2024 Annual Youth Festival
A very important part of Tri-County Concerts' program is its Annual Youth Festival, established in 1943. This is one of the area's most prestigious competitions for aspiring young musicians living in Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Auditions are open to high-school and middle-school students in a wide variety of instruments, including piano, strings, winds, voice, and ensembles, as well as a musica diversa category that includes harp, classical guitar, and percussion.
The Youth Festival offers talented students an opportunity to audition before and receive critiques from professional judges. Each year those students deemed outstanding by the judges are given monetary awards; their photos and accomplishments are featured on the Tri-County web site; and they perform at a live winners' recital.
2024 Auditions
Auditions are limited to those students who complete registration by April 5, 2024.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Held at Swope Music Building, West Chester University in West Chester, PA (S. Walnut Street).
Morning - Jr. and Sr. Ensembles, Musica Diversa
Afternoon - Jr. Piano
All day - Sr. Piano; Jr. and Sr. Strings, Voice, Winds, and Brass
81st Annual Youth Festival Winners' Recital
Saturday June 1, 2024
7:00 PM
Swope Music Building, West Chester University
Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre
West Chester, PA 19383
Tickets: Available at the door, or send check to
Tri-County Concerts, PO Box 222, Wayne, PA 19087
- General Admission $10
- Students FREE
Please, no children under 6
Tickets bought online or by check will be held for pickup at the door.
For further information, please contact the Youth Festival Directors at tricountyyouthfestival@gmail.com.
Wendy Schmid and Eleanor James, Co-Directors, Tri-County Concerts Youth Festival
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