2025 STATE CONFERENCE

INTERMEDIATE MASTER CLASS

with GUEST ARTIST

SEAN CHEN

The NJMTA Intermediate Piano Master Class is NOT an auditioned event.

No registration fee is required.

The clinician will select student performers anonymously, based only on the student’s repertoire and age. Selected students will perform during the 2025 NJMTA conference.

Sean Chen will be the clinician for this year's master class.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Each teacher may submit a maximum of two students to play in the Master Class. Students who have played in the 2023 and 2024 master class will not be considered.

2. Teachers are invited to submit early to late intermediate piano pieces such as Baroque Minuets/Dances, Bach Short Preludes & Fugues, Inventions and Sinfonias, Sonatinas by Clementi, Sonatas Op. 49 by Beethoven or early Haydn Sonatas, Chopin’s easier Waltzes, easier Songs Without Words by Mendelssohn, Schumann or Tchaikovsky's Albums for the Young, Kabalevsky's Children's Pieces, etc.  

3. No piece should exceed 5 minutes in length. Pieces should be memorized and well prepared.

4. Fill out this application form. The deadline for application submission is Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

5. After all applications are submitted, Mr. Chen will make the selection of 4–6 students to perform at the master class. The names of students who have been selected by the artist will be posted on this page, and the teachers of those students will also be notified via email or phone. Students are not permitted to change the selection of pieces once selected.

Please send all inquiries to Esma Pasic-Filipovic at esmapf@gmail.com

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PROGRAM will be posted here…