Young Musicians Competition – Piano
CHAIRPERSON: CHRISTINE KANG & JU-FEN LU (ymc-piano@njmta.com)
REGISTRATION FEE: $70 per student. Fees are non-refundable.
Only credit card payments are accepted at this time.
REPERTOIRE: Selection of the repertoire is at the discretion of the teacher, with the following requirements: Two compositions from standard repertoire from memory:
Either Baroque or Classical
Either Romantic or Modern
* Please use MTNA Composer Classification List for your reference.
· Variations must be performed in their entirety.
· Sonata: Students are not permitted to perform more than one movement of sonata/sonatina, except attacca movements. Only college students are permitted to play two separate movements from the same opus number.
· 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/Busoni’s Chaconne, Chinese tradition folk songs) will be acceptable as long as they are original by thecomposers.
· A group of short pieces of the same opus number such as Chopin Preludes can be considered as one piece if 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
* Students whose performance extend over the time limit will be stopped by judges during the competition.