ATTENTION TEACHERS: Your studio must participate in Musicthon with a minimum fundraising of $200.00. Otherwise, you must contribute $50.00 to each competition your students enter.
TEACHERS: Encourage winning students to write thank you notes to people and donors who made it possible.
Application deadline: April 22, 2010
Competition: May 22, 2010
1st Place - The Clarissa Nichol Award - $100.00
2nd Place - The Edna Horn Award - $75.00
3rd Place - The BCMTA award - $50.00
Competition Guidelines for Competitions A and B are:
1. An entry fee of $25.00 for Competition A and $30.00 for Competition B must accompany the contestant's application. One check per teacher shall cover all contestants within that studio.
2. Contestants must currently be studying with a BCMTA teacher and must have studied with that teacher for at least six months.
3. A student may not submit any piece previously performed in any other BCMTA sponsored competition in current or previous years.
4. One copy of the score of each composition with measures numbered must be available for the judges (no photocopies without prior permission).
5. No concertos and no repeats are allowed excepting those written out with 1st and 2nd endings.
6. Contestants will meet with the Scholarship Chairman fifteen minutes before the audition to draw for playing positions. Any contestant not present at his/her performance time will be disqualified.
7. The First Place winner in Intermediate A will not be eligible for future entry in the same competition and must progress to Intermediate B regardless of grade level. The First Place winner in Intermediate B must progress to Steinway Competition. The First Place winner of Steinway Competition must progress to Messingschlager.
8. The decision of the judges is final.
9. Composers classification will be determined per the MTNA composers classification list. This list can be found at http://www.mtna.org. Click on the competitions link and look for the composer classification link.
BCMTA INTERMEDIATE A
PIANO COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS
1. Intermediate Competition A is open to piano students in school grades 5 and 6.
2. The difficulty of pieces entered will be no lower than Level V as per Repertoire Guidelines in Florida State Music Teachers Association Student Activities Handbook (or Medium in FFMC District Festival).
3. A memorized 3-piece audition program shall include one of the following:
Two-part Invention of J.S. Bach
The sonata or sonatina will fulfill the classical requirement for repertoire. The entire program must represent 3 stylistic periods.
Sonatina or Sonata (first or last movement) by:
Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Kuhlau, Dussek, Lichner or Diabelli.
4. The competition will consist of a preliminary round of two pieces, the first of which will be the required composition. The student will choose the second composition to be performed. The compositions performed in this preliminary round must not exceed 7 minutes. Pieces exceeding the time limit will be stopped with no penalty to the student.
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Judges will then choose 5 finalists to play their third composition, which must not exceed 3 minutes.
Competition Chairperson:
Rosalie Gregory, Chairman
1455 Lakeview Circle
Coral Springs, FL 33071
(954) 346-5073
BCMTA INTERMEDIATE B
PIANO COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS
1. Intermediate Competition B is open to piano students in school grades 7 and 8 as well as any student in grade 6 who is a previous year’s winner of Intermediate Competition A.
2. The difficulty of pieces entered will be no lower than Level VII as per Repertoire Guidelines in the Florida State Music Teachers Association Student Activities Handbook or MD-III in FFMC District Festival.
3. A memorized 3-piece audition program shall represent 3 stylistic periods and include one of the following:
Any Sonata by Beethoven except Opus 49, no. 2
(any movement)
Any Sonata by Haydn, Mozart (first or third movement), Any Sonata by Clementi or Schubert (any movement),
Any Rondo by Mozart or Beethoven
Fantasie in d minor by Mozart
Any Bach Sinfonia (3-part Invention).
4. The competition will consist of a preliminary round of two pieces, the first of which will be the required composition. The contestant will choose the second composition to be performed. The compositions performed in this preliminary round must not exceed 9 minutes. Judges will then choose 5 finalists to play their third composition, which must not exceed 5 minutes. Pieces exceeding the time limit will be stopped with no penalty to the student.
Competition Chairperson:
Rosalie Gregory, Chairman
1455 Lakeview Circle
Coral Springs, FL 33071
(954) 346-5073