Repertoire

Preliminary round

A video recording with the following repertoire:

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo E flat major KV 371 (edition Breitkopf or Bärenreiter)

2. Vitaly Bujanovsky: España (edition Muzyka 1976)

Round I 

1. Jan Václav Stich Punto: Concerto No. 5 in F major – 1st and 2nd movement (Edition KaWe Amsterdam 1973)

2. One of the following compositions
a) Eugene Bozza: En Foret (Alphonse Leduc)
b) Eugene Bozza: Sur les Cimes (Alphonse Leduc)
c) Paul Dukas: Villanelle for French Horn and Piano (A. Durand & Fils, 1906) – The whole composition must be played with the valves.

Round II

1. One of the following concertos (to be memorized)
a) Christoph Förster: Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag Leipzig)
b) Christoph Förster: Concerto No. 2 in E flat major (Copyright Marvin M. Mc Coy 1981 D.B.A. Mc Coys Horn Libra)
c) Johann Joachim Quantz: Concerto in E flat major (Edition Kunzelmann GmbH)
d) Georg Philip Telemann: Concerto in D major (Hans Sikorski)

2. Robert Schumann: Adagio und Allegro (Edition Peters)

3. Kryštof Marek: Solo Composition up to 10 minutes commissioned for the IMC Prague Spring 2024

PIANO COOPERATION
Official piano accompanists are available at no charge on request in the application. Participants may bring along their personal accompanist at their own expense.

Finals

Othmar Schoeck: Concerto for French Horn and String Orchestra Op. 65 (Boosey & Hawkes)

Camille Saint-Saëns: Morceau de Concert Op. 94

In collaboration with Pilsen Philharmonic, conducted by Chuhei Iwasaki.

Preliminary round

A video recording with the following repertoire:

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin concerto of the candidate’s choice – first movement with cadenza

2. Antonín Dvořák: Mazurek Op. 49

Round I (to be memorized)

1. Antonín Dvořák: Mazurek Op. 49

2. Johann Sebastian Bach: the last two movements from one of the following solo sonatas
a) in G minor (BWV 1001)
b) in A minor (BWV 1003)
c) in C major (BWV 1005)

3. One of the following pieces
a) Nicolo Paganini: Capriccio according to own choice except Nos. 13 and 14
b) Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: one etude of 6 polyphonic studies except No. 6 (Last Rose of Summer)

4. Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek: Rondo in A major Op. 8 (download sheet music)

Round II

A recital containing the following compositions with a total length of up to 40 minutes

1. One of the following sonatas
a) Béla Bartók: Sonata No. 2 Sz. 76
b) Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2 Op. 94
c) Leoš Janáček: Sonata
d) Bohuslav Martinů: Sonata No. 1 H. 182
e) Maurice Ravel: Sonata No. 2 in G major
f) Claude Debussy: Sonata in G minor L. 140
g) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 1 in D major Op. 12 No. 1
h) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 2 in A major Op. 12 No. 2
i) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in E flat major Op. 12 No. 3
j) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23
k) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 6 in A major Op. 30 No. 1
l) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G major Op. 30 No. 3
m) Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A major Op. 100
n) Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108
0) Robert Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105

2. Miroslav Srnka: Solo composition up to 5 minutes commissioned for the IMC Prague Spring 2024

3. A virtuoso composition for violin and piano or violin solo of the candicate´s choice from a period other than the selected sonata. The piece must have been composed no later than 1930. (to be memorized)

PIANO COOPERATION
Official piano accompanists are available at no charge on request in the application. Participants may bring along their personal accompanist at their own expense.

Finals (to be memorized)

1. One of the following concertos
a) Antonín Dvořák: Concerto in A minor Op. 53
b) Bohuslav Martinů: Concerto No. 2 G minor H. 293
c) Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto in D major Op. 61
d) Johannes Brahms: Concerto in D major Op. 77
e) Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Concerto in E minor Op. 64
f) Jean Sibelius: Concerto in D minor Op. 47
g) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto in D major Op. 35

2. An encore after the end of the violin concert of your choice with a maximum length of 4 minutes

In cooperation with the PKF – Prague Philharmonia, conductor Marek Šedivý