Regulation

1. Pianists from all over the world can participate in the Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors (hereinafter, the “Competition”).
2. The piano nomination participants should be at least 16 and no older than 32 years inclusive by the Competition Opening on June 15, 2022.
3. The maximum number of participants of the live rounds is 24.
4. The preparation, arrangement and management of the Competition is supervised by the art manager of the competition appointed by the order of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the competition directorate established by the Russian Ministry of Culture that is acting upon the Regulations on the competition directorate approved by the organizing committee.

1. The competition applicant (hereinafter, the “applicant”) must submit his/her application to participate in the competition (hereinafter, the “application”) until April 1, 2022, via the participant’s personal account on the official website of the competition (hereinafter, the “official website”). The application must be in Russian or English according to the form provided on the official website.
2. The application must have the following documents attached:

– a copy of the applicant’s document of identification (Internal passport of Russia for Russian citizens, passport of a foreign citizen or another document established by federal law or accepted in accordance with an international treaty of the Russian Federation as a document identification of a foreign citizen for foreign citizens);

– applicant’s biography (approximately 1,000 characters);

– 2 digital color photos of the applicant, resolution is at least 300 dpi, including a close-up photo for publication;

– a copy of the musical education certificate;

– copies of the laureate diplomas of international competitions for the last 3 years (if any);

– applicant’s bank account details (for the prize transfer);

– 2 letters of recommendation: one from the applicant’s music teacher, the other from an internationally-renowned concert performer, conductor or composer. The letters must be written in Russian or English as a special recommendation for the applicant to participate in the competition.

3. The piano nomination applicants should attach to their applications the list of musical pieces from the competition program including their tonalities, movements as well as the performance duration of all competition pieces including the qualifying round.

Changes to the mentioned list can be made only until April 1, 2022.

4. The piano nomination applicants should submit a video recording of their performance of the musical pieces filmed for the competition, unedited, recorded no earlier than in September 2021, prior to participation in the competition, strictly in the same place (hereinafter, the “video”). The video should be submitted in the form of a web link (the participants are responsible for providing the working web links). Videos should be made by one fixed camera without interruption during the performance of one piece of music and show a musician as he/she is seen from the audience perspective (in full growth); Turning off the camera between the recording of different pieces is allowed. The video repertory requirements are specified in the competition program.

1. The competition consists of the qualifying round and 1st, 2nd, 3rd (final) live rounds held at the competition venue.
2. The applicants for the 1st round are chosen according to the results of the qualifying round based on the judgement of the submitted videos, applications and the attached documents and materials specified in the Application Procedure section.

The competition directorate will announce the qualifying round results before April 30, 2022.

The applicants who pass the qualifying round receive the official letter from the competition directorate containing the invitation to participate in the live rounds.

The applicants who do not pass the qualifying round receive the official letter from the competition directorate containing information on the competition jury’s decision to terminate their participation in the competition.

3. No more than 24 pianists can be admitted to the 1st round; no more than 12 pianists – to the 2nd round; no more than 6 pianists – to the 3rd round.
4. The 1st and 2nd rounds include solo performances of the competition program; the 3rd round has two parts: a performance with vocalists and a performance with an orchestra.
5. The drawing procedure in the 1st round defines the order of the performances that remains unchanged throughout the competition. Only the competition jury has the right to decide on changing the order of performances.
6. Prior to the 1st round, the participants are provided with practice rooms and time for acoustic rehearsals on the stage of the concert hall where the competition will be held.
7. All the musical pieces should be performed by heart (excluding Rachmaninoff’s romances during the 1st part of the 3rd round).
8. All live performances of the contestants are open to the public.
9. The results of the participants’ performances are announced at the end of each round.