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Age Requirements
The age limit, for all categories, shall be from
the ages of 18 through 30 years old from the time of application.
Eligibility Rules
1. A first place winner at the National Level is
not eligible to compete the following year.
2. Full-time public school music teachers or
college faculty as defined in academia (tenure-track and tenured
professors) are not eligible to compete. However, those graduate
students holding teaching assistantships can participate if they are
not receiving 50% of their employment from such appointments (they are
still considered students working on a degree at their respective
institutions).
3. Vocalists who have contracts as full-time solo
performers in operatic, oratorio and other types of professional
singing organizations are ineligible.
4. Instrumentalists with contractual full-time
orchestral or ensemble jobs are considered semi-professional or
professional musicians and are ineligible.
5. Professional performers under management are
likewise ineligible as contestants.
Three works are
required
Repertoire Listing
I
Contestants must
choose one major work from the Baroque or Classical
Periods
Contestants must select
one movement from the work.
Examples would be:
Works from the Baroque Period by J. S. Bach, i.e.: The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Partita # 2 in C
minor, #6 in E minor, English Suite #2 in a minor or #3 in G minor , The Italian Concerto; a set of three
Sonatinas by Scarlatti
Works from the Classical Period including: Beethoven Sonatas #Op. 2 #2 in A Major; Op, 2 #3 in
C Major; Op. 10 #3 D major; Op. 31 #2 in d minor; Op.31 #3 in Eb Major; Op. 53 in C Major; Op. 57
in F minor; Op. 81a in Eb Major; Op. 106 in Bb Major; Op. 109 in E Major; Op. 110 in Ab Major;,
Op. 111 in C minor. Mozart Sonatas : K 281 in Bb Major ; K 284 in D Major; K 309 in C Major; K310
in a minor; K 330 in C Major; K331 in A Major; K 333 in Bb Major; Fantasy in C minor
K 475; K. 576 in D Major.
II
One
work composed from the Romantic or Impressionistic or 20th
Century Period
Contestants must select
one movement from the work.
Works from the
Romantic Period including:
A set of two Chopin Etudes not including Op.10 #3 in E
Major, Op. 10 #6 in Eb
minor, Op. 25 #5 in E minor, or Op. 25 #7 in C# minor.
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Suggested Larger works may include the Ballads Op. 23 #1 in G minor or Op. 52 #4 in
F minor; Sonatas # 2 in Bb Minor Op. 35 or #3 in B minor Op. 58. From Brahms- Variations on a
Theme by Paganini, A minor, Op. 35 or Variations on a Hungarian Song, D Major, op. 21 #2;
From Schumann-Fantasy in C Major Op. 17; Davidsbϋndler, 6 Concert-Etuden
nach Capricen von Paganini, Op. 10; Kreisleriana, Phantasiestϋcke, Op. 12, Carnival Op. 9;
Toccata, Op. 7, etc. Schubert Sonata Op.10 #15 in Bb Major; Liszt Transcendental Etudes except
Nos. 1,3,7 and 9; The Liszt Sonata in B minor; Rachmaninoff Sonata #1 or #2 in Bb minor;
The Paganini Etudes or Scriabin Sonatas for Piano
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Suggested Works from the Impressionistic Period or the 20th Century: Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit;
Debussy Images, Estampes, a set of two etudes; Valse nobles et sentimentales, La Valse. Prokofieff,
Sonatas 6,7,or 8. Bartok Sonata for Piano, or works by Ibert, Ginastera, Ives, Barber, Bloch, and
Villa-Lobos,
III
One African American Work
is required
Contestants must select
one movement from the sonatas or complete smaller
works up to 20 minutes.
Suggested works:
Adolphus Hailstork Sonata
#1 and #3; David Baker Black Art Sonata for Piano; Dolores White
Toccata
for Piano; Jeffrey Mumford “fragments from the surrounding evening”; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
“Statements” Sonata for Piano; George Walker Sonata for Piano #1 or #3, Ulysses Kay Four Inventions,
any 2 Etudes by Leslie Adams.
From the Anthologies of African and African American composers by Nyaho Chapman published by Oxford
Press.
Suggested pairs:
Papillons - Russell (vol.
3)
Jamaican Dance no. 2 - Russell (vol. 3)
La Dangeureuse - Lamothe (vol. 3)
Dances in the Canebrakes - Price (vol. 3)
Prelude and Caprice - Walker (vol. 4)
Toccata - Perkinson (vol. 4)
Humoresque - Russell (vol. 5)
Toccata - Lettie Alston (vol. 5)
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