Tenerife International Viola Competition 2027

Preliminary Round (video submission)

The video for the Preliminary Round must be recorded in a single take, without cuts or editing of any kind, and filmed from a fixed camera angle. Both the candidate's hands and face must remain fully visible at all times.

Candidates must perform all three sections (a–c) of the Preliminary Round programme.

a. Max Reger – Two contrasting movements from Three Suites for Solo Viola, Op. 131d

and

b. Georg Philipp Telemann – One fantasia from Twelve Fantasias for Violin without Bass, TWV 40:14–25

and

c. One of the following:

• A caprice from Niccolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1 or

• An étude from Maurice Vieux’s Vingt Études pour Alto

First Round (live at the Auditorio de Tenerife)

Candidates must perform all four sections (a–d) of the First Round programme.

a. Manuel Bonino – Commissioned piece for solo viola

and

b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – One of the following sonatas:

·      Sonata for Piano and Violin in G major, K. 301

·      Sonata for Piano and Violin in E minor, K. 304

Candidates may transpose selected passages down an octave where they consider it musically appropriate to the viola’s register and tonal characteristics. The original piano part shall be retained in full.

and

 c. One complete work selected from the following list:

·     York Bowen – Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 1, Op. 18

·     Johannes Brahms – Sonata for Piano and Viola, Op. 120, No. 1 or No. 2

·     Johannes Brahms – Sonata for Piano and Violoncello, Op. 38 or Op. 99

·     Johannes Brahms – Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 78, Op. 100 or Op. 108

·     Rebecca Clarke – Sonata for Viola and Piano

·     César Franck – Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major

·     Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11 No. 4; Sonata for Viola and Piano (1939); or Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 25 No. 4

·     Franz Schubert – Sonata for Piano and Arpeggione, D 821

·     Robert Schumann – Märchenbilder for Piano and Viola, Op. 113

·     Robert Schumann – Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105

·     Robert Schumann – Three Fantasiestücke, Op. 73

·     Dmitri Shostakovich – Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147

·     Tōru Takemitsu – A String Around Autumn, version for viola and piano

and

d. An encore piece of the candidate’s choice lasting no more than five minutes.

A piece of the candidate’s choice, either original or a transcription, for solo viola or viola with piano. The work must be composed by a Spanish composer or incorporate elements of Spanish culture.

Final Round (live at the Auditorio de Tenerife)

Candidates must perform both sections (a–b) of the Final Round programme.

a. Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne from Partita No. 2, BWV 1004

and

b. Joaquín Turina – Escena Andaluza, Op. 7, for viola, piano and string quartet.

Candidates must perform an original cadenza of their own composition linking the two movements of the work.