Keyboard Fest is a full-day festival geared towards K-12 piano students, their teachers and parents. Offering engaging master classes, workshops for all ages, and performances in our beautiful recital halls, this festival is a great way to kick off the school year. Come be inspired and grow your curiosity and creativeness!
MTNA Competitions
Performance Competitions
The 2024 Pennsylvania state MTNA performance competitions will take place on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at Lebanon Valley College. Applications open in August for all categories and levels must be submitted online at the MTNA website prior to Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chamber Music, Brass, and Voice applications open Nov. 1, 2024 and videos must be submitted no later than Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Please see the MTNA competitions website for more details.
Click the following link to visit the MTNA competitions website: MTNA website
Composition Competitions
Applications open in August 2024 for Composition and must be submitted online at the MTNA competition website prior to Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. There will be no exceptions.
Please visit the MTNA Website for the following:
A Day with Marvin Blickenstaff
The event is free for PMTA members.
REGISTRATION may be online or by mail. REGISTRATION DEADINE JULY 24, 2024
ONLINE at this link – https://forms.gle/YxExhQYF9VGk2X8y6; or CLICK HERE.
BY MAIL – Click here to download a form with complete details – Blickenstaff_PRflyer2024
Summer Piano Workshop
Open to high school students in grades 9 through 12, this Piano Workshop provides an exclusive opportunity for young artists to work with our distinguished piano faculty. The workshop offers a variety of expert instruction including 1-on-1 private piano lessons, peer observation in group class environment, sight-reading sessions, and masterclasses, as well as an opportunity to experience the art of collaborative piano. The week will conclude with a final recital featuring performances by all participants and celebrating their achievements.
Camp Directors
Kevin Lee Sun
Anoush Tchakarian
New in 2024
Overnight accommodations are now available! Visit the registration link for detail
Mansfield Piano Festival
The mission of the new Mansfield Piano Festival is to encourage music education among motivated students, to provide performance opportunities for developing pianists, and to spread the joy of piano studies in the Mansfield community and beyond. A highly educational event, the Mansfield Piano Festival welcomes pianists of all ages who reside in Pennsylvania and nearby states: New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware, and Connecticut.
There are two categories pianists can participate in: Festival Recital and Scholarship Audition.
FESTIVAL RECITAL (Open to all ages, including adults) This category is open to pianists of all ages who would like to perform in a recital setting while receiving feedback from professional musicians. Multiple recitals will be scheduled throughout the day, presenting all festival participants. Each pianist may perform one or two compositions in a festival recital. Total performance time for each pianist is limited to 7 minutes, and memorization is required for all pieces. A panel of adjudicators will provide constructive comments for each performer.
SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION (Open to High School Grades 11 and 12) This event is open exclusively for high school pianists in grades 11 and 12. Each student will perform two contrasting pieces from memory, followed by a musicianship test. Mansfield Piano Scholarships totaling $5,000 may be offered to best-qualified students. (Scholarship recipients must be academically admitted by CU-Mansfield, enrolling as a Piano Performance major, piano concentration in Music Education, Music Technology, or Music Business, or a BA Music piano track.)
Total performance time should be between 6 and 12 minutes, and memorization is required for both pieces. Students are to perform two contrasting pieces in the classical style chosen from the following list:
* A contrapuntal work or a dance movement by J.S. Bach, or a sonata movement by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.
* A piece from Romantic, Impressionistic or Contemporary classical repertory.
PMTA Conference
Save the Dates for “Head to Heart: Celebrating the Power of Musical Connections”
Register Now! Early bird registration is available until April 15, 2024.
Dorothy Sutton Performance Festival and Keystone Concerto Festival
The 2024 PMTA Dorothy Sutton Performance Festival Showcase Recitals will occur on Saturday, November 9, at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA.
Local Music Teacher Associations are required to hold their preliminary auditions no later than Sunday, October 20. Local Festival Chairs are required to submit their audition reports no later than Monday, October 21. Online registration will open on October 14 and close on Sunday, October 27.
Jonathan Flowers
Chair, DSPF State Showcase
jonathan@mindfulmusicllc.com