Rules & Regulations

VIDEO RECORDING REGULATION Pre Selection Round

 

  • It is allowed to record seperate complete pieces, they can be also from different dates. Complete pieces needs to be recorded in one take.
  • The Video Recording must be done between 2024 & 2025 (until 20th May 2025).
  • Please upload and submit the video recording files via link using youtube and sent the link.
  • Please name the uploaded file in the following order:

Young Euregio Piano Award 2025, name, surname, Pre Selection Round

  • The program can be put into the discription.
  • The Competition reserves the exclusive rights to re-upload the video submitted by contestants for marketing or any other promotion.

 

General Conditions & Rules

  •  The whole repertoire must be played by memory. 
  • Applicants are only allowed to take part in one age category. The competition of the Young Euregio Piano Award in all age categories will be held in 3 rounds. The Pre-Selection Round will be held ONLINE in May. The Application Deadline is 20th May 2025. Results for the Pre-Selection Round will be published on 5th June 2025.
  • Participants are not allowed to repeat any of the pieces that they already played in 1st Round for the 2nd round. Pieces from the Video Pre-Selcetion Round can be repeated in the 1st Round or 2nd Round.

     

  • The jury can interrupt the performance if the max. time limit has reached.
  • The Jury can decide to not award or to share prizes.
  • The decision of the jury is final and will not be subjected to reviews or appeals.
  • All necessary documents for participation must be received by the Competition Secretary by email on May 20th 2025 at the latest.
  • Each competitor is responsible for all costs that may be incurred by participation in the Competition.
  • Prizewinners undertake to take part in the final prizewinners' concert. Absence may lead to the prize being withdrawn. The Artistic Director has the final decision.
  • Unfair behavior can lead to disqualification from participation. The Artistic Director has the final decision.
  • By appyling the participants agree to all terms and conditions.

  

No appeal shall be possible against decisions by the Jury or by the Competition Directors. The Konzertdirektion Koltun gUG (organisation of the YOUNG EUREGIO PIANO AWARD 2025) is sole holder of the rights to all video or audio recordings and Internet broadcasts in all stages of the Competition. Competitors cede to the Konzertdirektion KOltun gUG, without remuneration, the rights to the following:

    a) performances of works during the the whole Competition
    b) performances of works during the concerts for participants and the final-concert
    c) photographic and recorded images taken during participation in the Competition and the concerts.

    These rights are unlimited in time and space for the following purposes:
    - recording
    - reproduction (all forms)
    - trading
    - placing on computer memory, internet or other networks
    - public play-back and performance
    - exhibiting
    - screening
    - renting
    - leasing
    - broadcasting by wired or wireless sound or vision by terrestrial or satellite stations
    - simultaneous and integral radio and television transmission and retransmission.

The exploitation of these rights in the ways set out above will be carried out by individuals, firms, radio and television stations and record labels authorised to do so by the Konzertdirektion Koltun gUG.

 

For reasons of competition planning the competitors are required to report in time.    


All organizational decisions concerning the Competition remain the responsibility of the Competition Management. The Management reserves the right to make all final decisions in the event of any misunderstanding.

 

The application fee cannot be returned after application deadline.

 

In some cases foreign competitors will need visas. Applicants should consult the nearest German Embassy or Consulate for advice. The participants will get in official invitation letter, which they can use to apply the visa.

 

By sending the application form the participants declare that they approve the terms and conditions mentioned in the regulations.