Welcome to the Edinburgh Competition Festival Association
We provide an Opportunity to Perform
About our Festivals
We run an annual festival which provides an opportunity for amateur musicians of all ages to perform their pieces in a friendly environment and, along with other performers of a similar ability, receive constructive feedback and advice from a specialist adjudicator.
Our programme of competitive and non-competitive classes allows performers of all abilities to take part. There are classes in a wide range of instruments, or combinations of instruments, as well as for singers and for the spoken voice. Full details are contained in our annual Syllabus, accessible on this website.
2011 Festival
The 91st Edinburgh Festival of Music and Speech will be held from Wednesday 2nd March to Saturday 12th March 2011. The Syllabus will be available from September 2010, in the Edinburgh Central Music Library George IV Bridge Edinburgh, in Omni Music Store and Rae Macintosh Music in Edinburgh, or via this website. The closing date for entries will be
30 November 2010.
2011 Festival Syllabus and Entry Form
2010 Festival
The 90th Edinburgh Festival of Music Speech & Dance was held from Wednesday 24 February to Saturday 6 March 2010. The Final Night in The Queen's Hall attracted the largest audience for many years, to hear an hour of Festival Highlights and the Final of the Concerto Class Competition, won by Matt Bain playing the Britten Violin Concerto.
2009 Festival
The 2009 Edinburgh Festival of Music Speech & Dance was held from Thursday 26 February to Saturday 7 March. Over 1700 performers took part in 150 separate classes. The final concert of the Festival was held in The Queen's Hall on 7 March. It began with an hour of Festival Highlights, comprising outstanding performances from across the Festival, and continued with the Final round of the Festival's Concerto Competition in which the four finalists were accompanied by the Friends of the Festival Orchestra. The Concerto Final was won by Emily Hoile playing Debussy's Danses Sacree et Profane for Harp and Strings.
Affiliation
We are affiliated to the British Federation of Festivals, an organisation which represents the interests of the Amateur Festival Movement. To find out more about the Federation,
visit their website.
Your feedback is welcome
The Festival website is under review. It aims to provide essential information about our festivals and how and when to take part in them. If you have suggestions for other information which would be helpful to have available online, or have a comment on the current pages, please
Contact us.