Belgrade - International Jeunesses Musicales Competition

Since 1971. International Jeunesses Musicales Competition is annually held in Belgrade.

The Competition is dedicated to young music artists at very start of their professional career. In front of the authoritative international jury the competitors show their artistic skills, level of creativity, technical ability…

The Competition has been held for more than four decades in various solo and chamber disciplines and it was attended by about 2,000 soloists and over 200 chamber ensembles. Participants came from all continents, and from over 70 countries worldwide.

Visual for the 53rd Belgrade - International Jeunesses Musicales Competition

Belgrade - International Jeunesses Musicales Competition

Deadlines

Competition 2025 / Harp

Agenda

Competition 2025 / Harp

Competition 2026 / Viola

The International Jeunesses Musicales Competition Belgrade was established in 1971 and praised the status of the project of significant importance within the Jeunesses Musicales International – JMI (based in Brussels), since 1974 The IJMC has been a member of WFIMC.

Some of the laureates of our Competition were: cellists Mineo Hayashi (Japan), Ina Joost (Germany), Kirill Rodin (Russia), pianists Natalia Trull (Russia), Philipe Bianconi (France), Andrey Ivanov (Belarus), and Marta Czech (Poland), violinists Gottfried Schneider (Germany), Nazar Fedyuk (Switzerland), and Alexis Gaplerine (France), flutist Irena Grafenauer (Yugoslavia), clarinetists James Campbell (Canada), Mate Bekavac (Slovenia), Stojan Krkuleski (Serbia), oboist Helen Jahren (Sweden), solo voice Milena Kitić (Yugoslavia), wind quintet “Paul Taffanel” (France) Moscow String Quartet and many others.

Every year the Competition is open to different instruments played by musicians from any nationality under 30 years of age. The categories chosen for the competition are most traditionally violin, violoncello, piano, guitar, singing, flute, and chamber music, but there were years with composition (1979, 1985, 1990, 2000), string orchestra (1982, 1986, 1996) and viola (1982) as categories.

We are now inviting you to the 53rd competition (2025), the category will be a new instrument – harp! 

 

Next competitions: 2025 (Harp), 2026 (Viola).

Contact

Tatjana Vojnov, director
Muzička Omladina Srbije, Beograd
Terazije 26/2
11000 Belgrade
Serbia

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Final

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winner of 52nd IJMC Hongyi Jiang

winner of 52nd IJMC Hongyi Jiang

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