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Welcome to Tualatin Valley District Oregon Music Teachers Association
Baroque Festival
Baroque Festival 2025
Date: January 25, 2025 (Saturday)
Time: TBA
Entry fee: $25
Venue: Rise Church, 10445 SW Canterbury Ln. Tigard, OR 97224
Chair: Myrna Setiawan : myrnasetiawan@gmail.com
Co-Chair: Mahroo Hamedani : mahroofazel55@gmail.com
Registration opens on Leggiero: Dec. 6, 2024
Registration closes at midnight: Jan. 3, 2025
Festival fees should be postmarked by: Jan. 6, 2024.
Each teacher submits one check only made payable to OMTA for all registered students.
Mail check to:
Myrna Setiawan
16609 SW Friendly Ln.
Beaverton, OR - 97007
Performance time limit: 2 pieces or movements max not exceeding the time limit below for each division
Competitive Category:
- Division I (up to age of 8): 5 min
- Division II (ages 9-11): 5 min
- Division III (ages 12-14 : 7 min
- Division IV (ages 15-19 | 24 for vocalists): 7 min
Non-Competitive Category:
- All age groups: 5 min
IMPORTANT GUIDELINE UPDATE FROM STATE
- Percentage of winners selected: Beginning in 2025, only 25% of participants from each division will be selected as winners.
- Elimination of the 3-time winner clause: The 3-time winner clause was removed starting last year of 2024. Just a reminder that there is no need to indicate any student who has won three times during registration, as the adjudicator will not be informed of previous winners. All students will compete on equal terms, with the adjudicator selecting 25% of participants from each division as winners.
- Elimination of alternate winners: Starting in 2025, no alternate winners will be selected.
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 TV-OMTA 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.
Documents from 2024 will be updated will be updated when 2025 info is available.
Composition Festival
Date: February 7th, 2025
Entry Fee: $30
Chair: Abby Gerhardt: abbyteachespiano@gmail.com
Student submissions are by email only.
Mail paper entry forms and fees, postmarked by February 7, 2025 to:
Abigail Gerhardt: 22950 Doane Creek Rd., Sheridan, OR 97378
Student composers create and notate a piece with their supervising TVOMTA teacher. Open to students of all ages, levels, styles, and instrumentation, each piece is critiqued by an area composer with useful feedback to improve the composition. When the Composition Festival is over, all participants will have their composition published in a spiral bound book with all other entries. One TVOMTA Composition Book is included per registration fee. Additional copies of the book are available for pre-order via the entry form and are $7 each. A few Honored Composers from each division are chosen to submit a YouTube recording of their piece for the State Composition Virtual Recital.
Spring 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
Spring 2025 Dates
Lower Division:
Registration opens on Leggiero: January 10, 2025
Registration closes at midnight: February 7, 2025
Checks must be postmarked by: February 8, 2025
Exam dates: March 7-9, 2025
Upper Division:
Registration opens on Leggiero: February 28, 2025
Registration closes at midnight: March 28, 2025
Checks must be postmarked by: March 29, 2025
Exam dates: April 25-27, 2025
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. Unpaid student registrations will not be scheduled.
Spring Syllabus Chair: Linda Rodgers: pianolessons97034@yahoo.com
For Teachers
Learn more about piano and strings Syllabus criteria on the Oregon Music Teacher's Association website:
Continuing Education Scholarship
Entries must be emailed by midnight of or postmarked by: March 8th, 2025
Audition: April 6, 2025, 10:00am-12:00pm
Location: TBA
Chair: TBA
The purpose of the Continuing Education Scholarship is to support students who have been actively involved in our district's events who plan to pursue music education in college and bring their knowledge and experience back to the community at large.
The Tualatin Valley District Continuing Education Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who plan to continue their music education in college as a music major, minor, or in general education. Seniors must currently be studying with an active member of the Tualatin Valley District and have studied with a Tualatin Valley District teacher, or combination of teachers, for the previous two years. The 1st place award is $1,000. The 2nd place award is $500. The 3rd place award is $350.
Festival of Ribbons
Date: April 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Entry Fee: $25
Location: Rise Church, 10445 SW Canterbury Lane Tigard, Oregon
Chair: Audrey Horowitz: audrey.horowitz.piano@gmail.com
Co-Chair: Lorraine Alner: lyant@samford.edu
Co-Chair: Anna Danese: annacdanese@gmail.com
Registration opens: February 21, 2025 on Leggiero
Registration closes at midnight: March 7, 2025
Festival fees must be mailed to Chair postmarked by: March 8, 2025
Mail to:
Audrey Horowitz
1937 NW Elm St.
McMinnville, OR 97128
The Festival of Ribbons is an adjudicated, 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.
OMTA Participation Trophy
Chair: Lorraine Alner: lyant@samford.edu
The trophy is an award for participation in all district or state OMTA/MTNA events. All OMTA/MTNA-sponsored events qualify for one trophy point.
Ensemble Festival
Date: No event in 2024
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.
Fall 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 2024
Upper & Lower Division:
Registration opens on Leggiero: September 6, 2024
Registration closes at midnight: October 4, 2024
Checks must be postmarked by: October 5, 2024
Exam dates: November 1-3, 2024
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. Unpaid student registrations will not be scheduled.
Fall Syllabus Chair: Linda Rodgers: pianolessons97034@yahoo.com
For Teachers
Learn more about piano and strings Syllabus criteria on the Oregon Music Teacher's Association website:
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