COMPETITION
FLAME 
 SINCE 1990

ASSOCIATION FLAME : Futurs  Links  Association  Musicians of  Europe

The Association FLAME was created in 1989 by Patrice Sciortino, composer, and Germaine Tocatlian, piano teacher at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.

The objectives of the competition are to identify, promote and support young talents at the beginning of their career. The FLAME Competition was created in 1990 in order to select pianists, violinists, cellists, violists and singers.

Since June 2022, the presidency of the association and the artistic direction of the competition are assured by Mrs Germaine Tocatlian.

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The FLAME Competition has received more than 5000 candidates from 38 countries, and more than 1000 pianists, violinists, violists, and singers from 16 to 32 years old have been rewarded.

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In 2001, the FLAME Competition was open to young pianists and violinists from 6 to 16 years old then to cellists in 2012. Over 2000 candidates have taken part in the Competition and they chose the programme to play.

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The winners have been and are granted prizes and scholarships to attend, at the Summerakademie of the Mozarteum of Salzburg, Master classes of teachers such as Julius Berger, Gary Hoffman, Harvey Shapiro (cello) ; Jean Fournier, Paul Roczek, Michael Friscenschlager, Igor Ozim, Igor Oistrach (violin) ; Sergio Perticaroli, Karl Heinz Kämmerling (piano), Elio Battaglia, Tom Krause et Ruggiero Raimondi (singing).

The winners are invited to play at concerts in Austria in the framework of the FLAME Festival at the Salzburger Schlosskonzerte and the Leopoldskrone Seminar Center, in Italy in Rome (Tempietto concerts) and in Genoa (Amici di Paganini concerts, Pasquale Anfossi Association concerts), and in France, in Paris, at the Cathedral Sainte-Croix, the American Cathedral, the Schola Cantorum, The Sorbonne, the CNEA, in Normandy, at the Moulin d'Andé, in Burgundy, in the Roussillon Festival of Villers sur Mer.