Winterfest and Spring Festival Competitions
WINTERFEST 2020
(Updated in Oct. 2020)
Winterfest will be an online festival for the first time this year. For those of you who like to plan ahead, here are the guidelines for Winterfest.
1.The theme for PIANO categories is CONTEMPORARY. Students are allowed to play one piece or one movement (sonata) of their choice OR multiple shorter pieces from a suite or collection. For other instruments, students are allowed to play works from any music period, with the exception of works by J.S. Bach.
2.All music must be performed from memory.
3.Students will be divided into 7 different categories, according to their AGE.
Category I: 5-7 years old
Category II: 8-9 years old
Category III: 10-11 years old
Category IV: 12-13 years old
Category V: 14-15 years old
Category VI: 16-18 years old
Category VII: Adults
* Please note that the student’s age should be AS OF Nov. 1, 2020
4.Time limit: 7 minutes
5.Application deadline: Nov. 14, 2020 at 11:59pm.
Video of student performance must be uploaded to YouTube prior to filling out the application.
6.Application Fees: $ 40 per participant
7. YouTube video upload guidelines:
- Videos must be uploaded to YouTube (unlisted).
- Videos must be unedited.
- Videos need NOT be professionally produced.
- Video must, at all times, show the performer’s face and hands.
- Students must dress appropriately in the video. The MTAC Diamond Bar Branch dress code will be enforced.
- No profanity or product advertisement in the videos.
- Names of students or teachers should not be evident or implied in the video descriptions or anywhere on the YouTube Channel.
- Comments must be disabled.
- Maximum of one video URL link per student. (If multiple shorter pieces from a collection are performed, all pieces have to be in the same video.)
- Accompaniment is NOT required for String and Winds.
8.Applicant must be studying with a teacher who is currently a member of the Diamond Bar Branch, and the student must have studied with that teacher continuously for a minimum of 6 months, up until the date of the application deadline. The teacher must be the one instructing the student at least 70% of the lesson time.
9.Students will get disqualified automatically should he or she violate any part of the festival rules.
10.Maximum 8 students per teacher.
* Judges’ decisions are final.
* Please contact your child’s teacher to obtain an ONLINE APPLICATION FORM. All parts of the application form must be filled out in their entirety. Application is considered INCOMPLETE and will NOT be processed unless both the application and online payment is received by Nov. 14, 2020. NO CHANGES will be allowed and NO REFUND will be issued once the application is submitted.
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SPRING FESTIVAL
(The information will be updated prior to the Spring Festival)
Spring Festival: The student is allowed to play any repertoire of one piece or multiple pieces if they are in the same collection (for example, different pieces but within the same opus number), or SINGLE MOVEMENT (Sonata) from any period except the arrangements of ragtime, pop music or classical pieces for the keyboard. A student who performs an arrangement or more than one movement of the Sonata will be disqualified from the competition. All pieces must be published and available for purchase.
Guidelines for the Festivals include:
1. Students will be divided into 7 different categories, according to their AGE.
Category I: 5-7 Years Old
Category II: 8-9 Years Old
Category III: 10-11 Years Old
Category IV: 12-13 Years Old
Category V: 14-15 Years Old
Category VI: 16-18 Years Old
Category VII: Adults
*Please note that the studentʼs age should be AS OF the Winterfest or Spring Festival date.
Videography and photography are strictly prohibited and will result in disqualification.
(Updated in Oct. 2020)
Winterfest will be an online festival for the first time this year. For those of you who like to plan ahead, here are the guidelines for Winterfest.
1.The theme for PIANO categories is CONTEMPORARY. Students are allowed to play one piece or one movement (sonata) of their choice OR multiple shorter pieces from a suite or collection. For other instruments, students are allowed to play works from any music period, with the exception of works by J.S. Bach.
2.All music must be performed from memory.
3.Students will be divided into 7 different categories, according to their AGE.
Category I: 5-7 years old
Category II: 8-9 years old
Category III: 10-11 years old
Category IV: 12-13 years old
Category V: 14-15 years old
Category VI: 16-18 years old
Category VII: Adults
* Please note that the student’s age should be AS OF Nov. 1, 2020
4.Time limit: 7 minutes
5.Application deadline: Nov. 14, 2020 at 11:59pm.
Video of student performance must be uploaded to YouTube prior to filling out the application.
6.Application Fees: $ 40 per participant
7. YouTube video upload guidelines:
- Videos must be uploaded to YouTube (unlisted).
- Videos must be unedited.
- Videos need NOT be professionally produced.
- Video must, at all times, show the performer’s face and hands.
- Students must dress appropriately in the video. The MTAC Diamond Bar Branch dress code will be enforced.
- No profanity or product advertisement in the videos.
- Names of students or teachers should not be evident or implied in the video descriptions or anywhere on the YouTube Channel.
- Comments must be disabled.
- Maximum of one video URL link per student. (If multiple shorter pieces from a collection are performed, all pieces have to be in the same video.)
- Accompaniment is NOT required for String and Winds.
8.Applicant must be studying with a teacher who is currently a member of the Diamond Bar Branch, and the student must have studied with that teacher continuously for a minimum of 6 months, up until the date of the application deadline. The teacher must be the one instructing the student at least 70% of the lesson time.
9.Students will get disqualified automatically should he or she violate any part of the festival rules.
10.Maximum 8 students per teacher.
* Judges’ decisions are final.
* Please contact your child’s teacher to obtain an ONLINE APPLICATION FORM. All parts of the application form must be filled out in their entirety. Application is considered INCOMPLETE and will NOT be processed unless both the application and online payment is received by Nov. 14, 2020. NO CHANGES will be allowed and NO REFUND will be issued once the application is submitted.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SPRING FESTIVAL
(The information will be updated prior to the Spring Festival)
Spring Festival: The student is allowed to play any repertoire of one piece or multiple pieces if they are in the same collection (for example, different pieces but within the same opus number), or SINGLE MOVEMENT (Sonata) from any period except the arrangements of ragtime, pop music or classical pieces for the keyboard. A student who performs an arrangement or more than one movement of the Sonata will be disqualified from the competition. All pieces must be published and available for purchase.
Guidelines for the Festivals include:
1. Students will be divided into 7 different categories, according to their AGE.
Category I: 5-7 Years Old
Category II: 8-9 Years Old
Category III: 10-11 Years Old
Category IV: 12-13 Years Old
Category V: 14-15 Years Old
Category VI: 16-18 Years Old
Category VII: Adults
*Please note that the studentʼs age should be AS OF the Winterfest or Spring Festival date.
Videography and photography are strictly prohibited and will result in disqualification.
