Maazel-Vilar
The Project
Lightbulb Inc, a leader in web-based database technologies and creative development, announced today the launch of the Maazel Vilar Conductor's Competition website. This was the first year of the competition, and the Maazel-Vilar Foundation chiefly sought to convey its message and establish a stable source of competition information for potential competitors across the globe. Lightbulb responded to that need by creating an online hub to attract international applicants and allow the Foundation gauge interest and visibility.Lightbulb used its own patent-pending Filament software to design and implemented a back-end administration tool enabling efficient management of the whole applications process. Features for applicants include an online form, which allows applicants to enter a few required fields and then return to a Competitor Center to update their form as many times necessary until completion. Applicants can also generate competition updates and check the progress of their submissions.
Competition organizers are thrilled with the site. “The usefulness of having immediate feedback on a global project of this scale cannot be overestimated - and it would be very hard to come by any other way than with this technology.” says Douglas Beck of the MVCC. Administrators can literally see applications take shape and benefit from features including submissions tracking and built-in email reminders regarding outstanding submissions material due overland. A reports module issues various reports on competition process. Throughout, Lightbulb used cutting-edge Flash technology and database integration supported by our own proprietary Flashlight software to enable the site's functionality.
“We understood that the site' primary function would be as a tool for capturing applications and managing a rather complex applications process. Lightbulb approached project development almost as if designing a stand-alone program - delivering a customized application wrapped up in an elegant front-end website” explains Lightbulb CEO and Chief Technology Officer Nicholas Cianca.
The Client
The goal of the MVCCompetition is to identify today's most talented young conductors and provide them with exceptional opportunities for career development. The shared vision of founders, Maestro Lorin Maazel and philanthropist Alberto Vilar, is to fill a critical need in the musical world by nurturing a new generation of artistic leadership. The competition will hold six regional rounds worldwide in 2001-02, leading up to a final round at Carnegie Hall in New York in September 2002. Under the guidance of Lorin Maazel six finalists will complete a post-competition program of intensive conducting fellowship and professional symphony engagements.Screenshots
