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The
Pennsylvania State level of the MTNA Performance
Competitions will be held at Slippery Rock University on
Saturday, November 7, 2010. Entry deadline is September 15
– visit
www.mtna.org for further information. There have been a
number of significant changes to the MTNA performance
competitions. The changes are listed below for your
convenience.
2009-2010 Competition Changes:
1. Junior Brass competition has been discontinued.
2. The piano concerto requirement for the Senior and Young
Artist levels has been discontinued.
3. The performance times have been modified to fit the
performance requirements:
a. Junior: all students will have twenty (20)
minutes of performance time.
b. Senior:
State level: twenty-five (25) minutes for
brass, piano, piano duet, string, woodwind. Voice will have
twenty (20) minutes.
Division/national levels: thirty (30)
minutes for brass, piano, piano duet, string, woodwind.
Voice will have twenty (20) minutes.
c. Young Artist:
State level: thirty (30) minutes for all
categories.
Division/national levels: forty (40) minutes for
brass, piano, string, woodwind. Voice will have thirty-five
(35) minutes.
d. Chamber Music:
State level: thirty (30)
minutes Division/national
levels: forty (40) minutes
4. Accompanist fees have also been adjusted:
Junior: $80 for forty-five (45) minutes rehearsal and
performance (no change)
Senior Instrumental: $150 for sixty (60) minutes
rehearsal and performance
Senior Voice: $90 for forty (40) minutes rehearsal and
performance
Young Artist Instrumental: $175 for sixty (60)
minutes rehearsal and performance
Young Artist Instrumental: $200 for ninety (90) minutes
rehearsal and performance
Young Artist Voice: $175 for sixty (60) minutes
rehearsal and performance
General Information
The
purposes of the Music Teachers National Association
performance competitions are to provide educational
experiences for students and teachers and to recognize
exceptionally talented young artists and their teachers in
their pursuit of musical excellence. The Pennsylvania state
competition is the first level of the MTNA performance
competitions and all state competitions are considered the
primary educational level. Applications for all categories
and levels must be submitted online at
www.mtna.org prior to the September 15, 2009 deadline.
The 2009 PMTA/MTNA competitions will take place on
Saturday, November
7 at Slippery Rock University. All competitions will take place in the
music building.
All levels of piano competitions will begin early in the
morning so that they may be completed in time for the
winners’ recital which generally takes place at 4pm. Other
instrumental and vocal categories may begin later in the
day. Winners are expected to participate in the recital.
All
entrants MUST check-in at the registration table in the main
lobby of the Music Building prior to their
audition. The registration table will be open by 5 pm on
Friday, November 6. Rehearsal time in the competition rooms on
Friday evening will be assigned to each entrant.
Entrants
will receive an email with their assigned Entrant ID # as
soon as possible after the application deadline. At that
time competition rooms, rehearsal times and audition times
will be listed by level/category and entrant ID # under
For
Entrants/Parents/Teachers.
Visit www.sru.edu (click on
Visitors & Community) for information pertaining to directions,
accommodations, area restaurants and and campus map.
We look
forward to seeing you at Slippery Rock University and hope
that this will be a very positive performance experience for
you. For information on Division and National
Competitions, visit
mtna.org MTNA
Eastern Division Competitions - January 8/9, 2010, Ithaca
College, Ithaca, NY; MTNA National Competitions -
March 20-24, 2010, Albuquerque, NM
For
information on the MTNA Composition Competition, visit
MTNA.org.
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