Miriam Shields Gottlieb Memorial Piano Competition - the MSMTA

Miriam Shields Gottlieb Memorial Piano Competition
DOUGLAS GUILES, Chair, 410-730-0743, douglas10359@verizon.net
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Date: Sunday, May 18, 2014
Deadline: Saturday, April 5, 2014
Location:
Fee:
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
$20.00 if online registration is used. (msmta.org/registration)
$21.00 if paper registration is used.
Entering teacher should send one check for all entries, made payable to MSMTA, to:
DOUGLAS GUILES, 10359 Cullen Terrace, Columbia, MD 21044-2402
Eligibility:
Levels:
Awards:
Any piano student in the twelfth grade or under. Last year’s first place winners may not compete this
year.
Multiple levels determined by age.
The following prizes are available at each level:
First Place: $50.00
Second Place: $40.00
Third Place: $30.00
Repertoire:
Students must perform three works by three different composers, one from each of the following
categories (only composers listed below are acceptable):
1. Any work by J.S. Bach, Couperin, Handel, Rameau, D. Scarlatti or Soler. (One movement of a suite
constitutes a work. A prelude or fugue can constitute a single work, or a prelude and fugue can be
scheduled as a single work).
2. A movement from any Sonata/Sonatina, a rondo, a complete theme and variations or fantasia by
Beethoven, Clementi, Diabelli, Haydn, Kuhlau, or Mozart.
3. Any work, including a movement of a sonata by Albeniz, Barber, Bartok, Beach, Bernstein, Brahms,
Carter, Chopin, Copland, Corigliano, Cowell, Crumb, Debussy, Dello-Joio, de Falla, Diamond,
Dutilleux, Faure, Gershwin, Ginastera, Granados, Grieg, Griffes, Ibert, Ives, Kabalevsky,
Khatchaturian, Krenek, Lees, Lowell Liebermann, Jeffrey Lindon, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelssohn,
Menotti, Messiaen, Muczynski, Persichetti, Piston, Poulenc, Previn, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel,
Schonberg, Schubert, Robert Schumann, William Schuman, Scriabin, Shchedrin, Shostakovich,
Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Turina, Villa-Lobos, Carl Vine, George Walker, Weber, or Yardumian.
(One movement from a work such as Schumann’s Papillons constitutes a single work.)
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The general rules governing MSMTA events also apply.
Please read them carefully.
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Miriam Shields Gottlieb Memorial Piano Competition
Application Form
DOUGLAS GUILES, 10359 Cullen Terrace, Columbia, MD 21044-2402
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• By submitting this application, the participating teacher agrees with all rules governing this event and understands that
he/she must be available to assist with this event. The teacher understands that his/her students will be declared
ineligible to participate in this event if this rule is violated.
• Application forms should be filled out by the MSMTA teacher only. Please send one check for all entries, made
payable to MSMTA, to DOUGLAS GUILES, at the address listed above.
• The presentation of photocopied music without permission from the publisher will disqualify
a student from all piano competitions.
Name of Student: ___________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________
Date of Birth: ______________________________________________________ School Grade: _________________
Name of Teacher: ___________________________________________________ Teacher’s Phone: _______________
Teacher’s Address: _______________________________________________________________________________
Teacher’s Email: ________________________________________
Compositions to be Performed
(List all data such as Opus no., tempi, movement no., etc.)
—Please type or print clearly—
Title Composer Performance Time
1. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Signature of Parent (Guardian): ______________________________________________________________________
I hereby acknowledge that I have read and understand the rules governing MSMTA events and this specific event and agree to
abide by them. My students and/or parents have also been apprised of the rules. I understand that I must be available to assist on
the competition day with the event. If I fail to fulfill my work obligation, I understand and agree that my students may be
declared ineligible to participate in this event. Please do not request exceptions to this requirement.
I am available to assist on the day of the competition during the following hours (at least four hours):_______________
I am using my first substitute second substitute to help at this event.
My substitute for this event is ________________________. Please see the substitute rule on page 1, #5.
Teacher’s signature: __________________________________________________________________________
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