XI International Distant Competition "New Voices, Songs and Arts", Sofia 2023

 

REGULATIONS FOR PARTICIPATION:

 1. Participants in the vocal-instrumental competition can be: choirs, vocal-instrumental ensembles, brass bands, small groups, soloists - singers and instrumentalists with classical, pop, jazz and folklore.

The competition includes:

sections:

* instrumental;

* vocal

performers:

* choirs, groups and ensembles;

* soloists (instrumentalists and singers)

Performers may compete with an audio or video entry in up to two of the following genre categories:

·       author's music;

·       classics;

·       pop;

·       jazz;

·       folklore;

·       summer hit / Christmas carol, winter song - play;

2. There are no special requirements for the participants in the art and poetry contest.

3. The participants in the dance competition must be soloists. The videos should be of performance in a hall.

4. Children, youth and adults are eligible to participate in the competition, divided into the following age groups:

I group – 5-8 years

II group - 9 - 12 years

III group – 13-15 years

IV group – 16-18 years

V group – over 19 years

The age of the individual participants is determined by the completed years on the date of the competition. With a large number of participants from a given age group, they are divided into subgroups by year of birth.

The age group for formations and collectives is determined by the predominant number of participants from the respective age group.

5. The competition is held in two stages.

In the first stage - until June 10 2023, the following documents from each applicant must be sent to the e-mail of the association "Evterpani" (e-mail: evterpani@abv.bg):

- request for participation and declaration by the parent for the minor participants (download);

- video recording (uploaded to YouTube or Facebook) for the vocal-instrumental and dance competition;

- artists / applicants to send a photo (on a file or a link from a blog or site) of one of their works of fine art;

- poets to send their work (on a file or a link from a blog or site);

- import note / statement for transfer of participation fee;

- portrait photo of the applicant (for publication in the final protocol).

 A ranking will follow on June 15 2023, the results of which will be published on this page.

 Second stage (award ceremony/Gala concert).

6. Prizes: GRAND PRIZE (at the discretion of the jury), GRAND PRIX (for the entire competition), First GRAND, First, Second and Third prizes for each age group.

From 2019, three new prizes are awarded in the vocal-instrumental competition:

- for a song video;

- for song choreography;

- for professional audio recording.

All participants receive a diploma, and the laureates - medals, statuettes or cups, which will be sent by mail to the addresses indicated by them.

7. For the vocal-instrumental and dance competition, recordings must be up-to-date and not from other competitions. Send links from YouTube or Facebook entries.

8. Applications for participation are accepted no later than June 10 2023.

It is mandatory to indicate e-mail, telephone number for feedback and mail address.

Requests by phone are not accepted.

Incomplete and incorrectly formed requests, as well as those not submitted within the specified period, will not be taken into account.

9. Participants guarantee the copyright of the audio and video materials they will use for the competition in the declarations to the participation requests.

10. Association "Evterpani" reserves the right for any kind of documentation, filming, broadcasting and distribution of materials without paying rights and compensations.

11. For contacts:

Association EVTERPANI
SOFIA, SLATINA region
mobile phone 0886 744 906
e-mail: evterpani@abv.bg

 FUNDING OF THE COMPETITION:

1. The participation fee for groups, soloists, artists and poets and writers in the Distance Competition is BGN 25 (participants in the "Author's music" category have no participation fee if they perform their work themselves).

For participation in the second category, the fee is an additional BGN 10.

2. Payment is made in advance no later than June 10 2023 to a bank account:

Association EVTERPANI
IBAN: BG48 BPBI 7940 1067 4849 02
BIC: BPBIBGSF
Postbank / "Eurobank Bulgaria" AD

3. An invoice is issued upon presentation of a payment document by the bank.

Gala concert of the competition will be held at the Polytechnic Museum, Sofia on October 1.

Ten Years "Note & Brush" Festival

 

On October 1, 2022 (International Music Day) at 11:30 a.m. in the Central Architect's House in Sofia, 11 "Krakra" St., Hall No. 2, the association "Evterpani" will hold another concert from the "Note and Brush" festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. This cycle has emerged as a tradition over the years in the Association's cultural calendar. The idea of ​​the festival, in the spirit of our activity to search for young talents in the field of arts, is to promote the activity and abilities of multifaceted talents. The concert will be acoustic.

Singer-artists, laureates of "New Voices, Songs and Arts" competitions

10 years of the "Note and Brush" festival - concert:

Welcome address (video)

Final concert by Thomas Dermendzhiev from the J. S. Bach School of Music (Hong Kong) with teacher Nikolay Dermendzhiev, a graduate of Professor Georg Hamann's master class (Vienna, Austria):

Holiday of Sofia, opening of "Oktoberfest

 

With faith, hope, love and wisdom on Sofia Day, despite the heavy rain and cold weather, we opened after two years the Oktoberfest festival in the garden of the "Ivan Vazov" National Theater.

Participants of the Association "Evterpani" on September 17 and 18 are:

- attractive Martin Marinov at the age of 7 performed his original song "Chiko Chik", arranged by the composer Alexander Saveliev, awarded for composition with 2nd prize from the competition in Hong Kong;

- the 13-year-old lyrical singer Iliana Yokova is a laureate of international competitions, performed the song "Stand up";

- the perfect 12-year-old Irina Mileva performed three songs, two of which were Bulgarian "Katerpino Mome" and "My Song" and a song from "Eurovision";

- the artistic sisters Kalina and Radina Angelovi, aged 16 and 14, performed the song "Friends" as a duet and 4 songs solo - "Hijo de la luna", "Who" and songs to Weeknd and Ariana Grande.

Gala Concert "Musical Night" in Burgas of the Laureates of Three Competitions - Brussels, Hongkong and Sofia

Gala concert "Musical Night" of the laureates of three competitions (in Brussels, Hong Kong and Sofia), representatives from two continents and different schools, was held in the seaside town of Burgas. A cocktail of styles and an extravaganza of sounds and mood was served in the hall of the Sea Casino. Penka Petrosovich from Brussels, organizer of concerts for Bulgarians, hosted the event.

The competition jury was chaired by a music school from Vienna, Austria.

A string orchestra from Austria performed works by Mozart to a packed house.

Yordanka Mineva from Rome, laureate for overall work from our competition "New Voices, Songs and Arts" in Sofia, performed her author's work.

Awarding the attractive 6-year-old Martin Marinov second prize for composition with his song about animals in Africa "Chico Chik"

and the fiery Kalina Avramova, as the organizer of the concert called her, with the second prize of the competition with a song from the musical "Aladdin" in the first round and "Water" in the second round with choreography by Roberta Jurova for pop singing.

The two, with music teacher Anya Kravaeva, were awarded with certificates and a medal by Nikolay Dermendzhiev from Hong Kong.

Awarding of choirs from the International Distance Vocal-Instrumental Competition "New Voices, Songs and Arts" 2022

On July 9 2022 in Nessebar, Black sea resort town of Bulgaria, on the open stage of the cultural complex "Artium" the president of association "Evterpani" Anya Kravaeva awarded Emil Minev - the conductor of choirs from Stara Zagora "Sarnena Gora" and "Rodina" with two first prizes for their participation in the online competition "New Voices, Songs and Arts" 2022 in Sofia. The ceremony took place within the festival "Pearls of Black Sea" of our partners from Art and Folk Center "Nestia".

Emil Minev was awarded with a Diploma for the arrangements of the songs of the two choirs, which he conducted with a rich repertoire and prizes from competitions at home and abroad.