PLG Young Artists
creating opportunity for young musicians

Application deadline: 1st June 2008

AFNOM has joined forces with the Park Lane Group to enable organists to become PLG Young Artists regularly for the first time. Since the PLG was formed in 1956 to provide a platform for highly talented young artists, organists have not had the same opportunities as other instruments due to organs being unavailable at the Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall. This is a significant collaboration which will foster a new generation of ambassadors for living composers and their work. Successful organists will have the benefit of wide publicity and the chance to be heard by composers and organists from all around the world.

Organists under the age of 29 can audition to perform one of four PLG recitals at major venues during AFNOM each year.

There are four concert opportunities available during AFNOM 2008 in London:

•   St Lawrence-Jewry (London EC2) on Tuesday 28th October at 13:00 (one performer) 45 minutes
•   St Dominic’s Priory (London NW5) on Friday 31st October at 16:00 (two performers) 30 minutes each
•   Westminster Cathedral (London SW1) on Sunday 2nd November at 15:45 (one performer) 30 minutes

INFORMATION FOR ORGANISTS

Applicants must be aged 29 or under on 1st June 2008. Any non-British applicant must be resident in the UK for the whole of the academic year 2008/09 (excluding holidays).

Auditions for organists are done by CD recording and must be sent with the following information in order to be eligible:

1. Completed application form               Download application form (PDF)

2. High quality CD recording of three works

•   one standard repertoire
•   one work written in the mid 20th-century
•   one work written since 2000 (preferably as recently as possible)

Your recording should be made on an instrument suited to the music you are performing. There should be no editing and the sound quality should be of the highest possible standard. Please make sure that the CD label is clearly marked with your name. The total length of the recording should last no longer than 15 minutes. You are free to choose the proportions between the three contrasting pieces.

3. Specification of the organ used in the recording

4. Performance biography

5. Signed letter of recommendation from a professional teacher (including a statement that no editing has taken place on the CD)

6. Application fee of £23.00 (payable by cheque to ‘Park Lane Group’)

Please send your application form together with the requirements listed above to the following address (to arrive no later than 1st June 2008):

PLG Young Artists Concerts
Langham House
308 Regent Street
London W1B 3AT

You will be notified in writing by the end of June as to whether you have been successful or not. Email enquiries can be addressed to the Festival Director festivaldirector@gmail.com or to John Woolf arts@parklanegroup.co.uk

Download information for organists (PDF)