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World Shakuhachi Festival KYOTO 2012

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First International Shakuhachi Competition Application

『-JYU- for shakuhachi, shamisen and koto』
『-Issyo- shakuhachi, koto and 17gen』
sample midi

Sponsors: The Japanese Music Association, Hogaku Journal

Time: Final Competition and Judging, 13:00-18:00 Thursday, May 31, 2012

Location: Otani Hall, Kyoto (800 seats)

Audience Admission: Free

Participation Guidelines

• This is an absolutely open competition, with no participation restrictions like age, pro/amateur status, shakuhachi style, nationality, etc.  Choice of standard, long or short flute, five hole/seven hole, etc. is up to the participant.

• Registration Process: Fill out the application form and send it in with your shakuhachi solo (no accompaniment of any kind, live or recorded) recording of five (5) minutes or less. Any content is acceptable; classical, modern, folk, original, etc. Segments of longer pieces are also acceptable. Email (mp3, etc.) or mail (CD, mini-disk, etc.) your audition recording with the application form and fee.

• Registration Time-frame: Jan. 1, 2012 – Feb. 29, 2012

• Registration Fee: 5,000yen (JY) to be paid at time of registration by PAYPAL to the account below.

• Preliminary Judging: Preliminary judging of recordings will take place in March. Depending on the number of participants, up to 30 participants will be selected to perform in the final competition in Kyoto on May 31. Preliminary results will be reported to all participants as soon as they are determined, and will also be announced on the sponsor’s website and in the April, 2012 issue of Hogaku Journal.

• NOTE: For all participants in foreign countries who reach the finals, a travel support stipend of up to $500US (depending on origin of travel) will be provided.

• Final Competition Format: Each participant performs two pieces.

1. Individual Choice Piece (5 minutes): shakuhachi solo (no accompaniment of any kind, live or recorded). Any content is acceptable; classical, modern, folk, original, etc. At the participant’s discretion, the solo may or may not be the same piece used in the preliminary event.

2. Required Ensemble Piece (to be selected by the performer from two modern options/ 3 minutes): Options are (A) a new work for shakuhachi, koto and shamisen composed by Kumiko Takahashi, or (B) a new work for shakuhachi, koto and bass koto (17 string koto) composed by Tomoko Maeda.  Sheet music and midi recordings for these pieces will be posted on the sponsor’s website on December 1, 2011.
『-JYU- for shakuhachi, shamisen and koto』
『-Issyo- shakuhachi, koto and 17gen』
sample midi

• Participants will have 30 minutes each for live practice of the ensemble piece they select, either on the morning of the Finals competition or the day before, at Otani Hall. The sponsor will provide several teams of accompanists and specify which team will accompany which participant.

• Judges: Kaoru Kakizakai, Yôdô Kurahashi, Ryôzan Sakata, Takafumi Tanaka (Hogaku Journal), Shôzan Tanabe, David Kansuke Wheeler, Satomi Fukami (koto), Dôzan Fujiwara, Ichizan Hoshida, Mitsuzuka Yukihiko (except for Tanaka and Fukami, all shakuhachi players).

• Advisor: Munemasa Osaki, Representative of Japanese Music Association

• Master of Ceremonies: Christopher Yohmei

• Prize Money: 1^st 1,000,000yen, 2^nd 300,000yen, 3^rd 100,000yen, Encouragement Prizes (Japanese Music Association Price 50,000yen, Hogaku Journal Prize 50,000yen). In addition to these Best Solo and Best Ensemble prizes are also being considered.

• Application Address:

Japanese Music Association, attn. Mr. Munemasa Osaki

2-22-29 Miyayama-cho, Toyonaka-shi, 560-0056, JAPAN

Email: osaki.nissei@gmail.com

Japanese Postal Transfer Account: 00920-1-94180 Munemasa Osaki

PayPal Account: Country: Japan, Account Name:: osaki.nissei@gmail.com

Japanese Music Association Homepage: http://www.bmbnt.com/osaki-nissei/

• Inquiries in Japanese: either Japanese Music Association (above) or Hogaku Journal (attn. Mr. Tanaka): tanaka@hogaku.com

• Chinese language inquiries and applications should be made to Munemasa Osaki osaki.nissei@gmail.com.

• English language inquiries and applications should be made to David Wheeler shakudavid@gmail.com

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First International Shakuhachi Competition Application

Please copy this form into an email message, fill it out, attach your audition recording as a data file and email it to osaki.nissei@gmail.com.

　【Personal Information】(Age, gender and nationality will be used or archival purposes only. Furthermore, this information will not be provided to judges of the preliminary or final competitions)

Name:　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Age as of May 31, 2012　　yrs.　　　　 Sex M F

Nationality:

Address:

Email: 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Phone Number: (Country code:　　　　 )

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【Audition Recording Information】

Title　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Length: 　　　Minutes, 　　　　　Seconds

Shakuhachi Length:　　　 　　Shaku 　　Sun　　

Recording media type: MP3, CD-ROM, Mini Disk, other:

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【Registration Payment Information】Paypal Account: osaki.nissei@gmail.com

Paypal Transaction ID: