Prizes
Prizes
The competition offers a range of awards, including cash prizes, concerts in Italy, audio and video recording sessions, and professional photo sessions. The top prize includes six concerts across Italy, a recording day at The Spheres, and a digital release on all major platforms, spotlighting the winner on the international stage.
The jury will evaluate the performances by casting a grade in hundredths (from a minimum of 60/100 to a maximum of 100/100).
Prizes will be awarded according to the following scoring table:
- Absolute First Prize 100/100
- First Prize from 95/100 to 99/100
- Second Prize from 90/100 to 94/100
- Third Prize from 85/100 to 89/100
Soloists
First Absolute Prize (Grand Prize)
- Cash Prize of €800,00 (eight hundred/00 euros)
- 6 (six) concerts in 2025/26:
- Taranto (Puglia)
Salone della Provincia (Recital in the 2025/26 Concert Season of Associazione Musicale Art Jonica) - Bari (Puglia)
Castello di Sannicandro (Recital in the 2025/26 Concert Season of Associazione Musicale Art Jonica) - Mantova (Lombardia)
Recital in the 2025/26 Concert Season of MantuaMusica - Lago d’Iseo (Lombardia)
Recital in Festival Onde Musicali 2025/26 - Messina (Sicilia)
Recital in the 2025/26 Concert Season of Associazione Orchestra da Camera di Messina - Sacile (Pordenone)
Recital in the 2025/26 Concert Season of “Concerti a Palazzo”
- Taranto (Puglia)
- Inaugural Concert in 2027 at The Spheres opening the second edition of the Bruno Mezzena Prize
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €3,000:
- 1 day of recording at The Spheres, including editing, mixing and mastering (for up to 30 minutes of music).
- Digital release of the single on all platforms (Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, Idagio, Presto Music, etc.).
- Professional portrait photo and cover for digital single (from vist.co)
- Professional multicam video trailer for digital single
- 2 free 1-hour sessions of career planning consultancy divise in via Zoom with the chiefs of Odradek Records and vist.co Kulturmanagement
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of the performance in the winners' concert (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Participation in the winners' concert
- Bruno Mezzena Award Plaque – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
First Prize
- Cash Prize of €500,00 (five hundred/00 euros)
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €1,700:
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of a musical work (without editing)
- Professional portrait photo and cover for digital single (from vist.co)
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of the performance in the winners' concert (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Participation in the winners' concert
- Bruno Mezzena Award Plaque – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
Second Prize
- Cash Prize of €250,00 (two hundred and fifty/00 euros)
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €900:
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of a musical work (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of the performance in the winners' concert (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Participation in the winners' concert
- Bruno Mezzena Award Plaque – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
Third Prize
- Cash Prize of €200,00 (two hundred/00 euros)
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €900:
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of a musical work (without editing)
- Participation in the winners' concert
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of the performance in the winners' concert (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Bruno Mezzena Award Plaque – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
Categories "A-F"
Absolute First Prize (for each category)
- Cash Prize of € 100,00 (one hundred/00 euros)
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €100:
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of the performance in the winners' concert (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Participation in the winners' concert
- Premio Bruno Mezzena Medal – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
First Prize (for each category)
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €100:
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of the performance in the winners' concert (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Participation in the winners' concert
- Premio Bruno Mezzena Medal – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
Second Prize (for each category)
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €50:
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Premio Bruno Mezzena Medal – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
Third Prize (for each category)
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €50:
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Premio Bruno Mezzena Medal – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
Premio Speciale Bruno Mezzena
For the best performance of a 20th or 21st century non-tonal composition.
- Cash Prize of €500,00 (five hundred/00 euros), offered by Franco Mezzena
- Artistic services with a total value of more than €1,700:
- Professional portrait photo and cover for digital single (from vist.co)
- Video promozionale professionale multicamera del brano musicale premiato (senza montaggio)
- Professional multi-camera promotional video of the performance in the winners' concert (without editing)
- Professional multi-camera video of the performance during the competition (without editing)
- Participation in the winners' concert
- Bruno Mezzena Award Plaque – First Edition 2025
- Diploma of Merit
A certificate of participation will be issued to all competitors in all categories.
Non-winners can have the video of their performance for €20. The video will be sent in the days following the end of the competition.
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