The Latin American Music Center is not coordinating this year's Alirio Díaz Competition.

All consultations must be addressed to:



"Alirio Díaz" XI International Guitar Competition

Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo

Ccs 10012 P.O.BOX 025323

Miami, Fl. 33102-5323

Fax: (582) 793 56 06

Phones: (582) 793 59 82 / 593 57 17 / 793 49 48

Email: funves@reacciun.ve

"ALIRIO DIAZ XI International Competition"
Competition Statutes

ARTICLE ONE

The "Alirio Díaz XI International Guitar Competition will be held at the Teatro Teresa Carreño in Caracas, and it is being organized by the Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo. It will take place from Saturday, August 1st to Saturday, August 8th, 1998; both days included within the frame of the Festival Internacional de Agosto (August International Festival), organized by the Proyecto Cultural Mavesa.

ARTICLE TWO

Participants must not be older than 30 years old at the time of the Competition, having been born between the 1st and the 8th of August of 1968.

ARTICLE THREE

There will be a preselection. The contestants must send a recent cassette to the Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo recorded, preferably live, of three works reflecting three different styles with an advanced degree of difficulty and a maximum duration of thirty (30) minutes. The Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo will act as coordinator of the Competition, and can limit the number of participants.

ARTICLE FOUR

Inscriptions will be processed by the Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo. To formalize the inscriptions contestants must do the following:

* Fill out the attached application form, include a check or Money Order for $50 (American Dollars) to the FUNDACION VICENTE EMILIO SOJO.

* Enclose the information required in Article Five.

* The application form, the requirements, and the check, must be posted to one of the following addresses:

"Alirio Díaz" XI International Guitar Competition

Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo

Ccs 10012 P.O.BOX 025323

Miami, Fl. 33102-5323

For more information

Fax: (582) 793 56 06

Phones: (582) 793 59 82 / 593 57 17 / 793 49 48

Email: funves@reacciun.ve

*The inscription to participate in the Competition will be formalized only when the candidate has been selected by the preselection committee. The inscription fee will not be reimbursed.

* The deadline for the delivery of the requirements is Monday, June 01, 1998.

ARTICLE FIVE

The application form must be accompanied by the following:

* Documents that certify the date, birthplace, and contestants nationality.

* Number, place date of issuance, date of expiration and type of passport.

* Three (03) recent photos, 5x7 inches.

* Résumé (one-page).

* Neat photocopies of official certificates of music studies, specifying grades obtained and names of teachers. At least two letters of recommendation should be included.

* Any document (programs, critiques, comments, etc.), that certify any recent musical activity (last three years).

* A complete list of the scores on the program that the contestant will interpret, and the approximate duration of each musical composition.

* List of repertoire executed in public.

* Cassette with a live recording of three pieces that reflect three different styles with an advanced degree of difficulty, no longer than thirty (30) minutes.

ARTICLE SIX

The Competition will consist of three qualifying rounds. First, Second, and Final.

ARTICLE SEVEN

The order of performance will be determined by a drawing which will take place on Sunday, August 2nd, 1998. All contestants must be present at the time of the drawing. This responsibility cannot be entrusted on another person.

ARTICLE EIGHT

The jury will consist of five personalities of great prestige among guitarists. They will judge the performances and solve any incidences that arise. Their decision will be unappealable.

ARTICLE NINE

The jury will be presided over by Maestro Alirio Díaz.

ARTICLE TEN

Those members of the jury that are close of kin or have acted as instructors or professors to any participant during the five years previous to the Competition cannot participate in that contestant's evaluation.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

The whole program will be executed from memory.

ARTICLE TWELVE

The examining jury can interrupt the interpretations of the contestants when they deem it convenient.

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

The Following prizes will be distributed among the winners for a total amount of $18.000 (American Dollars), tax free.

First prize $10.000 Medal, Diploma and an invitation to perform at the Festival Internacional de Agosto 1999

Second prize $5.000 Medal and diploma

Third prize $3.000 Medal and diploma.

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

The prizes are indivisible and the jury's decision must be unanimous. Anyone of the prizes could be declared void by the unanimous decision of the jury.

ARTICLE FIFTEEN

The act of handing out the prizes will take place at the closing ceremony of the Festival Internacional de Agosto'98, on Saturday, August 08, 1998. The winners will perform at this ceremony without demanding any fee.

ARTICLE SIXTEEN

The Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo has the legal right to record, broadcast, or televise the recordings made during the contest and final concert. The contestants will consent to the unremunerated recording and broadcasting made of their performances by Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo and Proyecto Cultural Mavesa.

ARTICLE SEVENTEEN

Travel expenses from the contestants' country to the place of the competition and their return is the responsibility of each participant.

ARTICLE EIGHTEEN

The expenses (hotel, food) of the contestants that pass on to the second preliminary round, will be assumed by the Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, from Tuesday, August 04th, 1998, until one (01) day after their last performance. In the case of the winners, the coordination of the Competition will finance their stay until one day (01) after the final concert and the awards presentation ceremony. Any delay in the due departure dates of airline itineraries or other occurrences, will be the contestants' responsibility. Travel expenses from the contestants' country to the place of the competition and their return is the responsibility of each participant.

ARTICLE NINETEEN

Companions are not permitted.

ARTICLE TWENTY

The participants that have not arrived to the place of the Competition by Saturday, August 1st, 1998 will be automatically excluded.

ARTICLE TWENTY-ONE

Once the awards presentation ceremony has concluded the winners are free to acquire any commitment with others, inside and outside the country and the Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, the Proyecto Cultural Mavesa, and the Organizing Committee, cease to have any responsibility and inherence in this commitment.

ARTICLE TWENTY-TWO

The general coordination of the Competition will decide on cases not foreseen in these Statutes and will look after its well being.

ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE

The following is the program to be interpreted in the tests:

First Test

A ten-minute selection by the following composers: John Dowland, Luis de Milán, Alonzo de Mudarra, Luys de Narváez, Miguel de Fuenllana, Anthony Holborne, Francesco da Milano.

Select one of the following:

• Four guitar compositions by Juan Bautista Plaza (Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo Editions)
• Inocente Carreño: Suite (Zanibon GZ 5487)
• Four "Aguinaldos" chosen among the Venezuelan Melodies published by Alirio Díaz on harmonizations of Vicente Emilio Sojo (Volumes I and II GZ 6280 and GZ 6281)
• Suite Latinando by Alfonso Montes (Verlag H. Nogatz KN1104)

Select one of the following:

• Antonio Lauro: Venezuelan Suite (Broekmans van Poppel BVP 793)
• Antonio Lauro: Sonata (Zanibon GZ 5539)

Second Test

* Selection of recital repertoire with contrasting works of free election with a duration of no lees than 30 and no more than 35 minutes.

Special attention will be paid to the selection of the repertoire.

* It is compulsory to interpret Don Freund's Stirrings, the winning composition of the II International Guitar Composition Contest Rodrigo Riera. Copies of this score will be sent to the participants once the inscription fee has been cancelled.

Third Test

Choose one of the following works of Johann Sebastian Bach:

• Any Suite for Lute.
• Any Suite for Cello.
• Any Suite or Score for Violin

Choose one concert among the following:

• Concierto N1 en La Mayor, Antonio Lauro (Zanibon)
• Concierto ElegÌaco, Leo Brouwer.
• Concert for Classical Guitar and Orchestra, Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Concert N 1 or 2, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
• Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra, Alfonso Montes (Verlag H. Nogatz)
• Aranjuez Concert, Joaquín Rodrigo (Spanish Musical Union)
• Concierto del Sur, Manuel Ponce (Schott)

Note: The statutes will be drawn up in both English and Spanish. However, only the Spanish version is legally binding.

Please email questions or consultations to Latin American Music Center: lamc@indiana.edu