Stubbs-Henbest-Davis High School Piano Competition

Competition Date: April 29, 2023, 9am

Application Deadline: April 8, 2023, 11:59pm

Location

Live at 10th and G
945 G St NW, Washington, DC 20001

Fees

A $35 non-refundable application fee is required by the deadline. Online only applications require this to be paid via credit card.

Eligibility

Piano students who are currently enrolled in grades 9-12, living within a 50-mile radius of Washington, DC.

*First-place winners from previous years are ineligible.

Awards

• First Prize: $1,500
• Second Prize: $1,000
• Third Prize: $700

Winners will be presented at a student concert later in the season. All winners, including honorable mention, receive a one-year Student Membership in the Friday Morning Music Club.

Repertoire

• All selections must be performed from memory.
• Any questions regarding repertoire should be sent to the competition chair.
• All decisions made by the judges are final.
• No changes in repertoire may be made after the application deadline.
• Students must play works from each of the following four categories:
  • A prelude and fugue from either volume of the Well Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach, or two other comparable pieces from the Baroque Period.
  • The first movement of a sonata by Beethoven (excluding Op. 49), Mozart (excluding K 545), Haydn (excluding early Divertimenti), or Schubert.
  • A substantial work from the Romantic Period.
  • An impressionist work or a work from the 20th or 21st century.

Contact

Chen-Li Tzeng
Piano Competition Chair
highschoolpiano@fmmc.org

If you experience technical difficulties, need to make a change to your application, or realize you’ve made an error, please email Chen-Li, as well as FMMC Managing Director, Jennie Weyman, at manage@fmmc.org.

2022 Competition Winners

• First Prize/The George Manos Piano Prize: Thomas Kim
• Second Prize: Michael Chen
• Third Prize: Jude Giddens
• Honorable Mention: Johnathan Sun