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In May 2024, the IV. International music competition BOLERO will take place at Kienhofen Castle in Muta. As part of the competition, we will also organize masterclasses and concerts this year. The deadline for competition application is April 10, 2025. All information regarding the competition will be available on our website and on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram in due time. You are cordially invited!

SCHEDULE 2024

PERCUSSION: May 12 – May 16, 2025

BRASS: May 19 – May 23, 2025

WOODWINDS: May 26 – June 2, 2025

COMPETITION HISTORY

International Music Competition BOLERO was held for the first time in 2021 and it was organized only for percussionists. Our music school was visited by over 40 competitors from twenty Slovenian and three foreign music schools, as well as an internationally recognized jury from Slovenia and Croatia. A year later, we held the competition at Dvorec Bukovje, and we added new discipline for brass players. More than 130 competitors from five countries attended our competition, which were assessed by the jury from Slovenia, Austria and Croatia .

Since 2023, our competition has included percussionists, brass players, and woodwind players, thereby covering all instrumental groups of the wind orchestra. Since then, the competition has taken place in the new hall of Kienhofen Manor in Muta, where over 800 young musicians from twelve countries have performed in two years: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Ukraine, France, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, and Russia. As part of our competition, we have also organized three two-day professional seminars with our jury members and a concert by the Flip Philipp & Bertl Mayer Quartet.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

International Music Competition BOLERO is intended for young percussionists, brass players and woodwind players of all nationalities up to the age of 15 and is organized with the aim of encouraging professional pedagogical growth in the field of percussion, brass and woodwinds in Slovenia and beyond, as well as in an effort to encourage young musicians to deepen their musical and artistic activities. For these reasons, when organizing our competition, we strive to ensure that competitors leave our our place with their heads held high, with fond memories and good, useful experiences.

The evaluation system of our competition is set up differently than we are used to from other, similar events, in such a way that it is friendly to all competitors. Together with our sponsors, we once again managed to provide beautiful prizes for the highest ranked competitors, and most importantly, we managed to attract exceptional and internationally renowned jury, whose thinking about the purpose of such events is fully consistent with our endeavour and our goals.

OUR VISION

With international orientation, our competition encourages and contributes to the development of music culture, other arts and tourism in the region of Slovenian Carinthia and Slovenia. Our long term vision is to increase the scope of the project and to set one of the most important and most visible events of this nature in Slovenia and beyond.

We are looking forward to meet you!

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