Belgrade - International Jeunesses Musicales Competition

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.