A special announcement
for teachers of Wind, String and Voice students.
ELIGIBILITY
The Southern California
Junior Bach Festival is open to students of active, provisional and student
members of participating branches of MTAC who wish to perform original
works by J.S. Bach and who will not have reached their 19th birthday by April
1st of the Festival year. Vocalists
may not have reached their 25th birthday.
STRING FESTIVAL
The String Festival
format for 2011-2012 is as follows:
1.
String students
perform in an All-Branch Regional Festival encompassing all of the MTAC branches
participating in SCJBF.
2.
The All-Branch
STRING Regional Festival is made up of two categories:
(1)
Junior students
who will not have reached their 14th birthday by April 1st of the Festival
year, and
(2)
Senior students
who are 14 through 18 years old as of April 1st of the Festival year.
3.
The All-Branch
STRING Regional Festival will be held
4.
A panel of three
judges will write comments about each performance and will select up to 35%
of the students in each category to go forward to the Complete Works Auditions.
5.
Winners of both
Junior and Senior Categories may proceed to Complete Works and the Concerto
Competition.
6.
All other rules
(see Teacher Guidelines) of the SCJBF apply.
7.
The fee for a
soloist is $35.00. The fee for an ensemble is $50.00 (total). Make checks
payable to Joyce Osborn and send them
to:
Joyce Osborn
20349
WIND AND VOICE FESTIVAL
The Wind and Voice format
for 2011-2012 is as follows:
1.
Wind and Voice
students perform in an All-Branch Regional Festival encompassing all of the
MTAC branches participating in SCJBF.
2.
The All-Branch
(1)
Junior students
who will not have reached their 15th birthday by April 1st of the Festival
year, and
(2)
Senior students
who are 15 through 18 years old as of April 1st of the Festival year; Vocalists
through age 25.
3.
The All-Branch
4.
A panel of three
judges will write comments about each performance and will select up to 35%
of the students in each category to go forward to the Complete Works Auditions.
5.
Winners of both
Junior and Senior Categories may proceed to Complete Works and the Concerto
Competition.
6.
All other rules
(see Teacher Guidelines) of the SCJBF apply.
7.
The fee for a
soloist is $35.00. The fee for a duo is $50.00 (total), and a trio is $60.00
(total). The teacher should write one check to cover all students, made payable
to Francine Ross-Pancost, and send it to:
Francine Ross-Pancost
2567 Gardner Place
Glendale , CA 91206
REGIONAL FESTIVALS
The All-Branch String,
Wind and Voice Festivals will also serve as the Regional Festival. Wind, string and voice winners may participate
in their home branch regional if they wish.
COMPLETE WORKS AUDITION (CWA)
The CWA (Complete Works
Audition) will be held in October, 2012. First
place winners from these auditions will be invited to perform on a special
SCJBF Memorial Awards Recital in October, 2012 at the First Congregational
Church of Los Angeles. To be eligible
for the CWA, a student must have been chosen by the judges at the All-Branch
Regional Festival. All first, second
and third place students will receive medals. Please keep in mind that if you wish for your
students to compete in the Complete Works Audition, the repertoire must be
chosen from the Complete Works list. A Complete Works Repertoire List is available
on-line at www.scjbf.org.
CONCERTO AUDITION
Concerto auditions will
be held in the Fall of 2012 to select a performer
to appear as soloist in the Los Angeles Bach Festival Concert in October 2012*. Students must have performed at a Regional Festival
in 1996 - 2012, or have been a winner in a previous Regional Festival in order
to be eligible to audition.
Except for the Concerto
Audition applications, all student applications are taken on-line at our web
site, www.scjbf.org. If you have any
questions, please call to:
STRING CHAIR
Joyce Osborn, Phone:
(818) 884-6301 Contact
via E-mail
WIND AND
VOICE CHAIR
Bolin Pan, Phone:
*Note: After decades
of presenting this concert, The Los Angeles Bach Festival nearly cancelled
this event in 2011 due to lack of funding. The Southern California Junior
Bach Festival dipped into its reserves and became a major underwriter for
the concert in honor of our Golden Jubilee. While every effort will be made,
SCJBF makes no guarantee regarding the L. A. Bach Festival event.