B.Jurgenson

"The establishment of the Jurgenson International Competition for Young Composers was made possible by support from the Jurgenson Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Music of the Moscow Conservatory, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Cultural Committee of the Moscow Government, the Moscow Conservatory, and the Russian Union of Composers.

It is hoped that the Competition will prove to be an effective mechanism for identifying and supporting young talent, giving an impulse to their creativity, and acquainting the musical public with their work, not only in Russia, but also throughout the world.

Reviving the best traditions of Jurgenson Music Publishers, we will be publishing the most interesting of the young composers' works from this Competition in a new series of scores entitled 'Music of the Third Millennium'."
B.Jurgenson, President
P.Jurgenson Charity Foundation

The P.Jurgenson Charity Foundation was founded in 1998 through the combined efforts of Dmitri Likhachov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Irina Antonova, Nikita Mikhalkov, Gennady Rozhdestvenski, the Russian Fund for Culture, the Russian Union of Composers, the Moscow Musicians' Union, and other organizations and individuals. Its Council of Trustees is comprised of Sviatoslav Belza, Vera Gornostayeva, Elena Trukhanova, and Andrei Eshpai.

The main purposes of the Foundation are to revive the music publishing house of Peter Jurgenson; to popularize Russian and foreign classics and the works of modern Russian composers; and to promote all facets of musical education. In addition to its involvement in the Competition, the Foundation is also implementing a program of publishing music and study materials for children's music schools and music high schools.

With the help of the Open Society Institute, an initiative of the Soros Foundation, the P.Jurgenson Charity Foundation has also created the "Electronic Notnitza" - the world's first CD music library. This disk contains some 6,500 pages of music, including 750 compositions by more than 150 composers. The Foundation is also involved in "Young Musicians for Disabled Children," a municipal charity program which has already given twenty concerts for more than a thousand underprivileged children in Moscow.

Jurgenson International Competition for Young Composers email: jurgenson@mtu-net.ru website: http://www.mosconsv.ru/coll/newmusic/comp.html