Until recently, this song contest for young performers had a second, unofficial name, "Jurmala". The New Wave competition in Jurmala was held annually and demonstrated best achievements in the genre popular music.
In 2016 New Wave will be held in Sochi. The venue has changed since last year.
In total, the competition New Wave 2016 in Sochi will take part from 12 countries.
Those who stay at home will be able to watch everything that happens on the New Wave stage or online (on youtube channel), or on the Russia-1 television channel.
New Wave Results
Two participants became the winners of the New Wave 2016: Croatian Dino and Italian Walter Ricci. The second place was taken by Ukrainian Galina Bezruk. The third place went to the singer from Georgia Giorgi Nadibaidze. Our group N.E.V.A. entered the top five.
Recall that in 2014 the winner was Georgian singer Nutsa Buzaladze. And in 2015 - Damir Kejo from Croatia.
The entire history of victories in the competition can be seen from the table below.
Russia in the New Wave 2016
Recently, a selection of participants took place in Russia, as a result of which the following musical performers were selected:
- group N.E.V.A
- Denis Sokolov
- Yaseniya
All three members have interesting biography and victories in other music competitions.
Official website of the New Wave 2016
Get more detailed information about participants, read last news about the competition on the official website.
We also monitor the progress of the competition and will post it on this page as information becomes available. Stay with us.
Participants of the New Wave 2016 in Sochi
The list of participants is known. To make it easier to decide which participant to vote for, we will post a little information about each.
| A country | Executor | Age |
|---|---|---|
| Belarus | Sasha Zakharik | 27 years |
| Bulgaria | Konstantin Rabotov | 32 years old |
| Croatia | Dino | Undisclosed |
| Estonia | Kristjan Kasearu | 30 years |
| Georgia | Alisa Danelia | 23 years old |
| Georgia | Giorgi Nadibaidze | 24 years |
| Italy | Walter Ricci | 26 years |
| Kazakhstan | Duet "Saryn" (SARYN) | Berik Berdekeyev (21 years old) and Altynai Tulembetova (20 years old) |
| Kyrgyzstan | Nursultan Azykbaev | 21 years old |
| Latvia | Samantha Tina | 27 years |
| Moldova | Brio Sonores (band) | 25 years |
| Russia | group N.E.V.A | Undisclosed |
| Russia | Denis Sokolov | 30 years |
| Russia | Yaseniya | Undisclosed |
| Ukraine | Galina Bezruk | 28 years |
| Ukraine | Anastasia Prudius | Undisclosed |
Northern pier of the seaport - the venue for the New Wave
International Song Contest for Young performers will be V North pier of the seaport the city of Sochi. Previously it was planned to musical competition in the Olympic Park. But in October, another large-scale event, the Formula 1 Grand Prix, will be held at the Olympic Park site, so the organizers of the New Wave decided to equip a separate place for themselves.
The construction of the stage will begin in September and spectator seats. Designers who worked on Olympic Games. A new platform can be assigned to the New Wave on a permanent basis.
Tickets
Tickets for the New Wave 2016 in the Sochi Olympic Park can already be ordered on the official website of the competition.
Organizers, competition rules and program
Any performer or group between the ages of 16 and 30 can apply to participate.
in Sochi (with 3 to 9 September) will be held only the final of the competition. Before the final, three more rounds of the competition will take place in different parts of the world.
- regional qualifying round
- national qualifying round
- semi-final (will be held in Moscow, Borodino-Hall)
The final is the fourth round of the New Wave. It will run for 6 days.
September 3 at 19.30 starts holiday concert dedicated to the opening of the New Wave 2016.
The competition program has significantly expanded compared to previous years. Instead of six days it will stretch for whole ten days. You can see in detail what will take place on each day in our visual table.
- Three stages of the competition will be held 4, 6 And 8 September.
- On the rest of the days, the audience is waiting for concerts of Russian pop stars.
The prize fund of the competition is one hundred thousand euros(50 - is awarded to the winner of the New Wave, 30 - to the performer who took second place, 20 - to the bronze medalist).
The chairman of the jury is famous composer Igor Krutoy.
Vote
You can pay bank card, sms or paypal wallet.
- In addition to Sochi, Kazan, Crimea, Baku and Kaliningrad competed for the right to host the New Wave contest.
There are different opinions about what the move of the competition to a new city will lead to:
- Some predict big losses in the budget of Latvia.
- They say that in Sochi the competition will no longer be as elite as it used to be. The hall of the Olympic Park is huge, which means that tickets will be cheap to fill it.
Polina Gagarina and New Wave
How is the name of the silver medalist of Eurovision 2015 Polina Gagarina connected with the New Wave? We tell - 10 years ago, in 2005, Polina Gagarina took third place in the New Wave competition. Her song was called "It's light in my room", she lost the victory to participants from Latvia and Ukraine.
But even then, Polina announced her unique talent and the possibility of participating in a more serious competition.
Alla Pugacheva and New Wave
Alla Borisovna has always been an integral part of the competition for young performers. Until 2012, she even awarded her own prize to performers. Until 2014, her creative evenings were held as part of the competition.
In 2016, Alla Pugacheva's participation in the New Wave is not planned.
A bit of history
The New Wave competition from the moment of its foundation by composers I. Krutoy and R. Pauls in 2002 to 2014 was held in the Latvian resort town Jurmala.
The town of Jurmala became world famous thanks to the New Wave.
After a series of political conflicts, it was decided to move the competition to the territory of the organizers, that is, the Russian side.
From the article, you learned about the New Wave 2016 contest, which ones will compete this year, interesting information about the competition - Sochi, about the winner of the New Wave 2016.
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Channel:"Russia 1".
Hospitable Sochi welcomes musicians from all over the world for the third time. Today, the New Wave International Competition for Young Performers of Popular Music opens on the Black Sea coast. Broadcasts from the festival can be seen on the Russia 1 channel. September 6 at 23:15 will show Grand opening International Competition for Young Performers New wave- 2018". The whole galaxy of stars of domestic show business will gather on one stage to perform the main hits of this summer.
"New wave - 2017". Members and celebrity guests
By tradition, at the gala concert, which opens the New Wave, the audience will have the opportunity not only to hear their favorite compositions, but to get acquainted with the contestants and members star jury. So, the concert will be attended by: Basta, Philip Kirkorov, Alexander Panayotov, Kristina Orbakaite, Ani Lorak, Leonid Agutin, Laima Vaikule and many others. Special guest this evening will be a singer Luis Fonsi, which is the owner of prestigious music awards.
The prize fund of the international competition "New Wave" this year is seven million rubles. 16 performers will compete for victory, representing their countries in the final: Emil Kadyrov(Azerbaijan), Gevorg Harutyunyan(Armenia), Ivaylo Filipov(Bulgaria), Demy(Greece), Marko(Italy), Mad June(Kazakhstan), Lenny-Kim(Canada), Klinsmann(Malta), Julia Zahra(Netherlands), Daria Antonyuk(Russia), Dan Rozin(Russia), Ana Zorina(Russia), "Ethnosaw"(Russia), " Ki? Tua!(Russia), "Jackets Live"(Russia), Sasha Pashkov(Ukraine).
A professional jury will evaluate the numbers of the contestants
In addition, this year, as part of the New Wave, benefit concerts by Irina Allegrova, Vladimir Presnyakov and the A-Studio group will take place.
Broadcast Schedule
September 5 at 02:00 on the channel "Russia1" you can see the benefit concert of the group "A-Studio".
Igor Krutoy at the opening ceremony of the "New Wave - 2017"
The song festival "New Wave 2016" takes place in Sochi. The live broadcast goes on several sites online.
in Sochi international competition young performers of popular music "New Wave 2016". It all started on September 3rd. The first competitive day was the 5th. Today, 7 September, on festival will be held evening of songs by Igor Krutoy.
This year, as in the previous ones, not only competitive performances of participants take place on the New Wave. But the stars of the world and Russian scenes come on stage to sing along with the participants.
Wednesday, September 7th popular artists and novice singers will perform songs created by Igor Krutoy. Tonight on stage concert hall such world stars as Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Lara Fabian, Anna Netrebko, Sumi Cho and Yusif Eyvazov will come out. The songs will also be performed by the Children's Choir of the Academy of Popular Music of Igor Krutoy, Lev Leshchenko, Yuri Bashmet and Anzhelika Varum.
The performers will be accompanied by the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus under the baton of chief conductor Viktor Boborikin. And Mikhail Efremov and Alena Babenko will announce the performers and brighten up the evening.
This year there are 16 participants in the competition. There are three participants from Russia in the competition. The first is the Yekaterinburg group N.E.V.A. One of their songs was taken into rotation by about 120 radio stations in the country and neighboring countries. Denis Sokolov arrived from distant Siberia. He participated in the fourth season of the show "Voice". In the future, she dreams of taking part in Eurovision. And the most beautiful representative of Russia was a girl named Yasenia from Abkhazia. Beauty graduated from law school and has no special education. Dreams of singing with Leps.
27-year-old Sasha Zakharik from Minsk is fighting for the victory. The girl graduated from the university with a degree pop vocal. Also among the participants fourth season"Voices" Konstantin Rabotov. The young man moved to Moscow from Bulgaria. He admitted that he does not like competitions and dreams of recording a solo album.
Dino came from mysterious Croatia to participate in the competition. He lives in the city of Zagreb. And behind him is the victory in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003. A versatile guy dreams of performing at Wembley Stadium. Kristjan Kasearu came from Estonia to the competition. He was born in Pärnu but now lives in Tallinn. He twice participated in Eurovision - the first time he did not pass at the preliminary stages in his country, and the second time only his song went to the competition.
From Georgia, two participants came to the competition at once. Alisa Danelia lives in two cities - Batumi and Moscow. The girl first studied in Georgia, and now she is getting an education in the Russian capital. Giorgi Nadibaidze also came from a sunny country. In 2015 he won the Georgian The Voice
In addition, the Italian Walter Ricci came to the competition. The young Neapolitan studied as an economist, and later mastered musical basics. The wonderful duo Saryn came from Kazakhstan. And Kyrgyzstan at the competition is represented by Nursultan Azykbaev. Also participating in the competition are Samantha Tina from Latvia, Brio Sonores from Moldova. Two came from Ukraine lovely girls Galina Bezruk from Donetsk and Anastasia Prudius from Kharkov.
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