Quite soon the XIX edition of the International Piano Competition of Friuli Venezia Giulia will take place in Sacile – Italy from the 26th of May to the 1st of June 2020.

With our public and private partners, from the last edition we starting to plane, with the highest attention to show to all competitors and to all the enthusiastic public a new edition rich of innovation, starting by the prize to be awarded increased up to € 34.700,00.

This year we have also increase the number of the concerts reserved to the winner of the Competition in Italy and abroad, while very several are the Special Prize and Scholarship for all placed.

As the other years, Piano FVG will follow all pianists in his career, starting from the tests on Fazioli F278 in collaboration with the tuner technician, on the video and audio recording of all trials until the CD Recording reserved to the winner of the first prize, in the last edition the winner has also took part in the short film of Sacile “GOLDBERG SERPENTINE LOVE”.

As you know, we are very close to the deadline of registration, the local and international sanitary situation is in constantly flux, and for this reason the Jury, charid by Ms. Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak, and the artistic director, M. Davide Fregona, they have taken an important decision: ACCEPT ALL THE APPLICATION WITHOUT ASKING THE FEE.

In this way, we would like to give the possibility to the futures competitors to provide their participation in the Competition without any economical commitment. Meanwhile, the planning of the International Piano Competition of Friuli Venezia Giulia carry on. At the same time, we also wanted to be cautious by guaranteeing you all our support and maximum flexibility. If you have applied, in any time you could renounce to participating, you won’t be penalized and you will have our full understanding.

There will be the possibility to pay the fee in Sacile before the starting of the rounds.

The sanitary situation in our region is good. We monitored the development of the illness day per day in collaboration with the Regional Institutions and with the Insituts employment in public health.

Should you need any further information, please don’t hesitate to contact us, we will do our best to inform you with the maximum attention and precision.

We send you our best regards, with the certainty that the situation that interest whole world will become normality on the spring season and will be a nice edition of the International piano competition of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Davide Fregona, Artistic Director