The International Performers Competition Brno is a competition for musicians held at the Brno International Music Festival in Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

 in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

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The Brno International Music Festival has been held at the end of September and the beginning of October each year since 1966. The festival is a member of the European Festivals Association

European Festivals Association

The European Festivals Association or EFA is an umbrella group for various festivals in Europe and other countries. It supports artistic cooperation among festivals and offers programs for new festival and artistic managers...

 (since 1993). The first International Performers' Competition was held in 1996, and has since become a regular event at the festival. There are six prizes totalling CZK 200,000.

Disciplines, Laureates and Jurors

• Organ: Petr Čech, Pavel Svoboda
  Pavel Svoboda (organist)
  Pavel Svoboda is a Czech Organist.This organist and harpsichordist graduated from the Conservatory of Pardubice . Since 2008, he has been studying at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague at Doc...
  
   (Czech republic), Anna Pikulska (Poland)
• French Horn: Zoltán Szöke (Hungary), Pablo Lago Soto (Spain)
• Tuba: Sergio Finca Quiros (Spain), Carolyn Jantsch (USA)
• Double Bass: Stanislau Anishchanka (Belarus)
• Percussion: Sabrina Suk Wai Ma (Hongkong)

Jurors

James Gourlay

James Gourlay

James Gourlay is a British conductor and internationally renowned tuba soloist.He was born in Scotland and began to play in his local brass band at an early age. He took part in numerous solo competitions at that time and soon became Scottish Champion at junior and open levels...

, Francis Orval

Francis Orval

Francis Orval is a Belgian classical horn player.-Career:Orval has recorded albums with artists such as Arthur Grumiaux, Gyorgy Sebok, and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. He has been featured on the cover of Horn Society magazine. He studied music at the Liege Conservatory, where he has also taught...

, Susan Landale, Gillian Weir

Gillian Weir

Dame Gillian Constance Weir DBE is a New Zealand organist.-Biography:Gillian Weir was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition at 19, playing Mozart. A year later she won a scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London...

, Helmut Deutsch, David Heyes

David Heyes

David Alan Heyes is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Ashton under Lyne since 2001.-Early life:...

, Stefan Schäfer, James Gourlay

James Gourlay

James Gourlay is a British conductor and internationally renowned tuba soloist.He was born in Scotland and began to play in his local brass band at an early age. He took part in numerous solo competitions at that time and soon became Scottish Champion at junior and open levels...

Cycle of competition categories

• 1996 French horn
• 1997 Pipe organ
  Pipe organ
  The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
  
  
• 1998 Double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• 1999 Percussion
• 2000 Tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  
• 2001 French horn
• 2002 Pipe organ
• 2003 Double bass
• 2004 Percussion duo
• 2005 Tuba
• 2006 French horn
• 2007 Pipe organ
• 2008 Double bass
• 2009 Percussion - Marimba
  Marimba
  The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
  
  
• 2010 Tuba
• 2011 French horn
• 2012 Pipe organ
• 2013 Double bass
• 2014 Percussion

Concert performances for laureates

• performing at the:
  • Brno International Music Festival
  • Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
    Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
    Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra based in Brno, the Czech Republic. Its predecessor was the Czech Symphony Orchestra, dating from the 1870's. The current Brno Philharmonic was formed in 1956 with the merger of the Radio Orchestra and the Brno Region Symphony Orchestra, with Břetislav...
    
    
  • South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra České Budějovice
  • Philharmonic Orchestra Hradec Králové
  • Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava
  • Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc

External links

• Websites of competition
• European Festivals Association