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Young Artist Competition for
Pre-College Pianists and Organists
Senior Piano Division Prizes and Additional Rules
Prizes: First Prize: $750.00 The Charles and Joanne Bath Prize
* Second Prize: $500.00 The Henry Husted Wooten Prize
** Third Prize: $350.00 The Burrage and Friend Prize
*** Additional Rules for Senior Piano Division:
1. Contestants should prepare three solo selections, to be played from memory, chosen using the following guidelines:
- one selection by Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven
- one selection by Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Grieg, or Brahms
- one selection by a composer who lived during either the twentieth or twenty-first century
2. Total time for the three selections should not exceed twenty minutes (No minimum, contestants will be stopped after twenty minutes).
3. Contestants must supply one clean copy of each selection for the judge (No Xeroxes will be allowed).
4. The competition will be open to the public and contestants will be judged on stage presence as well as the musical and technical aspects of their performance.
5. Each contestant will receive the judge’s written comments and evaluation at the conclusion of the day. The judge’s decision will be final.
6. Completed application form and non-refundable entry fee of $30.00 must be received by March 5, 2008. Applicants will be informed of their acceptance by March 15, 2008. Make checks out to "The East Carolina University Piano and Organ Competition".
* donated by Dr. Charles and Mrs. Joanne Bath of Greenville, NC
** donated by Mrs. Harriet H. Wooten of Greenville, NC
*** donated by Burrage Music Company of Raleigh, NC and an Anonymous Donor 
