Announced the winners of DOve FAre SOLo LA MIa muSIca, the Saint Louis contest dedicated to students in grades IV and V of music high schools.
Winning the First Prize, for the applied music section of the competition, were the students of class IV AM of Liceo Musicale G.Rechichi in Polistena (RC) for their soundtrack of the short film “Wooden Fish.” Next, second place went to the Liceo Musicale “I.d’Este” Mantova (class IV M), again for the soundtrack of “Wooden Fish,” and in third place was the class of V from the IIS Polo Bianciardi of Grosseto , which set to music “Metro Joy Stealer.”
“This experience was an excellent time of personal and artistic growth for the children, a valuable tool to sensitize them to teamwork, cooperation, and finally an exquisitely effective way to acquire new knowledge and skills through the use of music technologies,” so commented Rosa Papasergi, music technology teacher of the winning class in the competition.
The 2024/25 edition saw the participation of RUFA, Rome University of Fine Arts, the videos to be soundtracked for the applied music competition, in fact, were created by students of the Computer animation and Visual Fx course Federica Rossi, Giorgio Avano, Giulia Brighenti, Stefano Villari (authors of “Wooden Fish”) and Giulia Brighenti for “Metro Joy Stealer.”
The winning classes in the contest were awarded professional recording and video production with projection of the project at the“Ennio Morricone” Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome during the “INK” composition and applied music concert, as well as scholarships to attend short courses and master classes at Saint Louis.
The contest/PCTO
The DOve FAre SOLo LA MIa muSIca contest is a creativity challenge that rewards artistic talent while providing the skills needed to develop one’s own musical project. At the same time, it is a PCTO course: starting from the musical idea, you learn to translate and transcribe, perform and record, and finally present to the audience, a project of music applied to images and/or an original piece.
In fact, it provides for two routes:
- Applied music for very young musicians who want to try their hand and rediscover themselves as composers of music applied to images;
- Songwriting for very young musicians who want to cultivate their very personal passion for writing original songs.
In particular:
- Competition in applied music targets entire class groups;
- Competition in songwriting is aimed at lyricists and composers in grades IV and V who can make a song together.
