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The 2022 MMAMTA/Odyssey Pre-Collegiate Aria & Concerto Competition
January 8 (Sat) 3pm / *Snow date: January 15 (Sat) 3pm
There will be a formal performance in Columbia, on February 18 (snow date 2/20).
Competition Details
Prizes:
Repertoire:
Eligibility:
Application Deadline:
Application Fee:
Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Inc. will have all the rights to take photos and audio and/or video record all rehearsals and performances, and to be used later for all promotional purposes related to the organization and event.
- THREE Winners: A concert on February 18, 2022 is presented by Odyssey Chamber Music Series (Odyssey) at First Baptist Church of Columbia. Cash Award of $300 per winner is payable after the February Odyssey concert.
- Alternate: Alternate will perform if one of the Winners is unable to perform.
- Honorable Mention(s): Judges' Recognition Award.
Repertoire:
- Any published, one movement of a Concerto or an Aria. No repertoire restriction, however depending on availability of the parts, it may not be possible to have the full orchestral collaboration - in which case the winner will perform with an accompanying pianist.
- Double or triple concerto is accepted, however these will need to be memorized if you are competing for one of the three performers in February. Each entrant must also pay the application fees in full.
- Generally, we will accept an entire concerto if the work is about 20 minutes. (For example: Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue," Rachmaninoff Op. 43 is stretching it at 25 min - but we will accept.) You must obtain a permission from the coordinator Ayako Tsuruta before the application deadline by writing her to info@OdysseyMissouri.org .
Eligibility:
- Age 18 or younger, must not have graduated from high school yet or equivalent at the time of the competition.
- All pre-collegiate instrumentalists and singers are encouraged to apply.
- Must be a resident in Missouri.
- Winner and Alternate must be available to rehearse on Feb 17 (Thu) at 7pm, and perform on Feb 18 (Fri) 7pm and 20 (Sun) 3pm snow date in Columbia, Missouri.
- There is only one category in 2022.
- Contestants must provide his/her own accompanist.
- Published music must be memorized by all soloists who are competing to perform in February under Odyssey Series. Memorization is optional for those who are auditioning for evaluation only.
- If for any reason orchestral parts are not available, or the orchestral parts require more rehearsals for a quality performance in mid-February, the performance will proceed with an orchestral accompaniment.
- If you have any doubts about your repertoire, please ask the coordinator at info@odysseymissouri.org.
- Past Winner may not be able to enter the competition again for another year. (2021 Winner may enter again in 2023.)
Application Deadline:
- January 4, 2022 (Tuesday) for the completed application with fee (check or money order), to arrive no later than 5pm via USPS. Or, PDF/.docx applications are accepted with Paypal payment until 9pm.
Application Fee:
- $30 per student studying with a MMAMTA instructor; additional $100 per student who is studying with a non-MMAMTA instructor.
Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Inc. will have all the rights to take photos and audio and/or video record all rehearsals and performances, and to be used later for all promotional purposes related to the organization and event.
Competition Schedule
2022:
January 4 (Tue) Application Deadline
January 6 (Thu) Notification of audition times
January 8 (Sat) 3pm: Auditions are held at the First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia, 65201. You will be asked to perform a movement of a concerto in its entirety.
* Tutti may be cut, however it must be longer than 4 measures and musically sensible. If you are uncertain, please check with Ayako Tsuruta by contacting her at info@OdysseyMissouri.org.
* If the work in its entirety is ca. 20 min, you may submit the entire concerto, so long as you are prepared to perform in its entirety at the audition.
January 15 (Sat) 3pm: Auditions (snow date for Jan 8).
February 17 (Thu) 7pm Dress rehearsal with your orchestral accompaniment at the First Baptist Church in Columbia.
February 18 (Fri) 7pm Formal concert at the First Baptist Church in Columbia. Concerto is programmed in the first half of Odyssey's "Baroque Concerto" concert.
February 20 (Sun) 3pm Snow date.
Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Inc. will have all the rights to take photos and audio and/or video record all rehearsals and performances, and to be used later for all promotional purposes related to the organization and event.
January 4 (Tue) Application Deadline
January 6 (Thu) Notification of audition times
January 8 (Sat) 3pm: Auditions are held at the First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia, 65201. You will be asked to perform a movement of a concerto in its entirety.
* Tutti may be cut, however it must be longer than 4 measures and musically sensible. If you are uncertain, please check with Ayako Tsuruta by contacting her at info@OdysseyMissouri.org.
* If the work in its entirety is ca. 20 min, you may submit the entire concerto, so long as you are prepared to perform in its entirety at the audition.
January 15 (Sat) 3pm: Auditions (snow date for Jan 8).
February 17 (Thu) 7pm Dress rehearsal with your orchestral accompaniment at the First Baptist Church in Columbia.
February 18 (Fri) 7pm Formal concert at the First Baptist Church in Columbia. Concerto is programmed in the first half of Odyssey's "Baroque Concerto" concert.
February 20 (Sun) 3pm Snow date.
Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Inc. will have all the rights to take photos and audio and/or video record all rehearsals and performances, and to be used later for all promotional purposes related to the organization and event.
Congratulations to Winners of the 2021 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Competition!
Photo credit: Katherine F. Blake Photography
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The 2020 Competition Result Winner Anthony Wu, piano Alternate Nicole Parker, cello Honorable Mentions Taehee Oh, piano Jaehee Yoo, piano |
2021 Judges
Hans Bridger Heruth [b. 1997] is an award winning composer and performer pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in composition and violin and voice performance at the University of Missouri on a composition scholarship from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. Heruth's works have been performed by many different ensembles, including the Midwest Chamber Ensemble, the Columbia Civic Orchestra, the KC VITAs Chamber Choir, the Heartland Men’s Chorus, the University of Missouri’s University Singers, the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, members of the St. Louis Symphony, and Deviant Septet. In addition to these ensembles, his works have been performed by renowned solo musicians, including world-famous tenor Steven Tharp, pianist Paola Savvidou of the New Muse Piano Duo, and violinist Eva Szekely. Most recently, Heruth had the world premiere of his chamber opera, “A Certain Madness”, commissioned by the Show-Me Opera Program. Heruth was a finalist for both the 2015 Sinquefield Prize in Composition and the 2016 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and was a finalist for the 2018 American Prize in Composition for both the choral and the vocal chamber divisions. As a performer, Heruth has frequently performed as a violinist with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, the Columbia Civic Orchestra, the Southside Philharmonic, and the University Philharmonic at the University of Missouri. As an opera singer, Heruth has performed various roles such as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Basilio in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Ford in Verdi's Falstaff in scenes, and Bartolo in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Simon Stimson in Ned Rorem's Our Town in a full production, all with the University of Missouri's Show-Me Opera. He is also an active collaborative pianist, and enjoys playing for many solo musicians and accompanying the University Singers under the direction of Dr. R Paul Crabb. |
Peter Miyamoto has already enjoyed a brilliant international career, performing to great acclaim in recital and as soloist in Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, China, and Japan, and in major US cities such as Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. In 1990, Miyamoto was named the first Gilmore Young Artist. He won numerous other competitions, including the American Pianist Association National Fellowship Competition, the D’Angelo Competition, the San Francisco Symphony Competition and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Competition. Dr. Miyamoto holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University School of Music, Michigan State University, and the Royal Academy of Music in London. His teachers included Maria Curcio-Diamand, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Marek Jablonski, Aube Tzerko, and Ralph Votapek, and Felix Galimir, Szymon Goldberg and Lorand Fenyves for chamber music. He has collaborated in performances with members of the Borromeo, Pacifica and Euclid Quartets as well as instrumentalists such as Charles Castleman, Victor Danchenko, Joel Krosnick, Anthony McGill, David Shifrin, Lara St. John, and Allan Vogel, among many others. Currently Professor of Piano at the University of Missouri, Peter Miyamoto formerly taught at Michigan State University, and the California Institute of the Arts. After serving as head of the piano faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival 2003-2015, he now teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music's Young Artist Summer Program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miyamoto has given master classes at major institutions throughout the United States as well as internationally in Canada, China, Greece, Japan and Serbia. Peter Miyamoto has released four CDs of solo piano music on the Blue-Griffin Label. More information is available on his web site, www.petermiyamoto.com.
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All the published concertos are now eligible.
Sample List of Repertoire
This list will be continuously updated. If your concerto is not yet listed, please ask if it is eligible by e-mail: info@OdysseyMissouri.org. You may also check if the accompanying instrumental parts are readily available.
BASSOON
Vivaldi: Concerto in E Minor, RV 484
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor, RV 498 (ca. 1720-24)
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor, RV 497 (ca. 1720-24)
Vivaldi: Concerto in D Minor, RV 481 (ca. 1720-24)
CLARINET
Mozart: Concerto in A Major, K. 622 (1791)
FLUTE
Mozart: TBA.
Romberg: TBA.
Vivaldi: TBA.
OBOE
Albinoni: Concerto in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 2 (1722)
Mozart: TBA.
PIANO
J. S. Bach: TBA.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (1795)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19 (1795)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (1800)
Haydn: Concerto in F Major, Hob.XVIII: 3 (1765)
Haydn: Concerto in D Major, Hob.XVIII: 11 (1782)
TBA: Haydn Concerto in G Major, pending availability of the parts.
Mozart: Piano Concerto TBA
HARP
Dittersdorf: Concerto in A Major
Handel: Concerto in B-flat Major, HWV 294 / Op. 4 No. 6
TRUMPET
Haydn: Concerto in E-flat Major, Hob. VIIe/1 (1796)
HORN
Mozart: Concerto
VIOLIN
J. S. Bach: Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1730)
J. S. Bach: Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (1718)
J. S. Bach: TBA.
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
Tommaso Vitali: Chaconne in G Minor
Vivaldi: Concerto in D major, RV 230 (1711)
Vivaldi: Concerto in F major, RV 293 (1723)
Vivaldi: Concerto in F minor, RV 297 (1723)
Vivaldi: Concerto in G major, RV 299 (1720)
Vivaldi: Concerto in G major, RV 310 (1711)
Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 317 (1729)
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor, RV 356 (1711)
VIOLONCELLO
Boccherini: Concerto in D Major, G. 479 (1770)
Boccherini: Concerto in B-flat Major, G. 482
Haydn: Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb/1 (1761-65)
Haydn: Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb/2 (1783)
BASSOON
Vivaldi: Concerto in E Minor, RV 484
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor, RV 498 (ca. 1720-24)
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor, RV 497 (ca. 1720-24)
Vivaldi: Concerto in D Minor, RV 481 (ca. 1720-24)
CLARINET
Mozart: Concerto in A Major, K. 622 (1791)
FLUTE
Mozart: TBA.
Romberg: TBA.
Vivaldi: TBA.
OBOE
Albinoni: Concerto in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 2 (1722)
Mozart: TBA.
PIANO
J. S. Bach: TBA.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (1795)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19 (1795)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (1800)
Haydn: Concerto in F Major, Hob.XVIII: 3 (1765)
Haydn: Concerto in D Major, Hob.XVIII: 11 (1782)
TBA: Haydn Concerto in G Major, pending availability of the parts.
Mozart: Piano Concerto TBA
HARP
Dittersdorf: Concerto in A Major
Handel: Concerto in B-flat Major, HWV 294 / Op. 4 No. 6
TRUMPET
Haydn: Concerto in E-flat Major, Hob. VIIe/1 (1796)
HORN
Mozart: Concerto
VIOLIN
J. S. Bach: Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1730)
J. S. Bach: Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (1718)
J. S. Bach: TBA.
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
Tommaso Vitali: Chaconne in G Minor
Vivaldi: Concerto in D major, RV 230 (1711)
Vivaldi: Concerto in F major, RV 293 (1723)
Vivaldi: Concerto in F minor, RV 297 (1723)
Vivaldi: Concerto in G major, RV 299 (1720)
Vivaldi: Concerto in G major, RV 310 (1711)
Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 317 (1729)
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor, RV 356 (1711)
VIOLONCELLO
Boccherini: Concerto in D Major, G. 479 (1770)
Boccherini: Concerto in B-flat Major, G. 482
Haydn: Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb/1 (1761-65)
Haydn: Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb/2 (1783)