About the Ivry Gitlis Competition

The main aim of the project is to organise an international classical music competition named THE IVRY GITLIS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. Through this project, we plan to promote both the cultural heritage of local and international classical music as well as the careers of up-and-coming young world talents performing in this genre. The competition will reward the best of the young artists selected after participation in three rounds of competition, each designed to convey and showcase a new and innovative approach to classical music. An audience will be permitted to attend each competition round and witness special live interpretations of legendary works by the performers. 

To encourage artistic, innovative, interdisciplinary, participatory cultural creations and productions, which contribute to social and urban development.

Example:  The unique programming of competition events aims to foster an innovative approach to classical music through the use of modern, original and innovative instruments and performance techniques. We will encourage the integration of diverse genres alongside classical music, thereby allowing participants to develop their own creative and integrated vision and style of classical music.

To support the continuing development of the cultural sector as relates to classical music.

Example: A classical music competition is a unique musical event for the entirety of society. Through our proposed agenda and all the resulting artistic moments, we aim to engage and connect different cultural and societal representatives, thus furthering the creation of a unique societal platform for cultural communication and the development of otherwise diverse and separated entities.

To develop synergies between the cultural sector and other areas of public life.

Example: The competition aims to involve the participation of well-known music education institutions and engage their leaders as influential and informative competition delegates helping to foster the integrated musical moments. Through this special contact and networking, we hope also to help bridge the resources and shared goals of regional and national education, research, and societal and political leadership, thereby contributing to a higher-level social cohesion designed to elevate and recognize the arts. At the same time, local entrepreneurs will be permitted to exhibit their products and services in an area set up throughout the event, to help promote business support for the arts and highlight the deep cultural and historical themes of the event.

To promote intercultural dialogue and highlight ethnocultural diversity.

Example: The enhancement of intercultural dialogue is a basic principle of our project, as classical music performance and technique is the natural product of all participating nations and cultures. Each classical composition contains ethnocultural motifs and features within itself, which can be identified and explored during the competition. As well, the participation of musicians from different countries, representing different cultures, serves to further highlight ethnocultural diversity from the direct perspective of classical music.

To encourage local, regional, national and international cultural exchanges and coproduction and increase the mobility of creators and cultural products.

Example: We will encourage cultural exchange directly by attracting competition participants from different countries and creating an audience and jury composed of international representatives. To date, the commission has focused on methods for the inclusion of international artists at all levels and the presentation of the competition results and productions on a global stage, i.e., international artists accompanied by a well-known orchestra or or up-and-coming ensemble of international musicians.

Camil Marinescu, a musician with an intense interpretative talent and impressive pedagogical resume that includes conducting courses at Osaka University and teaching courses in aesthetics and philosophy at the Kyoto University, has shown full support for this project. Discussions with him yielded many of the foundational elements of the founding of the project. 

The jury of the competition will be composed of well-known representatives of the international music elite: David Stern (Honorary President of the competition) - France, Chairman of the Board - Emilian Dascal - Romania and Finland, Head of the Jury - Lorenz Nasturica Herschkowici - Finland, Gunars Larsen - Australia, Sunny Lee - South Korea, Gyehee Kim - South Korea, Florin Croitoru - Romania, Bin Huang - China, James Alexander - USA, and Jenny Ro Bechtiger - Switzerland. The national and international cooperation of this musical competition is evident and ever developing. All the aforementioned parties have shown great interest in participating in the competition jury and to promote it among their respective international music agencies from which they can attract a growing number of young talented violinists as potential participants.

Throughout the three stages of the competition, the greater public will have access to and be able to participate in the cultural event. Moreover, through this project, we want to convey openly our shared love of classical music to the world audience, who will witness the delightfully wide range of unique interpretations of classical music that may derive from such a pool of talented and dedicated participants. The competition aims to involve a broad campaign to promote the event and inform international guests about the potential to host and implement a high profile international competition and, in doing so, develop the careers of participants, both local and non-local. Our goal is to expand the first edition of the competition to follow-up opportunities and subsequent editions that would further promote the aforementioned goals and objectives.

Direct beneficiaries

Participants aged between 18 and 30 years and spectators of the competition rounds. Winners will be given the opportunity to receive monetary and other prizes from public and private sponsorship.

Indirect beneficiaries

Cultural, business and political organizations and music education institutions involved in the artistic programming, organization and/or sponsorship of events.

• Establishment of activities agenda, timetable
• Preparation of photo/video promotional materials for the competition
• Development of the web platform for registration and acquisition of information: ivrygitliscompetition.org
• Launch of competition promotion online
• Development of methods for verification and selection of applicants and their data
• Establishment of contact and contracts with sponsoring businesses and political agencies
• Promotion and dissemination of information about the competition using methods such as: Google Ads, Facebook, Websites, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Spotify, TikTok, and Printed magazines and newspapers
• Announcements about the event in local press and online media.