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, applicants need to:

• be aged 18 and under
• educated 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. 

Applications for Bardi Young Musician 2026 will open in the summer of 2025

Past Winners

2024 Ewan Metcalfe – Clarinet
2023 Joseph Geary – Flute
2022 Francesca Penny – 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