Cerddor Ifanc GREGYNOG
Young Musician
Patron: Professor Ieuan Jones FRCM
President: Lord Davies of Llandinam
The Competition
Saturday November 16th 2024
Music Room Gregynog Hall
Application deadline:
Sunday, October 20th, 2004
Entry is now open
Gregynog Young Musician Competition
The Gregynog Young Musician Competition was founded in 2005 and has become a prestigious annual event.
Entrants must be aged 18 or under and have reached Grade 8 or equivalent on any orchestral, brass band or percussion instrument.
Up to 18 contestants are selected to perform in the semi-finals in front of a panel of specialist adjudicators. This takes place for a full day in November, in the music room at Gregynog.
One winner from each category is chosen to perform in the finalists’ competition. The winners compete that evening for the title of Gregynog Young Musician of the Year.
Candidates will be required to submit their initial entry form and recording by 20th October 2024.
Entry Form
"I can honestly say that
I thoroughly enjoyed the
competition and must
say that the atmosphere,
location and feedback
were among the best I
have ever experienced."
Ben Goldscheider
(Winner of the brass section 2015)
The Competition
Next competition date:
Saturday November 16th 2024
The competition is divided in to 5 separate categories as follows:
'Gregynog Young String Player of the Year'
'Gregynog Young Pianist of the Year'
'Gregynog Young Woodwind Player of the Year'
'Gregynog Young Brass Player of the Year'
'Gregynog Young Harpist / Guitarist / Percussionist of the Year'
Prize money
For the overall winner awarded the title 'Young Musician of the Year'
£3,000.00
Category Winners will receive
£500.00
Young Accompanist winner will receive The Chairman's Trophy
and £200.00
Previous Winners Include
2005 - Cai Isfryn (trumpet)
2012 - Tom Blomfield (oboe)
2013 - Charlie Lovell Jones (violin)
2015 - Sheku Kanneh-Mason (‘cello)
2019 - Ellis Thomas (piano)
2021 - Oliver Simpson (‘cello)
2022 - Firoze Madon (piano)
2023 - Ivan Cherednichenko ('cello)
Gregynog
Gregynog is a large country mansion 4 miles (6.4kms) north-west of Newtown. It sits in 750 acres of farms, woodlands and formal gardens. Gregynog was bought by Margaret and her elder sister Gwendoline Davies in 1920, with the intention of establishing a centre of excellence for the arts, crafts and music in the aftermath of World War One.
Gregynog became famous for music, fine printing and for the Davies sisters’ art collections. Theirs was one of the most important British collections of French Impressionist paintings.
In 1933, the Davies sisters established the Gregynog Festival and many famous names were included; Holst, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Sir Adrian Boult and more recently Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
It is wonderful that Gregynog is also home to the Annual Young Musician Competition, which attracts participants from all over the UK and beyond.
Accommodation and a café are available for those wishing to stay for the competition.
