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Calvin Orchestra

Concerto Competion

Date of competition:  Thursday, October 29, 2009
Application Due Date: Monday, October 19 (12 noon) No late applications will be accepted.
Date of concert: 

  • Friday, December 11, 2009 at Grand Rapids Christian High School

Music and Time Parameters:
Please use the approximate time frame of 10 minutes for your performance duration. If this basic time frame of 10 minutes is exceeded significantly, please check with the orchestra conductor (Mr. Nordling).  In the case of a suite or Baroque concerto, more than one movement may be played if the total performance time falls into the basic time frame.  Singers may choose to sing a pair of arias, or recitative and aria keeping the same time frame in mind.

Eligibility:

  1. Soloists may appear only once in a Concerto Concert, though students may appear again in a Concerto Concert on a different instrument.
  2. Soloists must be studying privately at Calvin for credit both in the semester they audition and the semester they perform.
  3. Soloists need not be music majors.
  4. Soloists may audition only with the recommendation of their private teachers.
  5. Soloists must perform the entire movement they wish to compete with in Recital Hour during the semester of the competition. (Fall 2009)
  6. Soloists must be a sophomore, junior, or senior.

Competition: 

  1. Competition for performance in the Concerto Concert will be on the evening of October 29, 2009 in the in the Chapel.
  2. The applicants must compete with the entire work they wish to perform in the concert.
  3. The students may use their audition piece at their jury, unless it has been performed at a previous jury.

Adjudication:

  1. Judges from outside the Calvin music faculty will serve as adjudicators.
  2. Judges will use a point system measuring aspects of technique, musicianship and performance rapport.
  3. The number of winners is variable.

Notes:

  • This competition does not replace your regular jury. You may repeat the piece at your jury if you have not performed it on a previous jury.

Concerto Competition Application Form

Click here for a PDF version of the application form.

This application is due by 12 noon on Monday, October 19. No late applications will be accepted.

Concerto Competition Application

First Name:



Last Name:

Email:

Instrument or Voice Part:

With whom are you currently studying?

Class Year:

 
I understand that I must be registered for lessons and studying with this Calvin teacher during the semesters of the competition and the performance: Yes
 

Selection for audition and performance:

  • Composer:
  • Name of complete work:
  • Movements/Aria:
  • Length of Selection (approximate to the minute):
  • Accompanist:
  • Composer Birth Date:
  • Composer Death Date:
 

Recital Hour

Soloists must perform the entire movement they wish to compete with in Recital Hour during the semester of the competition. Please complete the Recital Hour application form below (must be completed at the time of concerto competition application):

Recital Hour
performance date:

 

Stage requirements needed:

(Put "0" if none are required)

Piano

Number of music stands needed:

Number of chairs needed:

Other (please specify):

Piano lid:

Piano music rack:

Please write out 3-4 sentences of program notes to be included in the program:
(Please note: program notes must be submitted in order to secure your Recital Hour performance slot)

Please include your translations (if applicable). List the language first, then the English translation below:

 

 

Concerto Concert Performances

Concerto Winners 20092009 Concerto Concert - Saturday, March 7, 2009

  • Sarah Looman - clarinet
    Aaron Copland, Clarinet Concerto
  • Paul Nienhuis - double bass
    J.S. Bach, Concerto en Ut Mineur
  • Brian Odegaard - piano
    George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
  • Jennifer Jones - voice
    Samuel Barber, Knoxville Summer of 1915
  • Anna Schipper - flute
    Franz Danzi, Concerto No.2 in d minor, Op.31

Concerto Winners 20082008 Concerto Concert - Saturday, May 3, 2008

  • Esther Miller - violin
    Sibelius, Violin Concerto
  • Natalie Mulder - clarinet
    Weber, Clarinet Concerto
  • Airin Efferin - piano
    Shostakovich, Concerto No. 2
  • Amanda Koopman - voice
    Mahler, Songs of a Wayfarer

Concerto Winners 20072007 Concerto Concert - Saturday, March 3, 2007

  • Laura Schipper - flute
    Georges Hue, Fantaisie for Flute and Orchestra
  • Philip McMillan - violin
    Aram Khachaturian, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,
    I. Allegro con fermezza
  • Laurie Bos - double bass
    Giovanni Bottesini, Concerto in B Minor for Bass and Orchestra
  • Jordan Clegg - voice
    Ralph Vaughan Willians, Five Mystical Songs

2006 Concerto Concert - Friday, December 2, 2005

  • Peter Braswell- trombone
    Launy Grondahl, Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, Movement I
  • Will Karsten - tuba
    Richard Strauss, Concerto No. 1 for Horn in Eb Major, Movement III
  • Phil Vreeman- timpani
    Werner Tharichen, Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra, Movement I
  • Jonathon Wiest- cello
    Camille Saint Saens, Concerto for Cello in A Minor
  • HeaSeung Jeong - piano
    Sergei Prokofiev, Concerto No. 1 for Piano in Db Major

Concerto Winners 20052005 Concerto Concert - Saturday, March 5, 2005

  • Erin Slenk - mezzo-soprano
    Gioacchino Rossini Una voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville
  • Laura Poortenga - soprano
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Porgi Amor from The Marriage of Figaro and
    George Frederic Handel, Care Selve from Atalanta
  • Ruth Clifford - oboe
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Oboe concerto, Movement I
  • Carmen Smits - soprano
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata #51- Jauchzet gott in allen Landen
  • Kristin Hoff - piano
    Robert Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor, I. Allegro Affetuoso

Concerto Winners 20042004 Concerto Concert - Saturday, May 8, 2004

  • Amy Bouwkamp - Flute
    Georges Hue, Fantaisie for Flute and Orchestra
  • Jonathan Ten Brink - Baritone
    Maurice Ravel, Don Quichotte a Dulcinee
  • William Van Geest - Piano
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A
    I. Allegro

Concerto Winners 20032003 Concerto Concert - Saturday, March 8, 2003

  • Kristin Hoff - soprano
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Deh vieni, non tardar" from The Marriage of Figaro
    Aaron Copland, "Laurie's Song" from The Tender Land
  • Kristine Johnson - viola
    Paul Hindemith, Der Schwanendreher: Concerto for Viola and Small Orchestra
  • Reshae Vanderzwan - violin
    Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, 1. Allegro molto appassionato
  • Shannon DeYoung - soprano
    Douglas Moore, "Willow Song" from Ballad of Baby Doe
    Antonin Dvorak, "Song to the Moon" from Rusalka
  • Tim Li - piano
    Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 2, Opus 102, 1. Allegro