Middle Level Choir

2024-25

Clinician
Mark Lucas

Important Dates
Sep 1 - Screening uploads begin
Sep 18 - Screening upload deadline
Sep 20-26 - Judging
Sep 29 - Publish roster
Oct. 25 - All fees due with invoice, $6 per audition, $15 per selected participant
Nov. 2 - Late Participation fees due (with invoice), $30 per selected participant

Screening
The requirements and selection process for the NCKMEA Middle Level Choir have been updated to ensure a quality experience. There is now a screening process of the nominated vocalists. The screening process is to guarantee the minimum skill requirement—pitch matching, but it is not intended to cut numbers.

ML Choir Guidelines

• The middle level chair will fill the choir with appropriate numbers for as balanced of a choir as possible.
• Only 7th and 8th graders are eligible.
• Students will be screened via mp3 recording through Festival Scores. Recordings must be uploaded by the audition deadline. Registration closes once the deadline has passed.
• Schools will pay a fee for each student that submits a recording.
• Each district school is allowed to submit as many qualified singers for entry as they deem appropriate.
• Students will audition using the first 8 measures of Dona Nobis Pacem. Tenors may audition in either the key of C or A-flat for their district audition.
• Selected singers will be posted on the NCKMEA website.
• It is the expectation that the participating students will have the music learned before they arrive.

Recording Guidelines

• The starting pitch must be played and recorded and it is all that is allowed on the recording before the students begin to sing.
• No talking is allowed on any part of the recording.
  • Do NOT announce the name of the student, teacher or school on the audition recording.
  • Do NOT speak to the student at the end of the recording.
  • Do NOT provide vocal support for the student. This includes, but is not limited to, singing with them or humming along.
• The students must record this song with NO accompaniment or other instrumental support.

Recordings must be uploaded by the established deadline. Uploads will be closed at midnight on the night of the deadline date. The mp3 recordings contained in the system at the moment of the deadline will be the entries that are judged. All previously uploaded mp3 files will be disregarded. If multiple mp3 files are uploaded for a particular student, only the final uploaded file will be judged.

IMPORTANT NOTE

• Audio files must be mp3 format.
• Late entries will not be accepted! The mp3 upload process will be disabled at the time of the deadline. Judging begins immediately after the upload deadline.

***Please note that you can still submit screeners of your students even if you do not have a complete quartet.

Screening Excerpt
Dona Nobis (PDF)

Audition Event Tag
The NCKMEA ML Choir will use the Festival Scores audition management system. Teachers may create their Director accounts and put in their student profiles at any time. Directors will need to activate the following tag in their Festival Scores account: