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The European Union of Music Competitions for Youth (EMCY) is a European umbrella organisation for about fifty national and international music competitions for young people. Founded in the 1960s in order to develop the musical education of young Europeans, EMCY arranges concerts (with and without orchestra), broadcasts, tours, award ceremonies, master classes and courses for competition prize winners throughout Europe.
Every year, thousands of musicians under the age of twenty-five take part in EMCY member competitions. EMCY is a registered association under German law with an elected international board of five representatives, headed since 2012 by chairman Paul Scholer. Its registered office is in Munich, Germany. In 2020 EMCY celebrated its 50th birthday. An anniversary brochure has been created to highlight the events from the last five decades.
The EMCY board is elected every four years at the general assembly. Current members are:
The EMCY office is located in Munich's Creative Quarter (Kreativquartier) in Schwere-Reiter-Str. 2B, 80637 Munich, Germany.
The EMCY general assembly gathers, in general, every two years in a different European country at the invitation of an EMCY member competition. The last one was held in Luxembourg in 2018, hosted by the Concours Luxembourgeois pour Jeunes Solistes (UGDA).
General assemblies have been held in:
Participation in these competitions is usually reserved for nationals or residents of the respective country. This often includes schools abroad, students at conservatoires or ex-patriates, however.
These competitions are open to participants from all over the world. Many include categories which change every year.
EMCY works to help prize winners in their musical and personal development. Performance and training opportunities throughout Europe are arranged by EMCY, together with its member competitions and partners. These concerts, tours, workshops, and master classes are international meeting points for young musicians.
EMCY also holds conferences for competition organisers (most recently in Luxembourg in 2018) and music educators on particular themes.
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BaronArthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist, considered by some to have been "one of the few truly great violin virtuosi of the twentieth century". He has been noted for having a "consistently beautiful tone and flawless intonation". English music critic and broadcaster, Edward Greenfield wrote of him that he was "a master virtuoso who consistently refused to make a show of his technical prowess".
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