Posts by Michele Covolan

PREMIO BUSCAGLIONE (Buscaglione Music Award) – FOURTH EDITION

“Premio Buscaglione”: it is now possible to enrol in the great competition for post-contemporary singer-songwriters.

The “Premio Buscaglione”, which is now at his fourth edition, is becoming popular as one of the most interesting Italian event dedicated to the singer-songwriter song.

You can enrol only on the website of the event. Among all the competitors ten artists will be then selected to perform live at the semi-finals, which will take place in Turin in March 2016.

The enrolment in the “Premio Buscaglione” is free. You only need to fill in the form available on the website from 15^th September to 15^th November 2015 and upload 2 Youtube links of songs of your repertoire:

-1° link of a recorded song;

-2° link of a live performance.

Both songs must satisfy these requirements:

– they must be ready to be sung by the artists;

– they must be original songs;

– they must be sung in Italian;

– they can’t contain advertising messages in favour of third parties or damaging messages toward third parties;

– they can’t be only instrumental;

– they can belong to any musical genre except for orchestral music and cover versions.

The two uploaded songs will be divided in the following way: the first one will be open to the public which can freely listen to it, vote for it and share it; the second one can only be listened by the technical jury. All the details of the selection are available on the website of the event.

From 16^th November to 16^th December will be possible to vote for your favourite artist on the Facebook page of the “Premio Buscaglione” and on 20^th December the names of the 10 artists selected to continue onto the semi-finals will be published.

First prize: 3,000 euro + a tour in 5 festivals partner of the event.

Critics Prize: 1,500 euro + a tour in 10 festivals partner of the event

“Tempesta Dischi” Prize: one finalist will be selected for the label compilation

“King Kong-Radio 1” Prize: one finalist will be invited to the program

You can enrol from 15^th September to 15^th November 2015.

“Premio Buscaglione” website: http://www.sottoilcielodifred.it/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sottoilcielodifred/

National admission tests results

From today you can have access online to the personal results of the admission tests for the Faculties of Medicine and Surgery, Dentistry and Dental Prosthesis. Tomorrow will be published the results of Veterinary Medicine test and thuersday the Architecture ones.

Those who have taken the national test to be admitted to these courses can look at their paper online from 2^nd October, while from 7^th October the national ranking will be published on UNIVERSITALY personal area. At that time, will be 3 possibilites:

Assigned: your position in the ranking allows you to gain access to your first choice course. You must enrol within 4 days (the day of the ranking publication is included and Saturday and Sunday are excluded);

Reserved: your position in the ranking give you access to a university which is not your first choice. You can decide to enrol at the university you have been assigned or to wait for the updating of the rankings. The first updating will be on 14^th October. In this case you must express your intent to enrol within 5 days;

Waiting: at the moment you do not have access to a university. Within 5 days you must express your intent to enrol and wait for the updating of the rankings. The first updating will be on 14^th October.

For the courses of Medicine and Surgery, Dentistry and Dental Prosthesis, Veterinary Medicine in Turin you must enrol online on your personal page on the website of Università degli Studi di Torino.

For the course of Architecture you must enrol on your personal page on the website of Politecnico di Torino.