Parkening International Guitar Competition

• The Competition
• Results
• The Competitors
• Prize Money
• Application Process
• Judging
• The Judges
• Schedule
• Repertoire
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The Competition

Repertoire

Audition:

• J.S. Bach's "Fugue" (BWV 1001) from Christopher Parkening - Solo Pieces, Hal Leonard Corporation, HL00690939 (to be published later this year; for a pdf version, please contact Mr. Parkening's assistant, Sharon, at music52@earthlink.net) (approximate time 5 minutes)
• Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fandango" from Tres piezas españolas, Schott & Co. Ltd., London (Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York) (approximate time 4 minutes)
• Enrique Granados' "La Maja de Goya" from Christopher
  Parkening - Solo Pieces, Hal Leonard Corporation, HL00690939 (to be published later this year; for a pdf version, please contact Mr. Parkening's assistant, Sharon, at music52@earthlink.net) (approximate time 5 minutes)
• Free-choice music is also required with the total audition not to exceed 30 minutes.

Preliminary Round:

• J.S. Bach's "Fugue" (BWV 1001) from Christopher Parkening - Solo Pieces, Hal Leonard Corporation, HL00690939 (published August 2008; for a pdf version, please contact Mr. Parkening's assistant, Sharon, at music52@earthlink.net) (approximate time 5 minutes)
• Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fandango" from Tres piezas españolas, Schott & Co. Ltd., London (Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York) (approximate time 4 minutes)
• Enrique Granados' "La Maja de Goya" from Christopher
  Parkening - Solo Pieces, Hal Leonard Corporation, HL00690939 (to be published later this year; for a pdf version, please contact Mr. Parkening's assistant, Sharon, at music52@earthlink.net) (approximate time 5 minutes)
• Free-choice music is not required in this round, total playing time not to exceed 15 minutes.

Semi-finals:

• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Sonata: Omággio a Boccherini," Schott & Co. Ltd., London (Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York) (approximate time 16 minutes)
• Free-choice music is also required in this round, with the total playing time not to exceed 30 minutes. Works from the preliminary round may not be included in the semi-final round.

Finals:

Any one of the following concertos is to be performed in the final:

• Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre, Schott and Co. edition (approximate time 22 minutes)
• Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Schott and Co. edition (approximate time 22 minutes)
• Castelnuovo -Tedesco: Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Schott and Co. edition (approximate time 20 minutes)
• Ponce: Concierto del Sur, Peer International Corporation edition (approximate time 25 minutes)
• Elmer Bernstein: Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, Bernal Music "Themes and Variations" www.tnv.net (approximate time 22 minutes)

In addition to the concerto, finalists will present an encore piece of their choice, not to exceed five minutes. This encore piece may be selected from a previous round, or may be any other work that does not exceed five minutes.

The entire repertoire detailed, with the exception of the Bernstein which is available from Bernal Music, is available from Guitar Solo Publications in San Francisco.