SREMSK MITROVICA HOSTS THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF YOUNG ARTISTS Sirmium Music Fest with 500 pianists, brass players and solo singers

The eighth edition of the competition attracted around 500 participants from 17 countries: Slovenia, North Macedonia, Croatia, Norway, Ukraine, Russia, USA, Malta, Montenegro, Latvia, Italy, India, BiH, South Korea, Romania and Serbia. The participants are: students of primary and secondary music schools, students of music academies, as well as freelance artists, and six disciplines are planned: piano solo, complementary piano, piano duo, wind instruments, chamber music and solo singing. They will have the opportunity to meet renowned professors and other performers and gain experience that will be valuable to them in their future professional work, but also win valuable awards

The competition will be held in two formats: live and online, where the young artists who arrived in Sremska Mitrovica will perform in two locations: in the “Lazar Vozarević” Gallery and the Srem Museum. Considering the large number of participants, the number of jury members can be said to be impressive, and it is a list of top musicians and pedagogues from Germany, Ukraine, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Greece, Latvia, Croatia and Montenegro: Among the jury members are sopranos Anastasija Holz and Marta Balaž, conductor Nikos Eftimiadis, pianists Igor Grišin, Ilona Broka, Irina Mitrović and Tetjana Kravčenko, flutists Irena Milić and Ksenija Mijatović Korom, clarinetist Đuro Pete and saxophonist Darko Davidović.

The best in each discipline will receive cash prizes and the Grand Prix title, and competitors have the opportunity to win other awards, such as the Alexander Scriabin Award, the award for the best performed piece by Edvard Grieg, or the In Memorial Award, dedicated to Ljubiša Jovanović. The competition is organized by the Association “Sirmium Gradus ad Parnassum”, in cooperation with the Music School “Petar Krančević” and the Association “Sirmium Grad dece” in Sremska Mitrovica, and under the auspices of the City of Sremska Mitrovica and the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, publicly information and relations with religious communities.

The opening concert of the competition will be held tonight starting at 19:00 in the “Lazar Vozarević” Gallery, and will be performed by Tetjana Kravchenko, pianist, full professor at the “Nezhdanova” National Academy of Music in Odessa and soloist of the Odessa State Philharmonic. Pianist Aleksandar Serdar will perform in the same space tomorrow evening, and he will also promote the book “The Art of Interpretation”. The performance of pianists Irina Mitrović and Nina Botić is planned for Friday, April 26, while the Saturday concert will be of a revue character, since almost all members of the jury will play on it. The concert, which will end the “Sirmium music fest” on Sunday, will present the winners of the competition and will be of a humanitarian nature.

M. Stajic