NEBRASKA MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION FESTIVALS

The Nebraska Music Teachers Association sponsors annual music festivals for serious young musicians throughout the state. Festivals consist of performance of prepared repertoire and scale requirements for a competent adjudicator. In addition, students will take an ear training and written test in theory and musicianship. Sight reading is included at the District Festivals level only. Pre-college students who have successfully passed the preliminary District Festivals may enter the non-competitive State Festival held in the fall under the direction of the NMTA Vice President.

Pre-college students may enter in the fields of piano, orchestra strings, voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion, plectrum guitar and classical guitar. Preliminary festivals for pre-college students are held each spring at the district level under the direction of the District Festival Chairs.

How to register for the District Music Festival 

 

• Online Entry Form: For the Lincoln District Festival ONLY, registration can be done online.  You will need to complete the form for EACH student participating in the event.  Please fill the form completely to the end and hit submit.  You will receive a confirmation screen if your registration was done correctly.  There will be a link on the confirmation screen to go back to the beginning of the form to add another student.  You are able to go back and change information within the form ONLY if you have not hit the “submit” button at the end.  If there are errors in your submission after you have hit the “submit” button, please email webmaster@lmta.info with the corrections.  Corrections/changes are accepted up to two weeks prior to the event.  You will receive an email to confirm your registrations the first week of April. 

• Student Entry Form

• Teacher Participation Form: For the Lincoln District Festival ONLY, the teacher participation form can be filled out online.  Please complete a form for EACH teacher that has students participating in the festival, even if they are from one studio.  All teachers with students participating are required to work 2 hours on the day of the festival.  

• Teacher Participation Form

• Checks: Teachers, you must submit ONE check payable to the Nebraska Music Teachers Association to cover registration fees for your own students. Mail your check by the postmark deadline (March 13, 2012, for the Lincoln District) to the District Chair listed below. Do NOT use the PayPal option on the LMTA website. Your online registrations will not be processed until your check is received. 

                                                                    Barbara Jones 

                                                                    (402) 483-4531 

                                                                    bjejones27@yahoo.com 

                                                                    5730 Prescott Ave. 

                                                                    Lincoln NE 68506

 

Helpful Links and Information 

• Guidelines: If you have not already, please download the NMTA Student Festival and Competition Manual - Revised 2005 from the NMTA website www.nebmta.org, click on the link: Festivals.  This manual will answer many questions regarding preparations and requirements of the festival.

• Sample Tests: The NMTA website also has practice theory tests to download.  Though these tests are very helpful, they do not cover all areas of testing; make sure to refer to the Festival Manual for complete requirements.
• Links and Downloads: Below are some links and worksheets submitted by our local teachers. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of LMTA, the LMTA Board or its members.  They are provided for private use and not to be used commercially.

• Literature Resource - Pam Barger
• http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm
• http://www.musictheory.net/
• http://mtna.org/Resources/WebsitesforKids/tabid/320/Default.aspx

 

DATES TO REMEMBER

· February 8, 2012, 11:30 am–1:00 pm - Round Table Discussion: “How to Choose Teaching Materials”. This will be a share session, so bring ideas and materials that work for you. We will also discuss how to use the online registration for the NMTA Lincoln District Festival.                  

· February 12. 2012 - The NMTA Lincoln District Festival Registration form and Teacher Participation form will be available on the LMTA website, www.LMTA.info. While you are accessing the form, please sign up to help on one of the Festival committees.

· February 27, 2012 - March 3, 2012 - Teacher Help Sessions for the online Festival registration. Please call Barbara Jones at 402-483-4531 prior to Feb.27 to set up an appointment.

· March 13, 2012 11:59 pm - Deadline for Festival registration and postmark date for student fees.

· March 21, 2012, 11:00 am–1:30 pm - Meeting: “Preparing a Student for Performance”.

· April 7, 2012 - Registration and repertoire deadline for LMTA Spring Recital.

· April 21, 2012, 2:00 pm - LMTA Spring Recital at Calvary Lutheran Church.

· April 28, 2012, 8:00 am-5:00 pm - NMTA Lincoln District Festival at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

 

Help us Help You and Your Students to Prepare

We would like to make this website useful to you and your students.  If you have any tools, such as links to music history or theory websites, worksheets, previous tests, please submit them to Webmaster@LMTA.info for inclusion on this Festivals page.