Post your competition free and take applications with media, repertoire, and registration fees. Then prescreen, run quarterfinals to finals with blind jury scoring and advancement, and ticket the prize concert — on one platform built for the competition office.
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Pick one, write it in a minute (or reply “draft for me”), and it’s live free.
Piano, strings, winds, brass
Post thisArias, repertoire & callbacks
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Post thisAge divisions & parent comms
Post thisEnsembles as one applicant
Post thisScores, video & live rounds
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ViewApplication platforms collect entries and stop. Cadenza runs every round to the prize, with a trail you can show.
An illustration of the jury panel — anonymous competitor numbers, scored on the playing, not the name.
Take entries & prescreen
Branded application with audio/video, repertoire, and a registration fee — screened to a longlist in one place.
Run the rounds
Quarterfinals to finals: jury scoring from anywhere, anonymous review, advancement, and an auditable trail.
Award & publish
A ranked result, prize decisions, and competitor notifications — straight from the dashboard.
The difference
The application platforms collect the forms. Cadenza runs the jury, the rounds, and the result.
The full cycle runs on Festival Admissions Pro at $12,000/yr — or run a single round day pay-as-you-go with the Audition Day Pass.
See Audition OSCadenza is free for musicians, so students and emerging artists browse competitions by instrument, deadline, age, and discipline. Post yours and it surfaces to the entrants who fit — with your deadline and repertoire up front.
Post the competition free and take applications with audio/video, repertoire lists, and references in one place. Collect a registration fee at submission instead of chasing PayPal links.
Post a competition — freeScreen recordings to a longlist, then run quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals — jury scoring, anonymous review, and advancement with an auditable trail instead of a shared spreadsheet.
Run a jury roundOpen the finals to the public — sell tickets to the prize concert, take donations toward the prize fund, and keep your patrons in a CRM, all on one ledger.
See ticketing & passesApplications with media and repertoire, prescreening, blind jury scoring across rounds, advancement, and a published result.
A funded soloist-with-orchestra prize, a transparent jury panel, and a finals concert you can ticket.
Age divisions, parent and teacher communication, and a clean schedule for a long day of short rounds.
Anonymous score submission, panel review, and a commission or premiere — without a five-figure license.
Acceptd & SlideRoom are great at collecting applications. Cadenza adds the prescreen, the rounds, the jury, and the finals box office.
Post your competition — free
Instrumental, vocal, concerto, youth, or composition. Write it, or reply “draft for me”.
Take entries
Branded form, audio/video, repertoire, references, and a registration fee in one place.
Prescreen, judge, award
Screen to a longlist, run the rounds with blind jury scoring, and publish a defensible result.
No setup fee, no contract, no auto-renewal — every plan is a fixed one-year term you actively choose to renew.
Free
$0 forever
Claimed festival profile, free program posting, and public discovery.
Post a competition — freeFestival Admissions Pro
$12,000 / yr
The full admissions OS: multi-program applications, media, recommendations, prescreening, jury scoring, decisions, automated reminders, exports, and guided onboarding.
Book a demoPrivate pilot
Custom founding festivals
Selected founding festivals can run a private implementation pilot configured to their real season — any setup fee applies toward the annual plan.
Talk to us$12,000/yr Festival Admissions Pro runs the full season; selected founding festivals can arrange a private implementation pilot.
Also: free festival profile and program posting · ticketing & donations $0 setup, 7% + $0.99 per order · enterprise rollout available by quote.
Post your competition free — then run the rounds, score the jury, and award the prize when you’re ready. No contract, no card to start.