Senior Category:
1st place: Joshua Swank
2nd: Stella Wadsworth
3rd: Graham Carlson
Honorable Mention: Dalloway Smith
Junior Category:
1st Aliya Gardner
2nd Yejoon Jung
3rd Elian Coley
Honorable Mention: Mary Erickson & Ella Johnson
Congratulations to the winners and bravo to everyone who participated in the competition! Recording of the competition final: https://youtube.com/live/fuWVsm8Sg6M
Ages 13 or younger
Age 14 through 17
Full-time undergraduate student or age 18 through 25
1) Senior & Collegiate divisions: one movement from J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites
Junior Division: any selection from the Baroque or Classical periods
2) Contestant’s own choice.
*It is suggested that repertoire be varied in both time period and style.
a) Complete works or complete single movements from works will be required of all contestants.
b) No composer may be represented more than once in each contestant’s program. Multiple movements of the same work are permitted but two composers MUST be represented.
c) All works (including sonatas) performed in the Final Round must be played by memory.
d) First-prize winners of the previous years cannot re-enter the same category
e) Competition finalists are expected to stay after the competition to participate in the other sessions of the festival and perform in the final cello ensemble concert
Preliminary Recording due on September 1
a) The required repertoire must be included. Other works presented on the recording should be the same as the potential live Final Competition.
b) Recordings must be in video format. Please upload it to YouTube and submit the link of your video. Each piece or movement must be recorded without editing. Edited performances will be disqualified. Contestants should submit as high quality recording as possible.
c) Piano accompaniment is not required for the preliminary recording
Preliminary Total Performance Time:
· Junior Division: 5-8 minutes
· Senior Division: 7-10 minutes
· Collegiate Division: 10-15 minutes
September 19 afternoon in Eccles Concert Hall
Accompanist required for pieces originally written with a piano or orchestra
A list of official accompanists will be available to rehearse with entrants on Sept 18 or prior to the competition. $25 (or 50%) of the official accompanist fee ($50 for a 15-20-min rehearsal and the performance) will be sponsored by the festival. Entrants are allowed to bring their own accompanists if preferred and any accompanist’s fee will not be covered by the festival in that case.
Final-Round Total Performance Time:
· Junior Division: 4-6 minutes
· Senior Division: 7-10 minutes
· Collegiate Division: 10-15 minutes
a) Time limits are suggestions only. Performances under the minimum will not be disqualified. Nevertheless, contestants are encouraged to fully utilize the performance time to feature themselves in the best possible light.
b) The cutting of lengthy piano tutti sections is strongly encouraged.
*The competition reserves the rights to add a semi-final round if needed due to the number and performance level of the participants.
*The adjudicators and the Cello Festival Director reserved the rights not to award any of the above prizes based on the level of the competition
*The first-prize winners will perform in the 2-pm Matinee Chamber Concert on September 14.
All competition participants will automatically be a part of the Cello Festival of Southern Utah. Enter the competition by filling out the Competition & Festival Registration,. The competition-festival registration fee is $75.
PDF format of the above competition application guidelines: click here
Email: Ka-Wai.Yu@utahtech.edu
Phone: 435-652-7797
Office: Eccles 138
