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    • Junior competition - 2027

    Presentation

    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.
    A work commissioned, 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.

    12th Competition: April 22-25, 2027
    Find here soon the new rules

    Dates of the Competition
    From April 22 to 25, 2027.
    Salle de l’Institut, Orléans

    April 22, 23, 24 (afternoon):
    – Round of the Competition.
    The young candidates from the 3 levels will play their programme in front of the Jury.

    April 25
    – 3.00pm: Final concert followed by the Award ceremony.

    The Competition is open to the public.
    Tickets onsite during the Competition / Pass & Concert tickets will be available to buy online soon on HelloAsso 
    Salle de l’Institut 4 Place Sainte-Croix 45000 Orléans – France

     

    The 12th edition of the International competition of Orléans for youth “Brin d’herbe” will take place at the “Salle de l’Institut”, in April 2027.

    The competition will bring together international young pianists around the repertoire from 1900 to the present day. A collection of piano pieces will be presented.
    The Jury will include the pianists Svetlana Andreeva, Riccardo Bisatti, Anaël Bonnet and will award Prizes to the laureates, on the three levels of competition.

    We are now in the twelfth edition of the International piano competition for youth, Brin d’herbe. To mark this occasion, we wanted to highlight the work of an Italian pianist who has devoted her entire life to contemporary music and teaching: Maria Grazia Bellocchio, who previously served on the competition jury in 2017.
    To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Divertimento Ensemble, she has given us the opportunity to offer our young candidates a collection of works specially composed for this event. It brings together both established names and young composers, united by a desire to make musical creation for young people ever more vibrant and fruitful.
    As always, the Competition invites candidates to present programmes showcasing music from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a special nod to Kurtág’s Játékok, the seminal work of the Hungarian composer, who remains active at the age of one hundred.
    We have chosen to partner with this project in order to reinforce the educational message of our competition: to explore with rigour, but also with spontaneity, and above all with joy.
    The jury includes former winners of the Competition: Svetlana Andreeva, First Prize winner of the ORCOM Foundation 2024, who is also a teacher and who put her expertise to excellent use for the students on the Centre Region Tour in 2025; Anaël Bonnet, Ricardo Viñes Prize winner in 2010 and now a teacher at the Orléans Conservatoire and coordinator of the piano classes and Riccardo Bisatti, now a conductor with an international career, who won the Brin d’herbe Competition 10 years ago and was a pupil of Maria Grazia Bellocchio – bringing us full circle!
    We are therefore delighted to welcome you to this new and wonderful edition.

    Isabella Vasilotta, Artistic director

    Registration: until February 2nd 2027 included.

    Online registration are open.

    Documents required to register for thee Competition and to returned signed:
    – Parental authorisation Brin d herbe Competition 2027
    – Image authorisation Brin d herbe Competition 2027

     

    All information regarding the organisation of the rounds and competition procedures will be available soon, here in the Competition rules.
    Examples of programmes are viewable in the rules document.
    Please use the samed layout as in the documents to send your programme when you register.

    The preselection of the candidates for the Competition will be done by sending:
    – the complete registration file – see pages 14-15 of the Rules (deadline: February 2nd, 2027 included).
    – a recent recording (less than 6 months old) without any audio or video editing, of a good quality video of two short pieces, among which one piece composed after 1900 and one composed after 1970.
    Total duration of the video:
    2 to 3 minutes for the Beginner level
    3 to 5 minutes for the Intermediate level
    5 to 8 minutes for the Advanced level.
    The two pieces can be recorded separately and edited one after the other in a single file. (Audio or video editing within each work is not permitted)
    For help on how to film this video, applicants are advised to watch the videos of the International piano competition of Orléans for youth Brin d’herbe 2019 on our YouTube channel: Concours international de piano d’Orléans.
    Youtube links and MP4 files (sent by email/Wetransfer) are both accepted.
    Please contact us if you require further technical information.Upon receipt of the applications, the complete files will be submitted to the Jury of preselection who will view the videos and preselect 24 candidates, spread over the 3 levels of the Competition.
    Every candidate will be notified by email from February 2nd, 2027.

    To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Divertimento Ensemble, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, who previously served on the competition jury in 2017, has given us the opportunity to offer our young candidates a collection of works specially composed for this event. It brings together both established names and young composers, united by a desire to make musical creation for young people ever more vibrant and fruitful.

    From November 2026, the list of “Piano Divertimento Project” works will be available on our website, and the sheet music will be available to download free of charge from the Divertimento Ensemble website (https://www.divertimentoensemble.it/). The exact titles and running times of the works will be announced at that point.

    Coming in April 2027

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