MTNA partners with ARTS competition - Association News - Arts Recognition and Talent Search

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

beneath the agreement, ARTS, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), will allow learners who win an MTNA state competition as a high institute junior (eleventh grade) the opportunity to pierce the ARTS competition during their senior year with automatic inclusion in the Intermediate horizontal of ARTS judging. Allowing a scholar to enter the competition at this horizontal ensures that the national panel of justices 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 assemblage of student performers. I am confident the MTNA competition winners who pierce will be the most capable entrants in this outstanding program."

Each year, more than 1500 ARTS applications are received in the instrumental music and voice categories. Approximately 300 of these entrants are chooseed for the Intermediate level. A nationally recognized panel of professional artists and university educators then fix upon 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 pitch uponed in nine disciplines, including voice (classical or popular), jazz music (including jazz vocalists) and instrumental music.

At the conclusion of ARTS Week, fifty of the national finalists are nominated to the White House Commission upon Presidential Scholars for the honor of also being named a U Presidential Scholar in the Arts. The Commission culls twenty exclusively from the ARTS nominees for this honor, and the scholars travel to Washington, D.C. in June following their graduations for National Recognition Week. While in Washington, they are featured in a performance at the Kennedy Center They also receive the Presidential Medallion from the President at a White House ceremony

pupils in the ARTS program are sole judged against a standard of distinction for their artistic discipline and age cluster Students are never judged against each other, and the justices are allowed to place as many learners as appropriate in each of the five horizontals of excellence. Each student who attends ARTS Week is guaranteed a cash grant scholarship award of $500-$3000 depending on his or her level of transcendence Beginning with ARTS 2004, the justices in each of the nine ARTS disciplines will be awarding a single $10000 ARTS Gold award to a learner of extraordinary talent and potential.

Additionally, scholars selected as Honorable Mention award winners receive a $100 cash award and a certificate of recognition, on the other hand are not invited to Miami. An unlimited number of learners are selected as Merit Award winners, which carry recognition, on the other hand no cash award.

For additional information pass to the ARTS website at www.nfaa.org.

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