The Fourth Boris Tevlin International Competition of Choral Conductors
05 October 2026 - 09 October 2026 |
Annex of the Year 2026 to Regulations on Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory’s International Boris Tevlin Competition of Choral Conductors
A.1. General Provisions
A.1.1. The full official name of the competition is Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory’s Fourth Boris Tevlin International Competition of Choral Conductors (hereinafter to be referred to as “the 4th Tevlin Competition”).
A.1.3. The dates of holding the 4th Tevlin Competition are from 5 to 9 October 2026.
A.1.4. The program of the 4th Tevlin Competition is as follows:
A.2. Prizes of the 4th Tevlin Competition
The Organizing Committee has announced:
A.2.1. five monetary prizes for the laureates and diploma winners:
A.2.1.1. First Prize: 100,000 (one hundred thousand) rubles;
A.2.1.2. Second Prize: 75,000 (seventy-five thousand) rubles;
A.2.1.3. Third Prize: 50,000 (fifty thousand) rubles;
A.2.1.4. Special Prize for the Best Performance of Russian Music: 30,000 (thirty thousand) rubles;
A.2.1.5. Special Prize for the Best Performance of Contemporary Music: 30,000 (thirty thousand) rubles;
A.2.2. two monetary prizes for the best accompanists: 17,000 (seventeen thousand) rubles each.
A.3. The Jury of the 4th Tevlin Competition
Members of the Jury Team are to be announced later.
A.4. The Procedure of Holding the 4th Tevlin Competition
A.4.4.2. The Participants’ Initial Meeting and their rehearsal with the accompanists will take place on Monday,
5 October 2026, at 10:00 in the Nikolai Myaskovsky Concert Hall.
A.4.4.3. The date, time and venue of the meeting of the participants of Round Two will be announced later:
please follow the announcements on the Moscow Conservatory website.
A.4.11. The Final Concert will take place on Friday, 9 October 2026, at 12:00 in the Great Hall.
A.5. Submission of the Application and the Documents
A.5.1. In order to participate in the 4th Tevlin Competition, every applicant must:
A.5.1.1. fill out an online application;
A.5.1.3. see the list of other documents in the text of the Regulations (the About tab).
A.5.4.1. The deadline for submitting the online application and the documents in order to participate
in the 4th Tevlin Competition is 10 September 2026.
A.6. Financial Terms
A.6.2. The registration fee for participation in the 4th Tevlin Competition is 3000 (three thousand) Russian rubles. The fee is to be paid after the Initial Meeting upon instructions of the Organizing Committee.
Program
Round One
· Conducting one of the following pieces upon the competitor’s choice, by heart:
Sergei Rachmaninoff. From The Vespers: Voskresenie Khristovo videvshe & Velichit dusha moya Gospoda, op. 37 nos. 10 & 11
Sergei Taneyev. Po goram dve khmurykh tuchi… (‘Over the mountains two gloomy clouds…’) & V dni, kogda nad sonnym morem (‘On days when over the sleepy sea…’), from Twelve Choruses on the verses by Yakov Polonsky, op. 27 nos. 11 & 12
Yuri Yevgrafov. From Osenniy krik yastreba (‘A Hawk’s Cry in the Autumn’): Rozhdestvenskaya zvezda (‘The Christmas Star’, no. 2) & K Uranii (‘To Urania’, no. 8)
Yuri Falik. From ‘The Book of Canzonas’ (Part Two): Smirenie (‘Humility’, I) & Prazdnik (‘The Festival’, V)
Krzysztof Penderecki. Hymn cherubinowy
Arnold Schönberg. Friede auf Erden on the verses by Conrad Meyer, op. 13
Alfred Schnittke. From Concerto for Chorus on the texts by Grigor Narekatsi: 3rd movement
Alexander Chaykovsky. Chayka. Chekhov (‘The Seagull. Chekhov’) on the text by Anton Chekhov
· Playing the choral score on the piano by heart upon results of the second drawing of lots (see clause 4.4.2):
Roman Ledenyov. Kray lyubimyi (‘The Land Beloved’) on the verses by Sergei Yesenin
Yefrem Podgayts. Ya po pervomu snegu bredu… (‘I am wandering through the first snow…’) on the verses by Sergei Yesenin
Round Two
· Conducting a fragment of a large vocal-instrumental piece upon the competitor’s choice, by heart:
J. S. Bach. From the Mass in B minor: No. 1. Kyrie
Ludwig van Beethoven. From the Mass in C major: No. 2. Credo
Giuseppe Verdi. From Requiem: No. 7. Libera me
Francis Poulenc. From Sécheresses (cantata): No. 1. Les sauterelles
Leonard Bernstein. From Chichester Psalms: movements 2 & 3
Igor Stravinsky. From The Symphony of Psalms: movement 3
Sergei Prokofiev. From The Gambler (opera): Act IV, 2me Tableau
Sergei Rachmaninoff. From The Bells (cantata): movements 3 & 4
Sergei Taneyev. From St. John of Damascus (cantata): movements 2 & 3
Giya Kancheli. Dixi
Round Three
· Public rehearsal with the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Chorus upon results of the third drawing of lots (see clause 4.4.3):
Rodion Shchedrin
Five Russian Folk Proverbs
Parable on the verses by Nikolai Glazkov
Vecher zamedlennyi (‘Evening Slowed Down’) on the verses by Eduard Limonov
Lullaby
Burlesque on the verses by Nikolai Aseyev
Epithalama on the verses by David Burlyuk
Tsarskaya kravchaya (‘The Tsar’s Cupbearer’) based on the Russian choral opera Boyarynya Morozova
‘Count Tolstoy’s Epigraph to Anna Karenina’