21Compulsory Programme for Horn

First Round, to last no longer than 15 minutesa) Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy for horn, opus 88b) Joseph Rheinberger: Sonate opus 178, 1st movement

Second Round, approximately 30 minutesa) Claude Pascal: Sonate (1963)

(Durand Editions Musicales DF13941)b) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonate opus 17c) Hans-Georg Pflüger: Impeto (1986)

(Boosey & Hawkes BB2600102)

Third Rounda) Luigi Cherubini: 2nd Sonate (Sikorski 288K)b) Richard Strauss: 1st concert for horn opus 11

The Finale and prize winner’s concertWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: concert for horn KV 417

The concerts of Mozart and Strauss are to be played frommemory. The jury reserves the right to have the required pieces played whole or in part.

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2Compulsory Programme for Clarinet

First Round, to last no longer than 15 minutesa) 1st movement of a sonate of J. Brahms op. 120 (1 or 2)b) Anders Hillborg: Peacock-momentc) Edison Denisov: solo sonate

Second Round, approximately 30 minutesa) Carl Nielsen: concert (from memory)b) a solo piece for clarinet of free choice

(composed after 1980)

Third Rounda) Aaron Copland: concertb) Carl Maria von Weber: Grand Duo

The Finale and prize winner’s concertWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: concert for clarinet a-major, KV 622

The concerts of Carl Nielsen and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartare to be played from memory. The jury reserves the right to have the required pieces played whole or in part.

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The competition rounds are open for public viewing.

The 9th Aeolus InternationalCompetition for Wind Instruments 2014is open to flute, horn and clarinet.

The competition will be held from 9 September to 14 September 2014in Düsseldorf, Federal Republic ofGermany.

Application (see application form) must reach

Wettbewerbsbüro AeolusRobert Schumann HochschuleFischerstrasse 11040476 Düsseldorf, Germany

not later than April 30th, 2014.

Application cannot be submitted via the internet. Space for competitors is limited. In order to ensure the consideration of an application, it is encouraged that all potential performers submit their applica-tions earlier than the published deadline.

The “Aeolus InternationalCompetition for WindInstruments” is open to young soloists of allnationalities born on orafter January 1st, 1986.

The application form must be completed in clear block letters andaccompanied by:– a copy of the applicant’s birth

certificate, passport, or other official document

– a short resume, in German or English, detailing the applicant’s artistic career, including instruc-tors, degrees, and/or any prizes, awards, or certificates earned

– a recent passport photoThe documents will not be returned tothe applicant.

Terms and Conditions

7Space for competitors is limited.Decisions regarding the accep-tance of applicants are entirely atthe discretion of the competitionmanagement and are based onthe qualifications as evidenced bythe biography as outlined undernumber 6. In case of equal quali-fications decisicions are made on the basis of the sequence ofregistration. Applicants are notentitled to acceptance, and application does not guarantee a place in the competition.

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Each applicant who will be admittedto the competition will receive awritten confirmation of registrationno later than 31 May 2014.

Registration fee is EUR 70,00. After the applicant has received the confirmation of registration, the registration fee must be transferred by the applicant until May 31st 2014 to the following:

HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AGbank routing number: 300 308 80bank account number: 296 058 009IBAN: DE48 3003 0880 0296058009BIC: TUBDDEDDaccount name: Sieghardt Rometsch-Stiftungreason for payment: Aeolus Competition/name of applicant

All payments must be made free of charge. If the fee is to be paid by a person other than the applicant, ensure that the applicant’s name is clearly indicated. The registration fee is entirely nonrefundable. A late payment will result in expulsion from competition.

Piano accompanists will be pro-vided to applicants free of charge.Personal accompanists are allowedat the applicant’s expense. Thename of the accompanist must befilled in the application form.

Terms and Conditions

11Applicants are responsible for their board and lodging,and that of any persons accompanying them.

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Applicants and their accompanistsare responsible for their own travelarrangements to and from the com-petition.

By submitting an application, the applicant agrees not to accept any engagements, that would conflict with the date and time of the competition.

The organizer of the competition reserves the rightto record each performance, all rounds, and thefinal concert of the competition both acousticallyand optically. The records may subsequently beused for publicity purposes. The organiser alsoreserves the right to grant approval to radio and TV stations to broadcast and to record each per-formance, all rounds and the final concert of thecompetition. The applicants are not entitled toclaim any financial compensation for the broadcastand/or recording of their performances.

15The winners agree to perform in the final concertwith no claim of monetary compensation.

16 The organizer of the competition is not liable for anylosses or material damage to the applicants’ instru-ments and personal belongings. By submitting theapplication, the applicants agree to these conditionsincluding these of the compulsory programs and thecompetition schedule.

The English version is for convenience purposes onlyand is not legally binding. In case of doubt, pleaserefer to the German version, which is binding.

2For each instrument, the competition will consist of three rounds and theprize winner’s concert. The successful completion of a round constitutesadmission to the next round. The participants of the prize winner’s concertwill be established in the third round. The first three prize winners will bedetermined on the basis of their concert performance.

The name of the competitors to progress to the next round shall beannounced by the chairman of the jury following the jury deliberations.

All the rounds and the prize winner’s concert are open to the public.

1Arrival and registration are to take place on Monday the 8th of September 2014between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the offices of the Robert Schumann Hochschule,Fischerstrasse 110, 40476 Düsseldorf, Germany. The opening of the competition takes place at 6 p.m. at the Robert SchumannHochschule. It is expected that all participants will be present.Late registration will lead to disqualification of the candidate from the competition.A registered competitor delayed through no fault of his own may be granted per-mission to complete by the chairman of the jury if he arrives before the first round.

Competition Schedule 3The order in which competitors are toperform will be determined on Monday,the 8th of September 2014 at 4 p.m. in the Robert Schumann Hochschule inDüsseldorf.

The attendance of competitors andaccompanists at this event is mandatory.The performance schedule will beannounced by public notice and thetimes as announced are to be strictlyadhered to.

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Every participant shall have the opportunity to rehearse. He will be notified of his rehearsal times by the Aeolus competition office at his arrival on Monday, the 8th of September 2014.

The competition commences on Tuesday, the å9th of September 2014 at 10 a.m.

First round: 9th/10th September 2014Second round: 10th/11th September 2014Third round:11th/12th September 2014Orchestra-rehearsal: 13th September 2014Prize winner’s concert: 14th September 2014

Candidates are required to inform themselves in person of their performance schedule.

Candidates are required to bepresent at the venue at leastthirty minutes before their per-formance.

A late appearance will lead todisqualification. If the competitoris delayed through no fault of hisown, the chairman of the jurymay permit further participationif the progression of the contestis not materially delayed or interrupted. The prize winner’sconcert must not be affected bysuch a delay.

The prize winner’s concert shall takeplace at11 a.m. on Sunday, the 14th of September 2014in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Also participating shall be theDüsseldorfer Symphoniker.

The prize winner’s concert will be recor-ded by the radiostation Deutschlandfunk– Media Partner of the Aeolus Internati-onal Competition for Wind Instrumentsand broadcasted soon thereafter.The prize winner’s concert will be recor-ded and broadcasted worldwide viaLivestreaming in the internet.The competitors whose participation inthe prize winner’s concert was determinedin the third round and the winner of thespecial prize for the best interpretation ofcontemporary music are required to attendthe concert as soloists and to receivetheir prize in person. The awards cere-mony shall take place after the concert.

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