The idea of the Bachtrack Young Reviewers programme is to give young people aged between 12 and 16 years old the chance to attend a classical concert or opera, free of charge, and to write a review to be published on www.bachtrack.com. In this way, we hope to encourage more young people to go to classical music, and to provide a voice where the people who put on concerts can understand what appeals to a younger audience.

Here's what you have to do to take part in the programme:

1. Find an adult to accompany you to the concert – most probably a parent or music teacher.
2. Fill in the on-line form at www.bachtrack.com/youngreviewer-apply.

Here's what we will do when we receive your application:

1. First, we will select reviewers from the applications we receive. (Currently we take all applicants.) We will select as many as we can, mainly on the basis of getting a good spread of ages and places across the country. If we receive far too many applications and have to disappoint you, we're sorry!
2. If you are selected, we will contact you and your accompanying adult to make sure you've told them, and they know about it!
3. Next, we will try to find a suitable choice of concerts for you to attend, and we will write back to you and your parent / teacher with the details. Please reply promptly to let us know which concert you can go to.
4. Next, we will confirm the tickets with the venue, and write back to you to confirm that they have been safely reserved for you and where to pick them up (usually at the venue on the evening of the performance.)

Now it's your turn:

• Try and listen to the music before you go. You can often find the music on Spotify or on Youtube. It's really worth listening to it before you go. It makes it much more fun when you go if you know the work a bit.
• Next the good bit: on the date of the performance, pick up your tickets from the box office and enjoy!
• And next the work: write your review, between 300 and 500 words. Do check spelling and grammar, and then e-mail it to us. Remember to put your name on so we know who you are and please try to get it into us within 48 hours of your concert, opera or ballet.

We'll then check over your review and make any corrections, and bring it live.

Congratulations – you're now a published music critic!

The small print: by sending your review to us, you agree to assign copyright to Bachtrack Ltd. This means that if anyone wants to make copies of the review or publish it on their own site, it's up to Bachtrack to give them permission.