Rules

Centro Cultural de San Carlos presents

XXVI IBIZA INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2025

The Competition will take place from 26^th August to 31^st August, 2025 at the Centro Cultural de San Carlos, Ibiza, Spain. All participants will present there on Tuesday, 26^th August at 17’00 hours (5 p.m.) for the presentation.

Participants

All pianists can participate in the competition, without limitations of nationality or residence, born after the 1st January 1995, inclusive. Young pianists will be the ones born after the 1st January 2009, inclusive.

Required program

Pianists (45 minutes maximum time):

• Prelude and fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• One sonata of free election.
• One work of free election

 

Young pianists (35 minutes maximum time):

• Prelude and fugue or invention to 3 voices or to 2 voices by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• One sonata or sonatina of free election.
• One work of free election

 

Inscription

The participants must complete the online application form before the 1^st July 2025 (inclusive)

You must attach next items:

1. Passport Copy
2. Payment receipt of inscription rights
3. Passport photography or Artistic photography (only face. Photo archive JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF)
4. A recommendation letter signed on 2025 (with name, surname, email and telephone number of the professor or person signing the letter)
5. Short curriculum vitae (maximum 1 page)

 

Awards

Pianists

• First prize : 5.000 €
  Concert at the XXVII Ibiza International Music Festival 2027
  Member of the jury at the XXVII Ibiza International Piano Competition 2027
  Recording and editing a CD, by SOLFA Recordings.
• Second prize: 2.500 €
• Third prize: 1.500 €

 

Young pianists

• First prize : 1.500 €
  Concert at the XXVII Ibiza International Music Festival 2027
  Member of the jury at the XXVII Ibiza International Piano Competition 2027
• Second prize: 1.000 €
• Third prize: 500 €

 

Special Prizes of the Competition

• Special Prize to the best performer of Johann Sebastian Bach 500 €
  Sponsored by Las Dalias
• Special Prize to the best perfomer of a sonata 500 €
  Sponsored by Bar Anita – Ca N’Anneta
• Special Prize to the best performer of a Romantic work 500 €
  Sponsored by Construcciones Juan Tercero
• Special Prize to the best performer of a Contemporary work 500 €
  Sponsored by Angels and Jaime F. de Dios
• Special Prize to the best performer of a woman composer work 500 €
  Sponsored by Restaurante Peralta
• Special Prize to the best performer of a French music work 500 €
  Sponsored by Davide Sagliocca and Joëlle Partner
• Special Prize to the best performer of a Spanish work
  Weekend for two people at Hotel Aguas de Ibiza (2 nights accommodation, all included and thermal circuit) Sponsored by Hotel Aguas de Ibiza
• Concert at Teatro della SOMS (Società Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso) at Imperia (Italy), season 2026. Sponsored by SOMS.
• Concert for a Young pianist at San Carlos’s Primary School 2026 (San Carlos, Ibiza, Spain). Sponsored by the San Carlos Neighborhood Association “La Unión”.
• Special Prize from the “Manuel de Falla” International Music Academy of Granada and Pipirrana Producciones SL (Andalusia, Spain):
  • Concert at the Festival “Tocando las Estrellas” (Touching the Stars) in Granada (Spain).
  • Tuition scholarship for a course of your choice at the “Manuel de Falla” International Music Academy of Granada (Spain).
• Special Prize “Feuerwerk Einbeck” International Piano Academy, masterclass and concert tour in Germany, spring 2026.
  Sponsored by Klavierstadt Einbeck www.klavierstadt.de

 

The prizes will be indivisibles. The prize-giving party will happen on Sunday 31^st August 2025, at 20’00 hours (8pm). All participants will receive a diploma of participation and the won prize, renouncing to the prize in case of no present oneself.

 

Registration Fee

345 euros. Young pianists and pianists living in Ibiza do not pay any fee. Their inscription is free.

This registration fee includes:

• Hotel accommodation, first class (from 26^th August to 31^st August, both inclusive, total 6 nights), on a full board basis, (with breakfast, lunch and dinner free buffet, drinks included). Accompaniers for young pianists will pay the same amount (accompanists of pianists are NOT accepted).
• Daily transfer with the Competition official bus between hotel and Centro Cultural de San Carlos and vice versa.
• Study pianos.
• Secretarial expenses and tuition.
• Commemorative XXVI Competition book – playbill.
• Diploma of participation.

 

This amount, in any case will not be refunded, will be paid to Centro Cultural de San Carlos at:

 

Banco Sabadell

SWIFT CODE / BIC CODE: BSABESBBXXX
IBAN CODE: ES45 0081 1405 4800 0102 6805
Address: Calle San Jaime, 75, 07840 Santa Eulària des Riu. Ibiza. Spain

 

Jury

Members from around the world will be invited based on their accomplishments in the field of music and practise music. Past jurors have included Julian von Karòlyi (Hungary), Georges Hadjinikos (Greece), Peter Donohoe (United Kingdom), Joaquín Soriano (Spain), Aquiles delle Vigne (Belgium), Antonio Baciero (Spain), Ilan Rogoff (Israel), Perfecto García Chornet (Spain), Lukas David (Austria), Mary Wu (China), Erling Dahl (Norway), Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov (Bulgary), Tatiana Franova (Slovak Republic), Thomas Hecht (United States), Maximino Zumalave (Spain)…

 

Bases

Inscription will imply the acceptation of these bases. Organization and jury decisions will be final.

Biennial

Next XXVII Ibiza International Piano Competition will take place on September 2027.