MUSIC

Artscape National Youth Music Competition

Venue: Artscape, DF Malan St, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 421 7695.
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Performances: 5 - 10 Oct 2009
Genre: Various

From 5-10 October 2009, thirty highly talented musicians between the ages of 14 and 19 years will come together to compete in the Artscape National Youth Music Competition. The contestants, classical pianists and orchestral instrumentalists, were selected from sixty musicians at qualifying auditions held in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The competition offers prizes totalling R65 000 and takes place at Artscape.

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Each participant will play in the first two rounds after which the first elimination takes place.  A maximum of twelve competitors will then go through to the third round and the final six contenders will perform with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) at a gala evening on Saturday 10th October at 19:30 in the Artscape Theatre.

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