Announcing our 9th Annual NCVS Young Violists Competition

2024 Application / Preliminary round information
Deadline:
video materials submitted by January 8, 2024, 11:59pm Pacific time.
Please consider filing your application form at any time from 9/15/23 on
- and submitting your recordings and payment when ready.
1. Any single movement from a Cello Suite by J.S. Bach
2. One movement from a viola sonata or a showpiece
3. One movement of a standard viola concerto
For Final Round: all finalists will play their preliminary repertoire plus a new work for unaccompanied viola, chosen from scores submitted to the NCVS composer competition 2023-24.
to NCVS@NORCALVIOLA.ORG
2023 Final Round Concert Video:
2023 Violist Adjudicators: Ethan Filner, Jodi Levitz, Eleanor Angel, & Dr. Thomas Tatton
2023 winners: Jennifer Kang, 1st place, Best Bach & Best New Piece Awards; Colin Breshears and Jenna Kim, 2nd place tie; Katherine Yang, 3rd place
Congratulations to all of our 2023 Finalists: From San Jose, Bomin Kim, from Cupertino, Michelle Choi, from Saratoga, David Kim, from Mountain View, Jennifer Kang, from Los Gatos, Jenna Kim, from San Mateo, Katherine Yang, and from San Pablo, Colin Breshears.
Sunday March 13, 2022,
2022 Young Violists Competition Winners:
Andrew Ahn, 16, from Atherton
Andrew Hwang, 14, from Palo Alto
Chanhee Park, 16, from San Jose
And...from 2021:
Our YVC 2021 Finalists:
Michelle Koo, from Palo Alto, California.
Hannah Lam, from San Ramon.
Wyeth Minami, from Palo Alto
Pearl de la Motte, from San Francisco.
Ingrid Nordberg, from Walnut Creek
QUESTIONS? EMAIL NCVS@NORCALVIOLA.ORG