The International Jeunesses Musicales Competition - Belgrade has been established in 1971 and ever since, as a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions with its headquarters in Geneve and the Jeunesses Musicales International from Brussels, accomplishes its important and generous task in discovering and promotion of music talents. The Competition is multidisciplinary and
has a five-year cycle where different performing disciplines are represented creating the opportunity, through the competition rules, for each generation to test and confirm its artistic values. The laureates of our competition, among others, were cellists Mineo Hayashi (Japan), Ina Joost (Germany) and Kirill Rodin (Russia), pianists Natalia Throul (Russia) and Philippe Bianconi (France), violinists Gotfried Schneider (Germany) and Alexis Galperine (France), flutist Irena Grafenauer (Yugoslavia), clarinetists James Campbell (Canada) and Mate Bekavac (Slovenia), oboist Helen Jahren (Sweden), solo voice Milena Kitic (Yugoslavia), wind quintet “Paul Taffanel” (France), Moscow String Quartet and many others
