Program activities

PRELIMINARY ROUND Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th August 2011 Abbey Church J. S. Bach: Choral BWV 659: «Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland» F. Liszt: Prelude and Fuge B.A.C.H. (Edition 1870)

SEMI-FINAL

Saint-Sigismond

• J. S. Bach: Two Prelude and Fuge chosen bye the competitor himself: BWV 542, 543, 547, 548, 552

• J. S. Bach: Two Sonatas in Trio Form choser by the competitor himself: BWS 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530

The decision as to the choice of the programme – one Sonata – will be made by the jury on the preceding day.

The organ will be at each competitor’s disposal for at least two hours : two periods of one hour over two days.

FINAL

Saturday 20nd August 2011 – 3 competitors

Abbey Church

• F. Liszt: Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine
  - Miserere Allegri
  - Ave Verum Mozart
  Editions Musica (Margittay or Peters (Straube)

• Ch-M. Widor: Symphonie romane op. 73 Final

The organ will be at each competitor’s disposal for at least three hours divided into two peri-ods covering two days.

PRIZES

• One first prize : CHF 10,000, Prize of the State of Valais, awarded by the council for culture of the
  “Canton du Valais”.

• One second prize : CHF 6,000, awarded by the town of Saint-Maurice.

• One third prize : CHF 4,000, awarded by the Foundation Seymour-Obermer.

• Special Prize: CHF 2,000 (Fondation Gianadda) for the best interpretation of Liszt's works awarded by Léonard Gianadda

COMPETITION JURY

Georges Athanasiadès,
Switzerland, chairman

Luigi Celeghin,
Italy

Karl Anton Rickenbacher,
conductor, Switzerland

Klaus Sonnleitner,
Austria

Zsigmond Szathmáry,
Germany

Jean-François Vaucher,
Switzerland

Rostislaw Wygranienko
1st prize 2003, Poland

The jury’s decisions are final and may not be contested.