Competitions 2024 - spotlight on category sponsors Yamaha, All Flutes Plus and ALRY
Today we’re highlighting our amazing category sponsors Yamaha, All Flutes Plus and ALRY - we are extremely grateful for their generous support.
School Performer category - sponsored by Yamaha - renowned for their instruments and audio equipment, and committed to empower people to ‘Make Waves’ with their sound and music
Young Performer category - sponsored by All Flutes Plus, a London-based flute centre with 40 years’ expertise, offering instruments, sheet music and an on-site workshop
Young Artist category - sponsored by ALRY, sheet music publisher with a huge array of music for flute and other woodwind instruments
ALRY Prize
We are also delighted to share the details of the ALRY Prize in our Young Artist category:
£150 towards a flute service
£150 towards a lesson or flute course
A year's membership to the BFS and the NFA
Thank you to all our category and prize sponsors - you can find the complete prize list below.
If you’d like to see our competitors in action - our Competitions 2024 takes place on Saturday February 17 at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and we’d love to see you there!
Join us for a day of wonderful music from our talented players - plus trade stands and a lunchtime concert from 2023’s winners. Entry is free and all are welcome - book your ticket below:
Competitions 2024 prize list
School Performer - Sponsored by Yamaha
1st Prize - William Bennett Prize of £500, and the opportunity to perform at a BFS event
2nd Prize - £125 Just Flutes voucher
3rd Prize - £50 June Emerson Wind Music voucher
The Pearl Prize of a Pearl PFP-105E piccolo
Young Performer - Sponsored by All Flutes Plus
1st Prize - William Bennett Prize of £1000, and the opportunity to perform at a BFS event
2nd Prize - £200 All Flutes Plus voucher & the Newmoon Insurance Prize - £125 voucher to spend at Just Flutes
3rd Prize - £50 Forton Music voucher & £30 Wonderful Winds voucher
Pearl Prize
Pearl PFP-105E piccolo. Selected by the adjudication panel, this prize will be awarded to a competitor in the BFS 2024 Competitions Young Performer category.
Young Artist - Sponsored by ALRY
1st Prize - William Bennett Prize of £2000, and the opportunity to perform at a BFS event
2nd Prize - The ALRY Prize of £150 towards a flute service, £150 towards a lesson or flute course, and year's membership to the BFS and the NFA; and the Newmoon Insurance Prize - £125 voucher to spend at All Flutes Plus
3rd Prize - £50 Tetractys Publishing voucher & 50E Furore Verlag voucher
Musician’s Answering Service Prize
One year’s free subscription to the Musician’s Answering Service. Selected by the adjudication panel, this prize will be awarded to a UK-based competitor in the BFS 2024 Competitions Young Artist category. The Musician’s Answering Service is the leading UK diary service for orchestral and session musicians. You can find out more about them at https://maslink.co.uk.
Atarah’s Legacy Fund Memorial Prize
Atarah’s Legacy Fund was established shortly before her death, according to her wishes to support the musical education of entrants to the annual BFS competitions, through the award of one cash prize for a candidate of sufficient merit, musical integrity, and potential. Musical integrity is something Atarah particularly wished to encourage, so the panel will be looking for a core musicality, rather than a display of virtuosity. The BFS Council will be responsible for awarding the Prize each year, and the Prize will be available to the value of £500.
The recipient will not necessarily be one of the prize winners in the competition, and will be chosen by the competition adjudicators and BFS Council, where possible supported by members of the Fund Advisory Group. There will be one winner each year for as long as the funds are solvent.
Entrants wishing to be considered for the Prize should make their application using the BFS entry form (which will be sent to all competitors once they have made their entry), indicating how they would use the Prize to further their musical education, for example through lessons, music courses or other educational activities.
Winners will be required to write a report for Pan, the BFS Magazine, on the benefit they received from being awarded the Prize.
About the William Bennett Prize
The BFS are honoured to award the William Bennett Prize at the BFS Competitions for the first time this year (as the first prize for each category, to the amount of £500, £1000 and £2000). We are incredibly grateful to Michie Bennett for entrusting us with this legacy, which will enable us to award this prize for a number of years. As one of the founding members of the BFS, and our President for many years, we cannot think of a better way to commemorate Wibb’s extraordinary life and his profound impact on the flute world.
