High School Piano Competition and Scholarship Audition 2012*
Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Competition Performance: Saturday, March 31, 2012 starting @ 9:00 a.m.

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Prizes to be awarded
1st - $200 and trophy
2nd - trophy
3rd - trophy

*Music Scholarships will be offered to participants interested in attending Miami Dade College - Kendall Campus.

Competition Guidelines for All Participants:

1. Participants must be enrolled in high school and no more than 18 years of age.
2. Judges will provide written commentary for all participants.
3. All applications are to be made electronically at www.mdc.edu/kendall/mtd/mtdkeyboardapp.asp
4. Contestants will be notified of audition times after all entry information forms have been received and scheduling has been completed.
5. Entrants who have not received confirmation by Saturday, March 17, 2012 should notify Wayne Bumpers at 305-237-2392 or email kbumpers@mdc.edu
6. Warm-up rooms will be provided.
7. Not all prizes may be awarded. Miami Dade College reserves the right not to award prizes based on levels of performance.

Competition Rules:

1. Participants will have a 10-minute period to perform.
2. Contestants must prepare two (only) solo compositions, which clearly contrast in tempo and character (one fast and one slow) that represents different style periods (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, Contemporary). A Sonata or Sonatina movement counts as one composition. Types of compositions include but not limited to: Sonatas, Preludes, Fugues, Scherzos, Ballads, Intermezzos, Toccatas, and Dances, etc.
3. Only original solo piano music may be used. No concertos or chamber works will be allowed.
4. Compositions must be prepared in their entirety, but without repeats (unless required by compositional form). If it is clear that time will run out, judges may ask a student to move to a later juncture in a composition (e.g., to the coda). Monitors will stop performances when time limits have been reached. No penalty is incurred if a performer is excused, due to time constraints, before a piece is completed.
5. Both compositions must be performed from memory.
6. Participants must perform the works listed on the application.
7. One score of each composition (not photocopied) must be brought for the judges.
8. Contestants will be judged on degree of difficulty, tone, rhythm, style, execution, memory, and musicianship.
9. Other than a cushion if needed, no apparatus, furniture, or attachment may be brought into the audition studio.
10. Participant must be present at the Awards Ceremony at the end of the competition to receive their prize.
11. Participants will receive comment sheets by mail after the competition.