News and Information

Give us Your Thoughts

Nov 222011

Click Here to take a short survey sharing your experience at the Sonata Festival 2011

SURVEY

2011 Festival – Day 2

Nov 092011

Saturday, November 19th

8:00 to 8:40 am – Judges Breakfast -Emmanuel School of Religion, Thompson Center

8:30 am – Monitors’ Meeting – Basement Seeger Chapel

8:30 am – Registration Opens – Basement Seeger Chapel

9:00 am to 12:00 pm – Adjudications – Seeger Chapel and Gregory Center

12:00 to 1:00 pm – Break for Lunch – Everyone is invited to the Seeger Basement for lunch.

1:00 to 2:00 pm – Honors Recital – Gregory Performance Center

1:30 pm – Registration Opens – Basement Seeger Chapel

2:00 to 4:00 pm – Adjudications and Masters Sessions – Seeger Chapel and Gregory Center

7:00 pm – Performing Artist Concert Series – Mathes Hall, ETSU

2011 Festival – Day 1

Nov 092011

Friday, November 18th

1:30 to 2:00 pm – Judges and Monitors arrive - Basement Seeger Chapel

2:00 pm – Monitors Meeting - Room 200 Seeger Chapel

2:00 to 2:30 pm – Judges Briefing – Room 200 Seeger Chapel

2:30 pm - Registration Opens – Basement Seeger Chapel

3:00 to 5:00 pm - Adjudication/Masters Sessions – Seeger Chapel and Gregory Center

5:00 to 6:15 pm – Break for Supper - For out of town students, eating establishments are available in Johnson City and Elizabethton. (Judges Supper at Emmanuel School of Religion, Thompson Center)

6:30 to 9:00 pm - Senior Competition Event – Seeger Chapel

Following Senior Competition Event – Judges Refreshments – Emmanuel School of Religion Thompson Center

New Weekly Email

Oct 132011

Click Here to see the newest weekly email update.

Email updates keep you in the loop on what’s happening with the Sonata Festival. If you would like to subscribe to the email updates click on the Blue Email Subscription button on the left and sign up!

Registrations Due in 12 Days!

Oct 092011

Click in on the red Register Here button to download your registration form. Forms are due October 21, 2011, which is only 12 days away. Yes, it is already October!

Fill out the form and send it in. Remember you can add any additional information anywhere on the form, this is especially important for those seniors in the senior performance competition. Please list the second piece anywhere on the form. Next year we will rewrite the forms to represent the auditions better.

Playing at the Paramount

Sep 282011

The historic Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, TN/VA will be hosting a concert featuring Sonata Festival Winners of the Senior Competition and the Young Artists event plus chosen Outstanding Festival students.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Concerto Competition is now Young Artists Masters Event!

Sep 042011

The Concerto Competition is not gone. We’ve made a few changes!

The new Young Artists Masters Event is to expand on the original Concerto Competition. This is for advanced students only, just as the Concerto Competition.

Any music student studying any advanced classical literature may compete in this event including Concerto literature.

This will be held Saturday morning in the Seeger Chapel. Any piece over 12 minutes must be approved by ACMA concerning double or single entries for time’s sake.

New Event Categories Dance and Drama

Jul 242011

Dance

We’re very excited to include dance in the 2011 festival. Classical variations, pas de duex, and original choreography for ballet and modern are encouraged and should not exceed 4 minutes. Dance will be at a different location than the rest of the Festival. It will be held at the East Tennessee Ballet Academy studios located downtown Elizabethton, TN. For more details, contact us. No ensemble pieces this year

Drama

This year we’ll be accepting dramatic presentations from either groups or single actors. These dramatizations can be either plays, prose, or poetry readings. They can be presented as monologues or scenes with several actors.

For more information, contact us.