2024 NVMTA Robert Spencer Piano Competition
JANUARY 18-19, 2025 (SNOW DATE JANUARY 25TH)
Registration Opens November 15 2024
Registration deadline December 5, 2024
United Christian Parish
11508 No. Shore Dr.
Reston, Va. 20190
LEVELS AND TIME LIMITS
Level 1 Grades 2-4 6 minutes
Level 2 Grades 5-6 7 minutes
Level 3 Grades 7-8 10 minutes
Level 4 Grades 9-10 12 minutes
Level 5 Grades 11-12 18 minutes
REPERTOIRE REQUIREMENTS
Students who play the same concerto for more than one year may not repeat the same movement. Only one movement is allowed. Only cuts to orchestral tutti are permitted. Students must perform the entire movement unless stopped by the room monitor. A room monitor will ask the performer to skip to the cadenza if the total performance time is longer than the allotted time limit. Music must be performed from memory.
If a cadenza for the movement exists, it must be played. Students who play a concerto without a cadenza risk being disqualified from prize eligibility if there is a cadenza in existence for that concerto, and a cadenza is not performed. A student may compose and perform his/her own cadenza for a Mozart or Haydn concerto, but it must be notated/printed in legible format for the judges. It is understood that the quality of the cadenza will be taken into consideration when judging the contestant’s performance. Prior approval is required. Any questions about cadenzas should be referred to the chairman BEFORE the application deadline. Teachers must indicate the timing of the cadenza on the judges’ score.
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 submit this form also 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
Students may play at current school grade or higher. To enter at a higher level, students must obtain the written approval of a chairman. In subsequent years these students must enter at consecutively higher grade levels. First-place winners may not compete again in the same level. First place winners are no longer required to wait a year before competing in a higher level. Students must be taught lessons in person in Northern Virginia.
ards 1st 2nd 3rd
Level 1 $30 $20 ----
Level 2 $50 $25 ----
Level 3 $200 $100 $50
Level 4 $300 $150 $75
Level 5 $500 $250 $125
Teacher Guidelines:
Teachers may not accompany their own students.
Please provide one published score of the concerto and cadenza with all measures numbered, and which must not bear the student’s or teacher’s name.
Teachers must agree to abide by the Rules for Competitive Events as well as the Teacher Responsibilities. Teachers will be assigned duties and should expect to be available for volunteer duty on the day of the competition. Assignments and hours are at the discretion of the chair.
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Congratulations to all our hard working students: 2022 NVMTA Spencer Piano Competition Studio Winners Level 1 NORA MA, 2nd place EMMA HOU, Honorable Mention Level 2 CHARLES ZHAO, 1st place Level 3 ZACK LAM, 2nd place HIROKI MATSUI, 3rd place Level 4 CLAIRE PENG, 1st Place SOPHIA LIN, 2nd Place Level 5 Joanna Cheng, 3rd Place Tan Nguyen, Honorable Mention 2020 NVMTA Spencer Piano Competition Studio Winners: Level 5 EVAN HU, First Place TAN NGUYEN, Second Place HONORABLE MENTIONS Elizabeth Qiu Erina Takeyama Level 4 OSCAR PAZ-SUAZNABAR, Second Place JOANNA CHENG, Third Place Leon Jia, Honorable Mention Level 3 SOPHIA LIN, First Place MICHELLE DONG, Second Place Level 2 ZACK LAM, First Place THAI NGUYEN, Second Place 2019 NVMTA Spencer Piano Competition Results: Level Two Sophia, first place Thai , second place 2018 COMPETITION RESULTS: LEVEL ONE Kalan, First Place Ellie, Honorable Mention LEVEL TWO Michelle, Second Place Jessica, Third Place Sophia, Honorable Mention LEVEL THREE Oscar, First Place Elizabeth, Third Place Tan, Honorable Mention LEVEL FOUR James, Third Place Evan, Honorable Mention LEVEL FIVE Emily, First Place Grace, Second Place |
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