There are other competitions that provide their required music for the judges. Why does the Savler Contest require students to bring published scores?
Those competitions that provide their required music usually require students to work from a specific edition. We like to give teachers themselves an opportunity to select from a variety of editions according to their tastes. While it is true that we mention certain editions in the repertoire list, these are simply there to help the teachers and we have absolutely no preference of one edition over another. In other words, there are no specific edition requirements. When a student brings his or her own copies, judges can evaluate the performance based on what the student learned from rather than what he or she should have learned from a different edition. Having said that, judges may suggest you use a different edition but will not penalize a student for this. Also, it is impossible to have wonderful music without the help of music publishers and retailers, so this published score requirement is partly to discourage illegal copying of music.
