Current participants and alumni of all YMF’s programs through age 26 are eligible to audition for the annual National Debut Concerto Competition. A panel of professional musicians and the Music Director and Conductor of the Debut Orchestra select young musicians to perform a concerto with the Debut Orchestra during the upcoming season. More than 180 renowned musicians have had their earliest solo experience as a winner of this prestigious competition. Awards include a performance opportunity with the Debut Orchestra and honorariums ranging from $500 to $3000.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 National Debut Competition:

Grand Prize Jennifer Liu, violin	First Prize Andrius Bernotaitis, clarinet	Second Prize Christy Havens, bassoon	Camp Prize Marina Chen, violin

Current members and alumni of YMF’s Chamber Music Series, Debut Orchestra, Scholarship and Summer Orchestra Programs through age 26 at the time of auditions.

Applications not available at this time.

The following works will be ineligible on the 2009 National Debut Competition:
VIOLIN
Brahms - Concerto
Conus - Concerto
Korngold - Concerto
Prokofiev - Concerto no. 2
Saint-Saens - Concerto no. 3
Sarasate - Carmen Fantasy
Sibelius - Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Waltz-Scherzo

CELLO
Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations

OBOE
Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor

CLARINET
Copland - Concerto
Corigliano - Concerto
Mozart - Concerto
Nielsen - Concerto

BASSOON
Mozart - Concerto
TROMBONE
Creston - Fantasy

PIANO
Liszt - Fantasia on Hungarian Themes
Rachmaninoff - Concerto no. 2 Tchaikovsky - Concerto no. 1