The LWMTA Scholarship Competition provides an opportunity for advancing students to perform at the highest level, competing for an opportunity to represent LWMTA at the WSMTA State Conference.
Competition Information
- Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
- Location: Cross of Christ Lutheran Church (tentative)
- Judge: Oksana Ejokina
- Requirements: copy of MAP assessment sheet, registration form, and fee. Please mail your fees to the chair in one check.
- General Information
- Registration Form: Complete Here (Registration Deadline: March 10, 2025)
- Chair: Nicole Kim (nicoleykim@aol.com)
Competition Categories
Category | Age | Time Limit | Level | Fee |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elementary | Up to 10 | Up to 7 min | All levels | $60 |
Junior | 11 to 14 | |||
A | Up to 4 min | Up to Sonatina (including Sonatina) | $50 | |
B |
Up to 10 min | Sonata and beyond | $65 | |
Senior |
15 to 18 | |||
C |
Up to 5 min | Sonatina | $55 | |
D | Up to 12 min | Sonata | $70 |
1st place winners receive a monetary scholarship award
Competition Rules
- Participation in LWMTA MAP for 2025 is a requirement.
- Choose standard repertoire from a minimum of two musically different styles, played from memory.
- Music should be from standard, published repertoire. Sheet music should be presented to the judge on the day of the competition with measure numbers marked.
- There are three categories of music:
- Baroque, up to 1750
- Classical sonatina/sonata (including Schubert Sonatas),
- Romantic/Impressionism/Contemporary
- After registration, repertoire will be reviewed by the committee for the correct category.
- Please ask the chair before registration for any questions about repertoire.
- For the students’ age, use the age they will be at the date of competition.
- Students will be rewarded as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable mention as Judge decides.
- Judge’s decision is final.
- A tie is allowed by the judge.
- If pieces go beyond the time limit, the performance will be stopped according to the rules of the WSMTA.
- Winners will receive the certificate and Medal. Winner’s list will be presented on the chapter website.
- Participating teachers’ presence on the competition day and help are required.
- If your student wishes to be considered for the LWTA Chapter Representative, the consent form should be signed and submitted at registration (available here).
- Should any of this information change, you will be informed by the event chair.
Chair: Nicole Kim, NCTM