Preliminary selection

A 20-25 minutes program which must include a virtuosic etude.

No more than 30 contestants will be selected to advance to the first round in Xiamen.

First round

A 35-40 minutes recital. 

The first round must include a compulsory new Chinese work about 5-7 minutes in length. (The Chinese work will be announced two months before the competition.)

Selections from the preliminary round cannot be repeated.

No more than 12 contestants will be selected to advance to the semi-final round.

Semi-final round in two phases

1. A 60 minutes recital, must include a sonata by the following composers：

Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Clementi.

2. A chamber music work selected from the following list:

Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81, B. 155

César Frank Piano Quintet in F-Minor

No selection from the previous rounds can be repeated.

No more than 6 contestants will be selected to advance to the final round.

Final round

The finalists will select one of the concertos from the list below to perform with the CCOM orchestra.

Mozart

Concerto in d Minor, K. 466

Concerto in C Major, K. 467

concerto in A Major, K. 488

Beethoven

Concerto No.1 in C major, Op.15

Concerto No.2 in B flat major, Op.19

Concerto No.3 in c minor, Op.37

Concerto No.4 in G major, Op.58

Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73 ‘Emperor’

Chopin

Concerto No.1 in e minor, Op.11

Concerto No.2 in f minor, Op.21

Schumann

Concerto in a minor, Op.54

Liszt

Concerto No.1 in E flat major, S.124

Brahms

Concerto No.1 in d minor, Op.15

Saint-Saëns

Concerto No.2 in g minor, Op.22

Concerto No.5 in F major, Op.103 ‘Egyptique’

Tchaikovsky

Concerto No.1 in b flat minor, Op.23

Rachmaninov

Concerto No.2 in c minor, Op.18

Concerto No.3 in d minor, Op.30

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43

Ravel

Concerto in G major

Prokofiev

Concerto No.2 in g minor, Op.16

Concerto No.3 in C major, Op.26