Tri-County Concerts Association Annual Youth Festival

A very important part of Tri-County's program is its Annual Youth Festival, established in 1943. Tri-County Concerts Association organizes 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 harp, classical guitar, and percussion.

The festival offers talented students an opportunity to audition before and receive critiques from professional judges. The winners receive scholarships for their musical training and the opportunity to perform before a discriminating audience at the annual Tri-County Youth Festival Concert.

2010 Youth Festival Dates

Saturday, January 30, 2010: Teachers' pre-registration forms due (postmarked). The pre-registration form must be filled out and signed by the student's teacher. Tri-County will send out an application form to each student pre-registered by his or her teacher. Auditions are limited to those students pre-registered by their teachers. Click on the link near the bottom of this web page to download a pre-registration form.

Friday, February 26, 2010: Students' application forms due (postmarked) for auditions for Senior Piano and Junior and Senior Strings, Voice, and Ensembles at Immaculata University (in Chester County, near Frazer, PA).

Wednesday, March 10: Application forms due (postmarked) for auditions for Junior Piano and Junior and Senior Winds and Musica Diversa instruments* at Immaculata University.

Saturday, March 27: Auditions for Junior and Senior Strings, Junior and Senior Voice, Junior and Senior Ensembles, and Senior Piano at Immaculata University (in Chester County, near Malvern, PA).

Saturday afternoon, April 10: Auditions for Junior Piano and Junior and Senior Winds, and Musica Diversa instruments* at Immaculata University.

Saturday, May 15, 7 p.m.: Winners' Recital at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, PA.

Click here to download the 2010 Tri-County Concerts Youth Festival Guidelines.

For further information, please contact the Youth Festival Directors at tricountyyouthfestival@gmail.com.

Bonnie Brebach and Eleanor James, Co-Directors, Tri-County Concerts Youth Festival

*Music Diversa is an extended category including the less frequent symphonic instruments of harp, classical guitar, and percussion.