Good News! The Online Festival video submission window is now open until the 12th February 2022. Don't forget to upload your sheet music as well. You can still enter either Festival until 12th January 2022. Happy New Year!
When you enter the AFYM Online Festival, you will want your performance to be the best it can be, and we have produced an essential guide to making your video. Please make sure you watch it before you start recording, to take advantage of all the hints and tips to help you. Look now on www.afym.org.uk/2022-how-to-record/ [...]
This is an exciting new class for this year only. The AFYM has commissioned Pam Wedgwood to compose a piano piece especially for AFYM 2022. The piece is about Grade 3/4 standard, has no title, no indication of tempo, dynamics, phrasing, expression. Performers will have to decide these things for themselves and work out their [...]
The 2022 Festival Syllabus is now available and you can access it on our Festival page. You can start registering your entries from the 1st December 2021
Dear friends We want to let you know the good news, AFYM will run in February 2022. However, due to Covid, it will be run slightly differently, and we will have some classes online and a shorter face to face festival. In the online classes, performers will send in a video recording and adjudications [...]
The AFYM committee is enormously indebted to those members who have served the Festival in previous years and are now stepping down, in particular Phyll Barclay, Colin Fielder, David and Diane Workman, Carl Johnson – and Rhian Workman who is on maternity leave this year. We thank them for making the Festival such a success. [...]
It is with great sadness that the AFYM committee announces the death of our AFYM secretary, Lilian Morgan. Lilian joined the committee of AFYM in the very early days, and worked tirelessly for over 20 years on behalf of the festival. For many of those years she produced, single-handedly, nearly all of the festival documentation, [...]
After much deliberation and with great regret the AFYM committee has decided that it is not feasible to hold a festival and concert in 2021. Preparations for the festival such as booking venues and adjudicators would normally be made by now but due to the coronavirus pandemic it has not been possible to make definite [...]
BBC Workshop April/May 2020 With regret, the committee of AFYM is writing to inform you that the proposed BBC NOW workshop for which you have registered is unlikely to go ahead. The latest Government information indicates that the coronavirus pandemic is likely to escalate further and social distancing may have to last for some time [...]
The AFYM concert scheduled for 15th March 2020 had to be cancelled with great regret due to the coronavirus pandemic. The concert would have concluded as usual with the presentation of trophies. Trophy winners have now been informed and will receive their trophies when circumstances allow. Congratulations to them and to all young musicians who [...]