Step into the spotlight!
The ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards is an annual competition which encourages the talent and ambitions of Australia's young musicians.
Originally called the Concerto and Vocal Competition, the Awards have provided opportunities for an extraordinary number of our finest classical performers, including Geoffrey Parsons, Roger Woodward, Vernon Hill, Glenys Fowles, Neil Warren-Smith, Nathan Waks, Rosamund Illing, Diana Doherty and Adele Anthony.
The ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards is held in four stages - two recitals with piano accompaniment, and two performances with major Australian symphony orchestras. At each stage the number of competitors is reduced until by Stage III only four performers remain in each category (String, Keyboard and Other Instrumental).
The winner of each category receives a cash prize and progresses to the Grand Final, Stage IV.
The winner of the Grand Final is named the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year and receives a further cash prize, multiple copies of a compact disc of the winning performance and recital program and concert engagements with a major Australian symphony orchestra.
Click here to find out more information about recent winners and to watch the ABC's documentaries on the 2007 and 2008 Grand Finals.
2010 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards
Congratulations to Oliver She who was announced the winner of the Keyboard Finals of the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards held in the Perth Concert Hall on Wednesday July 7.
Oliver was awarded a $5000 cash prize and is the second finalist to be granted a place in the Grand Final to be held in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at 7pm on Friday August 27 with the QSO conducted by Marko Letonja.
The next and final concert in the Stage III series is;
TSO conducted by Kenneth Young will host the Other Instruments Final on Wednesday 28 July at 7pm in the Federation Concert Hall, Tasmania.
THE OTHER INSTRUMENTS FINALISTS ARE:
Andrew Wiering, 27 years old from SA will perform the Schwantner Percussion Concerto
Guy Spielman, 22 years old from NSW will perform the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto
Melissa Doecke, 29 years old from VIC will perform the Lindberg Flute Concerto
Ashley William Smith, 25 years old from VIC will perform the Ross Edwards Clarinet Concerto.
This concert will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM and then repeated on Wedensday 25 August.