Youth Artist Divisions

Competition Details:

This season, the Youth Artist Competitions will have a recorded preliminary-round, due February 9th, 2025. The final round for all three competitions will be conducted at the Spring Festival on April 13th, 2025.

Time limits exclude any time between pieces or movements. The program should include pieces in a variety of diverse styles and periods.

This may include single movements of works, sonatas, and unaccompanied pieces. It is not necessary to perform all movements of a single work. An individual movement of a work needs to be performed in its entirety, but cuts may be made in the accompaniment and repeats may be deleted.

Accompanied pieces must be performed with the accompaniment.

The Youth Artist Competitions are open to students through and including 12th grade.
Entry Fee: $50 (does not include SDFG Membership Fee, and is non-refundable*).
All entrants must be members of the San Diego Flute Guild (may join with entry).
Previous 1st prize winners are not eligible to compete in the same division in following years.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes and Honorable Mention(s) will be awarded per the judges’ discretion. There are no ties. Judges' decisions are final.

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Youth Artist Senior

Youth Artist Junior

Youth Artist Elementary

COMPETITION Information

Level	Grade Level	Entry Fee	Final Round Competition Date	Registration Deadline
Youth Artist Senior	Through and including 12th Grade	$50	April 13th, 2025	February 9th, 11:59 pm
Youth Artist Junior	Through and including 9th Grade	$50	April 13th, 2025	February 9th, 11:59 pm
Youth Artist Elementary	Through and including 6th Grade	$50	April 13th, 2025	February 9th, 11:59 pm

CASH PRIZES

Level	Cash Prize (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Youth Artist Senior	$300, $200, $150
Youth Artist Junior	$200, $150, $100
Youth Artist Elementary	$150, $100, $50

Youth Artist Senior

(through & including 12^th grade)

Youth Artist Senior (Through and including 12th Grade)

Awards: $300, $200, $150 Procedure : 6 finalists to be chosen to perform in the open live round at the Spring Festival from the recorded round

Eligibility :

● First Place Prize Winners from previous years in the same division are not eligible.

● All entrants must be members of the San Diego Flute Guild

Recorded round repertoire:

● Concerto No. 1 in G Major, Mozart (any edition):

○ I. Exposition of the 1st movement: Allegro Maestoso

○ II. Exposition of the 2nd movement: Adagio ma non troppo

**Piano accompaniment is not mandatory but recommended

Final In-Person Round: 12-minute program

● Piano accompaniment is not mandatory but recommended

● Diverse selection of compositions and composers from various styles and historical periods

● Individual movements from larger works are permitted but have to be played in its entirety

● Modifying accompaniments and omitting repeats is permissible

● Time limits exclude any time between pieces/movements.

Level	Grade Level	Entry Fee	Competition Date	Cash Prize (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Youth Artist Senior	Through and including 12th Grade	$50	April 13th, 2025	$300, $200, $150

Youth Artist Junior

(through & including 9^th grade)

Procedure :

● 6 finalists to be chosen to perform in the open live round at the Spring Festival from the recorded round

Eligibility :

● First Place Prize Winners from previous years are not eligible

● All entrants must be members of the San Diego Flute Guild

Recorded round repertoire:

● Pan, J.Donjon, from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H.

Voxman (Rubank)

**Piano accompaniment is not mandatory but recommended

Final In-person round: 10-minute program

● Piano accompaniment is not mandatory but recommended

● Diverse selection of compositions and composers from various styles and historical periods

● Individual movements from larger works are permitted but have to be played in its entirety

● Modifying accompaniments and omitting repeats is permissible

● Time limits exclude any time between pieces/movements.

Level	Grade Level	Entry Fee	Competition Date	Cash Prize (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Youth Artist Junior	Through and including 9th Grade	$50	April 13th, 2025	$200, $150, $100

Register Here!

Youth Artist Elementary

(through & including 6^th grade)

Procedure :

● 6 finalists to be chosen to perform in the open live round at the Spring Festival from the recorded round

Eligibility :

● First Place Prize Winners from previous years are not eligible

● All entrants must be members of the San Diego Flute Guild

Recorded round repertoire:

● Gavotte, F. J. Gossec, from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and

Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank)

**Piano accompaniment is not mandatory but recommended

Final In-Person Round: 8-minute program

● Piano accompaniment is not mandatory but recommended

● Diverse selection of compositions and composers from various styles and historical periods

● Individual movements from larger works are permitted but have to be played in its entirety

● Modifying accompaniments and omitting repeats is permissible

● Time limits exclude any time between pieces/movements.

Level	Grade Level	Entry Fee	Competition Date	Cash Prize (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Youth Artist Elementary	Through and including 6th Grade	$50	April 13th, 2025	$150, $100, $50

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RECORDING REQUIREMENTS

Preliminary Round Recordings:

Recordings must be in mp3/m4a/wav/aiff audio format (no videos will be accepted as this is an anonymous round).
For identification purposes, name your files as your first initial and last name followed by the composer’s name (i.e. S.Smith.Bach.mp3)
Please do not talk or identify yourself in any way on your submitted recordings.
The two pieces must be submitted as one audio file each (if applicable).
Recordings must be complete and unedited (recording breaks between movements are acceptable, if applicable).

Note: All recorded files will be coded and numbered for anonymity before being submitted to the Preliminary Recorded Round adjudication panel.

Competitors on every level who do not pass to the final, in-person rounds, are invited to showcase their talents in the adjudicated Festival Division during the Spring Festival 2025.

**We are not able to guarantee personal scheduling accommodations. No refunds available for competition registration fees.**

Should you have any questions or require further information, feel free to contact SDFG Competition Coordinator at competitions@sandiegofluteguild.org.

Click below to jump to specific competitions:

Youth Artist Senior

Youth Artist Junior

Youth Artist Elementary