Young Artist Competition
The Competition
Are you a young accomplished instrumentalist? This may be your chance to win a guest artist spot with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra.
This year’s Young Artist Competition is open to all orchestral instruments excluding piano. The winner of the competition will perform with the GJSO in a subscription series concert during the 2012-2013 season. To be eligible, contestants must have been born on or after March 11, 1986 (25 years or younger). Previous winners are ineligible.
Repertoire
Please choose any complete standard concerto with music readily available, excluding:
- Arutiunian: Trumpet Concerto
- Barber: Violin Concerto
- Bernstein: Mass:Three Meditations
- Dvorak: Cello Concerto
- Higdon: Percussion Concerto
- Sibelius: Violin Concerto
- Tomasi: Trombone Concerto
- Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
- Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G minor
- Vivaldi: Guitar Concerto in D Major
The Competition
Submit a CD or DVD of your performance (with piano accompaniment) of the entire concerto you will use for the competition, along with your application and a non-refundable application fee of $35 postmarked by December 16, 2011. Online applicants can submit the recording of their performance by uploading a music file no larger than 100mb along with their $35 application fee paid by Visa, Mastercard or Discover and their application.
Finalists will be notified by January 23, 2012 and invited to perform in person on Sunday, March 11, 2012 at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO.
The winner will be announced immediately following the final competition. Finalists are encouraged to provide their own accompanists, however, a local accompanist can be made available for a substantial fee.
A score must be provided for the judges and orchestral cuts will be taken. Finalists will receive an honorarium to help defray travel expenses.
The Prizes
1st Prize will perform with the GJSO during the 2011-2012 Season and receive $1500
Runner-up will receive $500
THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRY INTO THIS YEAR'S YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED IN EARLY JANUARY FOR WHEN WE ANNOUNCE THE FINALISTS.
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Our 18th Annual Young Artist Competition Winner
Join the Grand Junction Symphony and Fan-Ya Lin for…
RETURN TO THE AVALON
Saturday, February 11, 2012
7:30pm – Avalon Theatre
Sunday, February 12, 2012
3:00pm – Avalon Theatre
Fan-Ya Lin, piano
Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano
Mozart: Piano Concerto in A Major, No. 23
Often times, a Mozart concerto comes up short in competitions of this sort (Young Artist Competition) as they are not as flashy and dramatic as some of the large Romantic concertos. But Fan-ya’s performance was so precise, clean and musical, that she was the favorite of the judges.” ~ Maestro Kirk Gustafson
to the Saturday performance
to the Sunday performance
