6th Annual
PTSO Young Artist Competition 2025
March 29, 2025
Grace Lutheran Church, 1120 Walker St, Port Townsend
Application deadline is March 14, 2025.
Details about the competition requirements and how to apply are contained on two important documents below. Click on the links to open the documents for downloading. Be sure to read them carefully. Complete and sign the application, which can be mailed to the address shown at the bottom of the form or emailed as an image to Pamela Roberts, YAC coordinator.
APPLICATION 2025
(Required & due March 14, 2025)
Questions? Don’t hesitate to contact:
Pamela Roberts, YAC Coordinator
ptsoyac@gmail.com
360-765-0124
Our goal is to provide students a positive performing experience. We hope you will choose to participate!
The Young Artist Competition is sponsored by the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra
Tigran Arakelyan, Music Director and Conductor
The mission of the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra is to entertain, inspire and engage the community through musical excellence and affordable concerts.
Poster by Vincent Oneppo; photo by Karl Perry.
Past Winners
2024 5th Annual Young Artist Competition Winners
SENIOR
1 Anabel Moore – Praeludium and Allegro-Fritz Kreisler
2 Amidah Soong – Sonata in D major Op. 1 #13, Affettuoso and Allegro-Handel
3 Bella Ferland – Sonatina 1st Mvt-Arthur Olaf Anderson
JUNIOR
1 Juniper Fleischer – Nocturne op. 55 No. 1-Chopin
2 Annaleigh Harrison – Fur Elise – Beethoven
3 Bodhi Fleischer/Kai Anderson – Concerto for Two Violins Dmin BWV 1043-JS Bach
CONDUCTOR AWARD
Nola Bertucci – 4 Morceaux, Op. 82: No. 1. Les Nymphes: Allegro leggiero – M. Moszkowski
2023 4th Annual Young Artist Competition Winners
First: Zia Magill, violin, for her Mozart A major concerto movement
Second: Anabel Moore, violin, for her Bach A minor concerto movement
Third: Nola Bertucci, violin, for her Schumann Sonata movement
Conductor’s prize, chosen by Nan Toby Tyrrell, went to Aiden Murney, piano, for his Satie “Gnossienne #1”
2022 3rd Annual Young Artist Competition Winners
1st Prize: Aliyah Cassidy Yearian, violin
2nd Prize: Magdaline Ferland, viola
3rd Prize: Cora Brinton, violin
Conductor’s Prize: Elijah Hill, piano
2021 2nd Annual Young Artist Competition Winners
1st Place: Maria Powell, tenor saxophone
2nd Place: Tusker Behrenfeld, violin
3rd Place: Magdaline Ferland, viola
Conductor’s Prize: Mateu Yearian, electric bass
2019 1st Young Artist Competition
1st Place: Kincaid Gould, clarinet
2nd Place: Aliyah Yearian, violin
3rd Place: Zia Magill, violin
2019 Young Artist Competition Winners
