Organised by the Waverley Music Eisteddfod Inc. Committee
2024 Festival Dates:
Solos: 3 - 23 August 2024
Venue: Huntingtower Orchestral Room
Ensembles Day: Saturday 10 August 2024
Choral Day: Monday 12 August 2024
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Christmas wishes from the Monash Youth Music Festival
Our Committee wishes you a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, safe and successful New Year!
We are busily planning our next Festival, so any news will be posted on our website. Stay tuned.
School Holiday Ideas
🎀 Hold a Mini Concert for your family and friends!
Why not hold a mini concert for your family and relatives? Learn a few Christmas carols, Auld Lang Syne and other festive music, then gather the family around to enjoy your concert! You can download lots of free sheet music from websites such as 8Notes - just be cautious when you click on any website with free downloadable music or images!
You can create a music programme using our Christmas Concert template, or make your own.
🎀 Hold a Mini Concert for the elderly!
Why not hold a mini concert for the elderly in your community? We make it easy for you - all you need to do is go to our Performance Opportunities page and fill out the Expression of Interest form.
Participating Aged Care facilities are listed on the Performance Opportunities page so you can choose one or two closest to you. Perform a few pieces of your favourite music for our dear senior citizens! They will be delighted to come and watch you play.
Likewise if you are taking on the Duke of Edinburgh Award (or any other program that requires volunteer work), use your musical skills to bring joy to our senior citizens!
Start accumulating your community service hours and enjoy yourself at the same time!
Looking for International Baccalaureate (IB) CAS community service ideas? If so, this is a brilliant way to achieve at least part of your community service component of the IB program's CAS program.
🎀 Compose an opera!
Using the amazing Blob Opera experiment, you can dabble in extraordinarily realistic vocal harmonies and compose your own opera! Simply click the link and follow the very simple and easy instructions. Just click on a Blob and hold down your mouse while moving the Blob forward, backward, up and down. After a bit of practice , you can record your composition!
🎀 Celebrate Oskar Fischinger’s genius!
To celebrate and honour the 117th birthday of the influential filmmaker and visual artist Oskar Fischinger, Google released this mesmerising musical Google Doodle. Compose, play and have fun!
Our Festival is not-for-profit and is organised and run by a volunteer committee. Help us continue our important work and promote your company's goods or services.
Read our Sponsorship Prospectus!
Attention aged care providers - join our free Program!
Would you like free mini concerts
held in your facilities to delight your residents? If so, partner us to provide performance opportunities to our selected musicians beyond the Festival!
To find out more, CLICK HERE!
"In praise of the eisteddfod volunteer"
This delightful article "In praise of the eisteddfod volunteer" written by By Jess Carrascalao Heard, explains perfectly why we do what
we do.
The article first appeared in CutCommon e-magazine.
We are sure you will find the article illuminating!
When to enter
Registrations open 24 April and close 11 June or earlier - each section will close when full, so get in early!
How to enter
When entries open, go to STARDOM and log in.
You should see Monash Youth Music Festival listed.
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Audience tickets
Come along and watch the entrants! Audience tickets
go on sale in July.
See below for more info!
Thought about VOLUNTEERING?
Attention aged care providers - join our free Program!
Would you like free mini concerts
held in your facilities to delight your residents? If so, partner us to provide performance opportunities to our selected musicians beyond the Festival!
To find out more, CLICK HERE!
Our generous sponsors are the foundation upon which our Festival depends. Read our Sponsors page to see those businesses and individuals who have stepped up and given back to our community.
Please support these businesses whenever you can!
Entries are now closed - reopen April 2024
Entrant Registrations are via STARDOM only.
If you are new to STARDOM please go to STARDOM today to register in preparation for your first time entry to our Monash Youth Music Festival and to other eisteddfods and music festivals.
NOTE! Entries close for each section when full
Entries close for each section as soon as it is full. Ensure you register early, and enter all the sections you wish to enter as soon as possible, as each section has limited capacity. Once a section is FULL, STARDOM will display "SOLD OUT" and you will no longer be able to enter that section. Please note that many sections are already closed!
Entries to all sections will close on 9 June 2024.
Details on how to enter and register for the various sections on offer are on our How to Enter page.
What happens after close of entries?
About 2 or 3 weeks after close of entries, every entrant will receive a Notice of Appearance which will have their session start time and the registration time, which is 30 minutes before the session start time.
Audience ticket sales are now closed.
Ticket sales reopen 1 July 2024.
Audience Tickets via TRYBOOKING.
Family, friends and general public are warmly welcome to watch our "superstars of the future" perform at the Monash Youth Music Festival! Audience admission is by ticket only. Please note that these tickets are only for watching performances, not for entrant registrations!
Adults (16 years and over) – $5.00
Performers (Entrants) – free
Children (under 16) – free
MULTI-PASS FAMILY TICKET (unlimited access to all events) – $20
Our Festival is not-for-profit and is organised and run by a volunteer committee. Help us continue our important work and promote your company's goods or services.
Read our Sponsorship Prospectus!
Our generous sponsors are the foundation upon which our Festival depends. Read our Sponsors page to see those businesses and individuals who have stepped up and given back to our community.
Please support these businesses whenever you can!
"In praise of the eisteddfod volunteer"
This delightful article "In praise of the eisteddfod volunteer" written by By Jess Carrascalao Heard, explains perfectly why we do what
we do.
The article first appeared in CutCommon e-magazine.
We are sure you will find the article illuminating!
E04 Senior Small Ensemble Winners for 2023!
Prizewinners - The Bradford Trio
Holberg Ensemble performs at the PAC in 2022
E04 Senior Small Ensemble Winners for 2023!