3 International Music Competition for PERCUSSION instruments

May 10-11. 2014 Belgrade, SERBIA

RULES OF THE COMPETITION

1. The competition is open to young musicians.

2. The competition is organized in Belgrade, from May 10-11. 2014 for disciplines:
Snare drum, timpani, keyboard percussion (xylophone, marimba, and vibraphone) and
additional percussion instrument

3. Candidates who are in a family relationship with some members of the jury and/or
in current professional contact of any kind (during the period of two years prior to the
competition) cannot take a part in the competition.

4. The dead-line for applications submission is March 15. 2014. (The date on the
postal stamp).

5. Candidates are obliged to submit the following documents:

a. The application form filled out with printed letters, including the names of
the compositions and the names of composers written in original form and the length
of each respective piece;
b. The photocopy of the birth certificate or the photocopy of the page from the
passport with the main personal details.
c. Short artistic biography including the names of the applicants pedagogues
(from year 2011 to 2014).
d. The photocopy of the receipt of the participant registration payment.

6. The application form, together with the listed documents, should be sent to the
following address:

ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC AND BALLET PEDAGOGUES OF SERBIA

7 DZONA KENEDIJA STR. 11080 ZEMUN, SERBIA

The application form can also be sent by fax to the number: +381 (11) 719-3582
or by e-mail: UMBPS@OPEN.TELEKOM.RS

7. Applicants from abroad can pay/transfer funds (IN EURO) for the participant
registration to the following account:

Beneficiary:
IBAN: RS35160005080002629395
Beneficiary name: UDRUZENJE MUZICKIH I BALETSKIH PEDAGOGA
Beneficiary address: 7 Dzona Kenedija str. 11080 Zemun, Serbia
Bank name: BANCA INTESA AD, BEOGRAD
Bank address: MILENTIJA POPOVICA 7B, BEOGRAD, REPUBLIKA SRBIJA
Bank swift code: DBDBRSBG
Transfer to be made via an intermediary bank (you can put these under 'special
instructions')
Bank Name: INTESA SANPAOLO SPA, MILANO, ITALY
SWIFT code: BCITITMM
With the indication: Participation in the competition for percussion

8. Participation costs for Competition are

1. 1st and 2nd category - 35 euro

2. for 3rd and 4th category - 40 euro
3. for 5th and 6th category - 45 euro

9. If taking part in the competition is cancelled, money for the participation will not be
returned.

10. The competition participants are in charge of covering their own travel and residence expenses.

11. The competition participants for the discipline are obliged to pay professional
accompanists by themselves.

12. Professional accompanists are available to all competition participants. The cost
of a rehearsal is 30 euros per hour and 40 euros for the stage appearance (all payable
in dinar equivalent value). Applicants who choose this option should send a
photocopy of the piano sheet music from their competition program together with
their application form no later than March 30. 2014.

13. The complete schedule of the Competition will be posted on the Competitions
web-site, 15 days before the Competition

www.konjovic-competition.rs

14. The order of the performances for all the competitors will be made in alphabetical
order according to the initial letter of the surname of the applicant. This principle will
be valid during the whole competition. The Organizational Board has chosen letter
D as the starting letter for the Competition in 2014.

15. If less than 5 candidates apply for any category of the competition, the
competition for that category may be canceled. The organizer will inform the
applicants about the cancelation and will return the registration fee no later than
31.03.2013.

16. The competition jury will consist of an odd number of members (at least 3,
maximum 5). In the process of giving marks, an additional member (4th or 6th) or a
deputy will replace the members of the jury whose interests clash with some of the
competitors (family relationship or current professional contact of any kind during the
period of two years prior to the competition).

17. In 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th category of competition disciplines, a maximum of six awards
will be given:

one 1st,
two 2nd ,
and three 3rd place awards,
along with six diplomas for the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th place, in V end VI
category:

one 1st,
one 2nd,
one 3rd place awards,
as well as three diplomas for IV, V, VI place.

18. The Prizes/awards will be announced on the Competition`s web-site 20 days

before the Competition formal opening.

19. The organizational board of the competition will take it upon them to organize
promotional and representative concerts in Serbia and abroad for the winners of the
competition.

20. The competition is a public event.

21. By taking part in the competition, the competitors automatically renounce their
right for material compensation regarding possible radio and TV recordings,
production of audio and video materials and their distribution.

22. The decisions of the jury are unalterable.

23. In case of a dispute, the only valid text of the rules is in the Serbian language.
24. Additional information about the competition can be obtained by candidates
through e-mail, according to the specified contact for their discipline:
ppalackovic@gmail.com
PROPOSITIONS
for PERCUSSION instruments

Required instruments:

Snare drum, timpani, keyboard percussion (xylophone, marimba, vibraphone) and

additional percussion instruments

Important: Compositions for keyboard percussions are done by memory, without

sheet music. Using sheet music is allowed for all other instruments.
Candidates need to provide a copy of scores (sheet music) for all compositions for the
members of the committee. Competitors in the V and VI category will perform their
program in two parts.
The categories correspond to the music school/university grade that the competitors
are currently attending.
Competitors are allowed to perform in categories that are higher from their current
school/university level.

I category
(I and II level primary music school, 1999 and younger)
program length up to 10 minutes

1. Choose one composition from the list:

- Dobri Paliev: Mar, for snare drum and piano

- Dobri Paliev: Walk(Na pohod), for snare drum and piano
- Fred Hoey: Waltz Georgia, for snare drum and piano
- Wally Barnett: Pet Rock, for snare drum and piano
- Wally Barnett: Flim Flam, for snare drum and piano

2. Jozef and Peter Sprunk; Etude No. 74, snare drum solo

3. E.Keune: Timpani: Etude No.21, timpani solo

E.Keune: Timpani: Etude No.29, timpani solo

4. Perform a one composition from the list:

- Jozef and Peter Sprunk: Etude No.61, snare drum solo

- Jozef and Peter Sprunk: Etude No.71, snare drum solo
- N.J.ivkovi: My first book for Xylophone and Marimba;
Walzer with a piano accompaniment
- N.J.Zivkovi> My first book for Xylophone and Marimba
Ententanz with a piano accompaniment

Important: Compositions by N. J. Zivkovi could be played in slower tempos

II category
(III and IV level primary music school, 1997 and younger)
program length up to 10 minutes

1. Dobri Paliev: Mali Tom, for snare drum and piano

2. Choose two compositions for different instruments from the list:

- E.Keune: Timpani; Etude No.33, timpani solo

- E.Keune: Timpani; Etude No.36, timpani solo
- Jozef and Peter Sprunk: Etude No.97 and 98, snare drum solo, play these two
etudes one after the other without a break
- Ch.Memphis: The Contemporary Percussionist: Study No.6, page 57, snare
drum solo

3. Choose one composition from the list:

- M.Goldenber: Modern school for Xylophone; Scherzo 3/8, page27. Xylophone

solo
- N.J.ivkovi: My first book for Xylophone and Marimba;
Das tapfere schneiderlein, with a piano accompaniment
- N.J.ivkovi: My first book for Xylophone and Marimba
Xylophon polka with a piano accompaniment
- N.J.ivkovi: My first book for Xylophone and Marimba
Auf der Wiese with a piano accompaniment

Important: Compositions by N. J. Zivkovi could be played in slower tempos.

III category
(I and II high music school, 1995 and younger)
program length up to 15 min

1. Ch.Memphis: The Contemporary Percussionist; Study No.3 page 3, snare drum

solo

2. The Yankee Flamadoodle snare drum with a piano accompaniment

A musical treatise on the flamadiddle (Flam-paradiddle), Based on Yankee Doodle

3. E.Keune: Timpani: Etude No.104, timpani solo

4. Perform two compositions from the list:

- N.J.ivkovi: Funny Xylophone Book I, Alla Pollaka, xylophone solo

- N.J.ivkovi: Funny Xylophone Book I Sweet Quick Sixteen, xylophone solo
- N.J.ivkovi: My first book for Xylophone and Marimba
Schottisches Lied xylophone and piano
- N,J.ivkovi: My first book for Xylophone and Marimba
 Ein Fruhlingslied xylophone and piano
- N.J.ivkovi: Fuuny Vibraphone Book I Summer song , vibraphone solo
- N.J.ivkovi: Fuuny Vibraphone Book I Waltz , vibraphone solo

Important: Compositions by N. J. Zivkovi could be played in slower tempos

IV category
(III and IV high music school, 1993 and younger)
program length up to 20 min

1. Ch.Wilocoxon: Modern Rudimental Swinging Solos; Heating the rudiments

snare drum solo

2. J.Delecluse: 12 etudes for snare drum; Etude No.6, snare drum solo

3. E.Keune: Timpani; Etude No.147, timpani solo

4. W.Schinstine: Sonata No1, 3 movement, timpani and piano

5. J.S.Bach: Suite G, cello No1; Courante, keyboard percussion solo

6. Choose one composition from the list:

- D.Fridman: Vibraphone Technique, dampening and pedaling, Etude No.25,

vibraphone solo
- M.Glenworth: Blues for Gillbert, vibraphone solo
- N.J.ivkovi: Fuuny Vibraphone Book I Rock song, vibraphone solo
- N.J.ivkovi: Fuuny Marimba Book I, Der Wanderer, marimba solo
- R.O.Meara: Restless, marimba solo
- E.Sejourne: General life, marimba solo

V category
(Students 1st and 2nd Year of the Bachelors programs)

First part:

1. J.Delecluse: Test Claire snare drum solo

2. J.Beck: J.R.Special snare drum solo

3. W.Schinstine: Sonata No.1, timpani and piano

4. J.Beck: Sonata for Timpani 2 mov, timpani solo

5. J.S.Bach: Suite No.1 in G, cello; Preludium marimba solo

6. Lynn Glassock: Motion, set-up solo, percussion set-up

7. Choose one composition for marimba solo from the list:

- K.Abe: Wind in the bamboo groove

- K.Abe: Wind skech
- S.Gordon: Two Mexican Dances
- N.J.ivkovi: Three fantastic songs
- N.J.ivkovi: Ilija
- M.Halt: Marimbasonic

Second part:

1. Choose one piece from the list:

- P.Creston; Concertino for Marimba and orch., (marimba and piano)

- S.Fink; Concertino for Vibraphone and orchestra (vibraphone and piano)
- Ney Rosauro: Concerto for Vibraphone and orchestra (vibraphone and piano)
- A.Jolive: Concerto for percussion and orch., (percussion and piano)

VI category
(Students 3rd and 4th Year of the Bachelors and Masters programs)

First part:

1. J.Delecluse: Etude No 9, snare drum solo

2. Ch.Keriggan; 2 or 3 snare drum solo

3. E.Carter: 8 pieces fot Timpani: Saeta, timpani solo

4. W.Tharichen: Concerto for Timpani and orchestra, op.34, 1st movement, timpani
and piano

5. J.S.Bach: Suite No.2 in d minor cello, Alemanda marimba solo

6. Choose one composition for set-up solo from the list:

- M.Kitazume; Side by Side, set-up solo, (group of percussion)

- I.Xenakis: Rebonds B major, set-up solo,(group of percussion)

7. Choose one composition for marimba solo from the list:

- K.Abe: Variations on Japanese children song

- N.J.ivkovi: Ultimatum 1
- T.Tanaka;Two Movements
- M.Ptaszynska: Grafitto
Second part:

1. Choose one composition from the list:

- Ney Rosauro: Concerto No.1 for Marimba and strings orchestra (marimba and
piano)
- E.Sejourne: Concerto for Marimba and strings orchestra (marimba and piano)
- A.Koppel: Concerto for Marimba and orchestra (marimba and piano)
- N.J.ivkovi: Concerto for Marimba and orchestra No.1 (marimba and piano)
- D.Milhaud: Concerto for Marimba, Vibraphone and orchestra (marimba,
vibraphone and piano)

2014
UDRUENJE MUZIKIH I BALETSKIH PEDAGOGA SRBIJE
DONA KENEDIJA7, 11080 ZEMUN, SRBIJA // TEL/FAX. +38 11 7193582,
TEL/ +38 11 6609281 www.umbps.org.rs, www.konjovic-competition.rs
3 International Music Competition for PERCUSSION Belgrade 2014
APPLICATION FORM

INSTRUMENT: _____________________________________________________

SURNAME & NAME: ______________________________________________

DATE OF BIRTH / PLACE/ COUNTRY:________________________________

CONTACT ADDRESS: _______________________________________________

PHONE & EMAIL: __________________________________________________

PROGRAM* & CATEGORY** I II III IV V VI

* Please list precisely details about each composition (composer, title, tonality,
number opus, movement and duration)
** Please circle the category you are applying for. If applicable, please list the
program for each stage separately.

SURNAME & NAME OF THE COMPOSER: ____________________________

I NEED SERVICES OF OFFICIAL PIANO ACCOMPANIST: YES NO

MUSIC INSTITUTION OF THE APPLICANT: (Name, Address, phone, fax,

email):

SIGNATURE:________________________________________________________
(Candidates signature or signature of parent for candidates under 18 years of
age)
With this signature I confirm that I agree with conditions of the competition and
that you accept all the decisions of the jury