INFORMATION

LEV VLASSENKO PIANO COMPETITION

Audition and repertoire requirements for rounds and specified list

Requirements for Audition Videos

Applicants will be responsible for making their own audition video and must arrange venue, piano, video and accompanist themselves.

Audition videos without piano accompaniment for the concerto will not be considered.

The video must be a high-quality representation of the Applicant’s performance with the camera view showing the Applicants face, hands and keyboard at all times.

Audition videos must have been recorded after 15 December 2023

Audition Videos must be certified by both the Auditionee and the person who operated the recording equipment that the performance is that of the Applicant, unedited and performed in single complete take with the exception of the Concerto Movement which may for practical reasons be recorded as one take in a different venue and on a different date after 15 December 2023

First Round Requirements

Recital of 50 – 55 mins to be performed live, at a time, date and venue of the Competition’s choosing, which must include:

A Prelude and Fugue by Bach or Shostakovich

A Virtuoso Study by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov or Scriabin

A Classical Sonata by Haydn, Mozart or Clementi

A Romantic Work(s) from the Specified List

and Own Choice of Work(s) if time permits

Semi-finals Round

A 60 – 65 mins Recital to be performed live which must include:

Major Work of at least 15 minutes duration

Work by an Australian Composer of Own Choice

Own Choice of Work(s) as time permits

Competitors must take note of the following:

Works performed in First Round cannot be performed in Semi-finals Round

All Works must be performed from memory

Changes to nominated repertoire may be made up until 19 May 2024

No change can be made to the nominated piano concerto

All sonatas must be performed in their entirety

No works for prepared piano are permitted.

REPERTOIRE SPECIFIED LIST

Johannes Brahms

Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21: No.1

Variations on a Theme of Schumann, Op. 9

Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35 either Book I or Book II or both Books

Frédéric Chopin

Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38

Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47

Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20

Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31

Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39

Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54

Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat major, Op. 22

Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44

Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49

Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60

Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61

César Franck

Prélude, Choral et Fugue, FWV. 21

Franz Liszt

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S. 244/2

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat major, S. 244/6

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E major, S. 244/10

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor, S. 244/11

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C-sharp minor, S. 244/12

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 in A minor, S. 244/15

Rhapsodie Espagnole, S. 254

Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse, S. 160: No. 6, Vallée d’Obermann

Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année: Italie, S. 161: No. 7, Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 7, Funérailles

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 3, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171

Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514

Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année: Italie, Supplément, S. 162: Venezia e Napoli: No. 1, Gondoliera; No. 2, Canzona; No. 3, Tarantella (performed in its entirety)

Felix Mendelssohn

Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Op. 28

Variations sérieuses, Op. 54

Sergei Rachmaninov

Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42

Robert Schumann

Abegg Variations, Op. 1

Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

Toccata, Op. 7

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Dumka: Russian rustic scene, Op. 59

6 Morceaux, Op. 19: No. 6 in F major, Theme and Variations

CONCERTO LIST

Only concertos from this list may be performed during the Competition. All concertos must be performed in their entirety.

Béla Bartók

Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op 37

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73

Frédéric Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Franz Liszt

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125

Felix Mendelssohn

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467

Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488

Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503

Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537

Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Sergei Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Maurice Ravel

Piano Concerto in G major, M. 83

Camille Saint-Saëns

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

Robert Schumann

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Dmitri Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102