Ensemble Festival
Date: No event in 2024
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Entry deadline and payment: Applications are digital. Please complete one digital entry per ensemble. Entries and Zelle payments are due. Please send one Zelle payment for all student entries to: tualatinvalley.omta@gmail.com
Entry Form: Click here for link
Teachers may only enter students in one OMTA district.
The Tualatin Valley District OMTA Ensemble Festival, is a competitive event, although a student may elect non-competitive status. The event is open to students of a TVOMTA member performing on piano, string, voice, wind instruments, etc. Ensembles are grouped according to age and level into recitals under an hour in length. Each ensemble receives a comment sheet, certificate and ribbon for participating. Competitive "winners" in each age group are invited to play in the OMTA State Ensemble Festival.
Learn more by viewing TVOMTA Festival Guidelines
Festival of Ribbons
Date: November 4, 2023 In Person
Time: 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Entry Fee: $25
Registration opens: September 15th, 2023
Registration closes at midnight: October 6th, 2023
Festival fees must be mailed to Chair postmarked by: October 10th, 2023
Mail to: Patti Widener, 2911 SW Stanley Ct. , Portland, OR 97219
Location: Location: Rise Church, 10445 SW Canterbury Lane, Tigard
Chair: Patti Widener
The Festival of Ribbons is a non-competitive event to encourage student performance at all levels. Each student will receive a comment sheet, certificate and ribbon for participating. The ribbon color will change each year so students can collect a rainbow of ribbons through their years of participation.
Learn more: Festival of Ribbons 2023 Guidelines
Register for the Festival of Ribbons online using Leggiero.
Syllabus
OMTA Syllabus is a complete music curriculum which covers technique, theory, rhythm reading, sight reading, ear training, and leveled repertoire. The levels increase in difficulty. Students are evaluated by an adjudicator (master teacher) and receive comments and a certificate. Exams are offered Fall and Spring.
Types of Syllabus Exams
Classical Piano Syllabus: Levels 1-10
Strings Syllabus: Levels 1-8
Jazz Piano Syllabus: Levels 1-7
Fall 2023 Dates
Upper & Lower Division – Registration opens on Leggiero on Sept. 1
Sept. 29, 2023 Registration closes at midnight
Checks must be postmarked by: Sept. 30, 2023
Exam dates: Oct. 27-29, 2023
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. Unpaid student registrations will not be scheduled.
Fall Syllabus Chair: Linda Rodgers
Spring 2024 Dates
Lower Division – Registration opens on Leggiero on Jan. 13
Feb. 9, 2024 Registration closes at midnight
Checks must be postmarked by: Feb. 10, 2024
Exam dates: March 8-10, 2024
Upper Division – Registration opens on Leggiero on March 11
March 29, 2024 Registration closes at midnight
Checks must be postmarked by: March 30, 2024
Exam dates: April 26-28, 2024
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. Unpaid student registrations will not be scheduled.
Spring Syllabus Chair: Linda Rodgers
For Teachers
Learn more about Syllabus' criteria on the Oregon Music Teacher's Association website:
Baroque Festival
Date: January 27, 2024 In Person
Entry fee: $25
Location: Location: Rise Church, 10445 SW Canterbury Lane, Tigard
Chair: Myrna Setiawan Assistant: Mahroo Hamedani
Registration opens on Leggiero:
Registration closes at TBA
Festival fees should be postmarked by: TBA Each teacher submits one check only made payable to OMTA for all registered students. Mail check to:
Myrna Setiawan
16609 SW Friendly Lane
Beaverton, OR 97007
TVOMTA 2024 Baroque Festival Guidelines – Please read & follow the guidelines listed here for more detailed instructions on registration.
Questions: myrnasetiawan@gmail.com
Video time limits:
- Competitive category:
- Division I & II : 5 mins
- Division III & IV : 10 mins
- Non competitive category
- 5 mins
Founded in 1895, the OMTA Baroque Festival, formerly Jr. Bach, is open to instrumentalists through age 19 and singers through age 24. Districts from around the state send a group of "winners" to perform at the State Baroque Festival Recital. The TVOMTA Baroque Festival is open to students in either competitive or non-competitive status, and students receive valuable feedback from the adjudicator on their performance.
Teachers may only enter students in one OMTA district. Teachers need to read all information on the OMTA website.
Composition Celebration
Date: February 2024
Entry Fee: $25
Chair: Chikako Doane
Application deadline by mail: postmarked by TBA
Mail paper application and $25 fee to:
Chikako Doane
3340 SW 110th Ave.
Beaverton, OR 97005
Teachers collect student PDF scores and audio files (if required) and submit by email to tvcompositionfestival@gmail.com by the deadline of TBA
Student composers have the opportunity to create and notate a piece with their supervising TVOMTA teacher. Open to students of all levels, styles, and instrumentation, each piece is critiqued by an area composer with useful feedback to improve the composition. When the Composition Celebration is over, all participants will have the opportunity to have their musical piece published in a bound book with all other entries. This is a great way to have a memento of each student's hard work! These will be available for purchase through the Composition Chair. A few Honored Composers from every level are chosen to perform their piece, or submit a recording, at the State Composition Recital.
Click here to download the Composition Celebration Entry Form
Sonatina Festival
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The Sonatina Festival is a non-competitive event designed to encourage student performance at all levels. There is not an adjudicator at this event, but an audience is very welcome. Students will perform in small group recitals playing only one movement from a sonatina, sonata, or sonatine without repeats. Music must be memorized.
Pop Festival
Date: Spring 2025
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The Pop Festival is open to any TVOMTA member's students playing non classical and generally untraditional music from jazz, rock, praise, latin, and other idioms. Music and lead sheets may be used and more than one performer (ensemble) is welcome. Registration fee is for each performance, not per student.
Sacred Recital
Date: Spring 2026
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This TVOMTA District event is intended to encourage and inspire students interested in music from any religion. Specifically sacred music, or any music that would be appropriate for some part of a worship service, can be performed. It is unique in that students do NOT have to memorize their piece and is the only festival of its type in the state.
View the Sacred Recital Guidelines
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