PORT ANGELES — Applications are due Dec. 1 for the Port Angeles Symphony’s Young Artist Competitions, this year offering $1,400 in cash prizes for musicians younger than 22.
The two contests, to be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave., on Jan. 23, are open to North Olympic Peninsula instrumental music students.
Registration forms are available at www.PortAngelesSymphony.org.
The 30th annual Young Artist Competition is open to musicians who will be younger than 22 years old as of June 1, 2016, and who did not win the 2015 competition.
Cash awards are $500 for first place, $250 for second and $200 for third.
The 10th annual Junior Young Artist Competition, meanwhile, is open to any instrumentalist in ninth grade or below.
Participants must not have competed in the senior Young Artist Competition, applied for it nor won first prize in the 2015 Junior Young Artist Competition.
Prizes for the junior contest are $250 for first place, $125 for second and $75 for third.
Prize monies are supplied by the Port Angeles Garden Club, Tom and Judie Sharpe, Cheryl Swoboda and by two anonymous donors.
In this past January’s Young Artists Competition, cellist Madelyn Kowalski of Marrowstone Island, then 16, took first place while violinist Marley Erickson of Port Townsend took second and bassist Michael Helwick of Port Angeles won third prize.
In the Junior Young Artist Competition, Marley’s brother, cellist Adlai Erickson, took first place while Port Angeles pianist Keon Deng won second and violist Lauren Waldron, also of Port Angeles, took third.
For information about the forthcoming contests, which will again be open to spectators, phone the symphony office at 360-457-5579.
