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A hundred pianists from 27 countries take part in the 57th Maria Canals International Music Competition
- From 18 March to 1 April 2011 Barcelona becomes world piano capital
- The competition awards over €40,000 in main prizes and puts on thirty paid concerts totalling €40,000
- OFF Maria Canals launches the “Maria Canals’ grand tour” initiative to take a grand piano through Barcelona for anyone to play
Barcelona, 4 February 2011. The Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona will be held from 18 March to 1 April 2011 at the Palau de la Música Catalana and a number of other major venues, streets and squares in the city. During this event a hundred pianists from 27 countries will take part in the competition and give concerts throughout the city as part of OFF Maria Canals.
The preliminary rounds of the competition will take place between 20 and 29 March at the Petit Palau, and the final contest, accompanied by El Vallès Symphony Orchestra, will be held at 8.30 pm on Wednesday 30 March at the Palau de la Música Catalana.
Novelties this year include the new CFX piano to be played by finalists at the 57th Competition. Yamaha has been working on this nine-foot grand piano for nineteen years and the Spanish public will get their first chance to hear it at the Maria Canals Competition.
The special and main prizes together total over €40,000. The First Prize, the Barcelona Prize, is €20,000; the Second Prize, €10,000; and the Third Prize, €6,000. Finalists will also receive a €1,000 Prize.
Aged between 18 and 30, competitors can also put themselves forward for a number of special prizes, including several to promote Catalan composers: the M Blancafort Best Musician Prize, the Albéniz Best Musician Prize, the F Mompou Best Musician Prize, and, new this year, the Montsalvatge Best Performer Prize.
In addition, finalists can also take part in a series of thirty concerts throughout Catalonia, Spain and the rest of the world. Highlights in Catalonia include performances at Mitjanit festival in Sitges, Torroella in Montgrí, Santa Cristina d’Aro, Santa Florentina, as well as at the Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori. There will also be concerts in the regular programme of some of the top Spanish symphony orchestras from Tenerife, Granada, Bilbao and Madrid, and other world cities, including Rome, Moscow and a tour around China, amongst others.
Tribute to Maria Canals
This will be the first Maria Canals Competition without its founder, Maria Canals i Cendrós, who died in July 2010 at the age of 96. This year’s event will pay special tribute to her by putting on an exhibition “A Life in Music” and holding a commemorative act at the Palau.
The founder’s closest friends and family will gather on Saturday 19 March at the Sala de Cambra at the Palau to pay tribute to Maria Canals and open the retrospective exhibition on her life in the foyer of the Petit Palau, which will be on throughout the Competition.
In addition, Barcelona City Council has also decided to honour Maria Canals by giving her name to one of the new public spaces in the city in the coming years. The new street, avenue or square that will bear her name is yet to be decided.
Maria Cana
ls’ grand tour
This year, OFF Maria Canals has launched the “Maria Canals’ grand tour” initiative to get people involved in playing music by taking a grand piano to 12 different spots in the city so anyone can have a go at playing it, just as they could last year with an upright piano.
This initiative gets under way on Friday 18 March at Plaça Reial, where OFF Maria Canals has organised a twelve-hour marathon in conjunction with the La Reial ens mou association. From 10 am to 10 pm, music students, artists and anyone else interested can play or listen to a grand piano.
The Competition also offers the general public the chance to play a grand piano in the street at the following times and places:
Data and palace
For the first time, this year the public can listen to the preliminary rounds at the Palau de la Música Catalana from 20 to 27 March for free. Anyone wanting to attend for free should bring a photograph of the grand piano touring the streets of Barcelona as part of the Competition; those without a photograph will have to pay €5 for admission, as in previous years.
More about the Maria Canals Competition
The Maria Canals International Music Competition, a pioneering music contest in Spain, was set up in 1954 by Maria Canals and her husband, Rossend Llates, assisted by leading members of Catalan society. In 1958 it became the first Spanish contest to be accepted by the World Federation of International Music Competitions, which authorised it to organise piano, violin, cello, guitar, chamber music, flute, percussion and singing events in Barcelona.
This is one of the deepest-rooted international competitions and aims to consolidate its position as one of the most prestigious worldwide.
The preliminary rounds of the competition will take place between 20 and 29 March at the Petit Palau, and the final contest, accompanied by El Vallès Symphony Orchestra, will be held at 8.30 pm on Wednesday 30 March at the Palau de la Música Catalana.
Novelties this year include the new CFX piano to be played by finalists at the 57th Competition. Yamaha has been working on this nine-foot grand piano for nineteen years and the Spanish public will get their first chance to hear it at the Maria Canals Competition.
The special and main prizes together total over €40,000. The First Prize, the Barcelona Prize, is €20,000; the Second Prize, €10,000; and the Third Prize, €6,000. Finalists will also receive a €1,000 Prize.
Aged between 18 and 30, competitors can also put themselves forward for a number of special prizes, including several to promote Catalan composers: the M Blancafort Best Musician Prize, the Albéniz Best Musician Prize, the F Mompou Best Musician Prize, and, new this year, the Montsalvatge Best Performer Prize.
In addition, finalists can also take part in a series of thirty concerts throughout Catalonia, Spain and the rest of the world. Highlights in Catalonia include performances at Mitjanit festival in Sitges, Torroella in Montgrí, Santa Cristina d’Aro, Santa Florentina, as well as at the Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori. There will also be concerts in the regular programme of some of the top Spanish symphony orchestras from Tenerife, Granada, Bilbao and Madrid, and other world cities, including Rome, Moscow and a tour around China, amongst others.
Tribute to Maria Canals
This will be the first Maria Canals Competition without its founder, Maria Canals i Cendrós, who died in July 2010 at the age of 96. This year’s event will pay special tribute to her by putting on an exhibition “A Life in Music” and holding a commemorative act at the Palau.
The founder’s closest friends and family will gather on Saturday 19 March at the Sala de Cambra at the Palau to pay tribute to Maria Canals and open the retrospective exhibition on her life in the foyer of the Petit Palau, which will be on throughout the Competition.
In addition, Barcelona City Council has also decided to honour Maria Canals by giving her name to one of the new public spaces in the city in the coming years. The new street, avenue or square that will bear her name is yet to be decided.
Maria Cana
ls’ grand tour This year, OFF Maria Canals has launched the “Maria Canals’ grand tour” initiative to get people involved in playing music by taking a grand piano to 12 different spots in the city so anyone can have a go at playing it, just as they could last year with an upright piano.
This initiative gets under way on Friday 18 March at Plaça Reial, where OFF Maria Canals has organised a twelve-hour marathon in conjunction with the La Reial ens mou association. From 10 am to 10 pm, music students, artists and anyone else interested can play or listen to a grand piano.
The Competition also offers the general public the chance to play a grand piano in the street at the following times and places:
Data and palace
- Friday 18 March Av. Diagonal/Joan Güell
- Saturday 19 March Parc de la Ciutadella
- Sunday 20 March Parc de la Ciutadella
- Monday 21 March Rambla 99
- Tuesday 22 March Pl. De les Dones del 36
- Wednesday 23 March Plaça Orfila
- Thursday 24 March Plaça Bonanova
- Friday 25 March Plaça Eivissa
- Saturday 26 March Rambla Poble Nou
- Sunday 27 March Parc de la Guineueta
- Monday 28 March Biblioteca Vapor Vell
- Tuesday 29 March Plaça Catalunya/ Bergara
- Wednesday 30 March Palau de la Música
- Thursday 31 March Palau de la Música
For the first time, this year the public can listen to the preliminary rounds at the Palau de la Música Catalana from 20 to 27 March for free. Anyone wanting to attend for free should bring a photograph of the grand piano touring the streets of Barcelona as part of the Competition; those without a photograph will have to pay €5 for admission, as in previous years.
More about the Maria Canals Competition
The Maria Canals International Music Competition, a pioneering music contest in Spain, was set up in 1954 by Maria Canals and her husband, Rossend Llates, assisted by leading members of Catalan society. In 1958 it became the first Spanish contest to be accepted by the World Federation of International Music Competitions, which authorised it to organise piano, violin, cello, guitar, chamber music, flute, percussion and singing events in Barcelona.
This is one of the deepest-rooted international competitions and aims to consolidate its position as one of the most prestigious worldwide.
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