The International piano competition of Orléans for youth “Brin d’herbe” encourages young pianists to explore contemporary and modern music from an early age.
The Competition “Brin d’herbe” is organised every two years, alternating with the International piano competition of Orléans. Created in 2004, the contest, unique event in the field of music creation, welcomes young candidates and gathers a jury formed of personalities from all around the world, fully qualified in teaching the contemporary repertoire.
Promoting and disseminating the contemporary repertoire to these young people and to the audience is an objective that adds to the idea of building a new pedagogy around this repertoire. The work commissioned to a composer, every two year, demonstrates our strong desire to build a pedagogical repertoire for the contemporary piano, while following the pioneer idea of the “Games” Játékok, developed by the major Hungarian composer György Kurtág.
Dates of the Competition
From April 10 to 13, 2025.
Salle de l’Institut, Orléans
April 10, 11, 12 (from 2.00pm):
– Round of the Competition.
The young candidates from the 3 levels will play their programme in front of the Jury.
April 13
– 3.00pm: Concert of the laureates followed by the Award ceremony.
The Competition is open to the public.
Tickets onsite during the Competition / Tickets online on HelloAsso
Salle de l’Institut 4 Place Sainte-Croix 45000 Orléans – France
The 11th edition of the International competition of Orléans for youth “Brin d’herbe” will take place at the “Salle de l’Institut”, in April 2025.
The competition will bring together international young pianists around the repertoire from 1900 to the present day. A piano work, commissioned to the Japanese composer Miharu Ogura, will be premiered.
The Jury will include the pianists Sodi Braide, Toros Can and Miharu Ogura and will award Prizes to the laureates, on the three levels of competition.
The ‘Brin d’herbe’ Competition is back for its 11th edition! The formula remains unchanged: we invite young pianists from all over the world to give their best while discovering the repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries on the beautiful stage of the Salle de l’Institut!
This year, we are delighted to present a commission from one of our prize-winners at the Orléans Competition: Miharu Ogura. She won the Third Prize at the 13th Competition in Orléans in 2018 and, in 2022, with great success, the André Chevillion – Yvonne Bonnaud Composition Prize at the 15th Competition, as well as a commission for a work by Radio France.
For this competition commission, she is concentrating on the idea of play in the playful sense of the term, on the use of the hand and on the way in which sound is constructed.
Another great adventure for little fingers! See you soon!
Registration: until February 4th 2025 included.
Note of intent of the composer and instructions for preparing the piano: pending
The score of the mandatory piece piece will be available to view online by the end of November 2024 at the latest and sent as a pdf file to the candidates selected for the competition.
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