Dear Manitoba music community, 

Virtuosi Concerts is inviting music students to apply for the Virtuosi Young Artist Program. The Virtuosi Concerts Young Artist Program has become Winnipeg’s most unique performing experience for senior music students. Our program unites two exceptional opportunities: performing for our attentive and enthusiastic audience, and interacting and sharing the stage with Virtuosi’s acclaimed international musicians. 

This year, auditions for the Young Artist Program will remain online.  The application requirements are:

1. A performance video (7-10 minutes, multiple pieces welcome) uploaded onto a sharing platform (YouTube or Vimeo)

2. A bio

Applications are due on Tuesday May 31, 2022.

Please send your video link and bio to Virtuosiyap@gmail.com.  

Successful auditions result in a performance opportunity at the beginning of a Virtuosi subscription concert in the 2022/23 season, an $80 honorarium for each performer, and two complimentary tickets for each performer for the concert in which they are featured.

Please forward this message to any interested students. Ensembles are welcome to apply. 

Also, stay tuned for an exciting announcement from our Young Artist Program! We will be inviting students to submit applications for a new initiative which will feature advanced music students alongside celebrated Manitoba chamber musicians in a Virtuosi season concert. Applications for students will open in August 2022. Details to be announced soon! Madeline Hildebrand,  Virtuosi Concerts Young Artist Program Coordinator Madeline Hildebrand at virtuosiyap@gmail.com.

The Young Artist Program was launched in 2015, as part of Virtuosi's 25th Anniversary season. The program's mandate is to provide music students with performance experience in a professional concert setting. Performers are selected each April through juried auditions. Virtuosi Young Artists receive an honorarium, concert tickets, program and social media profile, and an interview on Classic 107 FM.

2022 Young Artists:

January 16: Alice Macgregor, soprano (postponed to April 2)

February 11: Anica Warkentine, piano (postponed to May 8)

March 13: Miona Milovanovic, violin

April 2: Alice Macgregor, soprano

May 8: Anica Warkentine, piano

“The Virtuosi Concerts Young Artist Program has become Winnipeg‘s most unique performing experience for senior music students. Our program marries two exceptional opportunities: performing for our attentive and enthusiastic Virtuosi Concerts patrons; and, interacting and sharing the stage with Virtuosi’s acclaimed international musicians,” says Madeline Hildebrand, Young Artist Program Coordinator.

 
For more information on the Young Artist Program contact
Madeline Hildebrand at virtuosiyap@gmail.com.