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SUMMARY:State Ensemble Honors Festival
DESCRIPTION:This popular OMTA event provides students the opportunity to perform with other students in ensembles of two or more. The Festival has two components\, a competitive district recital and the state non-competitive honors recital. \nRegistration deadline is November 21\, 2025. \nFor more venue information: https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/about/facilities
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/state-ensemble-honors-festival/
LOCATION:Frohnmayer Music Building\, University of Oregon\, 961 E 18th St\, Eugene\, OR\, 97403
CATEGORIES:Competition,Festival,Student Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251012
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SUMMARY:Sonatina Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Sonatina Festival is designed to give students the opportunity to study Sonatinas/Sonatas from various composers\, periods\, and styles\, and to compete in a state event. \nRegistration opens August 25\, 2025. Registration deadline is September 19\, 2025. \nFor more venue information: https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/about/facilities
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/sonatina-festival-2/
LOCATION:Frohnmayer Music Building\, University of Oregon\, 961 E 18th St\, Eugene\, OR\, 97403
CATEGORIES:Festival,Student Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250315
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250316
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SUMMARY:2025 State Baroque Honors Recital
DESCRIPTION:The State Baroque Festival is an “Honors Recital” representing the culmination of a series of competitive and adjudicated district concerts. The non-competitive State Baroque Honors Recital is the final event of the Baroque Festival. Students selected by an adjudicator in each district are invited to perform on the State Baroque Honors Festival. \nForms: https://oregonmta.org/programs/festivals/baroque-festival/ \nRegistration Deadline: March 1\, 2025\nLocation: Saint Mark Lutheran Church\, Salem\, OR
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/2025-state-baroque-honors-recital/
LOCATION:Saint Mark Lutheran Church\, 790 Marion St NE\, Salem\, OR\, 97301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festival,Recital,Student Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241207T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T160000
DTSTAMP:20260603T174426
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SUMMARY:2024 State Ensemble Honors Recital
DESCRIPTION:Student ensembles selected by an adjudicator at the district level perform in an Honors Recital.
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/2024-state-ensemble-honors-recital/
LOCATION:Frohnmayer Music Building\, University of Oregon\, 961 E 18th St\, Eugene\, OR\, 97403
CATEGORIES:Festival,Recital
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T153000
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SUMMARY:2024 Eugene District Ensemble Festival
DESCRIPTION:Student ensembles perform at the district level in a competitive event where those selected by an adjudicator will perform on the State Ensemble Honors Recital. Non-competitive ensembles are also welcome. \nRegistration Deadline: 11/6/2024
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/2024-eugene-district-ensemble-festival/
LOCATION:Frohnmayer Music Building\, University of Oregon\, 961 E 18th St\, Eugene\, OR\, 97403
CATEGORIES:District Event,Eugene,Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T163000
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SUMMARY:State Ensemble Festival 2023
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Dr. Janet Pollack\nForms: https://oregonmta.org/programs/festivals/ensemble-festival/\nRegistration Deadline: November 27\, 2023 \nTentatively there will be two honors recitals. The exact time of each recital will be determined by the number of students entered. \n 
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/state-ensemble-festival-2023/
LOCATION:Frohnmayer Music Building\, University of Oregon\, 961 E 18th St\, Eugene\, OR\, 97403
CATEGORIES:Recital,Student Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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SUMMARY:Eugene District Ensemble Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Ensemble Festival is one of our most popular events. Students are given the opportunity to perform with other students in ensembles of two or more. Ensemble types include\, but are not limited to\, piano duets on one piano\, trios\, or quartets. Students are welcome to perform with other instrumentalists or vocalists. Ensemble playing adds another element to a student’s musical development. It develops critical listening skills as students learn to adjust to those they are playing with. Students also learn to make musical decisions as a group while they polish their piece of music. These are only a few of the reasons why ensemble playing enhances the joy of making music. \nThe Ensemble Festival is an adjudicated event\, however\, students may perform without competing. All students receive certificates and feedback from the adjudicator. Students that choose to compete in this event will have the opportunity to move on to the state recital\, if selected. \nA maximum of 15 minutes per teacher is allotted for a 45-minute recital. \nRegistration Deadline: 11/10/2023 \n 
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/eugene-district-ensemble-festival/
LOCATION:Frohnmayer Music Building\, University of Oregon\, 961 E 18th St\, Eugene\, OR\, 97403
CATEGORIES:District Event,Eugene,Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231015
DTSTAMP:20260603T174426
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SUMMARY:Sonatina Festival
DESCRIPTION:The OMTA Sonatina Festival is a biennial competitive event open to high school age students and younger. There is a required repertoire list for the event which is available on the OMTA web site. \nThis event will be held in person.
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/sonatina-festival/
LOCATION:Frohnmayer Music Building\, University of Oregon\, 961 E 18th St\, Eugene\, OR\, 97403
CATEGORIES:Competition,Student Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220110T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220110T113000
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SUMMARY:Grant Event - Composition: Stealing from the Masters
DESCRIPTION:Local Contact: For more information and Zoom access please contact Dr. Janet Pollack.\nPresenting District: Eugene\nPresenter: Dianne Davies[expand title=”Read Presenter Bio” swaptitle=” “]Dianne Davies received a BA in music from Lewis and Clark College with piano emphasis and K-12 music education certification. Since then\, Dianne has taught public and private school music and currently focuses on her private piano studio in Beaverton and performing. In 2010 Dianne created and performed her comedy show Dianne Davies Has Fallen Off Her Bench and in 2016\, she created\, produced and performed a brand new show titled Attachments & Detachments Tragedy to Triumph combining the music of Cascadia Composers\, the Northwest Regions chapter of NACUSA (National Association of Composer USA)\, with dance\, live art and theatre to tell her own transparent story. In\n2016\, Dianne also began composing pieces for piano students. Since 2018\, her student compositions have been performed each year at PSU in the Cascadia sponsored concert “In Good Hands” that connects living composers with young music students. Most recently\, in December 2019 she produced another show with all her own compositions and arrangements for Christmas titled Soli Deo Gloria. Dianne created and performed original piano solo pieces\, piano solo arrangements of Chopin Nocturnes fused with traditional carols (Romantic Christmas Suite)\, as well as a violin & piano duet\, violin & cello duet\, vocal solos and choral works. Again\, she collaborated with live dancers and multi-media visual artist Collin Murphy. Dianne continues to teach during these trying times of the pandemic and chair the State Composition Celebration Virtual Event. Watch for her monthly column in the OMTA Music News on-line publication and her current performing and composing projects at musiqPOWER.com.[/expand] \nProgram Description: Dianne has taken pieces from the pianists repertoire and used them as a guide to compose new works. [expand title=”Read More” swaptitle=” “]Two of Dianne’s compositions from her Rainforest Animals pieces were inspired by two Debussy Preludes from Book 1. Dianne will discuss how “The Sunken Cathedral” prelude no. 10 inspired “The Amazonian Manatee” and “Minstrels” prelude no. 12 inspired “The Golden Lion Tamarin.” This presentation is to encourage teachers to present repertoire to students as a guide to their own creativity.[/expand]
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/grant-event-composition-stealing-from-the-masters/
LOCATION:Virtual/Online
CATEGORIES:District Grant Event,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211108T113000
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SUMMARY:Grant Event-The Taubman Approach
DESCRIPTION:Local Contact: For more information please contact Janet Pollack.\nLocation: Zoom\, for access please contact Janet Pollack.\nPresenting District: Eugene\nPresenter: Deborah Cleaver[expand title=”Read Presenter Bio” swaptitle=” “]Deborah Ingram Cleaver holds a Master of Music degree in piano performance from Boston University where she studied with the renowned pianist and pedagogue Leonard Shure. After finishing her degree\, she worked closely with Shure as his teaching assistant at New England Conservatory. \nMs. Cleaver has also spent many years studying the performance practice of the Baroque and Classic periods with such luminaries as Sandra Rosenblum\, Edward Parmentier\, and Elisabeth Wright. Her broad interests have resulted in lectures for universities and music teachers’ organizations\, ranging from the expressive aspects of Baroque performance practice to the correlation between Romantic literature and music. \nMs. Cleaver teaches at Lewis and Clark College and Reed College as well as in her private studio. She also organizes seminars three times each year for the Portland/Golandsky Institute community\, and is the immediate past president of OMTA Portland District. She has been a faculty member of the Golandsky Institute since 2005\, and teaches at their summer institute at Princeton University every summer. Previous teaching positions have been at Willamette University\, St. Andrews College\, and the South Shore Conservatory in Boston. \nAn avid performer\, she has appeared with the Fear No Music Ensemble\, the DeRosa Chamber Players\, Cascadia Composers\, Friends of Rain\, and the Makrokosmos Project I and II. She has had performances aired on the classical music programs PLAYED IN OREGON and ALL CLASSICAL PORTLAND. In addition\, she has given lectures\, workshops\, and recitals at Portland State University\, Eastern Washington University\, and for Oregon and Washington music teachers’ associations\, and is a frequent adjudicator throughout the Northwest.[/expand]\nProgram Description: This presentation will focus on the practical aspects of the Taubman approach[expand title=”Read More” swaptitle=” “]that can be incorporated without a lot of training. Teachers will learn the most advantageous physical relation to the piano keyboard\, how to successfully perform leaps\, polyrhythms\, chords and octaves\, and improved tone production.[/expand]
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/grant-event-the-taubman-approach/
LOCATION:Virtual/Online
CATEGORIES:District Grant Event,Virtual,Workshop/Seminar/Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T174426
CREATED:20210101T011353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T163829Z
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SUMMARY:Grant Event-Pedaling Through the Ages-Cracking the Code: Historical Guidelines and Strategies for Informed Performance
DESCRIPTION:Location: Zoom\, please contact Dr. Janet Pollack.\nPresenting District: Eugene\nPresenter: Dr. Jill Timmons\, NCTM [expand title=”Read Presenter Bio” swaptitle=” “]Jill Timmons has performed internationally as both a solo pianist and ensemble artist and has offered performances and educational residencies on three continents. She has toured throughout Germany\, Switzerland\, Austria\, France\, Austria\, Spain\, and Chile\, and has appeared in such venues as Carnegie Recital Hall\, Merkin Hall\, the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue\, the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D. C.\, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago\, the American Consulate in Hamburg\, the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna\, Catholic University in Santiago\, Chile\, and college and universities throughout the U. S. Timmons\, has been a featured artist on National Public Radio\, has performed under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts and has recorded on the Laurel\, Centaur\, and Capstone labels. Ken Burns chose music from her Amy Beach recording for the soundtrack to his PBS documentary\, The War. She is a National Endowment Fellow\, receiving a funding award for the recording of the complete works for solo piano by American composer\, William Bergsma (Laurel Records). \nTimmons has performed with orchestras throughout the US including the Oregon Symphony\, Syracuse Symphony\, Newport Symphony\, Central Oregon Symphony\, Springfield (Illinois) Orchestra\, Festival Orchestra of the Oregon Coast Music Festival\, among others. As a frequent guest artist\, Timmons has appeared in such summer festivals as Tanglewood\, Chenango Musikfest in New York\, the Olympic Music Festival\, the Oregon Coast Music Festival\, Festillésime and Festival Mozart in France. In France she has been artistic director for Musique à Beaumont\, and is a member artist through Perspectives Musicales in Paris. \nAs an award-winning author\, Timmons has written on topics that include entrepreneurship\, and volunteerism within the arts and humanities. She is a recipient of the Wilk International Literary Prize from University of Southern California.  Her best-selling career guidebook\, The Musician’s Journey: Crafting Your Career Vision and Plan\, is published by Oxford University Press and will be forthcoming in a Second Edition in 2021. Timmons works with both individuals and non-profit groups to move their cause forward\, ultimately supporting an artistic vision backed by concrete strategies for success. \nCurrently\, Timmons is the Artist/Teacher Affiliate with Classic Pianos at their flagship store in Portland\, Oregon\, and in their satellite locations in Bellevue\, Denver\, Anchorage\, Las Vegas\, Boston\, and Albuquerque. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington and the Master of Music degree from Boston University. Her seminal training as a pianist has been with György Sebök\, Béla Bösörményi-Nagy\, and Randolph Hokanson. \n“She is a sensitive musician…Her playing is graceful\, lyrical\, detailed and intimate.” Tim Page\, The New York Times \n“Timmons soars with the eagles. She plays with vitality and élan.” Fanfare Magazine[/expand] \nProgram Description: Pedaling on the modern piano is not an exact science\, but[expand title=”Read More” swaptitle=” “]there are critical principles that can shape our informed performance. In this two-hour workshop\, Dr. Timmons will explore performance practice guidelines\, historically informed choices\, keyboard instruments spanning some 350 years\, how we adapt the modern piano to past practices\, and essential skills required for artful pedaling. Weaving in demonstration and lecture\, Dr. Timmons will offer clear strategies and historical guidelines to a more artful use of the modern piano pedals. A bibliography will also be provided for this presentation.[/expand]
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/grant-event-pedaling-through-the-ages-cracking-the-code-historical-guidelines-and-strategies-for-informed-performance-2/
LOCATION:Virtual/Online
CATEGORIES:District Grant Event,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Janet Pollack":MAILTO:janetkippollack@comcast.net
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