Announcing our 10th Annual NCVS Young Violists Competition
2025 Application / Preliminary round information
Deadline:
video materials submitted by January 6, 2025, 11:59pm Pacific time.
Please consider filing your application form at any time from 9/15/24 on
- and submitting your recordings and payment when ready.
1. Any single movement from a Cello Suite by J.S. Bach
2. One movement from a viola sonata or a showpiece
3. One movement of a standard viola concerto
For Final Round: all finalists will play their preliminary repertoire plus a new work for unaccompanied viola, chosen from scores submitted to the NCVS composer competition 2024-25.
to NCVS@NORCALVIOLA.ORG
Announcing our 9th Annual NCVS Young Violists Competition Results:
First Place: Colin Breshears
Second Place: Liam Young Skeen
Third Place tie: Rebekah Sung/Bryan Im
Judges’ Award: Eleanor Gil
Best Bach Performance: Colin Breshears
Best Performance of New Piece, “Der Kleiner Elephant”: Colin Breshears
Congratulations to all of our truly outstanding young 2024 finalists: Yufei Shen from Pleasanton, Katherine Yang from San Mateo, Eleanor Gil from San Jose, Rebekah Sung from Fremont, Bryan Im from San Jose, Liam Young Skeen from Richmond and Colin Breshears from San Pablo
Violist Adjudicators: Don Ehrlich, Pamela Freund & Thomas Tatton
March 10, 2024 at the University of San Francisco in the Studio Theater, Yufei's Stamitz Concerto sparkled, Katherine showed a gorgeous color palette in her Bartok, Eleanor wowed us with her rich deep sound in Brahms, Bryan's York Bowen Sonata was strong and romantic, Rebekah's polish and imagination showed in everything she played, Liam held us in thrall with his Bloch and Colin dazzled us with his Hoffmeister, it was truly an afternoon to remember!2023 Final Round Concert Video:
2023 Violist Adjudicators: Ethan Filner, Jodi Levitz, Eleanor Angel, & Dr. Thomas Tatton
2023 winners: Jennifer Kang, 1st place, Best Bach & Best New Piece Awards; Colin Breshears and Jenna Kim, 2nd place tie; Katherine Yang, 3rd place
Congratulations to all of our 2023 Finalists: From San Jose, Bomin Kim, from Cupertino, Michelle Choi, from Saratoga, David Kim, from Mountain View, Jennifer Kang, from Los Gatos, Jenna Kim, from San Mateo, Katherine Yang, and from San Pablo, Colin Breshears.
Sunday March 13, 2022,
2022 Young Violists Competition Winners:
Andrew Ahn, 16, from Atherton
Andrew Hwang, 14, from Palo Alto
Chanhee Park, 16, from San Jose
And...from 2021:
Our YVC 2021 Finalists:
Michelle Koo, from Palo Alto, California.
Hannah Lam, from San Ramon.
Wyeth Minami, from Palo Alto
Pearl de la Motte, from San Francisco.
Ingrid Nordberg, from Walnut Creek
QUESTIONS? EMAIL NCVS@NORCALVIOLA.ORG
