Organised by the Waverley Music Eisteddfod Inc. Committee
2026 Festival Dates:
Solos: 1 - 22 August 2026
Venues: Salvation Army Waverley Temple and Mount Waverley Uniting Church
Mini Recitals Day: 1 August 2026
Ensembles Day: 10 August 2026
Choral Day: 17 August 2026
Venue: Salvation Army Waverley Temple
Entries opened on 20 April 2026
Entries closed on 7 June 2026
The Monash Youth Music Festival
The Monash Youth Music Festival is a significant annual music festival held on the lands of the Wurundjeri People in the leafy City of Monash, Victoria, Australia. This Festival draws well over a thousand young musicians from all over Melbourne each August to compete in forty-nine sections including Ensemble and Choral competitions, solo competitions and non-competitive mini recitals.
Sign up for our e-news so you know as soon as entries open and close. Once they open, make sure you register as soon as possible! Some sections are only open for a day or two as they fill up very fast. Check first that you don't have any school or other events that are planned at the same time as our Festival, as we can't give a refund to you.
Entries have closed for our 2026 Festival!
What happens when you have registered?
If you have registered, you must arrive fully prepared on your performance day, so please go to our Checklist page and start preparing. Please read our Rules and Conditions of Entry and ensure you comply with all our Rules!
Please return to ⭐Stardom to fill out or update your music title and composer. If you need an accompanist, you can indicate that through
⭐Stardom, then you must contact your accompanist!
You will receive your Notice of Appearance via email a couple of weeks after entries have closed, with your performance venue and the date and time you will need to arrive.
Audience tickets
Come along to watch our music superstars of the future perform!
Audience tickets are on sale in July.
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Audience tickets
Come along and watch the entrants! Audience tickets
go on sale in July.
See below for more info!
Please go to our handy checklist to make sure you have everything in order.
Please update your music title and composer in STARDOM.
Make copies of your sheet music for the adjudicator and accompanist if you are using one.
Our accompanists will help make your performance a wonderful experience! Most soloists perform with an accompanist. Contact yours today!
If you are in the Mini Recitals,
rehearsal sessions are available in the morning of the Mini Recital Day.
Where is the Festival?
SOLO events are held at Mount Waverley Uniting Church (St Johns) 37-43 Virginia St, Mount Waverley and at the Salvation Army Waverley Temple. CHORAL and ENESMBLE sections are held at the Salvation Army Waverley Temple.
Check your Notice of Appearance for your venue.
DO NOT BE LATE! An entrant may be disqualified if not ready to perform when called. (See RULE 15).
Call your Registrar if you are having any issues.
Audience Tickets
Audience tickets go on sale JULY.
Come along to watch and support our young musicians!
Adults (over 16 years) – $5.00
Performers (Entrants) – free
Children (under 16) – free
MULTI-PASS FAMILY TICKET – $20
Festival Programme
Our beautiful Festival Programme includes all sections and every performer. Please buy a Programme. They are only $5 each.
All proceeds go to the cost of venue hire, adjudicators and accompanists, and running our Festival.
Attention aged care providers - join our free Program!
Would you like free mini concerts
held in your facilities to delight your residents? If so, join our free Partnership Program and we will provide these performance opportunities to our selected musicians beyond the Festival!
To find out more, CLICK HERE!
Thought about VOLUNTEERING?
Read the Rules!
If you enter our Festival, you must agree with all the Rules and Conditions of Entry!
All entrants must behave with kindness, courtesy, and respect for all other entrants at all times.
Entrants and audience members must remain still and quiet while others are performing.
To Parents and Teachers:
Join the Committee!
We invite you to come and join the Committee!
Give something back to your community - it's fun and very rewarding. No experience required.
For expressions of interest, please CONTACT US.
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ENTRIES TO THIS YEAR'S MONASH YOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL HAVE CLOSED
Entrant Registrations were via ⭐Stardom only!
Entries have closed for each section. 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 not be able to enter that section.
Please note we do not accept late entries after entries have closed! And we do not keep wait lists.
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To make sure you don't miss out, sign up to our e-News so you will get a reminder when our entries are open. If you don't already have an account in Stardom, register today so you can see all the eisteddfods and music festivals available.
Please note that we have strict capacity limits in each section and once a section is closed, we cannot accept further entries. Your appearance on the programme will be randomised, so entering first does not mean that you will appear first on the programme, nor does it mean that if you entered just before close of entries that you will perform last.
Audience Tickets go on sale in July 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, and can be purchased via Trybooking from July on. Please note that these tickets are only for watching performances, not for entrant registrations!
Adults (16 years and over) – $5.00
Performers – free
Children (under 16) – free
MULTI-PASS TICKET (unlimited access to all events) – $20
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