(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 19. The National music &
Global Culture Society (NMGCS) has held a selection for the IV
International Composition Competition with the support of the State
Committee on Work with Diaspora of Azerbaijan, President of NMGCS,
laureate of international competitions, and Honored Artist of
Azerbaijan, professor Nargiz Aliyarova told Trend .
“The winners will be announced on September 18, Azerbaijan's
National Music Day. The premiere of the prize-winning compositions
will take place in Baku in September as part of the International
Music Festival of Uzeyir Hajibayli. The concert will also be held
in November at the Lincoln Center in New York,” Aliyarova
noted.
The jury includes Sungji Hong, Head of the Composition
Department at the Juilliard School in New York and Associate
Professor of Music Composition at the University of North Texas,
and Jalal Abbasov, an honored art worker of Azerbaijan and a
teacher at the Baku Music Academy named after Uzeyir Hajibayli and
the Azerbaijan National Conservatory.
This competition is the first and only international composition
contest in the history of Azerbaijani music. This year's contest is
dedicated to Azerbaijani folk songs, aiming to highlight issues
related to plagiarized Azerbaijani folk art and promote its global
awareness. Representatives from 24 countries are participating in
this year's competition. Winners will be announced, and diplomas
and prizes will be awarded: $2,000 for first place, $1,000 for
second place, and $500 for third place.
The best compositions will be compiled into an anthology,
registered with the Library of Congress, and published in New York
with an individual number and barcode.
Notably, two collections of works by laureates of the first and
second Melody Composers Contests, Uzeyir Hajibayli and Fikret
Amirov, have already been published in New York.
The first International Composition Competition in 2021 featured
51 participants from 35 countries; the second in 2022 had 35
participants from 23 countries; and the third in 2023 included 54
participants from 22 countries. Winners have come from Azerbaijan,
the UK, the USA, Germany, Austria, Spain, Poland, China, Colombia,
Georgia, and Ukraine.
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