2008

Margaret A. Guthman

Keyboard Competition

Friday, February 22, 2008 - College

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - High School and College

10:00am - Evening

Couch Music Building - Georgia Tech Campus

High School and College divisions in two competition categories: Classical and Jazz/Contemporary

Over $15,000 in prizes

$5,000 Grand Prize – all participants eligible – given by Sharon Perry Galloway in honor of her husband, Dr. Thomas D. Galloway, Dean of the College of Architecture, 1992-2007

Panel of nationally recognized judges

Open master classes by all judges

Individual commentary

Demonstrations of new interactive keyboard technologies by Georgia Tech faculty

Apply on-line by February 15, 2008

Competition Guidelines for All Participants:

• High School Division participants must be enrolled in an accredited high school and no more than 18 years of age.

• College Division participants must be enrolled in an accredited junior college or college and no more than 23 years of age.

• Judges will provide written commentary for all participants.

• All applications are to be made electronically at www.coa.gatech.edu/music/guthman/guthman_app.php

• Morning participants must check in by 9:30 a.m. and afternoon participants by 12:00 p.m.

• Warm-up rooms and adjustable benches will be provided.

• Not all prizes may be awarded.

Classical Competition Rules:

• Participants will have a 10-minute period to perform.

• Choice of repertoire is at the performer's discretion - there are no "required" pieces.

• Participants are encouraged to present a work or works featuring two contrasting styles.

• No penalty is incurred if a performer is excused, due to time constraints, before a piece is completed.

• Participants must perform the work(s) listed on the application.

Jazz/Contemporary Competition Rules:

• Participants will have a 15-minute period to perform the pieces.

• Two of the pieces must be from the list below, be contrasting in nature, and be accompanied by a provided rhythm section (bass and drums). The third piece will be a solo of the performer's choice, either a standard or original composition.

• The three pieces can be performed in any order.

  Improvisations based on transcriptions are allowed - literal
  transcriptions are discouraged.

Jazz Competition Play List

Judges

• JERRY ALAN BUSH , Professor of Music at the University of South Alabama, enjoys a varied career as a performer, master clinician, and adjudicator. Dr. Bush’s many appearances include New York’s Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Baltimore, Houston, Denver, Atlanta, and New Orleans. He has worked with some of the world’s most renowned pianists including Jorge Bolet, Leon Fleisher, Karen Shaw, Ruth Slenczynska, and Beveridge Webster. Dr. Bush holds the first Master Teacher Certificate awarded by the Music Teachers National Association, and his own students have won more than 700 awards and honors.

• REGINA YEH, faculty member at the University of Washington School of Music is a laureate and prize winner of national and international competitions - the Newport International Piano Competition (UK), the Olga Koussevitsky Competition, the Bergen Philharmonic Competition, and the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Competition. She has also received grants from the Chopin Foundation of the United States and the Adele Marcus Foundation. Dr. Yeh is the founder of the UW East-West Piano Arts series, celebrating the music and musicians of Asian and Asian American descent.

• JOHN BLOOMFIELD, award winning solo and chamber pianist, is in constant demand as a teacher and clinician. He has been a featured presenter at the Breckenridge Music Institute, state MTA conventions, the 2005 MTNA convention, and served as keynote speaker at the 2007 Music Teacher’s Association of California convention. Mr. Bloomfield maintains an active studio in New York City and travels regularly to Portland, San Francisco, and Atlanta to consult and teach. He served as faculty chairman for the Taubman Institute of Piano from 1991 to 2002 and is a co-founder and senior director of the Golandsky Institute. His performances have been broadcast by public radio in New England and Ars Viva in New York.

• DAN WALL, Jazz Piano faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is an awardwinning composer and performer. He has performed and recorded with John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez, Eddie Harris, Sheila Jordan, Lee Konitz, and Henry Mancini. Dan recorded Off the Wall for Enja Records, Tactics, (with the Abercrombie Trio) for ECM Records, and his most recent release, On the Inside Looking In, for Double Time Records. He has been featured in Down Beat Magazine and voted into their International Critics Poll nine times.

• KEVIN BALES, winner of the 1994 American Pianist Associations Jazz Piano Competition, has performed at top jazz clubs and festivals in the United States and abroad the JVC Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center jazz series, the Jazz Bakery, the Toronto Jazz Festival, the Moscow Center for the Performing Arts, the Edinborough Festival, the Shanghai Jazz Festival, and the Hampton Jazz Festival. Mr. Bales has toured with jazz greats Wynton Marsalis, Louie Bellson, Marcus Printup, Eddie Daniels, Bunky Green, and the Lincoln Center All-Stars. He has been featured on over thirty recordings and his compact disc, The First Day, was released to rave reviews.

If additional information is required please contact the Georgia Tech Music Department at 404-894-3193 or email Frank Clark.