Concerto Competition

Eligibility

A student must be enrolled as a Junior or Senior (BM, BA, BME) in the School of Music during the semester of the competition.
Past winners of the competition are ineligible to compete again.

Two winners will be selected to perform their piece with the Stetson University Symphony Orchestra in one of the remaining concerts of the season.

Students must clear their competition repertoire with the Conductor before they begin working on it in order to determine whether the University Orchestra will be able to perform it.
All students will provide the conductor with an orchestra score in order to determine factors that will allow for proper performance (such as instrumentation, degree of difficulty, etc.)
After approval, students must submit completed Concerto Competition entry forms by the posted deadline prior to the competition.
Students will be assigned a time for the day of the competition by lottery.
The judges for the event will be three musicians from outside the School of Music. The Conductor will not vote and will only participate as an advisor in the case of a tie.
A student's performance in the competition should not exceed 15 minutes of duration without permission of the conductor.

Voting is tabulated in the following manner:

The votes will be averaged.
The two students with the highest scores will be declared winners. (The Jury reserves the right to declare fewer than two winners).
Balloting will be based on performance at the audition, not on expectation of possible performance at a later date.
The orchestra conductor shall place the winners on the remaining concerts of the season according to programming needs.

For additional information, contact Maestro Anthony Hose at [email protected].