Regulations 5th Edition (2012)
The competition is organized into 4 categories: Excellence, 1st category, 2nd category, 3rd category.
All bands with a limit of 110 members can take part to the competition.
Military and professional bands are not admitted.
The participant bands have to perform:
- The chosen category test piece.
- A selected passage, original for band, in accordance with the level of the category and with the qualitative level of the framework in the competition. That choice will be influenced also by the evaluation of the Jury determining and awarding the prize to the best Conductor.
- The order of the categories during the competition will be: 3rd category, 2nd category, 1st category, excellency.
The performance’s order provides for explicitly the test piece following the own choice piece.
It is possible to perform a short warm-piece, which will not be evaluated by the Jury.
The bands registered to the following categories:
Excellence
The submitted program, warm-piece and test piece included, must not exceed 45 minutes: the maximum time of stay on the stage allowed is 50 minutes.
1st category
The submitted program, warm-piece and test piece included, must not exceed 35 minutes: the maximum time of stay on the stage allowed is 40 minutes.
2nd category - 3rd category
The submitted program, warm-piece and test piece included, must not exceed 25 minutes: the maximum time of stay on the stage allowed is 30 minutes.
A penalty is applied if the established time will be exceeded.
