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MTNA partners with ARTS competition. (Association News).(Arts Recognition and Talent Search )

American Music Teacher

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A partnership between MTNA and the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) will give some MTNA state performance competition winners an opportunity to be named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts.

Under the agreement, ARTS, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), will allow students who win an MTNA state competition as a high school junior (eleventh grade) the opportunity to enter the ARTS competition during their senior year with automatic inclusion in the Intermediate level of ARTS judging. Allowing a student to enter the competition at this level ensures that the national panel of judges will review the student's audition material.

"The partnership with NFAA recognizes the exceptional artistic skills of MTNA competition winners," notes MTNA Executive Director Gary L. Ingle. "Our winners are an elite group of student performers. I am confident the MTNA competition winners who enter will be the most capable entrants in this outstanding program."

Each year, more than 1,500 ARTS applications are received in the instrumental music and voice categories. Approximately 300 of these entrants are selected for the Intermediate level. A nationally recognized panel of professional artists and university educators then select up to 125 students to travel to Miami in January of their senior year to participate in ARTS Week, an intensive week-long experience of master classes, showcase performances, exhibitions, interdisciplinary activities and interviews as well as live auditions. National finalists are selected in nine disciplines, including voice ...

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