1. IPCTL is a public competition; therefore, all rounds will be open for the audience. However the deliberations of the juries will happen seclusive.
2. IPCTL and its organizer; RMS, will follow the verdict of the jury. Though, the jury reserves the right to refrain from awarding a prize altogether or even dividing a prize. The decision of the Jury is incontestable.
3. IPCTL will, in case a records company wants to award a candidate with a CD recording engagement, only approve this in accordance with the Jury.
4. Communication between the candidates and the Jury is absolutely not permitted, before or during the competition. Unlawful contacts will lead to disqualification of the candidate(s), as the involved jury member(s) will be expulsed from the jury, in case there is clearly evidence.
The same will happen if a candidate or jury member attempts to contact through a third person.
5. No candidate will be permitted to enter directly in the Semi-Finals on ground that she/he is a laureate of another international competition.
Important notice:
Except for the First Prizewinner; former finalists and prizewinners are allowed to re-participate at IPCTL.
6. RMS; the competition management, reserves the right to allow radio, TV stations and record companies to live-record IPCTL. However this will only happen after written approval by RMS and the artistic director of IPCTL.
Candidates or Prizewinners will have no royalties or whatsoever on these recordings. RMS reserves the same rights for photographs and/or video recordings.
7. Participants of IPCTL, will be scheduled during the whole competition by RMS. It will be not possible to change fixed schedules unless a candidate is found to be ill (with doctor’s attestation).
The finals will take place with orchestra, TSO.
The order of finalists is going to be decided by IPCTL artistic director, advised by the conductor.
8. RMS will arrange lodgings and practice schedule for all participants, as long as they are ‘active’ candidates.
Semi-Finalists ( foreign participants )will be reimbursed for their total costs of lodgings (bed & breakfast).
3 Prize Winners will be reimbursed half of their air-ticket fee as well.
9. About IPCTL repertoire:
Participants are fully encouraged to perform all possible styles of music, including: transcriptions, own compositions or arrangements on popular themes.
However notice that: systematical -atonal, -serial, or -experimental music will be absolutely NOT permitted at IPCTL; including its other activities or events.
Unpublished scores or unknown pieces have to be sent to the competition management RMS well in advance, due to approval by IPCTL artistic director. (Latest 2 months prior to the start date of the competition.)
10. About the Jury
IPCTL will have two different juries: for details please visit IPCTL website.
I. Jury for the Qualifying Round. This jury will be composed of famous pianists and professors of South East Asia and others.
Rolf-Peter Wille
Constance Lee
Yang Jun
Wu Yin
Janos Cegledy
Yuko Ninomiya
II. International Jury for the Semi-Finals and Finals. Jury with international acclaimed pianists.
Peter Ritzen
Joerg Demus
Lazar Berman
Sergei Dorensky
Rudolf Kehrer
Bernard Ringeissen
Andrzej Jasinski
Sylvia Tray
Meir Minsky
The conductor might eventually also attend the jury in the Semi-Finals.
11. About the prizewinners
Their will be selected 24 Semi-Finalists, from the total participants of IPCTL by the Jury. International Jury will select 6 Finalists.
The Finalists will perform their chosen concerto with orchestra on June 1-2 2004 at the National Concert Hall. The International Jury will appoint 3 prizewinners. These prizewinners will receive a money prize award besides an engagement to participate in a joined Laureates Concert in Vienna and Salzburg (Salzburger Schlosskonzerte).
Their money prize includes the fee for the two concerts in Austria.
IPCTL will provide transportation and lodgings for the Austria concerts.
12. In applying for entry to IPCTL, participant confirms to agreeing on all conditions listed in this brochure.
13. The competent Taipei Municipal Court assumes jurisdiction over legal disputes. The English version is exclusively legal and binding.