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State Competitions

National High School Honors Orchestra
February 16-20, 2010
Santa Clara, California

High school juniors and senior students are eligible to apply for the National High School Honors Orchestra. Students must apply first through their ASTA state chapters. They submit an audition tape or CD of required literature and three minutes from literature of their own choosing. The state coordinator and an audition committee then select up to thirty applicants to forward to the national level. Separate audition committees for strings, winds, and percussion select the 120 students for the orchestra. The students are required to be members of their school orchestras. Students must follow the application process as stated at the national site to be considered by the national committee.

The deadline for application entries for the 2010 National High School Honors Orchestra is Monday, May 15, 2009. Application forms and tapes or CDs must be in the hands of our state coordinator, Dan Allcott, by May 15, 2009. Thus, it is imperative that all students who are potential candidates be contacted immediately before school is out.

Please send applications to:

Dan Allcott
531 N Maple Ave
Cookeville TN 38501
931-372-6179
dallcott@tntech.edu

Download Application

For a list of the audition repertoire, a mission statement, director Scott Speck's bio and a list of past participants, please Click Here.

State Solo Competition

Stay tuned for information about the 2010-2011 State Solo Competition. As information becomes available at the end of the 2007-2008 school year, we will post it right here.

We are now maintaining an online archive of winners of the Tennessee ASTA State Solo Competition and of Tennessee students selected to participate in the National High School Honors Orchestra. Click the header above to see this year's entry.

National Competitions

This event seeks to identify, celebrate, and encourage young practitioners of alternative string styles, such as (but not limited to) all folk music traditions, jazz, fusion, and rock music.

The purpose of ASTA's Merle J. Isaac Composition contest is to encourage the composition, publication, and performance of music of quality for the benefit of school orchestra programs.

The 2008 National Orchestra Festival will be held in conjunction with the ASTA National Conference in Albuquerque February 27 - March 1, 2008. The schedule of performances is located at the above link.

The National High School Honors Orchestra (NHSHO) is a performing group of about 120 competitively selected high school musicians who assemble biennially to perform at the ASTA national conference.

CodaBow International, Ltd., donates approximately $5,000 worth of full-size CodaBow Aspire bows annually to deserving schools and studios. Violin, viola, and cello bows can be awarded. Applications will be accepted from ASTA members in good standing on behalf of schools or studios that outline the particular worthiness, promise, and need of their program.

The National Solo Competition will occur March 18th through 21st, 2009, in conjunction with the ASTA National Conference in Atlanta. The competition is open to ASTA members or current students of ASTA members. Instrumental categories are Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Classical Guitar, and Harp.

Solo Competition Repertoire

Dalton Potter, owner of Potter' s Violins in Bethesda, Maryland, donates six Rudolf Doetsch instruments annually to students in need. Three instruments-violins, violas, or cellos of any size-are awarded each round. Application deadlines are April 1 and October 1 each year. Applications are accepted on behalf of students (elementary through high school), from ASTA members who outline their particular worthiness and promise as string students.