EuregioMusica 31st Edition
14th International Competition for “Period Instrument Ensembles”
Rovereto (Italy)
October 22nd– 25th 2026
President of the Jury
ALFREDO BERNARDINI (Italy)
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The “Bonporti” 2026 comes alive!
Following this summer’s auditions, in which 10 ensembles comprising a total of 57 musicians took part, the 31st edition of the Euregio Premio Bonporti comes alive in Rovereto from 22 to 25 October. An important new development: for the first time in the competition’s thirty-year history, we will hear Bonporti’s motets; indeed, this edition of […]
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Thomas Armand (France) is the Winner of the Premio Bonporti 2025
Twenty-one-year-old Armand Thomas (France) has won First Prize at the Premio Bonporti for Baroque Violin 2025. The prize hasn’t been awarded since 2019 and this is just the fourth time in the eleven editions since 2003. It is therefore a highly prestigious award that recognizes the young violinist’s high technical and interpretative qualities. Second Prize went to Italian Lorenzo…
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The Finals of the Premio Bonporti 2025 are coming soon – the challenge: sight-reading with improvisation and new “cadenze” for Vivaldi!
In just a few days, the final challenge launched by the 2025 Premio Bonporti (30th Edition, 11th for Baroque violin) will begin. The response has been impressive: twelve violinists, all of the highest calibre, have put themselves to the test. Coming from around the world (Cuba, Germany, Poland, the United States, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and…
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Premio Bonporti 2024, Interview with Elam Rotem
Elam Rotem, composer, singer, and harpsichordist, gives us his take on Period Music and lays out his aesthetic vision. Interview by David Ramirez. July 30th 2024.
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Period composition (and the truth about Albinoni’s adagio)
For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link: https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/period Created by Elam Rotem, March 2024.Special thanks to Erik Schroeder, Alon Schab, Nimrod Ben-Zeev, Enrico Correggia, Iason Marmaras, Fynn Titford-Mock, Bob Tennent, Lisandro Abadie, Tim Braithwaite, Nicola Schneider, Domen Marincic, Augusta Campagne and Anne Smith.
The architect, musicologist and organologist Marco Tiella (Rovereto 1930-2024) founder and President of the Academia di Musica Antica di Rovereto and of the Premio Bonporti, was a multifaceted and highly esteemed personality of international fame, he is cited in the Universal Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music and Musicians of Utet, in the Garzanti Encyclopedia of Music, in the European biographical directory. Two passions-professions in his life: architecture and music, especially “ancient” music.
