Join the world's first collaborative online orchestra.
We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Your video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall in April 2009.

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    * 1. Prepare - Select your instrument to access the sheet music and rehearse with the conductor
    * 2. Submit - Upload your performances and submit them to join the YouTube Symphony Orchestra
    * 3. Entries - Browse videos to get ideas and check out the competition

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Fecha limite para aplicacion: 30 de Abril del 2009
La documentacion debe ser enviada entre el 15 al 30 Abril a esta direccion:
Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD
c/o Bayerischer Rundfunk
Rundfunkplatz 1
80335 München
Germany

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Primer Premio 10,000 €
Segundo Premio 7,500 €
Tercer Premio 5,000 €

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El brochure con las reglas completas y mas informacion se consigue aqui
La pagina con el aviso se encuentra aqui

[aviso=Pre-selection]
a) from work group 7 (semi-finals), a classical concerto
to be freely selected, 1st and 2nd movement with
cadenzas
b) from work group 3 (1st round) a work to be freely
selected[/aviso]
[aviso=First Round]
1. one of the following works, to be performed by heart:
Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the gamba sonatas
(Ed. Bärenreiter) (to be played in the original key)
Johann Matthias Sperger, Sonata in D major (T40)
(Ed. Hofmeister)
or Sonata in B minor (T36) (Ed. Hofmeister)
Franz Schubert, Sonata “Arpeggione”
2. one of the following works:
Teppo Hauta-Aho, Cadenza (Ed. Reimers Jasemusiikki)
Julien-François Zbinden, Hommage à J. S. Bach (Ed. Breitkopf)
Hans-Werner Henze, Serenade (Ed. Schott) or
“S. Biagio 9 Agosto ore 1207” (Ed. Schott)
Jean Françaix, Thème varié pour contrebasse (Ed. Eschig)
Giselher Klebe, 8 Solostücke (Ed. Bärenreiter)
Iannis Xenakis, Theraps (Ed. Salabert)
Giacinto Scelsi, Nuits (Ed. Salabert)
Peteris Vasks, Bass Trip (Ed. Schott)
3. one of the following works, to be performed by heart:
Giovanni Bottesini, Grand Allegro di Concerto
or Romanza drammatica (Élégie 2) and Allegretto capriccio
or Élégie 1 and Tarantella in A minor
Reinhold Glière, from “4 Pieces” Intermezzo and
Tarantella (Ed. Hofmeister)
Alfred Desencios, Aria e Rondo (Ed. Leduc)[/aviso]
[aviso=Second Round]
4. Nicolaus Richter de Vroe, Work for Double Bass Solo
Composition commissioned for the ARD Competition 2009:
The music will be sent to the participant along with the acceptance
to the competition. The work may be performed with the music,
it may not be publicly performed prior to the competition.
5. one of the following sonatas:
Paul Hindemith, Sonata (Ed. Schott)
Adolf Misek, Sonata no. 1 in A major op. 5 or
Sonata no. 2 in E minor op. 6
Frantiˇsek Hertl, Sonata
Frank Proto, Sonata 1963 (Ed. Liben Music)
Sofia Gubaidulina, Sonata (Ed. Sikorski)
6. one of the following concertos, to be performed by heart:
Giovanni Bottesini, Concerto in B minor
(Ed. Doblinger or Breitkopf)
or Concerto in F-sharp minor (Ed. Hofmeister)
Serge Koussevitzky, Concerto in F-sharp minor
Eduard Tubin, Concerto (Ed. Gehrman)[/aviso]
[aviso=Semi-Finals with Chamber Orchestra (without conductor)]
7. one of the following concertos, to be performed by heart:
Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Concerto no. 1 in D major
(Ed. Hofmeister)
Johann Baptist Vanhal, Concerto in D major
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Concerto in E major
Johann Matthias Sperger, Concerto (no. 15) in D major
(Ed. Hofmeister)[/aviso]
[aviso=Finals with Symphony Orchestra]
8. one of the following concertos, to be performed by heart:
Jean Françaix, Concert (Ed. Schott: edition also available in solo tuning), the 3rd movement may be played one octave lower.
Nino Rota, Divertimento Concertante (Ed. Carisch)[/aviso]

The works in nos. 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8 are to be performed by heart.
 
 
Jury Double Bass
Reinhart von Gutzeit Germany Chairperson
Heinrich Braun Germany
Miloslav Gajdos Czech Repubic
Yasunori Kawahara Japan
Esko Laine Finland
Thomas Martin Great Britain
Roberto di Ronza Italy

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Para mas informacion visiten esta pagina
13th International Performers' Competition in DOUBLE BASS will be held in Brno between 14th and 20th September 2008 with the concert of laureates on 20th September 2008.
The jury of the 13th International Performers? Competition:

David Heyes ? chairman (Great Britain)
Jiří Hudec (Czech Republic)
Miloslav Jelínek (Czech Republic)
Nikolay Krivoscheev (Byelorussia)
Dorin Marc (Germany)
Irena Olkiewicz (Poland)
Stefan Schäfer (Germany)


Competitors do not have the right to raise any objections to the composition of the jury or any of its members. Jury sessions are closed. The organiser reserves the right to change any of the jurors.

Me alegro mucho que haya sido todo un exito! Yo sabia que asi iba a ser, y la experiencia que ganaste desde el punto de organizacion es invaluable!  Estaremos ansiosos de ver mas fotos y por supuesto de apoyar todas las versiones que vengan.
Felicidades Andres! Que orgullo de tenerte de amigo y por aca! :saludo: