International Composing Competition “2 Agosto”

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The International Composition Competition "2 Agosto" is a major composition competition in Italy. It was established in 1994 at the behest of the Association of the families of the victims of the massacre at Bologna Station on August 2, 1980.

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The competition was created with the aim of keeping alive the memory of the victims, but at the same time to overcome the concept of mere commemoration, turning the day of August 2 in a creative and artistic response to the act of terrorism.

The competition is held under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic and promoted by the "Committee in Support of Victims of Massacres", composed by the Municipality of Bologna, the Province of Bologna, the Emilia Romagna Region and the City of San Benedetto Val di Sambro.

The competition

Since the first edition, the Competition takes place free of charge. No enrollment fees or contributions of any kind are required from any participant. The competition is open to young people around the world with rules that can change from one edition to another, but the age limit is usually placed at 35.

The competition announcement usually comes early in the year and all who want to participate are invited to send their score via computer within a predetermined deadline. The theme and type of works in the contest change from year to year.

The winners will see their work performed live in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna on the evening of August 2, as the final event of the commemorations of the Massacre.

The Grand Final Concert is recorded by the cameras of RAI, which deals with the television and radio broadcasting.

Jury

The jury varies each year, but since 1994, there are many famous names who have succeeded in the role of President.

Some examples: Riccardo Muti, Ennio Morricone, Michelangelo Zurletti, Riccardo Chailly, Semyon Bychkov, Eliot Fisk, Federico Mondelci, Robert Beaser, Tania Leon, Michel Portal, Jacob Ter Veldhuis, Jesus Villa Rojo, Aurelio Samorì, Marco Tutino, Klaus Ager, Detlev Glanert, Domenico Nordio, Jesus Rueda, Gianvincenzo Cresta, etc.

Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee of the Competition August 2 consists of:

Pieces commissioned

Pieces commissioned by the International Composing Competition “2 agosto” from 1995 to now:

The Winners

YearBoard of Judges1st Prize2nd Prize3rd Prize
1995 Riccardo Muti

Salvatore Accardo

Alberto Caprioli

Azio Corghi

Fabrizio Festa

Tito Gotti

Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi

Hubert Stuppner

Fabio Nieder "Cinque pezzi per orchestra"Carlo Pedini "Il Cantico dei Cantici"Roberto Rusconi "Nel silenzio... dal profondo"
1996 Ennio Morricone

Luisa Castellani

Renato Rivolta

Claudio Scannavini

Alessandro Solbiati

Walter Tortoreto

Fabrizio Festa

Alberto Colla "Pax"Angelo Inglese "...Etenim si ego pax..."Nicola Ciarmatori "...Efferas Feras..."
1997Renee Jonker

Giuliano Carmignola

Riccardo Chailly

Fabrizio Festa

Jerzy Maksymiuk

Michelangelo Zurletti

Massimiliano Messieri "Virus"

Luca Belcastro "La speranza si torce"Alessandra Corbelli "Piccolo concerto n.1"
1998 Semyon Bychkov

Leonid Klinitchev

Renee Jonker

Danilo Grassi

Carlo Galante

Vincenzo Palermo

Fabrizio Festa

Thomas Ingoldsby "Lamentations and celebrations"Paolo Coggiola "Lo specchio di Nigromontanus"Giovanni Bonato "Worposs Passacaglia"
1999 Eliot Fisk

Tomaso Lama

Giovanni Sollima

Gimpierro Martirani

Matteo D'Amico

Fabrizio Festa

Christos Papgeorgiou "Airocklinos"Dragana Jovanovich "AB RE 1999"Ronald MacNiven "Conflicts and Resolutions"
2000 John Psathas

Federico Mondelci

Carlo Pedini

Fabrizio Festa

Marco Biscarini "Solo per questa notte: 2 agosto"Premio Rossano "Umore"Mirko Guerini "Peace #3"
2001 Robert Beaser

Ada Gentile

Dragana Jovanovich

Ivano Battiston

Fabrizio De Rossi Re

Richard Galliano

Fabrizio Festa

Pino Iodice "The last station"Marco Biscarini "Da lontano... adagioShigeru Kan-No "Semi-concerto grosso"
2002 Tania León

Salvatore Accardo

Barbara Doll

Kamran Khancheh

Paolo Maragoni

Aurelio Samorì

Fabrizio Festa

Daniele Gasparini "Il violino invisibile"Tomi Raisanen "Nomad"Shaun Christopher Bracey "From tragedy to hope"
2003 Michel Portal

Françoise Choveaux

Jesus Villa-Rojo

Dimitri Nicolau

Guido Arbonelli

Fabrizio Festa

Andrea Manzoli "Concertante da voci" Anthony Suter "Slipping slowly into the sky"Hiroaki Tokuanga "Clarinettissimo"
2004 Jacob ter Veldhuis

Nuno Guedes De Campos

Berislav Šipuš

Enrico Cocco

Francesco Di Mauro

Fabrizio Festa

Tatsuji Toyozumi "Radiation" Vito Palumbo "Movimento I"ex aequo:

George Dulin "Scene from a Living Dream"

and Eddy Serafini

2005Jesus Villa-Rojo

Dimitri Nicolau

Gianvincenzo Cresta

Wing-Wah Chan

Ivano Ascari

Takahiro SakumaEddy Serafini Mirko Guerrini
2006Aurelio Samorì

Mario Ancillotti

Filippo Bulfamante

Bryan Johanson

Riccardo Piacentini

Fabrizio Festa

Federico Cumar "Papageno made me write this piece"Flauto ed Orchestra "Burlesca concertante"Giancarlo Scarvaglieri "Mozart meets me"
2007 Marco Tutino

Filippo Bulfamante

Nicola Campogrande

Bryan Johanson

Peter Athony Monk

Francesco Pepicelli

Fabrizio Festa

Andrea Nosari "Long lod road"Adriana Isabel Figueroa Manas "Aire de tango"Simone Santini "Il rito dell'inverno"
2008Claus Ager

Henri-Claude Fantapié

Tomi Räisänen

Per Rundberg

Gianvincenzo Cresta

Massimiliano Messieri

Fabrizio Festa

Javier Farias "Cante la Tierra"Alejandro Marco Gomez Lopera "La danza de la tierra"Daniel Basford "Concertante Suite"
2009 Tania León

Thüring Bräm

Osman Gioia

Detlev Glanert

Gianni Nazzareno Francia

Massimo Priori

Fabrizio Festa

Amirhossein Eslami Mirabadi Parsi“Memorial of Ferdowsi”Michele Corcella “Solennemente e intensamente”Anton Tanonov"Severing winter”
2010 Ennio Morricone

Fabrizio Festa

Thüring Bräm

Luca Cori

Angelo Inglese

Massimo Priori

Andrej Goricar“Ex Anima”Ryosuke Karaki “The Bird That Aspires To The Moon”Ulziibayar Shatar “Variations aTokkata On A Mongolian Folk Song
2011 Detlev Glanert

Fabrizio Festa

Silvia Colasanti

Antonio Tinelli

Davide Masarati

Zaid Jabri

Annelies Van Parys

Adriano Gaglianello “Rapsodia concertante”Antonio Casagrande“Diabolical Machine”Davide Fensi “Risorgimenta(l) Variatio”
2012Domenico Nordio

Fabrizio Festa

Andrej Goricar

Amir Eslami

Annelies Van Paris

Roberto Molinelli

Gianvincenzo Cresta

Martin Kennedy “Depending Upon the Light”Zhenzhen Zhang “The 2nd of AugustEdwardTop “My Skeletonized Portrait”
2013Jesús Rueda

Dragana Jovanovich

Virginia Guastella

Andrej Goričar

Alfredo Rugeles

Ilya Demutsky "The closing statement of the accused"Zaid Jabri "Les Temps des Pierres"Scott M. Ninmer "Silvan Spirits"
2014Gianvincenzo Cresta Gillian Anderson

Virginia Guastella

Victoria Harmandjieva

Tomi Räisänen

Beniamin Baczewski "Le Spectre Rouge"Kyle Hnedak "Atticus"Matthieu Lechowski "Duel at Schrapnell"
2015Fabrizio de Rossi Re (Italia) - President

Barbara Rettagliati (Svizzera)

Marco Taralli (Italia)

Victoria Harmandjieva (Svizzera/Bulgaria)

Fabrizio Festa (Italia) - Artistic Director

Vahid Jahandari"The Checkered City"Paolo Cognetti "Mare Monstrum, Verso Luce"Alvand Jalali Jafari "The red apple of the sun"
2016Nicola Sani (Italy) - President

Francesco Nappa (Italy)

Günay Mirzayeva (Azerbaijan)

Girolamo Deraco (Italy)

Fabrizio Festa (Italy) - Artistic Director

Alessio Manega"Sincretesi Prima"Giuseppe Ricotta"Quattro Fauni in Fuga dal Tempo”Matthieu Lechowski"Le Grillage"
2017 Marco Betta (Italy) - President

Alessandro Castelli (Italy) Andrea Portera (Italy) Enzo Filippetti (Italy) Ivano Battiston (Italy) Fabrizio Festa (Italy) - Artistic Director

Mohammad Amin Sharifi“TrombionOphone or Riders in the Field of Hope"Paolo Cognetti“C(y|ir)cles. In cerca della a-dualità”Lorenzo Fiorentini “J-Rhapsody"
2018Barbara Rettagliati (Italy) - President

Angelo Valori (Italy)

Mario Rosini (Italy)

Michele Corcella (Italy)

Fabrizio Festa (Italy)

Mozhgan Chahian "Elegy for the Peace"Ilia Skibinsky "The Road"Alessandro Papaianni "Fantasia Sinfonica n.4"
2019Alessandro Solbiati (Italy) – President

Yoichi Sugiyama (Japan)

Javier Torres Maldonado (Mexico)

Fulvio Macciardi (Italy)

Clara Iannotta (Italy)

Luca Ricci "Transitori Permanenti"Carmelo Bongiovanni "Colors"Lin Sen "Autumn"
2020Alessandro Solbiati (Italy) – President

Beat Furrer (Austria)

Silvia Colasanti (Italy)

Michele dall'Ongaro (Italy)

Bruno Mantovani (France)

Danilo Comitini "Resa al labirinto"Otto Wanke "Ariadne’s thread"Simone CardiniAncorato "Ancorato, proteso, diffratto – per orchestra"
2021Ivan Fedele (Italy) – President

Marco Angius (Italy)

Claudio Ambrosini (Italy)

Unsuk Chin (Korea)

Augusta Read Thomas (USA)

Francesco Vitucci "Nelle pieghe"Cesare Rolli "Fluo"Krystian Neścior "Pezzetti di nebbia"
2022Ivan Fedele (Italy) – President

Charlotte Seither (Germany)

Pasquale Corrado (Italy)

Malika Kishino (Japan)

Fabio Nieder (Italy/Germany)

Eugenio Mininni "(My room has) two doors"Farzan Salsabili "Pre[c]lude"Agustín Castellón Molina "A través de los océanos"
2023Silvia Colasanti (Italy) – President

Raquel García Tomás (Spain)

Pedro Halffter (Spain)

Jaume Santonja (Spain)

Francesco Filidei (Italy)

Leonardo Marino How to repair your Zeitgeist "How to repair your Zeitgeist"Davide Tramontano "Broken Streams"Giovanni Ciardi "Tides"

Commissioned pieces

Some of the commissioned pieces by the organizers and performed out of Competition during the Concerto in Piazza Maggiore

Artwork and image

On the occasion of the XX Edition, the competition has undergone a restyling of the image that led to the creation of a new corporate logo and a new website through which users around the world can participate in the competition via internet. [1]

For the past several years, each edition of the competition is associated with an artwork created by contemporary artists. The work becomes the symbol of the edition and it is on the cover of the libretto of the big final concert, which is held every year in Piazza Maggiore on the evening of August 2.

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References

  1. ↑ Maurizio Guermandi & Associati. Press release: Concorso 2 Agosto – Edizione 2014. Retrieved 30 Match 2015 (in Italian).
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