2022 CMEA STATE Virtual Solo & Small Ensemble Festival
CMEA State Virtual Solo & Small Ensemble Festival
The CMEA State Virtual Solo Festival is open to California music students, elementary-high school who have received a superior rating at another non-state level* music festival during the 2020-2021 or the 2021-2022 school years.
*This does not include superior ratings at the previous years’ state-level festival, but does include the CMEA Virtual Spring Music Festivals in 2021 and 2022.
Description:
- Festival open to any school solo or small ensemble, regardless of instrumentation: band, choir, orchestra, jazz, rock/pop band, mariachi, steel drum, ukulele, guitar, hand bells or any instrument or vocal ensemble.
- Recordings of in-person performances, non-virtual, not digitally enhanced.
- Any/all styles of music are welcome.
- Director must be an active CMEA/NAfME member.
Dates and Submission Details:
- Registration closes on May 8, 2022.
- The video submission deadline is May 13, 2022.
- Once registration closes, everyone will be sent specific information for submitting your performance video and music.
- Performances will be evaluated by an adjudicator between May 16-31, 2022.
- Results will be communicated to participants by June 7, 2022.
Registration Fees:
$50 – Solo Registration
$100 – Small Chamber Ensemble (includes Duets, Trios, etc)
Registration fees are non-refundable after April 25, 2022.
Registration Form Information:
- One entry per form.
- Electronic payment required. Contact CMEA, cmea@calmusiced.com, if electronic payment is absolutely not an option.
Festival and Video Submission Guidelines
- GoReact will be used for the submissions and evaluations.
- Registered participants will be sent specific information and a link for submitting your performance video and sheet music between May 7-13.
- The video recording needs to be in a single recording; no editing.
- All video formats are accepted.
- Each entrant should perform a minimum of one piece of music (or improvisation).
- Videos should not exceed 10 minutes in length but there is no minimum length!
- You may perform your piece, as a solo, with or without piano accompaniment
- Introduction: At the start of the video recording, please state your first name and age, only, as well as the title of the piece you are performing.
- Due to copyright laws, you are required to show your purchased music at the beginning of your video, prior to your introduction and performance.
- Each entry will receive feedback from one of the expert adjudicators via GoReact, regarding your performance.
- We will only share your recording with the assigned expert adjudicator.
- Your personal contact information will not be shared with anyone.
- At the end of the festival, your video and music will be deleted from the server.
- All feedback will be provided electronically
- Solos and Small Chamber Ensembles will receive a rating, if requested.
- Medals will be available for sale online after the festival closes.
- Follow these Copyright Permissions for Virtual Adjudication and view the list of publishers who have allowed for these permissions to be granted.
Questions? Email cmea@calmusiced.com
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State Solo & Ensemble Festival
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Presented by World Projects
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2022 CMEA Virtual Spring Music Festival
2022 CMEA Virtual Spring Music Festival
Register is now closed for this event.
A festival designed for teachers and students whose schools have travel restrictions. A performance critique opportunity for any and all music performance ensembles and solos.
- Festival open to any school solo or ensemble, regardless of size or instrumentation: band, choir, orchestra, jazz, rock/pop band, mariachi, steel drum, ukulele, guitar, hand bells or any instrument or vocal ensemble. All are welcome!
- Recordings of in-person performances, non-virtual, not digitally enhanced.
- Any/all styles of music are welcome.
- Multi-tracking and/or using electronic accompaniments are allowed.
- All ensemble entries will receive judge’s comments from highly qualified judges with expertise in the category of your submission. Comments only, no ratings.
- Large ensemble entries only will also be provided an opportunity to have their adjudicator provide a zoom clinic with their classroom in late April.
- Solos and Small Chamber Ensembles only will be provided comments and a rating, if desired. Students performing solos who receive a superior rating, will be invited to participate in the CMEA State Virtual Solo Festival taking place in May of 2022.
- Entries need to be audio/video submissions, not audio only.
- Because of the nature of submitting videos, a media release form will need to be signed by each parent/guardian and collected by the director. We will provide the media release form once you are registered.
- Director must be a current CMEA/NAfME member.
Dates and Submission Details:
Registration closes on March 30, 2022. The video submission deadline is April 6, 2022. Once you are registered, you will be sent specific information for submitting your performance video and music. Performances will be evaluated by an adjudicator between April 8-22, 2022. Results will be communicated to participants by April 25, 2022. Large ensemble zoom clinics scheduled between April 25-29, 2022.
Registration Fees:
$50 – Solo Registration: $50.00 per solo
$100 – Small Chamber Ensemble Registration (includes Duets, Trios, etc)
$175 – Large Ensemble Registration
Registration fees are non-refundable after March 15, 2022.
Video Submission Guidelines
- The festival is open to California music students, elementary-high school.
- Each entry should perform a minimum of one piece of music (or improvisation).
- Performances should not exceed 10 minutes in length but there is no minimum length!
- Each entry will receive feedback from the expert adjudicators, regarding your performance.
- All feedback will be provided electronically.
- Your recording will only be shared with the assigned expert adjudicator(s).
- Your personal contact information will not be shared with anyone.
- At the end of the festival, your video and music will be deleted from the server.
- Solos and Small Chamber Ensembles
- You may perform your piece, as a solo, with or without piano accompaniment
- Due to copyright laws, you are required to show your purchased music at the beginning of your video, prior to your introduction and performance.
- Introduction: At the start of the video recording, please state your first name only, your age, and the title of the piece you are performing.
- Medals will be available for sale online after the festival closes.
- Solos and Small Chamber Ensembles will receive a rating, if requested.
- The video recording needs to be in a single recording; no editing
- Follow these Copyright Permissions for Virtual Adjudication and view the list of publishers who have allowed for these permissions to be granted.
- Large Ensembles
- Due to copyright laws, the director is required to submit proof that they have purchased the sheet music for the submitted performance. More information will be provided soon.
- Follow these Copyright Permissions for Virtual Adjudication and view the list of publishers who have allowed for these permissions to be granted.
- The video recording needs to be in a single recording; no editing
- Large Ensembles will not receive a rating.
- All video formats are accepted.
Special Thanks to our CMEA State Festival Premier sponsor
Special Thanks to our additional State Festival sponsors
