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For information and a copy of the brochure about this year's competition, please go to the Symphony Guild's website at www.symphonyguildcharlotte.org. The competition is open to young people in two divisions: the senior division for grades 10 through 12, and the junior division for grades 5 through 9. The students may perform in one of four categories: winds, strings, piano or percussion (Sr. div. only). The grand prize winners in the senior division will be performing as soloists with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra at Ovens Auditorium on February 26, 2009. The junior division winners will be soloists with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra at the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra's Spring Concert May 21, 2009 in the Halton Theater. Interested musicians should contact Donna Wortsell at 704-540-4266 or check the Symphony Guild of Charlotte’s web site at www.symphonyguildcharlotte.org for an application and repertoire requirements. Musicians are eligible to enter the competition if they reside in North Carolina within a 50 mile radius of Charlotte, or if outside the radius, they reside in a NC county west of I-77. or within Lancaster or York counties in South Carolina. The first Young Artists Competition, one of the Symphony Guild of Charlotte’s original education projects, was held in 1955. The Young Artists Competition gives young musicians from the greater Charlotte area and western NC an opportunity to compete against other talented musicians and against their own internal standards of perfection. Performing with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra at Youth Festival is the award given to the Senior Grand Prizewinners of this competition. In 1986, the Youth Festival was established to offer the young musicians of the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Senior Young Artists winners the opportunity to perform with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in a concert hall atmosphere. The Junior Division winners perform with the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra at their spring concert. In 1995, the Youth Festival was moved from Dana Auditorium at Queens College to the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.
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