Competition

The 2025 Annual Competition

The WMC's 2025 Competition and Winners’ Recital are set as in-person events to be held on Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, February 23, 2025.  

Competition Online Application - Click HERE

Coming in January 2025: To download the 2025 schedule: [view/download pdf]

2025 Competition Categories will include:

Music Camp Scholarships

-  Junior Camp: open to students ages 10 to 13 on the day of the Competition. A student may win this division only once. A Junior Camp division winner may not compete in the Senior Camp division the following year.

-  Senior Camp: open to students ages 14 to 18 on the day of the Competition.  A student may win this division only once. High school graduates are not eligible.  Vocalists are permitted to enter the Senior Camp category.

High School - Open to students in Grades 9 to 11: all instruments, including vocalists. Vocalists in Grade 12 also are eligible.  First-place winners may not compete in this category the following year.

Senior - Open to students in Grade 12, not including voice.

Composition - Open to students ages 10 to 18. First-place winners may not compete in this category the following year.  Two students may collaborate on a composition.   Vocal compositions, with accompaniment, are permitted.

Students are invited to participate in ONE of the above categories per instrument.

The Winners’ Recital on February 23 will be recorded by a professional videographer. Videos of each student’s performance will be made available to them free of charge.

Application deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025 - to be submitted online.   

Key Documents: 

Note to parents, teachers, and students: Please review the Rules & Guidelines carefully, as well as the Application Form.  They contain essential information related to the Competition, and are revised and updated every year.

Rules and Guidelines [download pdf]

Composition Guidelines for Students & Teachers: [download pdf] SAME AS LAST YEAR  (Required reading for all students entering the Composition category, as well as their teachers) 

Competition Essentials [download pdf]

Potential Camp List: [download pdf]

Listing of Area Accompanists [download pdf] 

Accompanist Fee Application [download pdf]

To Apply:  Online Application and payment - HERE

Questions: Please email competition@wednesdaymusicclub.org

To access the information from the

2024 competition, click HERE.

2023 competition, click HERE.

2025 COMPETITION SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

Yvaine Duisit Senior Camp Scholarship

Meda McNeir Tilman Senior Camp Scholarship

Sophia Gorodetskaya Senior Camp Scholarship 

Ruth Mercer Senior Camp Scholarship

The Peggy Romer Junior Camp Scholarship (3)

William Blackford Junior Camp Scholarship

Eleanor Gray Shea Senior Awards

Alice Phillips Hamilton Senior Awards

Alice Phillips Hamilton High School Awards

Wednesday Music Club Members’ Composition Awards