UH Music / UH Bands
2020-2021 Student Concerto Competition
The UH Music Department and the UH Bands announce the 2018-2019 Student Concerto & Composition Competition. Open to all UH current students enrolled in private study, the competition will take place in January 2019; winners will perform with the UH Wind Ensemble on their Aloha Concert, Sunday, April 28, 2019.
Application deadline: Friday, November 20, 2020
Concerto Auditions: Thursday, January 14, 2021
Concerto Performance: Sunday, April 25, 2021
General Qualifications
- Entrants must be a currently enrolled UH student at the time of both audition and performance.
- Entrants must currently be enrolled in private lessons with a UH faculty member.
Concerto Competition
- Entries for solo voice or wind, brass, percussion, or string instrument with published band or chamber winds accompaniment. (Given our ongoing COVID pandemic response, works that can be performed with chamber winds accompaniment are encouraged.)
- Work to be performed should be no more than 10 minutes in length. Cuts are acceptable; for concertos, single movements are acceptable / encouraged.
- Auditions may be performed in person or online.
- An audition accompanist is expected.
Winners / Performance
- Winning entries will be announced by Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
- The Concerto Competition Winner will rehearse & perform with the UH Wind Ensemble on the UH Bands Aloha Concert, Sunday April 25, 2021 (location and online status TBA)