Achievement Awards Competition: Voice

DATE AND PLACE
Saturday, March 28, 2020 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Woman’s Club of Arlington,  700 S. Buchanan St., Arlington, VA

DEADLINES 
Registration Deadline:  March 5, 2020
All fees are paid online through mtfest.com by this date.

FEE
$32.00.  All fees are nonrefundable.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
1.  Please register at mtfest.com

2.  Pay fee online through mtfest.com. Click on Billing, then click on the $ next to the event. Pay with Visa or Mastercard. After payment is made, you may print a copy of the invoice for your records. You do not need to mail anything to the Chair.

CHAIR
Peggy McNulty

CO-CHAIR
Richard Wilmer

LEVELS AND TIME LIMITS

Levels may be combined, if warranted by the number and age of applicants.

REPERTOIRE REQUIREMENTS
Level 1: Two selections in different languages

Level 2:  Three selections of varying styles including one early Italian (before 1835) and one English.

Level 3:  Four selections representing Baroque/Classical, Romantic, 20th and 21st Century. Selections must include at least two languages, one of which is English.

Comments Only:  Two or three selections of varying styles including one in a foreign language. Musical theater selections allowed.

Music must be performed from memory, except for oratorio selections. In Level 3, music must be performed in the original language; in the case of opera and oratorio, in the original key.

Here is a list of repertoire used in 2014 which you may  download  as a spreadsheet for your reference:  Repertoire for Voice Achievement Awards 2014

NVMTA supports the use of published musical scores. If a photocopy must be used, the NVMTA Copyright Release Form, signed by a parent or teacher must be submitted to the chairman by email or postmarked at least one week prior to the event. Please also submit this form for music purchased or downloaded from the internet. Students using photocopies (or anything resembling a photocopy) either for themselves or the judges without having provided the Copyright Release Form by this deadline, may play for comments but will not be eligible to compete.

ELIGIBILITY
Previous first-place winners may not compete again in the same level.  Singers under professional management are not eligible. Students must be taught lessons in person in Northern Virginia.

TEACHER GUIDELINES
Singers must bring their own accompanists. Teachers and coaches may not accompany their students.

Written comments from the judges will be given to the teachers of the contestants at the end of the competitions. The judges may elect not to name a winner. The decision of the judges will be final.

Participating teachers are expected to assist the chair as needed based on the number of students enrolled, regardless of subsequent student withdrawals.  Teachers must agree to abide by the Rules for Competitive Events.

Any teacher who fails to carry out the assigned duties and who has not provided a substitute approved by the chairman may not enter students in that event in the following year.

AWARDS