{"id":4458,"date":"2026-05-13T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/music\/?page_id=4458"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:26:12","slug":"concerto-competition-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/concerto-competition-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerto Competition Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Concerto Competition Guidelines<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Application Deadline:<\/strong> Completed applications due on <strong>Friday, November 6, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Send as a PDF file to <a href=\"mailto:vlad.vizireanu@nau.edu\">Dr. Vlad Vizireanu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preliminaries<\/strong> will be scheduled by area coordinators on or before <strong>December 11, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Rules and Eligibility:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Applicants must be enrolled as a full-time student at NAU, and must be studying privately with an NAU music faculty member, at the time of the competition and the performance.<\/li>\n<li>Past winners are ineligible.<\/li>\n<li>The work to be performed, (one movement of a standard concerto, or an entire concerto\/concert piece), shall not exceed 15 minutes in duration for the Preliminary Round. Extensions of 25 minutes will be made at Dr. Vizireanu\u2019s discretion for the Final Round.<\/li>\n<li>All works to be performed must be formally approved by the Area Head in advance of the application deadline. (Please see list of ineligible pieces below)<\/li>\n<li>The work must have a published score and orchestral parts.<\/li>\n<li>Applicants wishing to perform a non-standard concerto or concert piece are required to provide the Director of Orchestras with a score and recording of the work in advance of the application deadline.<\/li>\n<li>Any alterations to the piece, including key changes or cuts, must be approved by the Director of Orchestras in advance of the application deadline.<\/li>\n<li>Memorization is not required for the Preliminaries in December, but is required for the Finals in January.<\/li>\n<li>Accompanists are required for both the Final and Preliminary rounds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Finalists:<\/h2>\n<p>Each area will name a maximum of two (2) finalists and one (1) alternate to compete in the final competition on <strong>Saturday, January 23, 2027<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Woodwinds<\/li>\n<li>Brass<\/li>\n<li>Strings<\/li>\n<li>Percussion, Piano, &amp; Classical guitar<\/li>\n<li>Voice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finalist must furnish the adjudicating committee with three copies of the music to be performed.<\/p>\n<p>Memorization is required for the final round of the competition and the performance.<\/p>\n<h2>Winners:<\/h2>\n<p>The committee will choose two unranked winners and two alternates. The performance will take place at <strong>3:00pm on Sunday, May 2, 2027 in Ardrey Memorial Auditorium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>PIECES THAT ARE NOT ELIGIBLE:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2023<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2, mvt. 1<\/p>\n<p>Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, mvt. 1<\/p>\n<p>Liebermann: Piccolo Concerto<\/p>\n<p>Schumann: Konzertst\u00fcck for 4 Horns, mvt. 1<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Creston: Alto Saxophone Concerto, mvts. 1, 2<\/p>\n<p>Waignein: Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone, mvt. 1<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9journ\u00e9: Concerto for Marimba &amp; String Orchestra, mvt. 3<\/p>\n<p>Yoshimatsu: Cyberbird Concerto for Saxophone &amp; Orchestra, mvts. 2, 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerto Competition Guidelines Application Deadline: Completed applications due on Friday, November 6, 2026. Send as a PDF file to Dr. Vlad Vizireanu. Preliminaries will be scheduled by area coordinators on or before December 11, 2026. Rules and Eligibility: Applicants must be enrolled as a full-time student at NAU, and must be studying privately with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4458\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}