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 and speakers 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.
If you have participated in our festival before and benefitted from it, please tell your friends and encourage them to participate too. Newcomers are very welcome. More generally, if you have any comments or suggestions about our festival, we would like to hear them: please email us at email@ecfest.org.uk.
2012 and 2013 Festivals
The Edinburgh Competition Festival 2012 was held from 29 February to 10 March. An estimated 1700 performers took part in 140 different classes over the 11 days. The children's choir classes were particularly well-supported with 10 different choirs and over 300 children taking part.The Final of the Concerto Class was won by Raymond Wuiman Yiu playing Prokofiev's 1st piano concerto. The other finalists were:
Hannah Foster playing Neilsen's flute Concerto, mvt1,
David Lee playing J C Bach's cello concerto in C minor, mvts 1&2, and
Ewan Zuckert & Robert Digney playing Franz Krommer's double clarinet concerto in Eflat, mvts 1&2.
The 2013 Festival will be held from 27 February to 9 March. the Syllabus will be available from September
2011 Festival
The Edinburgh Festival of Music and Speech 2011 was held from Wednesday 2nd March to Saturday 12th March 2011. The Final concert on 12th March in The Queen's Hall (7pm) comprised an hour of performance Highlights from the 130 classes during the Festival and the Final of the Concerto Class in which the four soloists, selected from 40 competitors in the First Round which took place on 4th/5th February, were:Jean Noel Attard - Samuel Barber Violin Concerto
Jessica Coleman - Lalo Symphonie Espagnole (violin)
Ana Docolin - Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat
Matthew Fields and Phoebe Rees - Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
The winner was Jessica Coleman. The winner of the Traves Trophy for the Festival's Half-hour Recital class was also announced: this was Mairi Chaimbeul for her harp recital. Also highly commended in the Recital class were: Matthew Field, Calum Macleod, Kirsty Main, Ailsa Ramage, and George Todica.