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WMTA Baroque Festival March TBD, 2025
alternates biannually with Lee Studio Bach Festival October 2023 site tbd
Time: Teachers and students will be notified by the chair
Location: Calvary Lutheran Church, 9545 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
Application fee: $20 per student or ensemble Online Application
Deadline: March tbd, 2025
ALL WMTA RULES APPLY.
This is a non-competitive event.
Performers will receive a critique and a certificate of participation.
Eligibility: Open to instrumental and voice students through the 12th grade.
Repertoire: Any solo or ensemble music written by a composer of the Baroque period (born between 1714 and 1799).
Consult with the Chair in advance if you have any questions about repertoire.
Time Limits: Each performer may play up to two pieces, total time limit is 8 minutes.
A Prelude and Fugue is considered as two pieces.
Special Rules: • Pianists may not program simplified arrangements.
No method book pieces are allowed. •
Bowed string, wind and brass instrument arrangements and transcriptions are permitted at the elementary level only.
Guitar arrangements and transcriptions are permitted at all levels •
This event is memory optional for all performers. •
All participants are responsible for complying with U.S. copyright law. For use of copied or downloaded materials, please refer to the WMTA General Rules.
Honors Recital
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COMPETITIONOpen to students grades K-12. Dr. Lee submits all applications.
Festival 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 Book is acceptable for the first of the two pieces. __________________________ COMPETITION REPERTOIRE: 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 from either volume of WTC. 10 minutes total playing time. 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. In category 5, no additional piece is needed. |
COMPETITION FORMAT
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