Date
Sunday 23 March 2025

Venue
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Jazz Studio), 200 Jennens Road, Birmingham, B4 7XR

Jury
Dame Imogen Cooper, Simon Nicholls, Melvyn Cooper (BPSE Committee Member)

Programme
250323 Senior Competition Programme

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Pieces

1. Bagatelle in A-flat major, Op. 33 No. 7 with all repeats
2. Any complete Beethoven piano sonata (excluding Op. 49, Nos. 1 & 2 & Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier‘). As an alternative to a sonata, pianists may perform Variations and Fugue in E-flat major Op. 35, “Eroica Variations” or Six Bagatelles, Op. 126.

Repeats

1. Exposition repeats in first movements in normal sonata form SHOULD NOT be observed, except in Op. 78 and Op. 79.
2. Repeats of development and recapitulation, where present, should also be omitted.
3. Exposition repeats in other movements in sonata form should be omitted. An exception is the Op. 10 No. 2 finale, where the first repeat should be observed but not the second.
4. The large repeats in the second sections of Op. 54 and Op. 57 finales should be omitted.
5. Normal repeats in second movements, slow movements, minuet/scherzo and trios movements and Variations should be observed.

Prizes

• Cash prizes. Other prizes may include Urtext volumes of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and other works donated by Bärenreiter edition;
• A year’s complimentary membership of the Society;
• The Beethoven Medal awarded by the Worshipful Company of Musicians;
• Carola Grindea Audience Prize;
• The First Prizewinner will be invited to take part in the BPSE Competition-winners’ Recitals series.