Kocian Violin Competition

Règlement & répertoire

Inscription & droits

• The organizer’s active form shows the 2027 birth-year groups. The deadline is 28 February 2027. Ústí nad Orlicí is on CET (Europe/Prague, UTC+1); no cutoff hour or form time zone is stated. Non-refundable application fee: CZK 1,700, or EUR 100 for foreign entrants. Follow the bank instructions in the official rules and put the contestant’s name and category in the transfer note.
• Enter name, birth date, email, phone, postal code, country and category. Give the title, composer and duration of each free work, teacher’s name, accompanist’s name and music school details. The form requires data and recording acknowledgments. Its privacy text still names the 67th edition, while the header and birth-year choices match the 69th. Confirm any consent question with info@kocianovo-usti.com.
• The reviewed form and rules do not ask for recommendation letters, separately submitted referee details, witnesses, identification files, photographs, CVs, a receipt upload or an audition recording. The rules do not publish an additional nationality restriction or minimum birth year for Category 1.

Tours & durées

Category 1 · born in 2017 or later · one live round

• Play Martinů’s Kolombína tančí in Antonín Moravec’s violin-and-piano arrangement, with repeats, and a 4–8 minute free programme. The order is free. The rules give no fixed count for the free works.

Category 2 · born in 2015–2016 · two live rounds

• Anonymous first round: Jaroslav Kocian’s Méditation du Soir. Public second round: a free programme of 8–13 minutes. No fixed selection count is stated.

Category 3 · born in 2013–2014 · two live rounds

• Anonymous first round: movements I and II of Martinů’s Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano. Public second round: a free programme of 12–20 minutes. No fixed selection count is stated.

Category 4 · born in 2011–2012 · two live rounds

• Anonymous first round: Kreisler’s Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6, for unaccompanied violin. Public second round: a free programme of 14–20 minutes. No fixed selection count is stated.

Répertoire

• Perform all set and free works from memory. The appendix lists all compulsory works and available score links. Except for the first category’s specified repeats and free order, the official materials do not give a general repeat, repertoire-order, cross-round repetition or concerto rule. The jury may stop an overlength performance or disqualify one below the minimum.
• Rounds are live on 4–8 May 2027. Competitor order is drawn for each round, and first-round entrants in Categories 2–4 perform under numbers. Up to 15 per category may advance. No further finalist forms are published. Prizewinners must attend the closing concert and ceremony. The organizer does not supply an accompanist; for help arranging one, contact hajkova.klavir@seznam.cz. Travel, accommodation and meals are at entrants’ expense.

Source : 2027 official rules and fee · 2027 complete compulsory repertoire and score links · Official English application · Official Czech application