Singing Festival
March 2023 NATS Online Singing Festival and Scholarship Audition
March 4th, 2023
The Green Music Center on the Sonoma State Campus
1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
What is the Redwood Empire Singing Festival?
This is a day devoted to developing performance skills and collegiality for students of singing. The best way to practice performing and auditioning is to, well, practice! Our festival is a supportive environment for singers to have growth experiences.
Participating in this festival can be helpful to singers in many ways:
Workshops and Talks
This is a day devoted to developing performance skills and collegiality for students of singing. The best way to practice performing and auditioning is to, well, practice! Our festival is a supportive environment for singers to have growth experiences.
Participating in this festival can be helpful to singers in many ways:
- Give singers time and space to practice and gain performance skills
- Give singers the opportunity to practice auditioning for colleges, or to get roles in performances/shows
- Give students and their teachers outside feedback from other industry professionals
- Give students the opportunity for family and friends to hear them sing in the Green Music Center
- Gives students the opportunity to win scholarship money to help them continue their study of singing
Workshops and Talks
- Throughout the day we will be having short workshops on a variety of topics:
- College auditions & admissions for voice majors
- Demystifying the vocal process
- How to get seen on social media as a performer
- Songwriting
- The Answers are Changing
- & More….
- Auditioning singers and their guests may drop in on any or all workshops
- Final workshop schedule will be posted online and in the lobby closer to March 4th
Submit Registration
Submission Instructions:
Entry forms, payment, and copies of sheet music (if applicable) are due by February 17th, 2023 at midnight.
Entry forms, payment, and copies of sheet music (if applicable) are due by February 17th, 2023 at midnight.
- Submit Registration: If entering for more than one category, fill out the entire form for every category they enter. For example, if entering for both CCM and classical, fill out the form twice.
- Pay Submission Fee of $40 Per Category: If entering in more than one category, you may pay the total fee just once, you do not need to submit multiple payments. For example, two entries would be one payment of $80.
Event Information
Finalists will be invited for the Finalist Competition on:
March 4th, 2023 at 6:30 PM
The Green Music Center on the Sonoma State Campus
1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
$5 parking pass required
(good for all day and for leave and return)
March 4th, 2023 at 6:30 PM
The Green Music Center on the Sonoma State Campus
1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
$5 parking pass required
(good for all day and for leave and return)
SINGING FESTIVAL 2023 -- ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
FOUR DIVISIONS
Division I: Ages 10-14
Division II: Ages 15-18 (still in High School)
Division III: Post High School ages 18-24
Division IV: Ages 25 and above
In all Divisions, both songs are required to be memorized.
Total time for both songs is 8 minutes – INCLUDING:
Introduction of 1) performer’s name, 2) title of composition and 3) composer.
CCM -- CONTEMPORARY COMMERCIAL MUSIC (CCM) CATEGORY
Requirements are two songs, prepared and memorized:
Language: one or two in English; one may be in a foreign language (optional).
Repertoire: Two contrasting contemporary songs, NOT from a musical or stage production. One song may be an original composition (optional). Students may accompany themselves.
A microphone for the singer will be provided in the adjudication room.
CLASSICAL CATEGORY requirements are two songs, prepared and memorized:
Language: one in English and, in Div. II-IV, one in a foreign language.
Repertoire: For all divisions, one must be an Art Song.
The other song must be an Art Song of a different period, a classical folk song including classical gospel,
Opera, Operetta, or Oratorio.
MUSICAL THEATER CATEGORY requirements are two songs, prepared and memorized:
Both songs from a staged Broadway, Off-Broadway production, or film musical.
ONLY Division I may use one song from a movie score.
Singers should ensure that contrasting selections represent the spectrum of their vocal and dramatic abilities (Classical, Contemporary, Pop/Rock) and use a variety of vocalisms (belt, mix, legit).
Division I: Ages 10-14
Division II: Ages 15-18 (still in High School)
Division III: Post High School ages 18-24
Division IV: Ages 25 and above
In all Divisions, both songs are required to be memorized.
Total time for both songs is 8 minutes – INCLUDING:
Introduction of 1) performer’s name, 2) title of composition and 3) composer.
CCM -- CONTEMPORARY COMMERCIAL MUSIC (CCM) CATEGORY
Requirements are two songs, prepared and memorized:
Language: one or two in English; one may be in a foreign language (optional).
Repertoire: Two contrasting contemporary songs, NOT from a musical or stage production. One song may be an original composition (optional). Students may accompany themselves.
A microphone for the singer will be provided in the adjudication room.
CLASSICAL CATEGORY requirements are two songs, prepared and memorized:
Language: one in English and, in Div. II-IV, one in a foreign language.
Repertoire: For all divisions, one must be an Art Song.
The other song must be an Art Song of a different period, a classical folk song including classical gospel,
Opera, Operetta, or Oratorio.
MUSICAL THEATER CATEGORY requirements are two songs, prepared and memorized:
Both songs from a staged Broadway, Off-Broadway production, or film musical.
ONLY Division I may use one song from a movie score.
Singers should ensure that contrasting selections represent the spectrum of their vocal and dramatic abilities (Classical, Contemporary, Pop/Rock) and use a variety of vocalisms (belt, mix, legit).