Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti


Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti was held for the first time in 1994. The event discovers and promotes the values of the new generation of classical music, supports young artists in building a successful career and provides a platform for multicultural dialogue that encourages performance.
The idea of establishing this competition started from the desire of a musician to provide in a former communist country - Romania,a chance for young artists to participate in an international competition in their country and to benefit from the same conditions as anywhere in the world, to give them a chance to promote cooperation with international and European musical institutions.
The event is named after Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti.
“I like the idea of Jeunesses Musicales because it makes music accessible to children, allowing young people of modest origins to enter into a Realm that otherwise wouldn’t really be open to them.”
Dinu Lipatti, Geneve, 1950

History

Held annually since 1994, the contest has included different disciplines - piano, violin, flute, clarinet, composition, horn, trumpet, singing.
In 2011, "Jeunesses Musicales International Competition Bucharest" became "Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti", in honor of Lipatti, who supported and encouraged young musicians.
Alongside the competition, the event includes workshops and master classes led by artists and music teachers from European academies.

Participants

The competition has three age categories, encouraging young musicians from the earliest ages to a master competition category: 10–14 years, 14–18 years, 18–30 years.
Usually, this competition brings together around 100 musicians from 30-40 countries, as a platform for communication and cultural dialogue.

Jury

Jury is formed by recognized artists and professors appreciated in the field with experience in identifying new talent, reconfirmation of their decisions being the laureates professional path.
The competition takes place in areas with historical and cultural tradition: Athenaeum, Royal Palace - Hall Auditorium, Arcub - Center for Cultural Projects of Bucharest, Central University Library, the Philharmonic Sibiu - Thalia Hall.

Laureates

1994 - REMUS Azoitei
Is a famous violinist of sec. XXIII that currently is a violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music London, known in Romanian audience for charitable and anniversary concerts given together with the Royal Household and through its evolution along the prestigious Nigel Kennedy, the Palace Hall Bucharest.
1995 - Alexandru Tomescu
He is the winner of Stradivarius violin. He played with Jeunesses Musical Youth Orchestra and as a soloist in 1997 and 1998 tournaments in the USA and Japan. He was also present at the most famous concert halls in Europe, such as: Tonhalle Zurich, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Concert House, Berlin, Musikverein, Vienna.
1996
Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti was the first competition in Romania which was recognized by the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth.
1999
Simina Croitoru was born into a family of musicians and since childhood has shown extraordinary talent, winning the first "Jeunesses Musicales" Bucharest prize.

2000

Trumpet
18-30Solymosi PeterHungary
14-18Hanganu DumitruMoldavia

Piano
18-30Yamamoto SatokoBelgium
14-18Bozhanov EvgeniBulgaria
10-14Gavruc VitalieMoldavia
<10Visovan Maria AureliaRomania

Clarinet
18-30Theodoru AndreiRomania
14-18Mamudov HidanMacedonia

2001

Violin
18-30Röhn AnjaSweden
14-18Gocan AndreiRomania
14-18Long XiChina
10-14Manza Dragos MihailRomania
<10Saifi ArslanRussian Federation

Flute

2002

Piano
18-30Smolskaia IouliaRussian Federation
14-18Vanks RudolfsLatvia
10-14Kavalerova AnnaRussian Federation
<10Napradean LenaRomania

Clarinet

2003

Violin
14-18Azizian LoussineRussian Federation
10-14Lee Su YeonSouth Koreea
<10Moscalu ArturMoldavia

Flute

2004

Piano
18-30Szychowski PiotrPoland
14-18Ye SijingChina
10-14Wang ChaoChina
<10Tudor Daria IoanaRomania

Clarinet
18-30Stolbov IvanFederatia Rusa
14-18Stancioi CiprianRomania
14-18Turk BorutSlovenia

2005

Violin
18-30Szadowiak MariannaPolond
14-18Shi ShuaiChina
10-14Gao TianyangChina
<10Tusupbekova SharipaKazakhstan

Flute
Composition

2006

Piano
Composition
10-14Rosenberger KatharinaSwitzerland
10-14Noda KentaroJapan
10-14Martinez Burgos ManuelSpain
<10Eduardo MoguillanskyArgentina
<10Elia MariosCyprus
<10Pelzel MichaelSwitzerland
<10Prete PaoloItaly
<10Yamamoto KazutomoJapan

Clarinet

2007

Violin
18-30Gocan AndreiRomania
14-18Tang YunChina
10-14Zhu MinjiaChina
<10Pocitari LiliaMoldavia

2008

Composition
10-14Boodram CameronSUA
10-14Longo MarcoItaly
10-14Nassif RafaelBrazil
10-14Odai KiyomitsuJapan
10-14Sikk JaakEstonia
<10Hu ShuhanChina
<10Bakas DimitriosGreece
<10De Souza Fliblio FerreiraBrazil
<10Hurtado Jose LuisMexico
<10Seo Hong JunSouth Koreea
<10Yamamoto KazutomoJapan

Flute
18-30Yaroshevskiy StanislavRussian Federation
14-18Stoilova NadyaBulgaria

Clarinet

2009

Violin
18-30Boursier KhrystynaUkraine
14-18Zhang ChendiChina
10-14Zhang JinruChina
<10Zayranov MartinBulgaria

2010

Piano
14-18Gologan AndreiRomania
14-18Li ZixiaoChina
10-14Ursu MelisaMoldavia
10-14Xu JinzhaoChina
<10Boyadzhiev EmilBulgaria

2011

Flute

2012

Violin
18-30Park SujinAustralia
14-18Hickey MaireadIreland
B<14Boschkor LaraGermany

2013

Piano

2014

Flute
18-30Carmineluigi AmabileItaly
14-18Zolnacz MariannaPoland

2015

Violin winners will be chosen from the 107 competitors representing 40 countries: Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, South Korea, Denmark, Egypt, Switzerland, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, UK, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, USA, Sweden, Taiwan - China, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, Venezuela.

2016

2016 edition will be held from May 14 to 21 with the reference instrument-piano.