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Application Guidelines

Submit Your Application

If you are interested in the Stulberg International String Competition and wish to submit your application, make sure to follow the guidelines listed below. Any application that does not follow these instructions unfortunately may not be considered for the competition.

Application Guidelines

Applications for the 2026 Competition open October 15, 2025.

Deadline for submitting applications is February 1, 2026 (11:59 p.m. EST).

Application Form, audition video and application fee must be submitted online at https://app.getacceptd.com/stulberg. Paper applications or CDs will not be accepted.

Application fee is $150 USD payable via credit card only.

Repertoire Guidelines

  • The submitted piece must have been originally written to be performed as solo violin/viola/cello/bass, with orchestra. This includes concertos and solo works such as Bloch’s Shelomo, Tchaikovsky’s Rococco Variations, Ravel’s Tzigane, etc.
  • You may submit either single or multiple movements of a single piece depending on length.
  • Your audition submission should include the same movement(s) you will play for the semifinals, if selected. No substitutions allowed.
  • Cut lengthy tuttis, both in the introduction and in the body of the movement, if applicable.
 

Guidelines for Uploading Audition Video

  1. Do not include your name or any identification on the video itself. Applicants will be automatically disqualified if their name appears at any point in the video.
  2. Your video submission must have been recorded within 12 months of the application deadline.
  3. Audition submissions and semifinals concerto performances are limited to a maximum of 20 minutes. There is no minimum length requirement.
  4. The recording must be accompanied by piano or orchestra.

 

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