2024

Sonatina Competition

Date: November 2, 2024

Location: TBD

Registration: Sep 1 – Sep 15, 2024

Purpose

To provide students with the opportunity to be critiqued by a judge
To provide students with a positive, professional critique of his/her performance
To provide students with a healthy, encouraging atmosphere for competition

Eligible Students

Fees

Music

Repertoire is announced each year on a repertoire list. Here is the list for 2024.
All measures must be numbered
All music must be original (no copies)
Music printed from the public domain (example: IMSLP) or from a sheet music CD is acceptable if properly documented at the top of the first page
Repeats: observe the instructions on the current Repertoire List
The Scarlatti sonata/sonatina is where students are encouraged to use their creativity during the repeated section regarding ornamentation, embellishments, etc.
Judges will follow these guidelines

Competition

The competition is divided into 13 piano solo levels of increasing difficulty, with two choices of piece for each level.
Pieces are not limited to classical repertoire or sonatinas/sonatas.
All music is to be performed by memory.
Students may only enter just one level/event and are not required to advance from the previous year’s level.
Levels with large registrations are divided into sublevels, and each sublevel is judged individually.
Adjudicators work as objectively as possible without information of the students’ teacher names, ages or grades of students, etc. Teachers are admonished to not approach/contact the judges regarding specific students’ performance.
First and second place winners from each group will be chosen, and up to three additional students from each group may be chosen to receive Honorable Mention awards.

Results

Results will be completed and posted on the TVMTA website shortly after the judging of each sublevel is completed.

Honors Recital

Honors Recitals will be held later in the day on November 5. Two finalists will be selected from each sublevel and invited to play for the judges to award First and Second place. Any student receiving Honorable Mention is invited to attend and receive recognition.

Awards

First and Second Place winners from each group will be awarded trophies, and Honorable Mentions (up to three per sublevel) will be awarded red rosette ribbons. Trophies and ribbons will be distributed to teachers to give to their students.

Sonatina Chair: Alysha Karle, alyshakarlepiano@gmail.com

Sonatina Competition Music: Free Online Copies of the Music!

Level 2

Attwood Sonatina in G:

Czerny Sonatina Op. 792 #8:

Level 3

Beethoven Sonatina in G, I. Moderato:

Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 #2, I. Allegretto: