Bach/Baroque Festival and Competition

Application Requirements

1. Please register at new.mtfest.com.
2. Pay fee online through new.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. No late applications will be accepted. All fees are non-refundable
3. Non-NVMTA members have to pay the $50 fee (per student per event) plus registration fee.

Levels and Time Limits

Repertoire Requirements

Festival

• Piano:
  • Repertoire: Play 2 memorized pieces, one by J. S. Bach and a second piece by J. S. Bach or another Baroque composer. Any piece with a BWV number, including all pieces in the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, is acceptable as the first piece.
  • Adults: memory optional
• Strings:
  • Repertoire: Play 2 memorized pieces, one by J.S. Bach and a second piece by J.S. Bach or another Baroque composer. Published arrangements from Suzuki books or other anthologies accepted.

Competition

Piano:

• Format: In-person, 2 rounds and an Honors Recital. The first round will be in recital format. Judges will write critiques. The second round will be a private audition.
• Repertoire: Play 2 memorized pieces. Choose the first piece (by J S Bach) from the following list:
  1. A Little Prelude (BWV 899-900, 902, 924-928, 930-931, 933-941, 943, 999, 902a); 4 minutes total playing time
  2. A 2-part Invention; 4 minutes total playing time
  3. A 3-part Invention (Sinfonia); 7 minutes total playing time
  4. A movement from a French or English Suite or from a Partita; 7 minutes total playing time
  5. One Prelude and Fugue set (both with the same BWV number) from either volume of WTC; 10 minutes total playing time.
  6. In categories 1 through 4, the second piece may be by any Baroque composer or by JS Bach, except for pieces from the Anna Magdalena Bach collection.
  7. In category 5, no additional piece is needed.

Strings:

• Format: In-person, 2 rounds and an Honors Recital. The first round will be in recital format. Judges will write critiques. The second round will be a private audition.
• Repertoire: Play 2 memorized pieces, one by J.S. Bach and a second piece by J.S. Bach or another Baroque composer. Published arrangements from Suzuki books or other anthologies accepted.

Eligibility

Festival

• The festival will be held in-person at TBD.
• Open to pre-college students grades K through 12, and adults.

Competition

• The competition will be held in-person at TBD.
• Open to pre-college students grades K through 12.
• A student who is chosen for the Honor’s Recital one year, cannot participate in the Competition the next year. The student can participate in the Festival and then return to the competition the following year.
• Students who are not present and ready to perform at their assigned time may play for comments only, and only if time permits.

Awards

Festival and Competition

Certificate of Participation: sent to participating teachers as a digital file for teachers to print and distribute.

Trophies awarded at the 3rd year of participation. Concert tickets awarded at the 6th and 9th of years of participation

Honors Recital

All 2nd round performers, whether or not they are chosen to play in the Honors Recital, will be recognized at the Honors Recital. A select number of students from the 2nd round will be chosen to perform in the Honors Recital on February 18, 2024.

Student Guidelines

Masks: the church requires all those in the building to wear masks at all times.

Students should check-in at the front desk 15 minutes before their performance time. Check-in desk is in the lobby directly in front of the only entrance door to the church. (TBD by venue)

Each student may be accompanied by only 1 parent.

Teacher Guidelines

1. Work Assignments: Teachers who enroll 1 to 10 students are obligated to judge for 3 hours; teachers who enroll 11 or more students are obligated to judge for 6 hours. Teachers must be available to help in other capacities at the discretion of the chairman.
2. Check-In: Teacher should check-in at the front desk 15 minutes before their judging assignment.
3. Teachers must agree to abide by the Teacher Responsibilities.
4. Work Obligation: If a participating teacher cannot, for any reason including emergencies, fulfill their work assignment, they must:
   1. Hire a substitute.
   2. The substitute must be approved by the chair.
   3. Inform the chairman by February 3, 2024.
   4. All checks should be made payable to NVMTA.
   5. Exceptions in case of emergency may be granted by the chair.
   6. Checks must arrive at chair’s address before February 18, 2024.
5. For more detail go to Teacher Responsibilities, subparagraphs 2, 3, and 4.
6. Copyright: All participants are responsible for complying with U.S. copyright law. Entrant will abide by all copyright laws and has permission to use all music given to judges and accompanists during all events as outlined here.

All teacher will be notified regarding which students are chosen to play in the Honors Recitals.

Please let the chair know if you are willing to work extra hours as a judge at the rate of $60/hour.

Judging Workshop notes