Syllabus

2026 New Brunswick Competitive Festival of Music

April 20 – 29, 2026

The 2026 Syllabus will be available by December 15, 2025.  If you have any questions, please contact the Festival Administrator.

Syllabus 2025

Entries will be accepted online.  The Registration Deadline is Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:59PM. Online Registrants receive a special discount for pre-ordering the Official Festival Program.  Online entries can be paid by Visa, Mastercard or American Express through our secure PayPal system.  You can also register online and submit payment by cheque or money order by mail at no additional cost.  Online entries save data entry time and allow scheduling to begin sooner.

Register Here

Entry Form 2026 (fillable)

You will find individual sections of the Syllabus below for ease of narrowing class search.  Any addenda to the Syllabus will be added here and designated by a date in brackets following the discipline.

Syllabus

What’s New

Rules & Regulations

Prizes & Trophies

  • Bands
  • Band Test Pieces
  • Brass
  • Chamber Music
  • Choral Speech Arts
  • Community Choirs
  • Guitar & Ukulele
  • Miscellaneous
  • Musical Theatre, Pop & Jazz
  • Orchestras & String Classes
  • Original Composition
  • Percussion
  • Piano
  • School Choirs & School Music Classes
  • Strings
  • String Group Classes
  • Vocal & Solo Speech Arts
  • Wind Orchestras
  • Woodwinds

NB Provincial Music Festival Syllabus 2025

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