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South African pianists 28 years and younger are invited to submit their entries for the 6th Unisa National Piano Competition by 13 December to the Unisa Music Foundation.

The rules, regulations and entry form are available on the Unisa Music Foundation’s website: www.unisa.ac.za/musicfoundation .

The sixth instalment of the prestigious Unisa National Piano Competition will take place from 13 to 20 July in the ZK Matthews Great Hall on Unisa’s Muckleneuk Campus in Pretoria.

The event will once again include a Jazz Piano category running parallel to the traditional Classical category. Two panels of adjudicators will evaluate the performances.

Successful candidates will be required to prepare different repertoire for four rounds, all being performed in one short week.

The final round on 20 July will be the highlight of the event with four young pianists getting the opportunity to perform with some of South Africa’s best professional musicians. The two jazz finalists will perform with a professional rhythm section while the two classical finalists will each perform a full piano concerto with a symphony orchestra.

The event, sponsored by Unisa, is famous for the high level of musicianship, stamina, technique and focus it requires of the pianists. They will be well rewarded for their efforts since the prizes are worth R210 000 altogether.

The winners of the 5th National Piano Competition were Megan-Geoffrey Prins (classical category) and Kyle Shepherd (jazz category).

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Closing Date 15 March 2019
1. Festival 2019 will take place on: 27th and 28th July 2019
2. Festival 2019 will take place at: St Dominic’s Catholic School for Girls in Boksburg
3. The Composer for the Classical Section will be Georg Friedrich Händel
4. Change in sizes of small ensemble and large ensemble: Small ensemble: maximum 10 people; large ensemble: minimum 11 people.

There is a mystery prize for the First Institution to Register and pay the Registration Fee of R450.
The prices are as follows:
Registration: R450 per Institution
Participants Entry fees: R225 Per Person for A 2-Day all inclusive Festival Pass
Category Entry Fees: R225 per Category

Whether you are a regular Festival attendee or new to the Festival please consult the website and in particular the “marimba and steelpan competition rules and manual” page.
Please make sure you register early to ensure that your institution can take part as we can only take a limited number of institutions.
The Festival caters for beginner bands as well as more experienced bands!
This Festival is so much more than just competing in a variety of competitions. In addition to 250 performances by over 80 different institutions there are 90 hands-on workshops over the two days presented by experts in their field in various disciplines including learning to play marimba, steelpan, djembes, mbira, gumboot dancing etc etc
This is edutainment at its best!
We, at Education Africa would like to wish you and your students a very blessed Christmas and hope that we will see you at the 2019 Festival.

Kind regards,
Joan Lithgow
Marimba Specialist and Director of the
International Marimba and Steelpan Festival
joan@educationafrica.org
Tel: +27 (0)11 685 7300
Cell: +27 (0)82 266 4229
Fax: +27 (0)86 579 3735
www.educationafrica.org
www.internationalmarimbafestival.org

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