Performance Competition

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 Solo Performance Competitions – 2025

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SOLO PERFORMANCE COMPETITIONS (Coordinating Chairperson: Arnel Montgomery) are held in four categories based on age levels. EARLY ELEMENTARY (up to age 9), Elementary (up to age 11), EARLY INTERMEDIATE (up to age 13) and INTERMEDIATE (up to age 15). Students must perform both solo pieces from memory. 

 

A First and Second place award will be given for each level.

 

The First place winner in each level performs both pieces at the May general meeting.  Participation in the winners’ recital is a mandatory requirement, so students and their parents must be made aware of the meeting’s date. The First place winner in each level may compete again in the same level (based on the age criterion) or move to a higher level (again based on the age criterion).

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Deadline for applications in all levels is a postmark date of March 15. There will be NO exceptions.

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Teachers (not parents or students) must submit the applications, which are available on the website or at the general meetings.  See individual descriptions below for required pieces, specific contact person for each level, dates and location of competition, fees, and award amounts.  All fees are non-refundable.

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Audition times are specific and final the day of the event and latecomers cannot be accommodated.

 

Only one entrant per level per teacher will be allowed.  Age is determined by January 1 of the competition year.

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Teachers of winning solo students will be notified by email the day of the competition.  The judges’ decision is final and may not be challenged by teacher, entrants, parents or guardians.

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REMINDER:  A new or reinstated member must be a paid member of PPTA by September 1, prior to the date of the competition.  The students must have worked solely with the PPTA member on all pieces performed or submitted for the competition.

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Coordinating Chairperson: Arnel Montgomery / 412-860-7093 or 412-795-7947 / ilovethepiano2003@yahoo.com

Solo Competition Application 2025

​Solo Snippets PDF

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Send completed applications for performance competitions to individual chairpersons listed below.

 

 

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Early Elementary (up to age 9) PYCO School of Music Room 200, Saturday afternoon, April 26, 2025

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Inna July/ 412-901-5114 / innajuly76@gmail.com   

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Certificates and monetary awards:  ($50, $40) Entry Fee $15

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Giggles and Gossip by Eugenie Rocherolle
Treasures HLSPL Composer Showcase Published by Hal Leonard

Sonatina by Biehl
Selected Sonatinas, Book 1
Edited by Keith Snell, published by Kjos

 

 

Elementary (up to age 11) PYCO School of Music Room 200, Saturday afternoon,

May 3, 2025

 

Raelene Bluhm / 724-687-7141 / raebluhm@att.net

 

Certificates and monetary awards: ($75, $50) Entry Fee $15

 

 

Innocence by Friedrich Burgmuller
25 Easy and Progressive Studies Op. 100 for the Piano
Kjos Publishers or any other edition

Take all repeats

 

Lookin' Good by Arletta O'Hearn
In A Jazz Groove
Kjos Publishers

No repeats
 

 

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Early Intermediate (up to age 13) PYCO School of Music Recital Hall, Saturday morning, May 3, 2025

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Andrea Doyle / 412-881-8603 / addoyle21@verizon.net
 

Certificates and monetary awards: ($125, $75) Entry Fee $15

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Penta Metrics No. 1 by Libby Larsen
Published by Oxford

(PYCO Music Store is currently in possession of 10 copies)

 

 Mazurka Op. 57, No. 3 by Anatoly Lyadov
Any Standard Edition

 

 

Intermediate (up to age 15) PYCO School of Music Recital Hall, Saturday morning, April 26, 2025

 

Richard Pinkerton/ 412-841-3937/ rbpinkerton509@gmail.com

 

Certificates and monetary awards: ($150, $100) Entry Fee $20

 

 

Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major, WTC Book I, BWV 866 by J.S. Bach
Any Standard Edition

 

The Aerialists (from Le Cirque), Op 68, No. 6 by Joaquin Turina
Piano Literature (Volume 6) compiled and edited by Jane Bastien, published by Kjos ​

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