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Pau Casals playing the cello in New York, c. 1917 (Photo: APEDA, New York). Graphic design: Amador Garrell
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The Pau Casals Foundation, established by Pablo

Casals and Marta Casals in 1972, created the Pablo

Casals Scholarship in 1984. Over those 32 years, a

large number of young cellists from Catalonia, the rest

of Spain, Andorra and the South of France have been

able to take part and fifty or so of them have received

the support of the Foundation.

With the 2016 competition, the scholarship becomes

international and is open to aspirants from all the

countries of the European Union and Puerto Rico.

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CONDITIONS
2016 Competition

1. Purpose

The Pablo Casals International Scholarship offered by the Pau Casals Foundation aims to help
young cellists broaden their studies of the instrument in order to develop their technique and
the art of performance through ongoing studies and training with leading professionals.

The aims of the scholarship are:

1) To provide support for young cellists in their training and technical and artistic
development.
2) To promote an open, ongoing relation with the young cellists who win the scholarship
and foster the connection between them as ambassadors of the Foundation to promote
knowledge and dissemination of the artistic, cultural and human legacy of Pablo Casals.

The scholarship consists of an economic endowment, but also an offer by the Foundation to
accompany and advise the person selected in the development of their artistic training.

2. Amount of the Scholarship

The Pablo Casals Scholarship is worth €18,000. The international jury may grant an extra
€6,000 for aspirants from Catalonia, the rest of Spain, Andorra and the French Pyrenées-
Orientales department. Among the aspirants selected for the final stage the jury may award
honourable mentions to the best finalists.

3. Participation in concerts

In addition to the economic contribution, the scholarship holder will have an opportunity to
take part, over the two years following the granting of the Scholarship, in scholarship holder
concerts at the Pau Casals Foundation in Barcelona, El Vendrell or other cities.

The scholarship holder undertakes to perform in a minimum of four promotional concerts

during those years. There will be no fee for participation in the concerts, but there may be an
agreement to cover accommodation and transport provided the performance is given more
than 100 kilometres from El Vendrell or Barcelona.
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4. Candidates

The scholarship this year is open to those who meet the following requirements:

a) Students following or having completed higher studies in cello.

b) Citizens of member states of the European Union, Puerto Rico and foreign students with a
minimum of two years registered residence in the European Union.
c) Born after 31 December 1990.

All cello students who meet those requirements and who have not already won the Pablo
Casals Scholarship may apply.

5. Secretary’s office and submission of candidatures

The aspirants may submit the documents in Catalan, Spanish or English. All the documents
will be submitted in digital files.

Necessary documents:
a) Personal data: photocopy of passport or certificate accrediting point 4b of these conditions,
present address, contact telephone and e-mail.
b) Certificates of studies completed, performances as instrumentalist (programmes,
recensions and reviews) and reports from the director and teachers on the last courses.
c) Study programme to be followed, with supporting arguments and the motivation for the
selection, the place and acceptance of the teacher will direct—or is directing—them, as
well as admission to the institution where the scholars will be studying. In the event, that
admission could wait until the agreement with the Foundation is signed. An economic
estimate of the studies must also be submitted.
d) Notification of any other aids or grants awarded or applied for for the same studies. Those
receiving another aid may not be eligible for the scholarship.
e) Musical compositions to be played at the performance before the jury and length thereof
(in the event of being selected for the final test).
f) Recent video recording of the candidate on a digital file playing a prelude from one of
Suites 4, 5 or 6 by J. S. Bach and one of the Studies op. 73 by Popper, to be chosen from
numbers 14, 20, 24, 29, 32 or 33.

Complementary information:
The aspirants may obtain complementary updated information about the scholarship on the
www.paucasals.org website.

Submission of candidatures:
The cellists entering this competition must submit the documents in a digital archive (pdf)
and another file on video in Standard MP4, AVI, MOV, MPEG or similar format (clause f)
which they will send by e-mail to fundacio@paucasals.org if they are not larger than 10Mb, or
by WeTransfer (https://www.wetransfer.com) if larger, by 30 April 2016.
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For any consultations, the candidates can contact the Pau Casals Foundation by e-mail
(fundacio@paucasals.org) in Catalan, Spanish or English.

6. Jury and musical test

The Foundation will appoint the jury which will examine the applications and award the
scholarship. The jury’s decision will be final. They will assess the candidatures and select eight for
the final test. The candidates selected will be notified by 31 July 2016. The aspirants who are not
selected for the final test will be so informed by the Foundation.

The candidates selected will have to travel to the Pau Casals Municipal School of Music in
El Vendrell (https://goo.gl/maps/fovdwiqCGMS2), to take part in the final audition before the jury.
The candidates selected will have to perform, before the jury, the Prelude, the Sarabande
and the Gigue from one of the Suites 4, 5 or 6 by J. S Bach (aspirant’s free choice) without
repetitions, and choose between the first movement of Haydn’s Concerto in D major with
cadenza (free), Schumann’s Concerto in A minor or Dvorak’s Concerto in B minor.

For the performance the candidates will have a piano for an accompanist of their choice or
they may opt to be accompanied by a pianist proposed by the organisation.

The jury may interview the candidates and may ask them for their study programmes.

The test will take place at the Pablo Casals Municipal School of Music in El Vendrell,
(Passatge del Tívoli, 3-7 El Vendrell) on Saturday 1 October 2016. The Foundation will notify
candidates of the time.

7. Award of the Scholarship

The Foundation will publish the name of the winner of the scholarship after the final test.
The new scholarship holder must be present and sign an agreement specifying the
obligations contracted by the parties.

8. Final arrangement

The scholarship holder will state in his or her curriculum and at any possible performances
given after the award of the scholarship, for at least five years, that he or she has received the
Pablo Casals Scholarship and the year in which it was awarded.

15 of March 2016. Sant Salvador. El Vendrell

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COMPOSITION OF THE JURY

President
Marta Casals Istomin.Vice-president of the Pau Casals Foundation

Members of the jury

Sr. Julius Berger. Cellist
Sr. Claudio Bohórquez. Cellist
Sr. Lluís Claret Serra. Cellist
Sr. Josep M. Escribano Casaldàliga. Pianist

Secretary
Jordi Pardo. Director general of the Pau Casals Foundation
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Marta Casals Istomin

Marta Montañez was born in 1936 in the city of Humacao, Puerto Rico. At the age of five
she began to play the violin and when she was nine, encouraged by her uncle, the music
critic Rafael Montañez, she took up the cello. When she was ten she moved to San Juan de
Puerto Rico, where she began her music studies with Professor Rafael Figueroa and shortly
afterwards she continued with the cello at the Mannes College of Music in New York, under
the direction of Professor Lieff Rosanoff.

In 1952, accompanied by her uncle and Rosanoff, she made her first journey to Prades to
meet the maestro Pau Casals. Impressed by the young cellist’s ability he recommended her to
come back to be his pupil once she had completed her higher cello studies in New York.

In 1955 she returned to Prades to begin taking classes with Casals. Very soon she
became his trusted assistant, learned French and Catalan and began to help him with his
correspondence. The same year she accompanied him on his first journey to Puerto Rico, her
mother’s homeland, and for the next two years they were never apart. In August 1957 they
were married.

Through the sixteen years of their marriage she accompanied Casals at all his concerts
and events and became a great support in his life. She helped him with the planning and
preparation of the Prades and Puerto Rico Festivals, with the master classes in Zermatt and
Marlboro and, from 1960, she went with him to the 30 performances of El Pessebre which
he directed all round the world. In Puerto Rico she worked on setting up the Symphony
Orchestra, the Conservatory of Music and the Casals Festival, of which she became director
when he died.

During all that time at their home in Isla Verde the couple welcomed many Catalans who
wanted to share with them their hope that one day their country would recover all its
freedoms.

In 1972 they created the Pau Casals Foundation with the aim of preserving his legacy in
Catalonia. In 1979, at the express wish of the maestro, Marta Montañez and the president
of the Catalan Government, Josep Tarradellas, brought his remains back to Catalonia. Today
they rest in the graveyard of his home town, El Vendrell.

Since then she has always maintained close ties with Catalonia. El Vendrell and the Pau
Casals Foundation and has striven to keep his legacy and spirit alive at home and abroad.

In 1975, she married the pianist Eugène Istomin, who had also been a pupil of Casals. In
1980 she was appointed artistic director of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. From
1990 to 1997 she was made a member of the US National Council on the Arts and director of
the Recontres Musicales in Evian (France). From 1992 she was president of the Manhattan
School of Music in New York.
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Among the honours she has received in her lifetime are the Orden de Isabel la Católica
(1986) from the Spanish Government, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1986) from the
French Government, the Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1987) awarded
by the former Federal Republic of Germany, the Medal of Excellence for Services to the Arts,
Washington, D.C., (1986), the Premio Cultural Extraordinario del Instituto de Puerto Rico
(1997), the AVIV Prize for Contributions to the Cultural Life of Israel and the World (1997) and
the United States Library of Congress Living Legend Award (2015).

She is currently a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Manhattan School of Music, the
Malboro Festival (Vermont, USA) and Puerto Rico University. She is also vice-president of the
Pau Casals Foundation and honorary president of the Licstal Cello Festival (Switzerland) and
the Kronberg International Chamber Music Academy (Germany).
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MARTA CASALS ISTOMIN

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Julius Berguer

Born in Augsburg, the cellist Julius Berger has been a reference point on the musical scene
for over thirty years. That is not just because he is a marvellous performer who was dubbed
the “prophet of the cello” by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung after his second disc, Bach’s
Suites for Solo Cello. He is in great demand all over the world as a soloist and chamber
music performer. He has recorded a large number of CDs that are a reference for the next
generation of musicians.

He began as a teacher in Würzburg, Saarbrücken and Mainz and he has given classes at
Augsburg Music University since 2000 and master classes at the Salzburg International
Summer Academy since 1992. He is artistic director of the Eckelshausen Music Festival
and the Asiago Festival in Italy. He is also in charge of the Leopold Mozart International
Competition in Augsburg and the Markneukirchen International Competition, also in
Germany. He is a member of a number of international juries.

He focus of interest in cello music is the work of Boccherini and Gabrielli’s early pieces for
cello, some of which are unknown. He is also known for his commitment to contemporary
music by composers such as John Cage, Franghiz Ali-Sade and Sofia Gubaidulina. He has
given first performances of and recorded some of their works, along with those of other
composers. (www.juliusberger.de)
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Julius Berguer
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Claudio Bohórquez

Claudio Bohórquez, has been hailed as one of the most exciting and fascinating musicians
of his generation by conductors, audiences, concert presenters and critics alike. Recently
he had a great success tour with the National Symphony Orchestra under with concerts in
Washington and Latin America.

As a student of B. Pergamenschikow, Claudio Bohórquez achieved success at an early age at

international competitions such as the Tschaikowsky Youth Competition in Moscow and the
Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris. In 2000 won, three awards at the first International
Pablo Casals Competition held under the auspices of the Kronberg Academy: Marta Casals
presented Claudio Bohórquez with first prize, a special award for the best chamber music,
and also the use of Casals’ Gofriller cello. He also won first the prize at the International
Music Competition in Geneva. Since 2003 he is guest professor at the ‘Hanns Eisler’
Academy of Music in Berlin and was appointed as Professor at the Stuttgart Music Academy
in 2011.

Claudio Bohórquez has performed with the SächsischeStaatskapelle Dresden,

the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, almost all of the German radio orchestras, the
Württembergischen Kammerorchester Heilbronn, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the
Collegium Musicum Basel, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio
France, the Orchestre de Toulouse, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Tonhalle
Orchestra Zurich, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Russian National Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In Japan with both
the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In the United
States he has recently performed concerts with the Symphony and Philarmonic Orchestras in
Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

Renowned conductors with whom Claudio Bohórquez has worked include Daniel Barenboim,
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jonathan Darlington, Thomas Dausgaard, Christoph Eschenbach,
Hans Graf, Ruben Gazarian, Manfred Honeck, Yakov Kreizberg, Sir N. Marriner, Eiji Oue,
K. Penderecki, L. Slatkin, T. Sokhiev, L. Zagrosek and D. Zinman.

He has been invited to numerous festivals as a guest performer in Puerto Rico, London,
Warsaw, Jerusalem, Austria, Basel, Bilbao, Madrid, Berlin among other main capitals.
Highlights of the past season include several concerts in Washington with the National
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of C.Eschenbach and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
under the baton of C. Dutoit, as well as concerts in Finland and Warsaw.
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Claudio Bohórquez
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Lluís Claret

Born in Andorra in 1951, from exiled catalan parents, Lluís Claret begins his musical studies at
the age of 9. His musical future will be strongly marked by his contact with great teachers as
Maurice Gendron, Radu Aldulescu and Enric Casals (Pablo Casals brother) who, besides not
being a cellist, will be his principal musical adviser for many years. His meetings with György
Sebök, Eva Janzer and Bernard Greenhouse will be also decisive for the development of his
artistic personality

First Prizes at Casals (1976) and Rostropovitch (1977) Competitions help to project his
international career to the principal capitals of Europe, America and Asia, invited by
orchestras like Washington National Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, English Chamber,
France National Orchestra, and others from Tokyo, Seoul, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bamberg,
Moscu, Madrid, Barcelona...Under the baton of Vaclav Neuman, Mstislav Rostropovitch,
Pierre Boulez, Karl Münchinger, Dimitri Kitaienko, Sakari Oramo and Georges Malcom
among others.

Chamber music and pedagogie are an important and essential part of Lluís Claret
professional activity. He founded the Barcelona Trio (1980-1993), performs regularly with
the pianists Josep-Maria Colom and Benedicte Palko and collaborates very often with other
prestigious musicians at Festivals like Kuhmo, Naantali, Ernen, l’Epau, Pablo Casals (Prades),
Granada, Seoul...

His is teaching at the New England Conservatory in Boston (USA), “Victòria dels Àngels”
Music School at Sant Cugat (Barcelona) and the Toulouse Conservatory (France), and gives
Master Classes in France, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, USA, Japan and Korea. Together with
Bernard Greenhouse he conducts a seminar at the Abbey of Fontfroide (France).

Regularly Lluís Claret is invited as Jury Member of International Competitions ( Rostropovitch-

Paris, Paulo-Helsinki, Pablo Casals-Kronberg, Adam- New Zealand...) and he is the Chairman
at the International Cello Competition “Lluís Claret”, City of Moguer (Spain). His great
interest in contemporary music brought him to a close professional collaboration with Henri
Dutilleux, Witold Lutoslawski, Kristoff Penderecki, Joan Guinjoan, Iannis Xenakis and Pierre
Boulez.
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LLUÍS CLARET
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Josep Maria Escribano Casaldàliga

Pianist and artistic director of the Andorra la Vella Music and Dance Season since 1993.
He works in the field of artistic management with cultural events organisations. He is a
patron of the Pau Casals and Victoria de los Angeles Foundations. For 22 years he has been
director of the Andorra Music Studies Institute in Andorra la Vella.

He won the Catalan Government National Music Prize in 1991, the first year of the award,
as the best performer of 20th century music.

He recorded all George Gershwin’s works for piano, a commission from the Pequeñas Cosas
record company to mark the centenary of the composer’s birth.

He has been organiser and director of many seasons of concerts and musical events
(congresses, master classes, lectures, round tables, short courses and exhibitions).

He has worked for TVE as coordinator and consultant on classical and contemporary music
programmes.

He was a founder member of the Association of Classical Music Performers. He has

received many commissions to draft cultural projects abroad to launch new spaces or plan
programmes.

As a journalist he has contributed articles to leading specialist journals and as teacher, pianist
and lecturer he has taken part in debating forums, congresses, professional associations,
foundations, universities, schools and conservatories.
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