“Leonardo da Vinci’s Fables in music”

European competition for 18-30 years old music composers

• Open from 1 February until 15 May 2019
• Announcement of winners: by mid July 2019
• Award ceremony in Bruxelles: 26 September 2019

The competition will allow young musicians and composers across the European Union to use and further develop their creativity, musical skills, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) skills, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Fables.

Object: The “work” submitted for the competition is an original creation by the participants and consist in a musical interpretation of one Fable, chosen by the participants among the 12 Fables by Leonard da Vinci.

The work should:

• be completely original and not contain any third party’s work;

• have a duration between 3’ and 10’;

• consist of a melodic music played by classical music instruments: minimum 1 classical music instrument (piano or violin); maximum 7 classical music instruments (string quartet, piano, flute, harp) with the option to add percussion instruments;

• include minimum 1 and maximum 3 classic singer voice types (chosen among: soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass), playing original songs aligned with the content of the chosen Fable, either using textual sentences, or with a free original poetic interpretation in any language;

• possibly include as an option a children’s choir including 2-3 voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto).

The work should include a partition, possibly written using a programme for musical partitions (eg Sibelius, Finale,…), the text played by the voices and choir, and a recording of the composition or MIDI file.

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