Entry Information for 2026
The Competition for 2026 will be hosted by Gloucestershire Academy of Music.
Further information, rules, and entry form will be available on their website in autumn 2025. The timing of the competition will change for this year.
Applicants may play piano, any string (including harp and guitar), woodwind or brass instrument or orchestral percussion.
Recent History of the GYM competition
Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year is a well-established competition and from 2014 until 2025 it has been hosted by Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra.
Recent winners were Sebastian Taylor, violin (2025), James Li, violin (2024), Isaac Williams, violin (2023), Kimmy Kwok, violin (2022), Darcy Beck, percussion (2020), Bill Ko Tsz Hin, viola (2019), Lydia Kenny, saxophone (2018), Hannah Brooks-Hughes, violin (2017), Adam Heron, piano (2016), Rebecca McNaught, cello (2015) and Rhiannon Symonds, trombone (2014).