We are very pleased to invite Youth Orchestra members to audition for the Annual Concerto Competition.
Award and Eligibility
Two winners may be selected to perform one movement of a concerto with the Youth Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes on Sunday, May 22, 2011. Any participating Youth Orchestra Member is eligible to audition. The application deadline is Friday, February 4, 2011.
Auditions
Contestants will perform (from memory) one movement from a concerto on Saturday, February 26, 2011. Auditions will begin at 9am. For more information on this, please contact Devin Sherman at the OSFL office: (607) 936-2873, or Devin@OSFL.org. The length of the movement should be 5 to 8 minutes; movements of longer duration must be cut. Please consult the conductors or office when choosing your selection to make sure that we have the music available. Auditions will be scheduled in 12-minute timeslots, which will be assigned in advance. There will not be an accompanist provided to you, but you may choose to provide your own. We hope that the auditions will be very competitive so that we are able to highlight the best of our highly talented ensemble. A maximum of two students will be selected to perform with the Youth Orchestra and the conductors may, at their discretion, decide not to select a winner or only one winner depending on quality and appropriateness of the pieces performed. The decision of the conductors is final.