The following guidelines are for District and State repertoire. Students who do not meet these requirements will be performing for “Critique Only.”
- Memorization is not required
- Repertoire written with accompaniment must be performed with a collaborative pianist. Teachers may accompany their students. No recorded accompaniments. Performances must be live. Recorded accompaniments are strongly recommended for E-Achievement Auditions.
Acceptable repertoire
- Memorization is not required.
- Repertoire must include a minimum of sixteen measures of the solo to be performed. Accompaniment-only measures do not count as performed measures.
- Arrangements, adaptations, and transcriptions are acceptable.
- Multi-movements from a multi-movement work will be accepted as one composition.
- All variations must be performed in the theme and variations work.
- A group of pieces taken from a collection by the same composer is not considered a multi-movement work and only one piece will be accepted on the entry form.
- Compositions may not be cut or altered except for dot repeats. First endings may be cut following a D.S. or D.C. repeat.
- Repertoire written with accompaniment must be performed with a collaborative pianist. Teachers may accompany their students. Recorded accompaniments are not acceptable. Performances must be live.
- Entrants performing with a collaborative pianist may be allowed to have their collaborative pianist make cuts in lengthy instrumental accompaniment passages to allow for a more continuous performance for the entrant.