2015 Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) AVGE Package.pdf60, No. 10 by Matteo Carcassi...
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Audition Dates: • April 25, 2015 • May 2, 2015 Audition locations and sign ups are posted at: http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/Page/146691 !Audition Fee is $20 payable to: Heritage High School !Eligibility: Incoming 10 - 12 Grade Students enrolled in a music class in school; teacher must be a member of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). !Should you win the audition to participate in the AVGE, you will be required to pay a fee of approximately $220 to cover food and lodging. Some school districts may give financial assistance for this event. You are encouraged to discuss this ahead of time with your teacher and administrators. !Tentative Itinerary for AVGE (subject to change) • Rehearsals:
• November 18 (evening) • November 19 (all day) • November 20 (morning) !
• Performance on November 20 (TBA)
2015 Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) !All-Virginia Guitar Ensemble (AVGE) Audition Materials
Contact:!Dr. Kevin Vigil!Heritage High School!520 Evergreen Mill Road, SE!Leesburg, VA 20175!e-mail: [email protected]!
Audition Requirements
•E Melodic Minor Scale - 3 Octaves!• See music included in this packet!• 15 Points (out of 100)!
• 5 Points for correct notes!• 5 Points for fluid, steady rhythm!• 5 Points for tone quality (left and
right hand techniques)!!!•Sight Reading!• See practice exercises!
• 10 Points (out of 100)!• 5 Points for correct notes,
rhythms and markings!• 5 Points for steady rhythmic
pulse!!!•Ensemble Excerpt!• Learn part 1 from Alan Hirsh’s
arrangement of Drifting by Andy Mckee.!
• You will be asked to play an excerpt of approximately 20 measures.!
• 40 Points (out of 100)!• 10 Points for correct notes and
rhythms!• 10 Points for tone quality from right
hand and left hand techniques!• 10 Points for musicality: dynamics,
phrasing, interpretation!• 10 Points for overall quality of
preparation!!!•Solo Etude: Study in D Major, Opus 60, No. 10 by Matteo Carcassi (music included in this packet) - NO REPEATS!• 35 Points (out of 100)!
• 10 Points for correct notes and rhythms!
• 10 Points for tone quality from right hand and left hand techniques!
• 10 Points for musicality: dynamics, phrasing, interpretation!
• 5 Points for overall quality of preparation
Alan Hirsh -‐‑ Conductor for the 2015 AVGE Alan Hirsh is a composer/music educator living in North Carolina. He received his Bachelor’s in Composition from the University of Arizona and his Masters and Doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. Alan Hirsh has been the Music Director and Fine Arts Department Chair at Bishop McGuinness High School since 1997. He also teaches guitar at Wake Forest University in Winston-‐‑Salem, and is the founder and director of the Piedmont Guitar Orchestra, since 1996. He actively directs clinics and festival guitar orchestras around the country and serves as Vice President of Education in the Aaron Shearer Foundation as well as executive board member of the Piedmont Classic Guitar Society. Hirsh has composed and arranged extensively for orchestra, band, chorus, guitar and guitar ensemble with works performed around the world. In 1984, he collaborated with Aaron Shearer, composing music for the three-‐‑volume method, Learning the Classic Guitar. Hirsh’s other published guitar works include Twenty Etudes in fixed Positions, New Music for Classic Guitar, Trio Concertino, Holiday, Folk, Sacred, and Renaissance Collections for guitar ensemble as well as an extensive online catalogue of guitar ensemble music (guitarensemblemusic.com). At present Hirsh is the co-‐‑author and composer for the three-‐‑volume series, The Shearer Method Book published through Alfred Music.
ALL VIRGINIA GUITAR ENSEMBLE 2015 Student Audition Form (Please Print Neatly) !
!Student Name _______________________________________________________ !Student Email: _______________________________________________________ !Student Phone: _______________________________________________________ !School Name: _______________________________________________________ !School County: ______________________________________________________ !School Address: _____________________________________________________ !City: ___________________________________ !Zip: ________________________ !Director’s Name: _____________________________ !Signature of Director: __________________________________ !Director’s Cell Phone: _________________________________ !Director’s NAfME membership # ____________________________ !NAfME Expiration ______________ !Signature of Principal: _________________________________ !Signature Parent/Guardian: ____________________ !Audition Site: ______________________________ !Audition Number (Given on site): ______________ !!
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Study in D MajorMatteo Carcassi
(1792 - 1853)
2015 AVGE - VMEA
Solo Guitar
Opus 60, No. 10
No Repeat for Audition