Sussex Young Musician of 2023 search

The search for the Sussex Young Musician of the Year 2023 has begun.

The competition boasts several financial bursaries in total worth £2,000 available for emerging young Sussex musicians. You can enter if you have a connection with Sussex (born, lived, worked, studied here etc), are between 18 and 26 years old and are studying music. Go to https://coronuovo.org.uk/2023sym for the competition details and how to apply. Make sure you submit your application and a video of your compe-titionentry by April 28.

The competition grew out of the Mid Sussex-based Coro Nuovo choir which is this year celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Spokeswoman Catherine Kent said: “We were thinking about what made us different as a choir, and one of the things was the fact that we don't rehearse that often and so our singers therefore have to be singers who are able to rehearse at home without being together all the time but one of the other things that made us different, we thought, was to come up with this competition. Andrew Re es( who was Cuoro Novo’s music director until last year) came up with the idea because as a young singer himself he had known what it was to struggle to find the money and the opportunities he needed, and he used to go along to a lot of auditions to try to get bursaries and soon. So he had this idea and we all thought that it would work. We are now coming into our seventh year of the bursary.”

Zoe Barnett, from Chi chester,was crowned the winner last year, winning a £1,000 prize. After two years of running the competition wholly online, the three finalists played live at Coro Nuovo’s Jubilee concert in Burgess Hill.