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Organ at Christ Church Spitalfields
Photographs of the console are found here:
Transcriptions
Transcriptions may be chosen as free-choice works; a score must be provided to the Competitions Secretary at Registration, or in advance by email as a pdf.
Pre-Selection: Recorded Round
You are unknown to the Jury for this round. Therefore we confirm that we only require audio recordings, as outlined in How to Apply.
Eligibility for 2021 competitors
The Gold Medal was not awarded in 2021, when the competition took place virtually with pre-recorded videos. All competitors in the 2021 competition, including winners of the top awards, are eligible to compete in 2023 (providing, of course, that they are not older than the age limit, i.e. they must have been born after 15 July 1990).
Transcriptions
Transcriptions may be chosen as free-choice works; a score must be provided to the Competitions Secretary at Registration, or in advance by email as a pdf.
Timetable
Please note changes to the previously advertised schedule:
- For Interpretation Competitors, sessions of preliminary practice on the Quarter-Final organs will be scheduled to start
in the evening ofon Friday 30 June 2023 - Registration and briefing will now take place on Saturday 1 July 2023 at 1500hrs (
Sunday 2 July 2023 at midday)
Relevant information from the archives
Improvisation and Interpretation Prize Winners
From 1963 to the 30th Competition in 2019
Jurors
From 1963 to the 30th Competition in 2019