Concerts & Schedule

The Coquitlam Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition will be on June 13, 2025 between 4 – 8 pm at the Evergreen Cultural Centre Rehearsal Hall. This competition is only for the current members of the Coquitlam Youth Orchestra (CYO). The winner for each orchestra will play their concerto as a soloist with the CYO in the following season.

If a student enters the competition, the competition will serve as the student’s audition, so the student does not need to do both the audition and the competition. If you have already registered for an audition and would like to do the competition, please email sarah@cyobc.ca.

If you are entering the concerto competition please only enter with a concerto. If you are unsure if your piece qualifies as a concerto, please contact me for clarification. This will create a fairer playing field, and reduce confusion for the adjudicator and disappointment for students. The concerto must also be memorized.

Also, each competitor requires a piano accompanist. They must organize their own piano accompaniment to attend the competition with the student.

A student cannot enter the concerto competition if they won the competition the previous year; they must skip one year to enter again. Competitors must play a memorized movement of a concerto with piano accompaniment.

Please email sarah@cyobc.ca for registration information.

Closed to the public.

Open to all pianists in the Lower Mainland, up to 20 years old.

Age Categories:  Junior Group – up to and including age 14 as of June 20, 2025

                              Senior Group – Ages 15-20 as of June 20, 2025

Entry Fee:           $25.00

Each applicant is required to provide their own accompanist.

One winner from each category will be invited to perform one movement of the concerto in the CYO 2025-2026 Season.

Winners cannot compete 2 consecutive years in any category.

Registration details to come.