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Essential Information
- You must be a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia
- You must be at least the age of majority in your place of residence (eighteen (18) in most states; nineteen (19) in Alabama and Nebraska and twenty-one (21) in Mississippi). There is no upper age limit to the competition.
- You cannot be, nor can you ever have been, under artist management
- Videos must be under 10 minutes long.
- The performance must be the work that you would perform in concert, if selected as the Grand Prize winner and you must not include accompaniment. You may perform various sections of your chosen work within the allowed time frame of 10 minutes.
- The work must be from the list below, which are in the public domain, and full orchestra music must be readily available for your chosen piece. Only those instruments specified below may participate (Why?)
- You are required to have a YouTube account to submit your video.
- Your video will not appear on the Concerto Competition Page until it has been reviewed and approved by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
- The deadline for video submission is 11:59 pm EDT on March 22, 2012.
The above above is an abbreviated list; for the complete competition terms and condition, please see the Official Rules You are required to read the official rules before submitting a video.
Questions and Comments may be submitted through this form.
The following is the list of public domain works for each instrument that will be accepted for the competition:
(why did we choose this repertoire?) No other pieces will be accepted for this competition.
PIANO:
Any concerto by Mozart (except K. 459 or K. 503), Beethoven (except No. 5), Brahms, Schumann, or Dvorak (Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini has been removed as it is not in the public domain and is therefore not eligible for this competition);
VIOLIN:
Mozart Concertos No. 3 and 4, Bruch Concerto No. 1, and any concerto by Mendelssohn or Brahms;
CELLO:
Any concerto by Haydn, Schumann, Lalo, Saint-Saens, Dvorak, or Elgar, and the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations;
FLUTE:
Any concerto by Mozart, Haydn, or Mercadante;
OBOE:
Any concerto by Haydn or Mozart;
CLARINET:
Any concerto by Mozart or Weber;
BASSOON:
Any concerto by Vivaldi, Mozart, or Weber;
HORN:
Schumann Adagio and Allegro or any concerto by Mozart or Weber. (The Strauss Concerto No. 2 has been removed as it is not in the public domain and is therefore not eligible for this competition);
TRUMPET:
Any concerto by Haydn or Hummel;
HARP:
Any concerto by Handel or Debussy Danses.
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