2003 Honens International Piano Competition. (Competitions).Canada's Honens International Piano Competition Canada's Honens International Piano Competition is held every three years and awards more than CAD 100,000 in cash prizes and a lucrative three-year Artistic and Career Development Program to launch and sustain the careers of its three laureates. will take place in Calgary, October 23-November 7, 2003, awarding prizes totaling more than CAD $100,000. Applications are being accepted online at www.honens.com. The new competition structure reflects a greater emphasis on chamber music than in the past. While pianists will still perform solo recitals, those invited to move ahead to the quarterfinals and semifinals will perform music for cello cello or 'cello: see violin. cello or violoncello Bowed, stringed instrument, the bass member of the violin family. Its full name means “little violone”—i.e., “little big viol. and piano, and with a singer. Quarterfinals and semifinals take place at the University of Calgary's Rozsa Centre. Finalists will perform a concerto concerto (kənchâr`tō), musical composition usually for an orchestra and a soloist or a group of soloists. In the 16th cent. concertare and concertato implied an ensemble, either vocal or instrumental. with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) is a Canadian orchestra, based in Calgary, Alberta. The orchestra gives the majority of its performances in the Jack Singer Concert Hall of the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts. . The deadline for applications is October 25, 2002. For more information and application forms contact Honens at info@honens.com or (800) 249-7574 or (403) 299-0130. |
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