Chairperson:

Hwei-Lan Luo

Competition Date and Location:

Sunday, November 6, 2011   –
Westminster Choir College, Princeton Hall

Recital Dates and Locations:

Friday & Sunday, November 18 & 20, 2011–
Location TBD

Awards:

1st Place Winners – Trophies as well as Performances in the Winners Recital at the NJMTA State Conference

2nd  Place - medal

3rd Places and Honorable Mention – Certificates

Certificates will be sent to Participants upon request.

All winners should make arrangements to pick up their awards at the State Conference if they cannot attend the award presentation at the conference.

How to Enter:

Teachers should print all the required information on both sides of the entry form located in the “Registration Entry and Trophy Award Forms” section of the book and collect fees from students.  Mail the entry form with ONE teacher’s check payable to “NJMTA Competition” to:

Hwei-Lan Luo 
10 Blossom Hill Dr.  
Plainsboro, NJ 08536     

hweilanl@yahoo.com

Fee:

$40 per student. Fees are non-refundable. Please make one check for the total registration fee and another check of $50 Deposit for the job duty. Only teachers' checks will be accepted.

Duty Deposit Fee:

$50 duty deposit fee is required for all participating teachers. The duty deposit fee will be refunded when the teacher completes his/her duty. It will be cashed if the teacher fails to fulfill his/her assigned job. Please understand that we are very short of volunteers and need all the teachers' support for the event. Please send a separate check from the Registration Fee. 

Registration Deadline:

Postmarked no later than Tuesday, September 20, 2011. A late fee of $35 is charged for entries postmarked between September 21 and September 24. Absolutely no forms will be accepted postmarked after September 24. Entries postmarked after September 24, 2011 will be returned. Application forms will not be processed until the late fee is received. Application forms must be sent by regular mail. NO CERTIFIED MAIL, PLEASE!

Student Eligibility:

Entrants must have studied the performance medium of the competition with the same member teacher for a minimum of six months of the nine months proceeding immediately the first day of the month in which the state competition is held.  Students of any age are invited to compete.  Students will be grouped according to their age as of October 1st of the competition year.  Exceptions to the six-month eligibility requirement will be allowed in the following situations:
                     

• If the regular teacher is incapacitated or on sabbatical leave

• If the family moves out of the area                          

• In the case of a collegiate freshmen or transfer students. 

Under such circumstances, a certified letter from the original teacher explaining and approving the change in teachers must be submitted with the official application form.  Both teachers must satisfy teacher eligibility requirements for NJMTA competitions and both teachers must be recognized in any matter related to the competition. 

Teachers Eligibility:

The teacher must be a member of NJMTA and current membership dues to NJMTA must be paid on or before September 1st of the competition year.  An exception to the September 1st payment of teacher dues will be granted to a teacher joining NJMTA for the very first time.  The on-time exception will allow the teacher to pay state dues on or before the postmarked deadline of the competition.  An NJMTA member with Student Membership status may not enter students. The teacher and the entrant may not be the same individual.  The Primary teacher of the performing medium of the competition must be the teacher who enters the student in the competition.

Repertoire:

Selection of the repertoire is at the discretion of the teacher, with the following requirements: Two pieces from standard repertoire from memory:

1.    Either Baroque or Classical

2.    Either Romantic or Modern

* Please use MTNA Composer Classification List  in the yearbook for your reference.

• Variations must be performed in their entirety.
• Students are required to perform only one movement of sonata/sonatina.
• Both Prelude & Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach must be performed to count as one piece.
• Repeats will not be played unless the piece is very short or the repeats affect the integrity of the piece.
• No arrangements or simplified editions of works originally written for piano will be accepted.
• Published transcription of the other instruments or ensemble (such as Bach's/Busoni's Chaconne, Chinese tradition folk songs) will be acceptable as long as they are originally by the composers.
• A group of short pieces such as Chopin Preludes can be considered as one piece as long as they do not exceed the maximum time allowed in their age group.

Maximum Performance time:

Through age 10                10 minutes
Ages 11-14                     15 minutes
Ages 15-17                     17 minutes
Ages 18-collegiate           20 minutes