FIU Annual Concerto Competition

High School Division Information

Concerto Competition Application Deadline

• Keeping the safety of our students and community in mind, we will announce the next concerto competition dates shortly.

Audition Date and General Information

• The FIU Concerto Competition is open to orchestral instrumentalists, pianists, and singers. Students, in consultation with their professor, should prepare one movement from a concerto or in the case of vocalists an aria or other vocal work. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own pianist to their audition. However, a pianist can be requested in the application. Students should bring three copies of a piano reduction of their piece for the audition panel. Auditions will not be heard without adjudicator copies.

Eligibility Requirements

Students must arrange for their own pianist.

Auditions will be a maximum of 10 minutes. 

All contestants must be prepared to perform at least forty-five (45) minutes before the assigned time.

Concerto Competition First Place winners from previous years are not eligible to enter the competition.

Alternates from previous years remain eligible.

Prizes

College Division Prize Winners Receive:

1^st prize: Perform as soloist with the FIU Symphony Orchestra and receive $250.

2^nd prize: $100

Honorable mentions to be awarded at adjudicators’ discretion.

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High School Division Prize Winners Receive:

1^st prize: Perform as soloist with the FIU Symphony Orchestra and receive $250

2^nd prize: $100

Honorable mentions to be awarded at adjudicators’ discretion.

Past Winners

Competition Judges

John Stuart

John Stuart, AIA, Associate Dean for Cultural and Community Engagement, Executive Director of Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Professor, is a practicing registered architect in the State of Florida. He is also an architectural historian and a visual artist developing collaborative research projects on complexity, community, identity, technology, the environment and public space with funding from Van Alen Institute, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Science Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Michael Linville

Pianist, percussionist, harpist and conductor, Michael Linville is currently Associate Dean and Director of Chamber Music Activities for the New World Symphony, the orchestral academy founded in 1987 by Michael Tilson Thomas. Mr. Linville is also artistic coordinator of the New World Percussion Consort, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary chamber music that features percussion. As a soloist, Mr. Linville has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Breckenridge Chamber Orchestra, and the National Repertory Orchestra. In addition, he has played with the Honolulu Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, and was a featured keyboardist with the Florida Philharmonic.  His playing can be heard on a number of recordings, including New World Jazz (BMG), A Night in the Tropics – the Music of Gottschalk (Naxos), and White Mares of the Moon – Chamber Music of Dan Welcher (CRI), which Mr. Linville also produced.

Robert H. Smith

Robert H. Smith, Jr. is a native of Tallahassee, Florida and alumni the Eastman School of Music, where he received his MM degree in Accompanying and Chamber Music.  Formerly the Assistant Dean at the Manhattan School of Music, he was concurrently the Director of the school’s elite Claremont Ensemble and the Competition Director of the Mischa Elman Competition of Duos.   He was also served for six years as the Artistic Administrator of Orchestras for the Verbier Festival (Verbier, Switzerland).  Mr. Smith is the co-Founder and co-Executive of the newly launched Josef Gingold Chamber Music Festival of Miami and Assistant Director of the Chopin Foundation of the US.

For Information, contact:

Michael Klotz, Senior Instructor of Viola

FIU Concerto Competition Competition Organizer

Email: klotzm@fiu.edu 

OR Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts Office at music@fiu.edu.