BEN TARLTON, the winner of the John Fussell Award for young Musicians this year was a regular performer at AFYM, and is well known to many of us at the festival.   Very warm congratulations to Ben, we are proud to have been involved in the early days of his career. Ben is a now a post-graduate student at the Guildhall School of Music.   He has won many awards and sponsorships, [...]

Urgent: Workshop changes Due to unforeseen circumstances, the BBC Workshop can no longer take place on 14th January 2020 at Bishop Gore School. Re-arranged Workshop 2020 New arrangements for the  Workshop for AFYM, West Glamorgan Music  and support musicians from BBC NOW are as follows: BBC NOW Workshop for AFYM - all orchestral instruments except harp and saxophone - ability range = those studying for grade 2 to those studying [...]

We are very excited to launce our new online application process and are pleased to say that applications to the 2020 AFYM festival are now officially open. You will be able to find more information about this in our 'entries' section of our website. We hope that the new streamlined website and online application process will make the way you find out information and apply to take part much easier [...]

AFYM 2020 Schools Morning - Friday 31st January 2020 MAIN FESTIVALThursday 6th - Monday 10th February 2020 We are looking forward to our new venue of St Mary’s Church Swansea for our 2020 festival for our Schools morning and we are excited to announce that our 2020 adjudicators will be Beate Toyka, John Reynolds, Peter Esswood & Zoe Smith. The BBCNOW workshop will be running on the 14th January so [...]