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STUDENT AUDITIONS

STUDENT AUDITIONS MISSION STATEMENT

As an expression of the goals of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the NATS Student Auditions: 
Inspire and encourage students and teachers to continue their dedication to, and growth in, the art of singing 
​Create a collegial and supportive atmosphere that encourages excellent artistic singing 
Provide constructive, written feedback from a panel of experienced and impartial adjudicators 
​Recognize and honor outstanding performances

 RESOURCES

GENERAL INFO
2021/2022 Student Auditions 
Additional Rules, Procedures & Information 
Accessing the NATS Audition Registration System
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Instructions for Recording Videos
Pre-Registration Form​​
RUBRICS
Musical Theatre
Commercial Music
Classical
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ADJUDICATION
Adjudication Info Meeting Video 2020
Adjudication Info Slideshow (2021)
Best Practices of NATS Adjudication
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Sample Adjudication Comments (Classical)
Notes for Online Judges
2021 ONLINE FALL AUDITIONS
REGISTRATION 
September 26th - October 24th, 9:59pm
Fees due by October 13th
 
ADJUDICATION VIA AUDITIONWARE 
October 27th - November 2nd
 
RESULTS POSTED
November 4th
 
LIVE HONORS CONCERT VIA ZOOM
November 6th, 5:00pm
2022 SPRING AUDITIONS
REGISTRATION
March 14th - April 10th, 9:59pm
​Fees due by Mar 31st

 
ADJUDICATION VIA AUDITIONWARE 
April 14th - April 21st
 
RESULTS POSTED
April 22nd
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IN PERSON HONORS CONCERT 
May 1st, 5pm - All Souls Point Loma
NEW FOR 2022
BIPOC Composers Award in addition to Sparrow Award for Sacred Song (see below).
Suggested resources:
  • African American Art Song Alliance
  • Indigenous Canadian Composers
  • Latin American Art Song Alliance
  • Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, ed Willis C Patterson
  • A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers, ed Wagner & Simmons
  • Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, ed Vivian Taylor

Updates:  Audition Requirements (2021/2022)
  • ALL High School categories require ONLY 2 SONGS​.
  • All repertoire must be performed from memory with the exception of Oratorio, Mass, Requiem, and Cantata Arias. Singers may hold music scores for these types of arias as is traditional performance practice.​
ONLINE AUDITIONS
  • ​Registration and Adjudication via AuditionWare
  • Students will record a video for each song; teachers will upload their videos to AuditionWare
  • Choose one song for each student to present should they place as a finalist.
  • Adjudication will take place over one week.  Adjudicators will view and comment on each audition via Auditionware.  Teachers will be able to download the comments from Auditionware to share with their students.
  • ​Honors Concert featuring 1st place winner videos will be held over Zoom.  Links to 2nd place, 3rd place and Honorable Mention videos will be shared in the program for friends and loved ones to view.  Attendance is not mandatory, but encouraged.
Who Can Audition?
Students who are currently studying with a NATS San Diego Chapter member in good standing (National and SD Chapter dues paid in full by registration) may participate in the Student Auditions. 
ADJUDICATION - All teachers who submit students to the Student Auditions are expected to adjudicate.  Teachers will have one week to complete this process via Auditionware.  If a teacher is unable to adjudicate, they must submit a $40 non-attendance fee.  

Media Release
The safety of your students' privacy is important to us.  We believe we have created a plan to ensure privacy for all students as well as celebrate them in a safe online community environment.  During Registration, teachers must accept or decline a Legal Notice for each student:  

  • LEGAL NOTICE: By checking this box, you give Chapters, Districts and Regions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) permission to post or publish on NATS social media platforms any photographs or videos that you submit or are taken of you at NATS Student Auditions and NATS National Student Auditions events. All photographs and videos taken at NATS Student and National Student Auditions events become the exclusive property of NATS. 

Below, please find a description of our Video Use Policy for the Student Auditions:​

  • During the adjudication process, videos can only be accessed by the three adjudicators in your category and the Auditions Coordinator via AuditionWare, which is password protected.
  • If holding a “live” Zoom Honors Concert, a link to the concert and the concert program, including links to 2nd, 3rd and Honorable Mention winners' videos, will be sent to NATS SD members and adjudicators only.  Winners are welcome to share the links with friends and family members so those people can join the concert via Zoom.  Only people with the link can join the Zoom Concert.
  • A recording of the Zoom Honors concert and a copy of the program will be available in the password protected section of the NATS SD website.  
  • If a singer does not want their video posted to our private site as part of the Zoom Honors Concert, we will celebrate that singer without featuring their video.
  • Students may place regardless of whether or not they elect to have their video shared.

NATS CODE OF ETHICS 
It is unethical to claim as a pupil one having studied less than eight months with the present teacher except where there has been no previous training. If a student has studied with a teacher less than eight months, then the teacher must list the former teacher on the student’s application form.


 NATS COPYRIGHT POLICY
View the policy and FAQs here:  https://www.nats.org/Copyright_Resources.html
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SPECIAL AWARDS

BIPOC COMPOSERS AWARD - SPRING

This award is open to singers in High School through Adult divisions. Singers will present one classical treatment of a song by a Black/Indigenous/Person of Color composer as part of their required repertoire. Suggested resources:
  • African American Art Song Alliance
  • Indigenous Canadian Composers
  • Latin American Art Song Alliance
  • Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, ed Willis C Patterson
  • A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers, ed Wagner & Simmons
  • Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, ed Vivian Taylor

Pauline Tweed Memorial SPARROW AWARD FOR SACRED SONG - SPRING
A gift from the Tweed Family, this special award is open to singers in High School through Adult divisions. Students wishing to be considered for this prize will include a sacred selection as part of their required repertoire.

HONORARIUM AWARDS
If you’d like to make a 1st or 2nd Place prize donation in memory of, or in honor of, someone you have cherished during your musical journey, please contact our Treasurer, Jennifer Paterson (jen@sddiva.com)

Student Audition Categories and Repertoire Requirements

To Register, log in to your profile on ​www.nats.org and click on the green “NATS Audition Registration” button ​

CHILDREN

Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
MT 1 - Children Musical Theatre - FALL
9- 11​
no limit
Two contrasting age appropriate music theater selections from musicals
(including film musicals), revues, operettas, music theatre song cycles or
music theatre song literature. Only one selection may be chosen from
operetta or music theatre song literature.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection
CM 1 - Children Commercial Music - FALL
9-11
no limit
Two contrasting age-appropriate selections from commercial music repertoire.  Microphone must be used.
* Timing for the auditions will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selections
CL 1 - Children Classical - SPRING
9 - 11​
no limit
Two contrasting age appropriate selections from classical repertoire (folk song or art song).
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection
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YOUTH

Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
MT 2 - Youth Musical Theatre - FALL
12-14
no limit
Two contrasting age appropriate music theater selections from musicals
(including film musicals), revues, operettas, music theatre song cycles or
music theatre song literature. Only one selection may be chosen from
operetta or music theatre song literature.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection​
CM 2 - Youth Commercial Music - FALL
12-14
​no limit
Two contrasting age-appropriate selections from commercial music repertoire.  Microphone must be used.
​* Timing for the auditions will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selections
Y 2 - Youth Classical - SPRING
12-14​
no limit
​Two contrasting age appropriate selections from classical repertoire.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection
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HIGH SCHOOL

Category:

​Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
MT 3 - High School Musical Theater Treble Voice - FALL
MT 4 - High School Musical Theater TBB Voice - FALL

 14 - 19
no limit

Three contrasting music theater selections from musicals (including film musicals), revues, operettas, music theatre song cycles or music theatre song literature. Only one selection may be chosen from operetta or music theatre song literature.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection
Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
CM 3 - High School CCM - FALL
 14 - 19
no limit

​Two contrasting full songs (one ballad + one up tempo) from from jazz, pop, rock, R & B, country or other commercial genre not included in the NATS classical or musical theatre Student Audition categories. Only one song may be an original song, instead of a cover.  Only one song may be self-accompanied on an acoustic instrument, instead of with an instrumental track or live collaborative pianist.  Microphone must be used.
* Timing for the auditions will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin whenthe singer announces the first selections
Category:

​Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
CL 3 - High School Classical Treble Voice - SPRING
CL 4 - High School Classical TBB Voice - SPRING

14 - 19
no limit
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​TWO contrasting selections from classical repertoire. One art song in
English (original language). One art song in a foreign language. Repertoire found in the 24/26/28 Italian Art Songs collections may be counted as an aria and/or an art song.
* Timing for the auditions will be limited to 8 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selections.
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College / Independent Studio

Category:

​Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
MT 5 - Lower College/Independent Studio Music Theater Treble - FALL
MT 6 - Lower College/Independent Studio Music Theater TBB Voice - FALL

18-22
0 - 2 post high school

​​Three contrasting music theater selections from musicals (including film musicals), revues, operettas, music theatre song cycles or music theatre song literature. Only one selection may be chosen from operetta or music theatre song literature.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 10 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection
Category:

​Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
CL 5 - Lower College/Independent Studio Classical Treble Voice - SPRING
CL 6 - Lower College/Independent Studio Classical TBB Voice - SPRING

18-22
​0 - 2 post high school

Three contrasting selections from classical repertoire. One aria or art
song. One art song in English (original language). One foreign language art song. Repertoire found in the 24/26/28 Italian Art Songs collections may be counted as an aria and/or an art song.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 10 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection
Category:

​Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
MT 7 - Upper College/Independent Studio Music Theater Treble Voice - FALL
MT 8 - Upper College/Independent Studio Music Theater TBB Voice - FALL

20-25
3 - 5 post high school

​Four contrasting music theater selections from musicals (including film musicals), revues, operettas, music theatre song cycles or music theatre song literature. Only one selection may be chosen from operetta or music theatre song literature.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 12 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection.​
Category:

​Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
CL 7 - Upper College/Independent Studio Classical Treble Voice - SPRING
CL 8 - Upper College/Independent Studio Classical TBB Voice - SPRING

20-25
3 - 5 post high school

​Four contrasting selections from classical repertoire. One aria. One art song in English (original language). One foreign language art song. One additional selection. At least three languages must be represented. Repertoire found in the 24/26/28 Italian Art Songs collections may count as an art song only, regardless of origin. Any repertoire found outside of these collections will be considered only as the composer intended, as an art song or aria.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 12 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection​
Category:

​Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
CL 9 - Advanced College/Independent Studio Classical Treble Voice - SPRING
CL 10 - Advanced College/Independent Studio Classical TBB Voice - SPRING

22 - 30
4+ post high school

​Five contrasting selections from classical repertoire. One operatic aria. One oratorio/cantata aria. One foreign language art song. One art song in English (original language). One additional selection from the classical repertoire. At least three languages must be represented. Repertoire found in the 24/26/28 Italian Art Songs collections may count as an art song only, regardless of origin. Any repertoire found outside of these collections will be considered only as the composer intended, as an art song or aria.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 15 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection.

ADULT*

*Adult categories are intended for serious adult avocational musicians.
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Category:
Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
CM 11 - Adult CCM - FALL
19+
no limit

​Three contrasting selections from jazz, pop, rock, R & B, country or other commercial genre not included in the NATS classical or musical theatre Student Audition categories.  Up to two songs may be an original song, instead of a cover.  Up to two songs may be self-accompanied on an acoustic instrument, instead of with an instrumental track or live collaborative pianist.  Microphone must be used.
* Timing for the auditions will be limited to 10 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selections.​
Category:
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Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
MT 11 - Adult Musical Theatre Treble Voice - FALL
MT 12 - Adult Musical Theatre TBB Voice - FALL

22-100
no limit

​​Three contrasting music theater selections from musical (including film musicals), revues, operettas, music theatre song cycles or music theatre song literature. Only one selection may be chosen from operetta or music theatre song literature.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 10 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection.
Category:
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Age Limit:
​Years of Study:

Repertoire:
CL 11 - Adult Classical Treble Voice - SPRING
CL 12 - Adult Classical TBB Voice - SPRING

22-100
no limit

​​Three contrasting selections from classical repertoire. One art song in English (original language). One art song in a foreign language. One
additional art song or aria.
* Timing for the audition will be limited to 10 minutes and will begin when the singer announces the first selection.
Please direct any questions to Jennifer D'Onofrio, Student Auditions Chair:  jen5@donofriomusic.com
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