Young Artists Competition and Concert - 2023

We are inviting young musicians from around the valley to submit video auditions of their concerto performances. A selection of semi-finalists will be announced and invited to perform their concertos "live" with their own accompanist for the final selection of young artists, on Saturday, November 12, 2022 between 9:30am and 11:30am, at Summerhays Music recital hall, 1006 S State St. Orem.

Important Dates

Dates for Solo Audition

see Rules and Regulations for Solo Competition for details

Saturday, October 01, 2022 - Saturday, November 05, 2022:   Registration is closed.

Monday, November 07, 2022: Deadline for audition upload

Saturday, November 12, 2022: Final "live" audition

Thursday and Friday, February 23 & 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm: Young Artist Concert w/UVS

Dates for Group Piece Audition

see Rules and Regulations for Group Piece Performance for details

Saturday, October 01, 2022 - Saturday, January 07, 2023: Registration open

Saturday, January 07, 2023: Deadline for audition upload

Saturday, January 14, 2023: Group Piece participants announced

Wednesday, February 22, 2023: School Concert

Rules and Regulations for Solo Competition:

Qualifiers for Participation

1. The Utah Valley Symphony seeks to promote young musicians from Utah County. Therefore, the UVS Young Artist competition is open to musicians age 25 or younger who have attended public, private, charter or home school in Utah Valley. Parents must have established permanent residency for at least two (2) years during the musician's elementary or secondary school years. The permanent residence must be within Utah County or from areas of rural Utah that do not have similar opportunities in their communities. Therefore, residents of other Wasatch Front counties (Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Box Elder, Cache) as well as Iron County and Washington County are ineligible.
   
   
2. A Young Artist may perform twice as a winner in the Young Artist Concert by winning in 2 of the 3 categories -- at least 3 years apart. Performances in the School concerts do not count towards this two-concert total.
   The 3 categories are: Elementary (K-6), Junior (7-11), Senior (grade 12 - Age 25).
• A Young Artist from the Elementary or Junior category may be chosen to also perform in the morning School Concerts in the Covey Center.
• Selected Young Artists from the Junior and Senior categories will perform in the Covey Center for the Young Artist concert. No more than three (3) from the Junior and three (3) from the Senior category will be chosen. But the Musical Director reserves the right to choose less or more depending on the applicants auditions.
• The outstanding auditionees for the group piece, will perform in the School Concerts in the Covey Center.
3. The solo audition piece must be a work for soloist (or soloists) and orchestra. The piece must be memorized and performed with a live accompanist. Judges may ask to hear any part of the piece.
   For 2023, the following pieces are ineligible for audition and performance:

   violin:	Scene de Ballet by Charles Auguste de Bériot
   cello:	Concerto in E minor, 1st mvt. by Edward Elgar
   Piano:	Concerto No. 2 Op. 19, 1st mvt by Ludwig van Beethoven Concertpiece in F minor, Op.79, 3rd mvt. by Carl Maria von Weber Concerto No. 2, 3rd mvt. by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Registration and audition procedure

1. Registration period will begin Saturday, October 01, 2022, and end Saturday, November 05, 2022. The cost to register is $25.00 per Registrant. Registration, payment, and uploads will be made through this webpage. Payments will process through Paypal (A PayPal account is not required - it will accept your Credit Card). All registrations and fees must be received by Saturday, November 05, 2022. Multiple registration discounts for additional siblings are available by typing in the Audition ID Number of any of the previously registered siblings. First child is $25.00. Each additional registered child is $10.00.
   
2. Upon registration, a link will be provided for you to upload a video recording of your audition. Uploads need to be submitted prior to Monday, November 07, 2022.
3. For the recorded upload, please provide an excerpt of your piece not to exceed 5 minutes. Make judicious cuts. See Audition Recording Requirements.
4. Semi-finalists will perform their 5-minute excerpt of their concerto live, with accompanist, on Saturday, November 12, 2022 between 9:30am and 11:30am at Summerhays Music recital hall, 1006 S State St. Orem During the audition, the judges may ask to hear any passage(s) of the movement or piece that is being performed regardless of whether or not it is in the timed version of the auditioned piece.

Rules and Regulations for Group Piece performance:

Each year the UVS performs a morning concert for school-aged children. The group piece performers are featured on that program.

For 2023, a viola Group piece and a Bass Group piece will be performed at the school concert.

• Viola group: Telemann: Concerto in G Major, 2nd mvt (14 years & younger by December 1st, 2022)
• Bass group: Sweet Georgia Brown from Suzuki Bass School, Volume 3 (17 years & younger by December 1st, 2022)

These will be performed as a group with the orchestra (accompaniment) for school aged children in the Covey Center on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 10:00 am

• A video recording of your performance of the audition piece may be uploaded from Saturday, November 12, 2022 through Saturday, January 07, 2023.
• Record your audition with your pianist. It must be memorized. (See Audition Recordings)
• A student may audition for both the group piece and on another concerto. For their 2nd audition, they may use the "sibling" $10 fee for their 2nd audition.

Audition Recordings Requirements :

• For solo auditions, your 5 minute video audition must be uploaded by Monday, November 07, 2022. After registration is closed (Saturday, November 05, 2022), please submit your audition video here.
• For group piece auditions, your video audition must be uploaded by Saturday, January 07, 2023 After Saturday, November 12, 2022 your video audition may be uploaded here.
• The piece must be memorized and performed with a live accompanist.
• Wear best clothes.
• For Solo auditions, Semi-finalists will be announced by Thursday, November 10, 2022
• For Group piece auditions, participants will be announced by Saturday, January 14, 2023

Post Competition and Performances

Finalists/Winners of the Utah Valley Symphony Young Artists competition will perform with the Symphony on Thursday and Friday, February 23 & 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm in the Covey Center for the Arts.

Those invited to play the group piece will perform at the school concert on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 in the Covey Center for the Arts.

Competition Registration

Registration and $25.00 fee must be received by Saturday, November 05, 2022.

For additional questions not addressed here please email: