2024-2025 Young artistS competition

Registration Deadline: January 5, 2025

Registration Fee: $25

Auditions: January 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Winner Performance: March 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM

WHAT: The Hershberger Young Artists Competition is an annual concerto/aria competition for high school students who reside within the parameters of Ponca City and Vinita, west to east, and Independence, KS to Skiatook, OK, north to south. The winner(s) earn a $500 prize and the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Bartlesville Symphony on their March main stage concert at the Bartlesville Community Center.

WHEN: Applications will be due January 5, 2025 with the competition auditions taking place on January 12, 2025. The winner(s) will be featured on the March 29, 2025 Bartlesville Symphony concert.

WHO: The high school competition is open to students in grades 10, 11, and 12 in the 2024-25 year. Students must reside within the parameters of Ponca City and Vinita, west to east, and Independence, KS to Skiatook, OK, north to south. Students must also receive private instruction on their instrument/voice.

Download guidelines and printable PDF Form here.

Questions: please email outreach@bartlesvillesymphony.org

2025 Young Artist Competition Winner

L to R: Maestro Lauren Green, Young Artist Competition Winner Cade Van Noy (clarinet), and Alison Theis (adjudicator).

2024 Young Artist Competition Winner

L to R: Executive Director John Jenkins, Dolores McCreary (adjudicator), Young Artist Competition Winner Faith Foote (cello), and Maestro Lauren Green.

2023 Young Artist Competition Winner

Barrett Hoover (tuba) with competition judge Marjoleine Gravley, Music Director Lauren Green, and Executive Director John Jenkins.

2022 Young Artist Competition Winner

Jacinta Johnson, harp

Young Artists Competition 2021 WInners

Carlie Poole, soprano and Joyce Yang, pianist with Maestro Lauren Green after their performance with Bartlesville Symphony on March 20, 2021.

Past Young artist competitions

The winners of the 2020-21 Young Artist Competition were Joyce Yang and Carlie Poole. Carlie performed the aria “Ah, je veux vivre” from Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet and Joyce performed Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 21 by Benjamin Britten.

The 2019-20 Young Artist Competition winners were vocalist Stone Yang and flutist Brooke Oliver. Yang sang “Largo al Factotum” by composer Gioachino Rossini and Oliver performed Mozart’s Concerto in D Major.