Welcome to Bardi Young Musician

The initial Bardi Young Musician concert took place in June 2012 at Fraser Noble Concert Hall, Leicester. The concert attracted significant local newspaper coverage, and a capacity audience of about 250. Since then the competition has gone from strength to strength with some of the successful young players going on to study music full-time and taking up professional careers in music.

To enter Bardi Young Musician 2025, applicants need to:

• be aged 18 and under at 31st August 2024
• attend a school in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland
• play an orchestral instrument to Grade 8 standard (strings, woodwind, brass or percussion)
• provide details of a work for your instrument and orchestra that you would perform at the Bardi Young Musician concert

Unfortunately, we currently cannot accept pianist applicants. 

Past Winners

2023 Joseph Geary – Flute
2022 Francesca Penny – French Horn
2020 Szymon Mosciszko – Flute
2019 Sofia Demetriades – Violin
2019 Ailsa Burns – Violin
2018 Evie Dunn – Trumpet
2017 Sam Abbott – Clarinet
2016 Amalia Young – Violin
2016 Danushka Edrisinghe – Cello
2015 Sam Dye – Trombone
2014 Emilia Palmer – Clarinet
2013 Michelle Luo – Violin
2012 Mark Lee – Piano