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Oxford Music Festival - 2015
Affiliated to
The British & International Federation of Festivals
for Music, Dance & Speech
of which
Her Majesty the Queen is Patron
Registered Charity No: 1013793
Management Committee
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Secretary
Minutes’ Secretary
Acting Treasurer
Stewards’ Co-ordinator
Music Manager
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Marian Creaser
Paul Smith
Anne Baker
Carolyn Gulliver
David Mannion
Philip Bobby
Marian Creaser
Sub Committee
Janet Tinbergen, Virginia Bennet-Clark,
Megan Hooper, Elizabeth Friedman, Margaret Parkin, Helen
Moorhouse, Leon Maciocia, Alison Wharmby
Chairman’s Letter
I would like to welcome you to the 2015 Festival—the performers, the Friends, stewards and
all members of the audience. Whilst you are attending do take the opportunity to visit as many
events as possible. Usually four halls are in use simultaneously and so there are many interesting
items.
Please observe rules 24-26 carefully before making your application. It is our legal duty to
ensure performers do not use photocopies and that there is no audio or video recording during
performances or adjudications.
We look forward to exciting music making in 2015.
Marian Creaser
Any enquiries should be directed to Anne Baker
email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01865 557547
Visit our website at: www.oxfordmusicfestival.org
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Contents
Timetable
3
Trophies and Awards
4
Festival Adjudicators
5
Rules and Festival Information
8
Section 1 - Concerto & Recital classes
11
Section 2 - Piano classes
13
Section 3 - Bowed String classes
15
Section 4 - Guitar classes
16
Section 5 - Woodwind & Brass Section
Recorder classes
17
Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon 18
Saxophone, Woodwind & Brass classes 19
Section 6 - Chamber Ensemble classes
20
Section 6a - General Ensemble classes
21
Section 7 - Vocal classes
22
Section 8 - Choir classes
24
Section 9 - Composition classes
25
Section 10 - Organ, Harp, Large Ensembles,
and Miscellaneous classes
26
Safeguarding Policy
27
Sample Entry Form
28
Using and sharing your information
In accordance with the requirement of the Data Protection Act 1984, this festival advises
competitors that their names and addresses may be held on its computerised mailing list
for the purpose of sending information about the festival only.
Syllabus produced by Paul Smith. Printed by Lynx dpm Ltd
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Timetable
Whilst every effort will be made to adhere to the timetable, unexpected numbers may not entirely
make this possible. The Secretary will be unable to give more definite information until the entries
have been received. The majority of the festival classes will be held at Headington School, London
Road, Oxford.
Saturday
31st January 2015
Sunday
1st February 2015
Saturday
7th February 2015
Sunday
8th February 2015
Sunday
15th February 2015
Class B, Senior Piano, Recorder, Strings, Singing & possibly
Chamber Music
Adjudicators: Graham Trew, Ruth Gerald, Evelyn Nallen,
Andrew Sherwood
Classes C, Guitar, Strings, possibly Singing, Chamber Music &
Senior Piano
Adjudicators: Ruth Gerald, Helen Sanderson, Andrew Sherwood
Singing, Junior Piano, Choirs, Organ, Woodwind & possibly
Chamber Music
Adjudicators: Peter Wells, Beryl Foster, Graeme Humphrey,
David Patrick
Class A, Singing, Junior Piano, Woodwind & Chamber Music
Adjudicators: Beryl Foster, Graeme Humphrey, David Patrick,
Peter Wells
Festival Concert
A small selection of Festival prize-winners will be invited to
perform. The concert will start at 6 pm.
An entry form is enclosed with this syllabus (see centre pages).
Please read the Rules and Information on Pages 8 - 10 and use our Entry Form Check List (on
centre page) before filling in your entry.
Closing date for entries
Saturday 18th October 2014
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Trophies and Awards
Linfield Ltd (Property Developers) has again given a substantial donation towar ds the
prizes this year. In Classes A & B, the prize will be £200 for each class. In Class C, the first
prize will be £200, the second prize £125, and the third prize £75.
Oxford Music Festival Trophies & Awards - 2014 award winners
Orchestral Instrument Award
Song Recital Award
Piano Recital Award
Helen Goodworth Memorial Bowl
Maurice Jacobson Award
James Blundell Memorial Cup
Instrumental Concerto Award
Instrument or Voice Recital Award
Ernest Pinnell Memorial Cup
Jack Gibbons Cup
Jean Loughman Memorial Award
EPTA Cup
Sidney Harrison Memorial Award
Winifred Swann Cup
Oxford Times Cup
Diana Bron Award
Rohan de Saram Cup
Patrick Gibson Cup
Bee & Patrick Gibson Cup
Ian Ellis Segovia Cup
Lennox Berkeley Society Award
Sybil Whitman Recorder Cup
Praetorius Cup
Leon Goossens Cup
Harry Mortimer Cup
Gordon Woodward Memorial Cup
O.M.F. Gwen Archer Cup
Michael Howard Cup
Isobel Baillie Cup
Headington Folk Song Cup
Helen Robson Memorial Award
Edmund Rubbra Choir Cup
Michael Popkin Memorial Award
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class D
Class E
Class F
Class G
Class H
Piano classes: up to 12yrs
Piano classes: 13-18 yrs
Piano Recital: 18yrs & under
Piano Recital classes: 1218yrs
Piano class: Open Chopin
French Piano class:18yrs &
under
Piano Duet classes
Piano Duet & Trio: classes
31, 32 & 33
String Solo classes
Guitar: 11yrs & under
Guitar: 13 & 15yrs & under
Guitar: Open classes
Guitar Recital class - Open
Recorder Solo: 15yrs & under
Recorder classes: Open
Woodwind classes
Brass classes
Chamber Ensemble classes
Ensemble classes
Junior Vocal class
Vocal classes: Open
Folk Song Solo
Light Opera Solo classes
Choir classes
Elizabeth Nurse
Mihai Ritivoiu
Michael Leach
Maki Sekiya
Emily Barnes
Alexander Gunasekera
Leo Appel
Ian Roy
Quinn Obbink
Daniel Brooks
James Carrabino
James Carrabino
Ian Roy
Michael Ng
Helen Woods & Louis MacPherson
Daichi Washimi, Thomas Paterson,
Cosmo de Bono
Leo Appel
George Guillain
Saumark Bhaumick
Helen Brown
Ashley Blasse
Eleanor Voak
Hannah Gillingham
James Graham
The Vuillaume Quartet
The Magdalen College School Quartet
St Helen & St Katharine's Camerata
Isabel Slater
Kirsty Strange
Catriona Suttie
St. Helen & St. Katharine's Vocal
Ensemble
Organ: 25yrs & under - Organ
solo
Mike Gotch Young Composer's Cup Composition: 15yrs & under
Christopher Brain
Lennox Berkeley Cup Open Composition Classes
Kathleen Ann Walton-Roy
Sybil Whitman Announcement Prize Woodwind: 15yrs & under or
open classes
Nicholas Ng
Announcement Prize: Strings Strings: 15yrs & under and
18yrs & under classes
Cups will be awarded for the highest marks in the categories shown, provided the winner has a minimum of
87 marks and subject to Rule 29. In order to award cups the winner will be awarded marks out of 100.
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Adjudicators
Beryl Foster
Beryl Foster is a graduate of London University
and studied singing principally with Ranken
Bushby, first in Colchester and then at the Royal
College of Music. She has sung in recital, concert
and oratorio in London, the provinces and abroad.
She teaches privately, is an experienced vocal and
choral adjudicator and a founder-member of the
International Guild of Adjudicators, Festivals and
Workshop Presenters.
While singing and teaching all the standard
repertoire, Beryl specialises in the performance of
Norwegian art-song and has given recitals, lectures
and workshops on Norwegian song around Britain,
in Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, the
United States and China. Her definitive book, The
Songs of Edvard Grieg is still the only complete
study of this crucial part of a great composer’s
output. In June 1993 she gave the key lecture on
the songs at the International Grieg Symposium in
Bergen and also translated the brochure for the
major exhibition, Your Grieg. In 1998 a research
fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies in
Oslo resulted in another definitive book, Edvard
Grieg: the Choral Music.
Three volumes of Grieg’s songs with her
translations have been published; a newly edited
and annotated edition of the op.30 Album was
made for Felling Male Voice Choir in 1993; Three
Norwegian Carols, translated and arranged for
ladies’ voices, are published by Lindsay Music;
and a translation of Grieg’s melodrama Bergliot
was made for performance in 2000. She has
translated Grieg songs for Associated Board
albums and provided the introductions to the songs
in the Grieg Centenary Song album. A translation
of all the vocal music from Peer Gynt was
commissioned by Southampton Philharmonic and
performed there in 2010 and in Basingstoke in
2013. Other translations include a substantial book
on the Norwegian composer Ludvig Irgens Jensen,
two on the “Norwegian Paganini” Ole Bull and
articles for CD booklets. Literally Grieg, a
collection of the original texts to all Grieg’s songs
and choral music with literal English translations
was published in 2011.
Beryl is currently Chairman of the Grieg
Society of Great Britain and President of the
International Grieg Society.
Ruth Gerald
Ruth Gerald is currently a freelance musician,
teacher, adjudicator and examiner. She was Head
of Keyboard Studies at the Royal College of Music
from 1992 until 1999 having previously been
appointed Faculty Adviser for Keyboard Studies in
1987.
Her career has always pursued a very wide path
- solo and lecture recitals, concertos, chamber
music,
Lieder
recitals,
accompanying,
adjudicating, examining and teaching. She was
Head of Keyboard Studies at the Birmingham
School of Music (now the Birmingham
Conservatoire) for a period of five years, but
relinquished this post in order to devote more time
to performing and teaching at the Royal College
where she was a Professor of Piano and Piano
Accompaniment for over 30 years She was elected
a Fellow of the Royal College in 1985.
Born and educated in Australia, Ruth began her
musical career there, broadcasting regularly at a
very early age. After winning the Elder Overseas
Scholarship and gaining a Bachelor of Music
degree at Adelaide University she continued with
postgraduate studies at the Royal College where
she was awarded many prizes, including the
Hopkinson Gold Medal.
Recently she has given master classes in the
UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Malta and
Greece and conducted many seminars for piano
teachers in the UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong
Kong, Macau and Taiwan. She is frequently
invited to adjudicate at Festivals world-wide and is
actively involved in many aspects of the work of
the ABRSM.
Graeme Humphrey
Graeme Humphrey was a Professor of Piano at the
Royal Academy of Music for thirty-six years from
1974 - 2010, and has been very actively involved
in festival adjudicating, examining and teaching all
his life; this work has taken him to Hong Kong,
Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Germany, New
Zealand, Australia, France, Sabah, Sri Lanka,
Japan, Thailand and Ghana.
He was awarded an Associated Board
Scholarship on the piano from New Zealand to
study at the Royal Academy of Music. He has
broadcast many times on BBC Radio 3 (principally
in the piano trio repertoire), and has performed at
the Bath and Harrogate Festivals, the Purcell Room
and Wigmore Halls in London as well as at many
music clubs in the United Kingdom.
He is also very active in the giving of seminars
to teachers, both in the United Kingdom and
abroad, and maintains a substantial private
teaching practice in London with pupils of all ages
and stages. He regularly teaches in Hong Kong,
and was external examiner at National Academy of
Fine Arts in Singapore from 2009 – 2011. He has
given classes at both the Academy of Performing
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Adjudicators
Graeme Humphrey contd
Arts in Hong Kong and the National Academy of
Fine Arts in Singapore.
In 1988 he founded the Blackheath Music
Festival. From 1993 - 2010 he tutored at the
Shrewsbury International Summer School and was
Music Director of the Summer School from 2004 2010. In 1997 he was elected Warden of the
Private Teachers’ Section of the Incorporated
Society of Musicians and in 2002 was elected
President of the Royal Academy of Music Club.
He has recently been involved in the selecting and
editing of a major new piano duet project that is
republishing long out-of-print beginner and
intermediate level duet material, primarily for the
pupil/teacher.
This
can
be
seen
at
www.fourhandsplus.com.
Evelyn Nallen
Evelyn Nallen has played virtually every aspect of
recorder repertoire. She has made a special study
of early eighteenth century dance, working with
the baroque dancer Dr. Moira Goff and together
with harpsichordist David Gordon, she formed the
innovative early music/jazz group Respectable
Groove whose newest project, Bach & the
Organist’s Daughter, was premiered in London’s
King’s Place.
She founded and directs Cambridge's recorder
band, Zero Gravity whose CD The Loves of Mars
& Venus will be used for the basis of the recreation of the very first ballet, planned for 2017.
She also performs with the harpist Ruth Wall and
the baroque harpist Frances Kelly.
David Patrick
David Patrick was a pupil of and Assistant to Dr.
Harold Darke at St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London
from 1959 to 1966 during which time he gave
many recitals and was awarded a Fellowship of
Trinity College of Music, London. Since then he
has firmly established himself as an organist,
accompanist (organ, harpsichord and piano) and
conductor in both the United Kingdom and abroad.
He has performed on many occasions in Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France,
Holland, Luxembourg, Austria, Italy and
Switzerland (including the International Festivals
at Lahti and Sorø). His performances in the United
Kingdom have included those at London’s major
concert halls, many Cathedrals and Leeds Town
Hall. He has also broadcast and appeared on
television. He has made recordings in the UK and
has made discs of organ music on important
Swedish organs. In 2000 he made organ concert
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tours of Germany and Italy and in 2001 and 2002
played in Sweden, Holland and the Czech
Republic. In 2006 he made a return visit to play in
the Valsesia Festival in Italy.
He studied the piano in London with Lina
Collins who was a pupil of Paderewski and
Mathilde Verne who was taught by Clara
Schumann.
He is an examiner and moderator for the
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music,
and has had many carols, organ editions and
arrangements, song collections and recorder pieces
published in recent years. He has founded his own
publishing company which specialises in the
publication of the more unusual music for piano
solo, piano duet, piano trio, piano quartet, organ
solo, vocal solo and sacred choral music.
He has become known as a successful choral
conductor having conducted small and massed
choirs in many places including the Royal Albert
Hall in London. In 1973 he conducted the world
premiere of John Joubert’s opera “The Prisoner”
and has directed Courses and Summer Schools for
church musicians in England, Sweden, Norway
and Denmark.
He is in constant demand as an adjudicator,
having judged at numerous Festival Competitions
throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, and in
Hong Kong (1986 and 1999). In 2007, 2008 and
2011 he was Chairman of the jury for the Norah
Sande Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts and in 2013 he was made a fellow of the
British and International Federation of Festivals - a
great honour.
Helen Sanderson
Helen Sanderson studied guitar at the Royal
College of Music with Charles Ramirez, where she
was awarded the Madeline Walton and Anthony
Saltmarsh Prizes.
As a member of the VIDA Guitar Quartet she
has performed to critical acclaim at major UK
venues including King's Place (London), The Sage
(Gateshead) and St George's (Bristol). She is a
sought-after recitalist and festival artist throughout
Europe and in 2011, Helen made her US debut in
Los Angeles (LMU Guitar Festival) and New York
(Baruch Performing Arts Centre).
Helen is much in demand as an adjudicator,
international jury member and accompanist
specialising in voice and guitar repertoire.
She is the founder and director of the World
Youth Guitar Festival, Europe’s largest residential
festival for young classical guitarists and GUITAR
CIRCUS, a monthly ensemble training scheme
which takes place at the Royal College of Music
and Birmingham Conservatoire.
Adjudicators
Andrew Sherwood
Andrew Sherwood has performed in many parts of
the world as conductor and violinist. Born and
educated in Africa, he then studied violin and
composition at the Royal College of Music.
He is a Professor of Violin at TrinityLaban
Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he also
conducts some string programmes. Many of his
former students are now professional musicians and
he has just completed a series of recitals which took
him from Africa to Ireland and Scotland and will be
doing so again this year.
Sherwood is now best known as a conductor. He
is principal conductor for European Youth Summer
Music, Director of Brighton Youth Orchestra and its
nationally acclaimed string ensemble performing all
over Europe and to Hong Kong, Musical Director of
the Musicians of All Saints (a professional orchestra
specialising in the music of living and neglected
composers), until recently Director of Music and
Choirs at the University of Brighton, Conductor of
Somerset County Youth Orchestra and recently
conducted the National Youth Orchestra of Chile
and is due to return.
As an adjudicator he works in Britain and
abroad.
Graham Trew
Graham Trew studied at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama, winning the Gold Medal of the
School in his final year, and at London University.
He also has a Post-Graduate Certificate in
Adjudication, one of the first to be awarded by
Bretton Hall and the British and International
Federation of Festivals (BIFF). His extensive
international career has included operatic roles in
France, Ireland and Holland, oratorio, recitals and
recordings in Italy, the U.S.A., South Africa and the
Antipodes, and television and radio recitals in
Germany and the Caribbean.
Graham Trew has given recitals in the Purcell
Room, the Queen Elizabeth, Barbican and Wigmore
Halls and the Royal National Theatre, in addition to
Radios Two, Three and Four, the World Service and
Classic FM. He is best known, however, for his
many recordings of English Song, the first of which
won the 'Gramophone magazine's 'Vocal Record of
the Year' award. In the lighter field, Graham Trew
has been involved in musicals, summer shows and
pantomimes and has appeared as a soloist on many
Radio 2 programmes such as ' Friday Night is
Music Night', ‘Melodies for You’ and ' Songs from
the Shows'.
He was a Gentleman of Her Majesty's Chapel
Royal Choir at St. James's Palace for twenty-seven
years, until 2002, which involved him singing on
many State occasions. He has received both the
Silver and Golden Jubilee Medals from The Queen
and on leaving the choir Her Majesty appointed him
a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in the
Golden Jubilee Birthday Honours.
Graham Trew led the English Song Class at the
Royal Academy of Music from 2005-2007 where he
has also taken the Lieder Class. At Trinity College
of Music, he has taken the Italian, French and
German Song Classes at different times. Graham
Trew teaches singing privately and at Tonbridge
School. He is a Diploma Examiner for the
Associated Board, visiting Hong Kong for them in
2006. Graham Trew has given masterclasses and
judged prizes at the Royal Academy of Music, the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Birmingham
Conservatoire, Leeds College of Music and
Colchester Institute. He was a member of the panel
for the Essex ‘Young Musician of the Year’ Award
from 1985-94 and again from 1996-2002. As an
Adjudicator Member of BIFF, Graham has been
asked to judge at one hundred festivals to date. He
is Chairman of the Association of English Singers
and Speakers, conductor of the Llanfair Singers and
President of Knighton and District Concert Society.
Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a popular and experienced
adjudicator with a wide range of competition
adjudicating skills extending from vast classes of
young recorder players to contemporary
composition, and almost everything in between. A
virtuoso recorder player who specialises in
contemporary music, he is also a professional bass
singer, musicologist and CD/concert reviewer for
both internet and conventional publications.
Born in New Zealand, Peter Wells grew up
participating in competitive festivals from an early
age. After taking a music degree at the University of
Auckland he was engaged on his first spells as
adjudicator for the Auckland Junior Music
Competition and the Waikato Performing Arts
Society Competitions in the late 80’s.
Following postgraduate performance study in
The Netherlands he lived for four years in Northern
Ireland and returned to adjudicating on a regular
basis. His informal and instructive style has met
with uniform approval with many repeat
engagements. Now based in London, Peter
continues to adjudicate, specialising in recorder,
vocal, choral and chamber music classes. He
maintains a close connection with Ireland as tutor of
recorder and chamber music at The Queen’s
University of Belfast and St Patrick’s College of the
National University of Ireland at Maynooth, in
addition to his regular work as a core member of the
contemporary music ensemble VOX21.
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Rules and Information
Eligibility for entry
1. The decision of the committee in all matters
of organisation and adjudication will be
final.
2. Amateurs may enter any class, but
professionals may enter only those classes
marked with an . A professional is
defined as a person, more than half of
whose income derives from teaching or
performing music.
3. In choir classes and amateur classes in
Sections 6a and 10 only one participant
may be a professional.
4. Age limits, where specified, are counted as
from 1st January 2015.
5. Competitors are not permitted to enter more
than 2 classes marked with a + on the same
instrument in Section 5, and not more than
3 classes in Sections 2, 3, & 4. For those
whose standard is well in advance of their
years, it is hoped that they will select their
classes for entry according to standard
rather than age.
In Section 6 & 6a each individual can enter
a maximum of 3 classes in each section.
(Two entries in one class will count as two
of these)
6. Competitors may enter each class once
only, unless they are playing two different
instruments. They may enter a duet class
twice, but only if they are playing different
parts the second time.
7. Local classes are open only to competitors
living or attending school in Oxfordshire.
8. Copies of all set music will be available
from Blackwell’s Music Shop, 48-51 Broad
Street, Oxford. OX1 3AX. Tel: (01865)
792792
Entry procedure
9. Entries must arrive no later than Saturday
18th October 2014. Entry fees will not be
refunded once the date for entry has passed.
entry for each person and each class
must be on a separate form.
For duet classes, both participants in a duet
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class should be on the same form and pay
only one fee. Please use the official entry
form contained in this syllabus (see centre
pages). Photocopies will be accepted, and
forms can be downloaded from
www.oxfordmusicfestival.org.
Entry forms should be returned to the
Entries’ Processor, 26 Fane Road, Marston,
Oxford OX3 0SA. Please do not send
entries by any method requiring a
signature. Items will not be collected
from the sorting office.
Please direct any queries to The Festival
Secretary, Anne Baker:
[email protected] (01865) 557547.
10. Teachers who send in multiple entries are
requested to write their name and address
on EVERY form: this is important, as
entries have to be processed in a very short
time. (If this is not done, our system of
processing may make it difficult to trace
details of candidates.) Please submit one
cheque or Postal Order only for multiple
entries. Cheques should be made payable to
the Oxford Music Festival.
11. PLEASE enclose an SAE for each section
entered (not necessarily each class, see
section headings). Up to 35 entries per
section - A5 envelope with letter rate
postage. Over 35 entries A4 envelope with
Large Letter stamp 100g – 250g.
12. The timing and title of Own Choice music
should be included on your entry form. It is
ESPECIALLY important for us to know if
your programme is LESS than the
maximum time. Please write to the
Secretary, 1 Wellington Place, Oxford OX1
2LD, or email [email protected] or
notify the Adjudicator’s Steward just before
playing if Own Choice music is changed.
The substitute piece should not last longer
than the original choice and it will be
stopped once the time is up. Competitors
who do not adhere to the time limits may be
disqualified. A copy of Own Choice music
must be given to the Adjudicator’s Steward
just before playing.
Rules and Information
13. Competitors requiring the services of the
Official Accompanist MUST request this at
time of entry. The fee is £10 for Classes A
& B, £5 for Classes F G & H, £3 for
Classes D & E, and £2 for all other classes.
The Official Accompanist cannot undertake
rehearsals.
Competitors must give notice of withdrawal
to the Secretary if the Official Accompanist
has been requested.
14. If any class has fewer than 5 entries, the
committee reserves the right to combine it
with a similar class.
15. Notifications of time and place of classes
will be posted by mid-December 2014.
Competitors are requested to contact the
Secretary about this matter only if they
have not received notification before 7th
January 2015.
16. Copies of Own Choice music needing
accompanist must be sent by 13th
December 2014
to
the Official
Accompanist, Oxford Music Festival, 81
Pheasant Walk, Littlemore, Oxford OX4
4XX.
If it has not arrived by then, accompanists
may reserve the right to refuse to play.
17. When sending music please write the name
and number of the class on the copy. Please
check that postage is adequate for the
weight and size of envelope, as the Post
Office will refuse to deliver it otherwise
and it will not be collected from the sorting
office.
18. The Committee reserves the right to hold
preliminary competitions if necessary on
alternative dates not earlier than 20th
January 2015.
19. All cups are the property of the Festival and
must be returned by 6th January 2015 to
Marian
Creaser,
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Beech
Road,
Headington, OX3 7RT, in good condition
and polished.
20. In the event of withdrawals, it would be
appreciated if the Secretary were notified as
soon as possible, as this would help the
smooth running of the festival.
During the festival
21. A copy of Own Choice music must be
given to the adjudicator’s steward just
before playing. Failure to do so may lead to
DISQUALIFICATION.
22. Competitors are reminded that it is illegal to
photocopy works that are copyright,
without the permission of the copyright
holder.
23. When an Own Choice work is selected
from a publication containing several
different works and which is not published
separately, one copy may be used for the
use of an adjudicator, provided that the
competitor has already purchased his/her
own copy, and that the copy is destroyed by
the Festival immediately after the event.
24. In own choice classes, performers will not
be permitted to use photocopies on the day,
unless it is in order to assist with a page
turn. The Official Accompanists may play
from a photocopy in both cases, but the
performer must be able to produce a
publisher’s copy on the day. Competitors
may give the adjudicator a photocopy of
their own choice which will be destroyed
after use.
25. Performers should remember that they are
liable in law for the provision of publishers’
copies. The Festival has a legal duty to
check that no infringement has taken place.
Photocopies or computer printed copies
should be accompanied by proof that the
competitor has permission to use them.
Those not abiding by this rule will be
disqualified.
26. No repeats should be performed in the set
pieces unless specified otherwise.
27. The same work cannot be presented by the
same competitor in consecutive years,
neither should the same work be entered in
the same year in more than one class.
28. Candidates will be placed in the categories
shown below. In order to award trophies,
the winner will, in addition, be awarded
marks out of 100.
OUTSTANDING An exceptional
performance both technically and artistically.
DISTINCTION An excellent per for mance
technically and artistically.
COMMENDED A convincing per for mance
technically and artistically.
MERIT A capable per formance showing
some artistic appreciation and/or
communication
MODERATE A per for mance showing
development of technique and/or
communication
FAIR A per for mance limited in its
communication
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Rules and Information
29. No cup or prize will be awarded unless the first
place winner has a DISTINCTION category
mark or more. Cups will be awarded to the
highest mark but if there is a tie, the adjudicator
will decide.
30. In general, only the names of the top 3
competitors will be announced. It is the
responsibility of the candidate to collect
comment sheets, certificates and own choice
music from the certificate table, after the end of
each class. Everyone attending should take care
of personal property, handbags, musical
instruments, etc. For lost property, contact Miss
Janet Tinbergen, Tel (01865) 725644. The
Festival cannot be responsible for any loss. Any
property not claimed by end of February will be
given to a charity shop.
31. All ensembles should bring their own music
stands.
32. The use of private audio or video recording
equipment of any kind is not permitted during
performance or adjudication. This is because of
copyright and other legal restrictions and child
protection issues (see page 27) and also to
avoid disturbing competitors and adjudicators.
Closing date for entries, Saturday 18th October 2014
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One entry form is included with this syllabus (see centre pages).
Please read the Rules and Information and use the centre page
Check List before filling in your entry.
Entries must be on official entry forms (or photocopies of the
entry form).
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Cheques should be made payable to the Oxford Music Festival.
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Please enclose a SAE for each section entered with correct
postage. Up to 35 entr ies per section - A5 envelope with letter
rate postage. Over 35 entries A4 envelope with Large Letter
stamp 100g – 250g. Please enclose an extra SAE if you require a
receipt.
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Send your entries to the Entries’ Processor, at the address shown
on the right. All enquiries to the Festival Secretary.
Please ensure
postage is correct
The Entries’ Processor
26 Fane Road
Marston, Oxford
OX3 0SA
A stamped addressed envelope should be included for
each section entered.
Notifications of time and place of classes will be posted by midDecember 2014, therefore competitors are requested to contact the Secretary
[email protected] (Tel: 01865 557547) about this matter only if they have not received
notification before 7th January 2015.
VERY IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE
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To help us process your entries correctly, please read the Rules and
Information and use our Check List (see centre pages) before filling in
your entry form.
Post your entry to reach us no later than Saturday 18th October 2014.
Section 1—Concerto & Recital Classes
Classes A, B, C
Linfield Ltd (Property Developers) has again given a substantial donation towards the prizes
this year. In Classes A & B, the prize will be £200 for each class. In Class C, the first prize will be £200,
the second prize £125, and the third prize £75.
Past first prize winners in Classes A, B, & C, are not eligible to compete in the same class again.
EXTRA RULES FOR CLASSES A B C
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Classes A, B, C are intended for performers who have at least passed a diploma or
have attained a similar standard. A letter of
recommendation from a professional musician such as a College Professor, an Associated Board Examiner or a musician of
similar standing should be written on the
back of the entry form or sent in a separate
letter. Competitors who have been accepted
in the past need not send a letter of recommendation but should state this on the entry
form. The committee r eser ves the r ight
to refuse entry to Classes A, B, and C.
The competition will consist of a preliminary round and a final. Competitors will be
notified of the starting time for each session. They cannot be given individual
times.
Competitors may be asked to perform a
shortened programme in the preliminary
round, but finalists will be expected to perform their whole programme (providing
they do not exceed the time limit).
Competitors entering Classes A B C may
only enter other classes marked with  and
other classes in Section 1, Section 6 and
Section 6a.
Choice of programme, presentation and
deportment will be taken into account.
The use of private recording equipment
of any kind is not permitted during
performance or adjudication.
This is because of copyright and other
legal restrictions and child protection
issues (see page 27) and also to avoid
disturbing competitors and adjudicators.
A Orchestral Instrument Award
35 yrs & under
Adjudicator: Peter Wells
Recital class for any instrument
(accompanied or unaccompanied), other
than piano and organ. Harpsichordists will
be welcome but they must bring their own
harpsichord. Own choice of programme of
not less than 20 mins and not more than 25
mins.
The Official Accompanist is available at
£10 per competitor, but competitors are
strongly advised to bring their own
accompanists.
Entry Fee: £20.00
B Song Recital Award
35 yrs & under
Adjudicator: Graham Trew
Own choice programme of not less than 15
mins and not more than 20 minutes. The
programme content must be suitable for a
Concert Recital; operatic arias should be
excluded.
The Official Accompanist is available at
£10 per competitor, but competitors are
strongly advised to bring their own
accompanists.
Entry Fee: £20.00
C Piano Recital Award
35 yrs & under
Adjudicator: Ruth Gerald
Own choice programme of not less than 25
mins and not more than 30 mins.
Programme content will also be assessed.
Entry Fee: £20.00
See also Helen Robson Memorial Award Section 7 (page 22)
Dr Frank Robson has donated an annual award in memory of his wife, who gave help and support to
the festival for many years. The award will be given to the best performer in the Light Opera and Musical Show classes in Section 7 (page 22).
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
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Section 1—Concerto & Recital Classes
Classes D, E, F, G, H, J
D
Helen Goodworth Memorial
Award
Award: Cup and £25 prize.
18 yrs & under: Singers 20 yrs & under
Any solo instrument or voice. Competitors
should perform a programme of not less
than 12 mins and not more than 15 mins.
Credit will be given for choice of
programme, presentation and deportment.
The Official Accompanist is available for
this class at £3 per competitor.
Entry Fee: £10.00
E
F
G
Ann Nutt Memorial Class
Award £50
21 yrs & under
Concerto class for any instrument other
than keyboard.
This is an annual award in memory of Ann
Nutt who greatly helped and supported the
festival. First movement only of own
choice concerto.
Time limit 12mins.
The Official Accompanist is available for
this class at £5 per competitor.
Entry Fee: £10.00
Maurice Jacobson Award
Award: Cup and £25 prize.
18 yrs & under
For general musicianship. Open to all solo
instruments or voices.
Own choice on first instrument of one or
two pieces of Grade 8 standard. Time limit
10 mins, with minimum 8 mins.
In addition, candidates must give a performance on a second instrument or voice
(minimum standard Grade 5). Time limit 5
mins with a minimum of 3mins.
The Official Accompanist is available for
this class at £3 per competitor.
Entry Fee: £10.00
James A Blundell Memorial
Award
Award: Cup and £25 prize, donated by Mr
& Mrs W A Goodworth.
21 yrs & under: Piano Concerto Class
One movement only of own choice Piano
Concerto.
The Official Accompanist is available for
this class at £5 per competitor.
Entry Fee: £10.00
H Any Instrument
Recital Class
or
Voice
Award: £40
36 yrs & over
Any solo instrument or voice with
accompaniment.
Own choice. A recital of not less than 15
mins and not more than 20 mins. Choice of
programme will be taken into account.
The Official Accompanist is available for
this class at £5 per competitor.
Entry Fee: £10.00
J Brian Hitch Memorial Award
Award: £40
Open - Any age - Accompanist's class.
The accompanist should bring a singer or
instrumentalist to perform a piece or pieces of up to 10 mins in length. The soloist
will not be adjudicated and can perform
the item(s) in other classes. The minimum
standard for the accompanist is Grade 6.
Entry Fee: £7.00
The use of private recording equipment of any kind is not permitted during performance or adjudication.
This is because of copyright and other legal restrictions and child protection issues (see page 27)
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 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
Section 2 - Piano Classes
Ernest Pinnell Cup
EPTA Trophy
Jack Gibbons Cup
Sidney Harrison Memorial Award
Oxford Times Piano Cup
Diana Bron Award
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Piano Solo classes: up to 12 years old
Piano Recital classes: 12-18 yrs
Piano Solo classes: 13-18 years
Piano Solo: Open Chopin class
Piano Duet classes
Piano Duet: classes 31, 32 & 33
The top award-winning pianist will be eligible to compete for the annual Piano Challenge Trophy and
£300 cash prize at the North London Music Festival in May 2015.
Piano Solos
1+
8 yrs & under - Piano Solo
Song of Erin & Gavotte in G (Dunhill) from
First Year Pieces
(Associated Board EPP 51) Fee: £4.00
2
8 yrs & under - Beginners - Piano Solo
Non-competitive. Up to Grade 1 standard.
Own choice of one or two pieces.
Time limit 2 mins
Fee: £4.00
3+
9 yrs & under - Piano Solo
Lullaby & Wood Fairies (Walter Carroll)
from The Countryside
(Forsyth)
Fee: £4.00
4+
10 yrs & under - Piano Solo
The Money-Spider & Grasshoppers' Dance
(John Longmire) from Nine Insect Pieces
(Forsyth)
Fee: £5.00
9+
14 yrs & under - Piano Solo
Nocturne in D minor (Field))
(Schott or any good edition ) Fee: £6.00
10+ 15 yrs & under - Piano Solo
Scherzo (Beethoven) from Sonata in A
Op.2 No 2
(Any good edition)
Fee: £6.00
11+ 16 yrs & under - Piano Solo
Romance (Tchaikovsky)
(Schott or any good edition) Fee: £7.00
12+ 17 yrs & under (Local) - Piano Solo
Own choice of Grade 7-8 standard.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £7.00
13+ 18 yrs & under - French Piano Class
Award: Winifred Swann Cup for French
piano music
Any piece or pieces by a French composer.
Any grade.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £7.00
5
10 yrs & under - Beginners - Piano Solo
Non-competitive. Up to Grade 1 standard.
Own choice of one or two pieces.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
6+
12 yrs & under - Piano Solo
Cha-cha-cha & Blues (Hengeveld) from
Melodie En Rhythme
(Broekmans & Van Poppel ) Fee: £6.00
14
10 yrs & under - Piano Solo Recital
Two contrasting pieces. Minimum standard
Grade 3
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
7
12 yrs & under - Beginners - Piano Solo
Non-competitive. Up to Grade 1 standard.
Own choice of one or two pieces.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
15
12 yrs & under - Piano Solo Recital
Two contrasting pieces. Minimum standard
Grade 5
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £7.00
8+
13 yrs & under - Piano Solo
Bright Blue & Midnight Blue (John
Kember) from On the Lighter Side - Blues
(Schott )
Fee: £6.00
16
15 yrs & under - Piano Solo Recital
Two contrasting pieces. Minimum standard
Grade 6
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £7.00
+ Refer to Rule 5, Refer to Rule 2, in Rules and Information on
pages 8 - 10
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Section 2 - Piano Classes
Piano Solos
Piano Duets
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26
9 yrs & under - Piano Duet
March (Walter Carroll) from The Countryside
with repeats
(Forsyth )
Fee: £5.00
27
12 yrs & under - Piano Duet
Summer Song (John Hind)
(Curwen Ed. JCO 9745/Music Sales)
Fee: £5.00
28
15 yrs & under - Piano Duet
Lady of Brazil (T A Johnson)
(Curwen Ed JCO 9737/Music Sales)
Fee: £6.00
29
18 yrs & under - Piano Duet
Alegro Molto (Beethoven) from Sonata in D
Op. 6
(Any good edition)
Fee: £7.00
18 yrs & under - Piano Solo Recital
Jean Loughman Memorial Class
Annual Award: £50 donated by Dr Brian
Loughman in memory of his wife, who
greatly helped and supported the festival.
Two or three contrasting pieces.
Time limit 13 mins
Fee: £10.00
18 Open - Baroque Class - Piano Solo
Any piece or movement from a work by
Bach, Handel or Scarlatti.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £8.00
19 Open - Piano Solo
Any movement of a sonata or a major work
by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.
Time limit 9 mins
Fee: £10.00
20 Open - Piano Solo
Any one or two pieces by Brahms,
Schumann, Liszt, or Rachmaninoff.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £8.00
21 Open - Piano Solo
Any one or two pieces by Debussy, Ravel,
Fauré, Poulenc or Messiaen.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £8.00
22 Open - Piano Solo
Any one or two pieces by a Spanish or South
American composer
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £8.00
23 Open - Piano Solo
Any one or two pieces by a composer born
after 1880.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £8.00
24
21 yrs & over - Piano Solo
Open to non-career musicians only. This class
is not open to diploma holders.
Own choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £8.00
25 Open - Piano Solo
Sidney Harrison Memorial Award
Prize: a bound volume of Chopin pieces,
donated by the late Mrs Harrison, in memory
of her husband.
Competitors should perform one work or two
contrasting pieces by Chopin. Total time not
less than 5 mins and not more than 10 mins.
Fee: £10.00
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30 Open - Piano Duet
Hungarian Dance in G minor (Brahms) from
Hungarian Dances Book 1
(Schirmer or any good edition)
Fee: £8.00
A trophy, donated by Mrs Diana Bron, will be given
for the highest marks of Classes 31, 32 or 33
31
Any age - Piano Trio
Own choice of a piece for 3 players at one
piano.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
32
13-18 yrs: - Piano Duet Recital Class
Own Choice of two contrasted duets or 2
movements or pieces from the same work of
Grade 5-8 standard.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
33 Open - Two Pianos Duo
Any piece or pieces for 2 pianos. Own
Choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
+ Refer to Rule 5, Refer to Rule 2, in Rules and Information on
pages 8 - 10
Section 3 - Bowed String Classes
Rohan de Saram Cup will be awarded in the Competitive Solo Classes
Non-competitive Classes
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Any bowed string instrument.
Entrants for these classes may not enter any
competitive solo string classes.
34
6 yrs & under - Bowed String Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 2 mins
Fee: £4.00
35
8 yrs & under - Bowed String Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £4.00
36
10 yrs & under - Bowed String Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £4.00
37
38
39
12 yrs & under - Bowed String Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £5.00
15 yrs & under - Bowed String Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
18 yrs & under - Bowed String Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £7.00
40
19 yrs & over - Bowed String Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £8.00
41
Suzuki Violin Group - Non-competitive
Cherwell Suzuki Group
Directed by Virginia Bennet-Clark, Elizabeth
Friedman & Margaret Parkin
Music selected from Suzuki Violin School.
Competitive Solos

Any bowed string instrument.
42+ 9 yrs & under - Local - String Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £4.00
43+ 12 yrs & under - Local - String Solo
Own choice. Minimum standard Grade 2.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £5.00
44+ 15 yrs & under - Local - String Solo
Own choice. Minimum standard Grade 4.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
Competitive Solos, contd
45+ 18 yrs & under - Local - String Solo
Own choice. Minimum standard Grade 6.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £7.00
46 Open - String Solo
Please state instrument on entry form
Own choice. Minimum standard Grade 8.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £8.00
47 Open - Unaccompanied Bach
Any string instrument. Own choice of two
contrasting movements.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £9.00
Competitive Recital Classes
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Recital classes for any bowed string instrument with or without piano.
Choice of programme will be taken into account.
48+ 8 yrs & under - Bowed String Recital
Two contrasting pieces.Minimum standard
Gr 2.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £4.00
49+ 10 yrs & under - Bowed String Recital
Two contrasting pieces.Minimum standard Gr
3.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £5.00
50+ 12 yrs & under - Bowed String Recital
Two or three constrasting pieces, not less than
7 mins and not more than 9 mins duration.
Time limit 9 mins
Fee: £7.00
Best Announcement Prize
There will be a £20 prize for the best
announcements made in Classes 51 and 52.
51+ 15 yrs & under - Bowed String Recital
Two or three constrasting pieces, not less
than 9 mins and not more than 11 mins
duration.
Time limit 11 mins
Fee: £7.00
52+ 18 yrs & under - Bowed String Recital
Two or three constrasting pieces, not less
than 12 mins and not more than 14 mins
duration.
Time limit 14 mins
Fee: £10.00
+ Refer to Rule 5, Refer to Rule 2, in Rules and Information on
pages 8 - 10
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Section 4 – Guitar Classes
Lennox Berkeley Society Award
Patrick Gibson Cup
Bee & Patrick Gibson Cup
Ian Ellis Segovia Cup
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Non-competitive Classes
53
Open - Guitar Solo or Duet
Non-competitive
Two or three contrasting pieces.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
Competitive Solos
54+ 9 yrs & under - Guitar Solo
Own Choice. One or two pieces with an
accompanying second guitar if desired (e.g.
parent, teacher or friend).
Time limit 2 mins
Fee: £4.00
Open Guitar Recital Class
11 yrs & under
13 & 15 yrs & under
18 yrs & under and Open classes
Competitive Solos, contd
61 Open - Guitar Recital Class
The Lennox Berkeley Society Award for
Guitar Performance.
The Lennox Berkeley Society will award a
£150 prize and a trophy for a short recital
of works by Lennox Berkeley, or
composers who studied with him.
For details of this syllabus please visit the
website www.lennoxberkeley.org.uk and
see ’Awards’ or contact our Secretary for
more information: [email protected]
(01865) 557547.
Fee: £12.00
55+ 11 yrs & under - Guitar Solo
Olé José by Debbie Cracknell from Guitar
Grade 1 (2010-2015) (Trinity Guildhall) or
Enjoy Playing Guitar: Going Solo (OUP)
And one other piece
Total time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
Competitive Duets
62
12 yrs & under - Guitar Duet
Two contrasting pieces. Own Choice
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
56+ 13 yrs & under - Guitar Solo
Stomp by Peter Nuttall (with repeats) from
Diversions (Holley Music S006) And one
contrasting piece.
Total time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
63
16 yrs & under - Guitar Duet
Two contrasting pieces. Own Choice
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £8.00
57+ 15 yrs & under - Guitar Solo
Nostalgia by Cees Hartog from Guitar Grade
4 (2010-2015) (Trinity Guildhall) And one
contrasting piece
Total time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
58+ 18 yrs & under - Guitar Solo
One piece by Antonio Lauro or Leo Brouwer
And one or two own choice pieces.
Total time limit 7 mins
Fee: £7.00
59
Any age - Guitar Solo
No more than 3 years' tuition on 1st January
2015. Two contrasting pieces. Own Choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
60 Open - Guitar Solo
A contrasting programme of two or three
pieces.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
64 Open - Guitar Duet
A contrasting programme. Own Choice
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
Competitive Ensembles

3 or more players. Number should be stated
on entry form.
65
15 yrs & under - Guitar Ensemble
One or two pieces. Own choice
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £7.50
66
18 yrs & under - Guitar Ensemble
A contrasting programme. Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £8.00
67 Open - Any age - Guitar Ensemble
A contrasting programme. Own choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £12.00
All guitar music is available from: Blackwell’s Music Shop, Oxford Tel: (01865) 249603
and Spanish Guitar Centre, Nottingham Tel: (0115) 962 2709
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Refer to Rule 5,
Refer to Rule 2, in Rules and Information on
pages 8 - 10
Guitar ensembles, see also Ensemble Classes in Section 6 and Section 6a
Section 5 – Woodwind & Brass
Sybil Whitman Cup
Praetorius Cup
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Solo Recorder Junior classes
Recorder Open classes
Recorder Solos
Recorder Duets, contd
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77 Open - Any combination of two recorders.
Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £10.00
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9 yrs & under - Descant Solo
Le Calotin, from Fun and Games with the
Recorder. Tune Book 3 (Schott) AND own
choice of one contrasting piece
Total time limit 3 mins
Fee: £4.00
11 yrs & under - Descant Solo
La Bourée, no.17 in The Renaissance
Recorder, for descant recorder (Boosey and
Hawkes) AND own choice of one
contrasting piece
Total time limit 4 mins
Fee: £5.00
11 yrs & under - Treble Solo
The Witches, no.19 in The Renaissance
Recorder, for treble recorder (Boosey and
Hawkes) AND own choice of one
contrasting piece
Total time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
13 yrs & under - Descant Solo
Telemann, Partita no.2 in G, 1st movt.
(Siciliana) and Aria 1
(Schott or any good edition) Fee: £6.00
13 yrs & under - Treble Solo
Vivaldi, Concerto in A minor, RV108, 2nd
movt (Largo) and 3rd movt (Allegro)
(Peacock)
Fee: £6.00
Recorder Ensembles
78
11 yrs & under - Recorder ensemble
More than one player to a part.
Own choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £7.50
79
15 yrs & under - Recorder ensemble
More than one player to a part.
Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £8.50
80
15 yrs & under - Recorder ensemble
One player to a part, any number of parts.
Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £10.00
81 Open - Recorder ensemble
One player to a part, any number of parts.
Own choice.
Time limit 12 mins
Fee: £12.00
Recorder Recital Classes
82
Recorder Duets
Players may change places for the second piece.
15 yrs & under - Recorder Recital
Own choice of programme, with or without
accompaniment.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £7.00
73
9 yrs & under - Descant Recorder Duet
Own choice of TWO contrasting pieces
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
74
11 yrs & under - Descant Recorder Duet
Own choice of one OR two pieces
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
83 Open - Any age - Recorder Recital
Own choice of programme, with or without
accompaniment.
Time limit 15 mins
Fee: £12.00
75
13 yrs & under - Treble Recorder Duet
Own choice of one OR two pieces
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £6.00
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76
15 yrs & under - Any combination of two
recorders.
Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £7.00
18 yrs & under - Trio Sonata Class
Own choice of trio sonata for two recorders
and continuo OR one recorder and any other
instrument and continuo. The continuo player
may be of any age.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £12.00
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
Music to Official Accompanist by 13th December 2014
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Section 5 – Woodwind & Brass
Leon Goossens Cup
Cecil Aron Cup
Woodwind Classes 18 yrs and under & Open
16 yrs & under
Oboe Solos
Piccolo Solos
85 Open - Any age - Piccolo Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee:
Performers may only enter one class.
£6.00
95
10 yrs & under - Oboe Solo
Own choice.
96
12 yrs & under - Oboe Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee:
Flute Solos
86+ 11 yrs & under - Flute Solo
No Dice or Bertie's Blues, Paul Hart from All
Jazzed Up
(Brass Wind)
Fee: £5.00
87+ 13 yrs & under - Flute Solo
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Calypso or Whistling Song, Brian Kelly from
Caribbean Suite
(Hunt)
Fee: £5.00
88+ 15 yrs & under - Flute Solo
Danse Pour Katia, A. Bournonville
(Billaudot)
Fee: £6.00
89+ 18 yrs & under - Flute Solo
Pan, Albert Roussel from Joueurs de Flute
(Durand)
Fee: £7.00
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10 yrs & under - Clarinet Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£5.00
14 yrs & under - Oboe Solo
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
98
16 yrs & under - Oboe Solo
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £7.00
99
18 yrs & under - Oboe Solo
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £7.00
Clarinet Solos
90
£5.00
Bassoon Solos
Performers may only enter one class.
12 yrs & under - Clarinet Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee:
£5.00
14 yrs & under - Clarinet Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee:
£6.00
100
Open - Any age - Bassoon Solo
Less than 1 year's tuition. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
101
Open - Any age - Bassoon Solo
Less than 3 year's tuition. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
102
Open - Any age - Bassoon Solo
Less than 5 year's tuition. Own choice of two
contrasting pieces.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
16 yrs & under - Clarinet Solo
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £7.00
18 yrs & under - Clarinet Solo
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £7.00
+ Refer to Rule 5, Refer to Rule 2, in Rules and Information on
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pages 8 - 10
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Section 5 – Woodwind & Brass
Harry Mortimer Cup
Saxophone Solos
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Brass Solo
Woodwind Recital Classes
Performers may only enter one class.
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11 yrs & under - Saxophone Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
13 yrs & under - Saxophone Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £5.00
Sybil Whitman, our former Secretary, has
donated a prize of £20 for the best
anouncements made in Classes 113 & 114
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Any woodwind instrument, other than
recorder, with or without accompaniment.
Competitors will be expected to perform a
programme of their own choice.
Choice of programme will be taken into
account.
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15 yrs & under - Saxophone Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
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18 yrs & under - Saxophone Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £7.00
114 Open - Woodwind Recital
Own choice.
Time limit 13 mins
Fee: £12.00
Brass Solos
Non-Competitive
Woodwind Solos
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Entrants for these classes may not enter any
competitive woodwind classes.
13 yrs & under - Woodwind Solo
Non-Competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
18 yrs & under - Woodwind Solo
Non-Competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £7.00
19 yrs & over - Woodwind Solo
Non-Competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee:
15 yrs & under - Woodwind Recital
Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £8.00
£8.00
Any brass instrument.
115+ 11 yrs & under - Brass Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£5.00
116+ 14 yrs & under - Brass Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee:
£6.00
117+ 18 yrs & under - Brass Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee:
£7.00
118 Open - Any age - Brass Solo
Own choice.
Time limit 12 mins
Fee:
£8.00
Local Woodwind Solos
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Any woodwind instrument, other than recorder, with or without accompaniment.
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13 yrs & under - (Local) Woodwind Solo
Minimum standard Grade 2. Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
111
15 yrs & under - (Local) Woodwind Solo
Minimum standard Grade 4. Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £7.00
112
18 yrs & under - (Local) Woodwind Solo
Minimum standard Grade 6. Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee:
£7.00
All our stewards give time voluntarily to help
the Festival run smoothly. Are you able to help
with this important work? We urgently need:
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stewards in the halls and at the doors
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helpers to serve refreshments
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car drivers to provide transport for
adjudicators.
If you could come for only one session that
would be valuable. Please contact our Festival
Secretary, if you would like to help.
Anne Baker
[email protected]
Tel: (01865) 557547
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Section 6 – Chamber Ensembles
Gordon Woodward Memorial Trophy
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The classes in this section are for any combination of string, woodwind, guitar, brass instruments,
one pianist or one singer. Recorder may only be included with other instruments.
In Section 6 & 6a each individual can enter a maximum of 3 classes in each section. (Two entries in
one class will count as two of these)
All players must be within the stated age limits. There must be only one person to a part and the
ensemble must not be conducted.
ENSEMBLES MUST BRING THEIR OWN STANDS.
The timing and title of Own Choice music must be included on your entry form. It is important for
us to know if your programme is less than the maximum time.
119+ 9 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice
Time limit 5 mins
Fee:
£6.00
124+ 15 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
4 - 8 players. Own choice
Time limit 9 mins
Fee: £10.00
120+ 9 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
4 - 8 players. Own choice
Time limit 5 mins
Fee:
£6.00
125+ 18 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
121+ 12 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee:
£8.00
126+ 18 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
4 - 8 players. Own choice
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
122+ 12 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
4 - 8 players. Own choice
Time limit 8 mins
Fee:
£8.00
127 Open - Chamber Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice.
Time limit 12 mins
Fee: £10.00
123+ 15 yrs & under - Chamber Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice.
Time limit 9 mins
Fee:
£10.00
128 Open - Chamber Ensemble
4 - 8 players. Own choice
Time limit 12 mins
Fee: £10.00
In all competitive classes candidates will be placed in the categories shown below. In
order to award trophies, the winner will in addition, be awarded marks out of 100.
OUTSTANDING An exceptional performance both technically and artistically.
DISTINCTION An excellent performance technically and artistically.
COMMENDED A convincing performance technically and artistically.
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MERIT
A capable performance showing some artistic appreciation and/or communication.
MODERATE
A performance showing development of technique and/or communication.
FAIR
A performance limited in its communication.
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
See also classes in Section 6a
Section 6a – General Ensembles
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O.M.F. Gwen Archer Cup
Ensembles may have more than one performer to each part, and may be conducted. The conductor
does not have to conform to the age limits.
In Section 6 & 6a each individual can enter a maximum of 3 classes in each section. (Two entries in
one class will count as two of these)
ENSEMBLES MUST BRING THEIR OWN STANDS.
Please state number of performers on the entry form and let us know if your programme is less than
the maximum time.
Any age - Instrumental Ensemble
Non-competitive.
2 - 20 players. Any instruments. Own
choice of a balanced programme of two or
three short pieces.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £10.00
130+ 11 yrs & under - Instrumental Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice. Accompanist not
to be adjudicated.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £10.00
131+ 14 yrs & under - Instrumental Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice. Accompanist not
to be adjudicated.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £10.00
135+ 13 yrs & under - Instrumental Ensemble
9 - 20 players. Own choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £10.00
136+ 18 yrs & under - Instrumental Ensemble
9 - 20 players. Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £10.00
137 Open - Instrumental Ensemble
Any ensemble not catered for elsewhere.
Any instruments. Own choice.
Time limit 12 mins
Fee: £10.00
138
Family Class - Non competitive
Two or more members of same family.
'Family' may be interpreted in the widest
possible sense, to include, grandparents,
uncles, aunts, cousins, step and foster
children, engaged couples and any other
combination which can reasonably be
considered a family. Voice and/or
instruments. Own Choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £8.00
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Teacher and Pupil - Non competitive
Own choice of one or two pieces.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
132+ 18 yrs & under - Instrumental Ensemble
2 - 3 players. Own choice. Accompanist not
to be adjudicated.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
133+ 18 yrs & under - Instrumental Ensemble
4 - 14 players (more than one player to a
part and may be conducted). Own choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
134+ 9 yrs & under - Instrumental Ensemble
9 - 20 players. Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £10.00
140 Open - Any age - Early Music Ensemble
(up to 1700)
Any combination of voice(s) and
instruments). Own choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £8.00
The timing and title of Own Choice music must be included on your entry form. It is
important for us to know if your programme is less than the maximum time. Please
write to the Secretary or notify the Adjudicator’s Steward just before playing if
Own Choice music is changed. The substitute piece should not last longer than
the original choice and it will be stopped once the time is up. Competitors who do
not adhere to the time limits may be disqualified (see rule 12). A copy of Own
Choice music must be given to the Adjudicator’s Steward just before playing.
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
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Section 7 – Vocal Classes
Headington Folk Song Cup
Michael Howard Junior Vocal Cup
Isobel Baillie Cup
Competitors may enter only five classes marked  in this section.
Singers are expected to sing from memory.
Helen Robson Memorial Award
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10 yrs & under - Folk Song Solo
British Folk Song class. Own choice.
preferably unaccompanied.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
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14 yrs & under - Light Opera or Musical
Show Solo
Any solo from a Light Opera or Musical
Show. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
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14 yrs & under - Folk Song Solo
British Folk Song class. Own choice.
preferably unaccompanied.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £5.00
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18 yrs & under - Light Opera or Musical
Show Solo
Any solo from a Light Opera or Musical
Show. Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £6.00
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15 - 18 yrs - Folk Song Solo
British Folk Song class. Own choice.
preferably unaccompanied.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
Dr Frank Robson has donated an annual award in
memory of his wife, who gave help and support
to the festival for many years. The award will be
given to the best performer in classes 141 - 143.
143 Open - Light Opera or Musical Show
Solo
Any solo from a Light Opera or Musical
Show. Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £7.00
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11 yrs & under - Vocal Solo
Own choice of one song.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£5.00
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14 yrs & under - Vocal Solo
Own choice of one classical song.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
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15 - 18 yrs - Vocal Solo
Own choice of one classical song
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£5.00
The use of private recording equipment
of any kind is not permitted during
performance or adjudication.
This is because of copyright and other
legal restrictions and child protection
issues (see page 27) and also to avoid
disturbing competitors and adjudicators.
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150 Open - Folk Song Solo
British Folk Song class. Own choice.
preferably unaccompanied.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £7.00
151 Open - British Song
A classical song by any British composer.
Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £7.00
152 Open - Lieder Class
Judged as a duo. Own choice of one song.
Time limit 5 mins. The time limit must
include any introduction or translation given
before singing. Please give the name of your
accompanist on the entry form.
The Official Accompanist may not be used
for this class.
Fee: £8.00
Please enclose an SAE for each section
entered with correct postage. Up to 35
entries per section - A5 envelope with
letter rate postage. Over 35 entries A4
envelope with Large Letter stamp 100g –
250g.
Cheques should be made payable to the
Oxford Music Festival.
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
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Section 7 – Vocal Classes
Headington Folk Song Cup
Michael Howard Junior Vocal Cup
Isobel Baillie Cup
Competitors may enter only five classes marked  in this section.
Singers are expected to sing from memory.
153 Open - French Song Class
Judged as a duo. Own choice of one song.
Time limit 5 mins. The time limit must
include any introduction or translation given
before singing. Please give the name of your
accompanist on the entry form.
The Official Accompanist may not be used
for this class.
Fee: £8.00
154 Open - A classical song - any language
other than English (not operatic)
Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £7.00
155 Open - 20th century Vocal Solo
A classical song by any composer born in the
20th century. Own choice
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £7.00
156 18 yrs & over - Operatic Solo
Recitative and/or Aria. Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £8.00
157 18 yrs & over - Oratorio Solo
Recitative and/or Aria. Own choice.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £8.00
Festival
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Open - Gilbert & Sullivan Solo or any
Ensemble
Own choice.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £8.00
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12 yrs & under - Vocal Duet
Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£5.00
14 yrs & under - Vocal Duet
Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£5.00
15 - 18 yrs - Vocal Duet
Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee:
£6.00
Open - Vocal Duet
Own choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee:
£8.00
163 Open - Barbershop Quartet
Own choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee:
£8.00
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Friends
For a minimum donation of £18 (£26.00 per couple) per year (more is always welcome!)
FRIENDS are entitled to:
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Free admission to all sessions during the Festival
Free Festival Programme
Free admission to the Festival Concert
Receive a Festival Syllabus automatically
Receive an invitation to the AGM, which is followed by a short concert with wine and refreshments.
If you would like to become a FRIEND please send your name and address with your donation
to: Neil Kitching, 9 Beech Road, Headington, Oxford OX 3 7RT, or include your donation with
your entry form. Please make cheques payable to The Oxford Music Festival
We like to acknowledge our Friends by printing their names in our programme; if you would rather your name did not appear, please say so.
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
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Section 8 – Choirs
Edmund Rubbra Choir Cup
Please state on the entry form the approximate number of singers in the choir.
The maximum number of singers the festival can accommodate is 50.
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Any age - Choir
Non-competitive. Own choice of two
contrasting pieces.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £8.00
165
11 yrs & under - Choir
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £8.00
166
13 yrs & under - Choir
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 7 mins
Fee: £9.00
167
18 yrs & under - Girls' choir (SSA)
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £10.00
172 Open - Early Music Vocal Ensemble
Any combination of voices. Own choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £15.00
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18 yrs & under - Mixed choir
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £10.00
173 Open - Barbershop
Own choice.
Time limit 8 mins
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169 Women's choir
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee:£15.00
170 Male voice choir
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £15.00
171 Open - Mixed choir
Own choice of two contrasting pieces.
Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £15.00
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
Fee: £15.00
Section 9 – Composition Classes
Mike Gotch Cup
Lennox Berkeley Cup
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Please state on the entry form the instruments and number of players and whether it will be a live
or recorded performance.
If the performance will be live, please mark this on the entry form in order to allow for setting up
time to be allotted.
All competitors will be expected to provide performances of their works, either live or on CD. If
you would prefer to use another format please contact Paul Smith
([email protected]) to discuss what might be possible.
9 yrs & under - Do your own thing
composition class
A composition for any instrument(s) or
voice(s). Any style of music, which need
not be written down.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee:
£4.00
12 yrs & under - Do your own thing composition class
A composition for any instrument(s) or
voice(s). Any style of music, which need
not be written down.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £5.00
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15 yrs & under - Instrumental or vocal
composition(s)
A copy must be provided for the
adjudicator.
Time limit 5 mins
Fee: £7.00
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18 yrs & under - Instrumental or vocal
composition(s)
A copy must be provided for the
adjudicator.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £7.00
178 Open - Instrumental or vocal composition(s)
Photocopies of composition(s) must be sent
to The Festival Secretary by December 13th
2014.
Time limit 15 mins
Fee: £10.00
Festival Concert
Sunday, 15th February 2015
Jacqueline du Pré Building,
St Hilda’s College, Oxford
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
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Section 10 – Organ, Harp, Large
Ensembles & Miscellaneous Classes
Organ Classes
The Michael Popkin Memorial Award of £60 will be given by The Oxford & District
Organists’ Association to mark Michael’s contribution to ODOA as Secretary for many
years. The award will be given for the highest mark in Class 179.
179 25yrs & under - Organ solo
180 18 yrs & over - Organ solo
Own choice. Time limit 8 mins
Fee: £9.00
Non-competitive. Own choice. Time limit 8 mins Fee: £10.00
The organ classes will take place in Keble College, Oxford, on the 2011 Kenneth Tickell organ (IV/P,
43). Candidates will be able to reserve practice time on the day through the ODOA website
(https://sites.google.com/site/oxfordorganists/) where full details will be available. Contact: Chris
Greenough ([email protected]).
Harp Classes
Miscellaneous classes
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Junior School Students - Harp Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee: £5.00
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Senior School Students - Harp Solo
Non-competitive. Own choice.
Time limit 4 mins
Fee: £6.00
Large Ensembles
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Any age - Jazz Class - Solo
Piece or pieces should be arranged and performed in a recognisable jazz style and
should include improvised material. Own
choice.
Time limit 6 mins
Fee: £7.00
188
Any age - Jazz Class - Group
Piece or pieces should be arranged and performed in a recognisable jazz style and
should include improvised material. Own
choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £10.00
189
18 yrs & over - Adult Beginner
Non-competitive. No more than 2 years'
tuition. Own choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£6.00
190
18 yrs & over - Late Beginner
Non-competitive. Open to any adult who
commenced tuition at 18 yrs or over. Own
choice.
Time limit 3 mins
Fee:
£6.00
183 Open - Wind Band
Minimum 15 players. Piano or percussion
optional. Own choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £12.00
184 Open - Brass Band
Percussion optional. Own choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £12.00
185
18 yrs & under - Orchestra
Own choice.
Time limit 10 mins
Fee: £12.00
186 Open - Orchestra
Own choice.
Time limit 15 mins
Fee: £15.00
Please enclose an SAE for each section entered with correct postage. Up to 35 entries
per section - A5 envelope with letter rate
postage. Over 35 entries A4 envelope with
Large Letter stamp 100g – 250g. Cheques
should be made payable to the Oxford Music
Festival.
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191 Open - Recital Class
Any solo instrument not catered for elsewhere. Own choice. Programme content
will be taken into account.
Time limit 15 mins
Fee: £10.00
 Refer to Rule 2 in Rules and Information on pages 8 – 10
Safeguarding Policy
SAFEGUARDING POLICY implemented fr om 2005 (r evised J uly, 2013)
Name of organization: Oxfor d Music Festival
Chairman: Mar ian Cr easer ; Secretary: Anne Baker
Venues: Headington School, J acqueline du Pr é Music Building
Festival dates: 31st January, 1st, 7th, 8th & 15th February 2015
Children* and members of other vulnerable
groups have a right to safety and protection from
abuse. All suspicions and allegations of abuse will
be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and
appropriately. The Festival organizers and their
helpers have a responsibility to report concerns.
PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF
ORGANIZATION
The object for which the Festival is established is
to promote and encourage the study and practice
of music. The Festival provides a platform for
amateur performance combined with an
educational element from professional musicians.
The Festival provides an opportunity for
participants to give a performance before a
sympathetic audience. The Festival is an annual
event affiliated to the British and International
Federation of Festivals. Professional adjudicators
assess performances. Prizes and Trophies are
awarded for the best performances.
THE FESTIVAL ENVIRONMENT
The Festival takes place at the above mentioned
venues that, during the Festival, are exclusively
for our use. A child may need to move between
the venues. Our safeguarding policy is to inform
and involve parents* and teachers in partnership
with the Festival organizers and helpers to ensure,
as far as it is reasonably practicable, a safe
environment.
TO WHOM DOES THIS POLICY APPLY
This policy relates to all children under the age of
18 years and those vulnerable groups of any age
who are identified to the organizers in advance of
their arrival at the festival. In recognizing the
needs of children from minority ethnic groups and
children who are disabled, the festival actively
seeks to meet needs notified in advance to the
festival by parents, guardians, carers, and teachers.
FESTIVAL PERSONNEL
The Festival organizers are the Committee. Our
helpers are only adopted with the recommendation
of a person well known to the Committee. All
helpers receive written instructions as to their
duties, and advice on how to handle any problem.
Organizers and helpers will wear identifying
badges. Anyone wearing a badge can be
approached to help deal with any problem. All
problems will be treated seriously, documented
and dated. We hold the contact details of referees
for each of our helpers. All jobs are reviewed to
ascertain whether a disclosure from the Disclosure
and Barring Service is required.
PREPARATION FOR ATTENDANCE AT
THE FESTIVAL
This Policy is passed to all parents in order to
inform them that, where they are not attending
with their children, it is their responsibility to
ensure that their children are accompanied to the
Festival and adequately supervised at the festival
by adults acting on their behalf. It is passed to
parents directly, or via teachers, in time for them
to make arrangements for their children to be
supervised when attending the festival.
PERFORMANCE AREA AND CHANGING
ROOMS
Notices will be displayed to the effect that practice
rooms, lavatories and washrooms are designated
‘unsupervised areas’. The safety of children and
vulnerable adults in these areas is the
responsibility of their parents. A participant under
18 requiring changing-room facilities should be
accompanied by their parent during their use.
PHOTOGRAPHS, VIDEOTAPES AND
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY
Where a parent does not wish a photograph of
their child to be taken, it is the responsibility of
that parent to ensure that the child is not included
in a photograph. The taking of photographs or
videotapes during performances is not allowed.
Notices will be displayed at the Festival to this
effect. Festival events may be reported in the local
Press.
THE LEGISLATION AND GUIDANCE
THAT SUPPORTS THIS POLICY
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; The
Children Act 1989; The Police Act 1997; The
Data Protection Act 1998; The Human Rights Act
1998; The Protection of Children Act 1999; the
Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000;
The Protection of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
POLICY REVIEW
The organizers will periodically review their
policy, revising and enhancing it as necessary. In
doing this they will look to The British &
International Federation of Festivals for support,
and that body, in turn, will look to other agencies
for good practice, most notably the NSPCC and
the Arts Council of England policy guidelines.
*Where the word ‘parent’ is used, it means
parent/guardian or carer; where ‘children’ is
used, this also applies to vulnerable groups.
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