Requirements for all students:
1. Maximum performance time limits will be enforced.
2. At all levels other than the Collegiate level, memorization is required for piano and voice; it is optional for all other instrumentalists. For Collegiate level memorization requirements, see below.
3. Pianists are not permitted to perform arrangements or simplifications of repertoire.
4. Students must provide one copy of each audition piece for the judges. No names of persons, libraries, schools, etc., may be visible anywhere on the judge’s copy. It is not necessary to erase teaching marks. No photocopied music is to be given to the judge, or used by an accompanist or soloist without showing written permission from the publisher. Soloists and accompanists may, without written permission, photocopy passages for use with the printed score to facilitate inconvenient page turns.
5. All questions concerning repertoire should be directed to the State Hoosier Auditions Chair, Dr. Kate Boyd.
6. The winner of each District level will advance to the State round, which is the final round of the competition.
Requirements for each level of performance:
Early Elementary (ages 7-9): Each contestant will perform two or more contrasting pieces, not to exceed 5 minutes maximum length.
Elementary (ages 10-11): Each contestant will perform two or more contrasting pieces, not to exceed 6 minutes maximum length.
Middle (ages 12-13): Each contestant will perform two or more pieces by composers from two contrasting HISTORICAL STYLE periods, not to exceed 8 minutes maximum length.
Junior (ages 14-15): Each contestant will perform two or more pieces by composers from two contrasting HISTORICAL STYLE periods, not to exceed 10 minutes maximum length.
Senior (ages 16-18): Each contestant will perform two or more pieces by composers from two contrasting HISTORICAL STYLE periods, not to exceed 15 minutes maximum length.
Collegiate (undergraduate ages 18-22): Maximum audition time is 20 minutes.
Students entering the string, brass, woodwind and piano categories pieces should
represent three style periods. Pianists may not perform a concerto or any other two-piano piece.
Vocalists – an Italian art song, a French or German art song, a 20th century work in English; vocalists also have a minimum time requirement of 15 minutes.
Guitarists - three pieces in contrasting styles.
Memorized performance of all audition pieces is required for voice, piano and guitar. Contestants in the string, brass and woodwind categories are required to play at least one piece by memory.
NOTE: Teachers are encouraged to consult the Student Compositions Composer Classification List on the MTNA website (www.mtna.org) for HISTORICAL STYLE period verification.
Home district is defined as the district in which the teacher resides.
Students have the option of participating in the Auditions at the District level as a non-competitor only to receive comments from the adjudicator. These students may declare themselves ineligible to win or place in the competition by checking the “non-competitive status” box on the entry form. Non-competing entrants pay the same fees and are subject to the same requirements as competing entrants.
Videotaping will be permitted for critique only in non-competitive auditions.