Schubert Club : YMF

ALL EVENTS

Revised January 21, 2010

Replaces all previous versions; In effect until replaced by a later version

GENERAL RULES FOR STRINGS
SPONSOR ELIGIBILITY

Every student must be sponsored annually by an individual teacher. Music schools may not be sponsors. The sponsoring teacher must either

be a paid-up member of THE SCHUBERT CLUB of FAIRFIELD COUNTY, INC. as of the deadline for Festival applications, or

submit a sponsoring teacher fee of $45.00 along with the student application fees on the Teacher Registration Form.

STUDENT ELIGIBILITY

Entrants must be under 19 years of age as of March 1st of the Festival year.

Entrants may participate up to and including the senior year of high school.

FEES

The cost for an application is $12.00.

Sponsoring teachers (non-Schubert Club members) submit an additional $45.00 sponsor fee with student applications.

Fees are not refundable.

APPLICATIONS

Applications (and the appropriate fees) must be received by the Festival deadline. Incomplete applications will be returned. The Festival reserves the right to disqualify entrants for infractions of these rules.
One application must be completed for each soloist and one for each ensemble of two or more performers.
In a given year, entrants may enter only one class in any one event.
The sponsoring teacher should send one check or money order payable to The Schubert Club. Multiple checks from individual families will be returned.

SCORES and PHOTOCOPYING

Published scores of the required and choice pieces (not photocopies) only need to be provided for the judges. Permission must be sought from the publisher for music that is out of print, not just unavailable or temporarily out of stock.

Required pieces MUST be chosen from the current YMF Syllabus published by the Festival Committee and available from the Festival Registrar. Separate Syllabi are available for other instruments.

Please number the measures so that the adjudicators can use them as reference.

MEMORIZATION, REPEATS, OMISSIONS AND TIME LIMITS

Memorization is encouraged but not required. Teachers are asked to observe the following guidelines for time limits (combined required and choice compositions). If pieces exceed these limits (perhaps the required piece is a long one), the adjudicators will indicate to the student that they should stop playing. Repeats should be omitted.

Primary & Elementary Division	6 minutes
Moderately Difficult Division	8 minutes
Very Difficult Division	10 minutes
Concerti	15 minutes

PHOTOGRAPHY & CELL PHONES

No flash photography or cell phone pictures should be taken during a performance. Photographs can be taken after the event. Please make sure you turn off all cell phones when entering the room.

VIDEO RECORDING

Videotaping will be allowed during Festival performances. Parents will be guided by the Room Monitors to set up equipment in advance of the class performances and to operate cameras from the back of the room to keep disruption at a minimum. Please turn off any electronic sounds that may occur during recording.

PROGRESSION

Entrants who receive a Gold rating should progress to a higher class in the following year except in the following cases:

A new required piece at the old level works best for that student.
The highest-level class in an event may be entered repeatedly with a different required and choice piece
Concerto entrants may stay in the same category

CADENZAS

Cadenzas can be omitted in Solo classes but are required for Concerti events. Please read rules for cadenzas under Special Rules for Concerti events.

SPECIAL RULES FOR CONCERTI EVENTS

Entrants must play one movement from the listed concerti in the Required Pieces Syllabus. No other work is required.
Entrants must provide their own accompanists. (A separate list of accompanists is available on request). The second piano part should be performed with the music.
Long passages in the accompaniment should be reduced. Cadenzas can be shortened and modified (e.g. play the beginning and the end or rewritten) to accommodate the ability of the player and to accommodate time constraints.
Entrants may play in the same concerto level for two or more years providing they play a different movement from the listed concerti.
There are no specific rules for determining what Concerto level an entrant should play versus the Solo level. Teachers are reminded to use good judgment in choosing levels and pieces appropriate for the student.

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES

Each performance will receive a rating from the presiding judges: Gold (5 points), Blue (4 points), Red (3 points), Green (2 points) or Yellow (1 point). A large certificate of the appropriate color will be issued to each Festival participant for each event entered. The number of consecutive Gold ratings earned will be noted on the Gold certificates. Points will be accumulated for each Instrument-Event. When 15 points have been earned the first Gold Cup will be awarded, pending points going toward a second cup, etc..
Points in Senior Concerto classes are awarded on a different scale: Gold (8 points); Blue (7 points); Red (5 points), Green (3 points) or Yellow (1 point). A Gold Cup is awarded each time 15 points are accumulated. Second, third and fourth Gold Cups are successively larger.

GOLD CUP PLAN

All points counted toward a Gold Cup must be earned in the same event, with one exception. High school seniors may aggregate points across performance events on a given instrument (i.e. Violin Solo, Violin Concerto and Violin Duet) and with composition.

FURTHER INFORMATION

String Chairperson:	Festival Registrar:
Claudia Tondi 300 Judd Road Easton, CT 06612 (203) 452-7575 tondi@sbcglobal.net	Cheryl Lacy 743 Jennings Road Fairfield, CT 06824 (203) 330-9389 TALacy@aol.com