Published by New Jersey Stage
originally published: 12/18/2023
(RIVER EDGE, NJ) -- The 2024 Adelphi Young Artist Competition is open to Strings, woodwinds, and piano of any nationality up to age 23. The 2024 first-place winner will perform with the Adelphi Orchestra during the 2024-25 Season. Finalists play in a recital on April 20 2024 in New York City at the National Opera Center in Marc Scorca recital Hall. Prizes will be awarded in each category.
Applications must be received by: February 1, 2024.
Divisions: (As of February 1, 2024) College (student in a University/College/Conservatory or 18 – 23); Senior (15-18); and Junior (14 and under).
For complete application details, click here.
Previous winners include Esther Youjeong Yang, Sophia Werner, Sooah Jeon, SoHyun Ko, Hikaru Yonezaki, Randall Goosby, Bryan Cheng, Xiaoxuan Shi, Nathan Meltzer, Ari Boutris, Ming Nga Cheung, Dylan Wu, Anton Rist, Brieuc Vourch, Jennifer Choi, Lindy Tsai, Ethan Siegel, Philo Lee, and Christina Hughes.
The Adelphi Orchestra is a professional, non-profit orchestra renowned for its symphonic, chamber, operatic, choral, and dance concerts. Over the past 20 years, the orchestra has hosted the Young Artist Competition and Young Artist Concerts, supporting young talent throughout New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area. The Adelphi Orchestra regularly presents concerts featuring accomplished national and international guest soloists. A finalist in the Jersey Arts People's Choice Award for the Favorite Orchestra/Symphony Division for six years, the Adelphi Orchestra is a proud member of Opera America and the League of Orchestras. Standing as one of northern New Jersey's longest continuously performing orchestras and an integral part of the state's cultural community
Upcoming Concerts with the 2023 Competition Winners
Kyunghun Kim - Conductor
Musical Nomads
March 8, 2024, 7:30pm | Fair Lawn Community Theater Fair Lawn, NJ
March 9, 2024, 2:00pm | Broadway Presbyterian Church NYC
Highlights:
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Ravel: Tzigane, Op. 4 | Ella Eom (Violin)
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"
Complexity & Simplicity
May 11, 2024, 2:00pm | Broadway Presbyterian Church
May 12, 2024, 2:00pm | Fair Lawn Community Center Theater
Featuring:
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Mozart: Concerto for Violin No. 3 in G major | Esther Youjeong Yang (Violin)
Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
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