Adjudication and Assessment Criteria
The adjudicators will consider the performance of each of the pieces separately, and will award a mark for each piece. These marks will be combined to produce the total mark for performance. In awarding the marks, the adjudicators will take into account the following assessment criteria:
Technical Accomplishment: the ability to manipulate the instrument or voice, as appropriate to the repertoire, with respect to accuracy, fluency, articulation, intonation, breath control, fingering, tonal variety and/or consistency, dexterity, tempo and dynamics.
Musicality: the ability to make sensitive and musical performance decisions, resulting in a sense of individual interpretative skill, so that the music is performed in a manner reflecting a degree of sensitivity and empathy, and an emerging musical personality; the ability to adapt to a variety of styles as may be required by the choice of repertoire.
Musical Knowledge: an understanding of all aspects of the notation occurring in the repertoire; an understanding of the stylistic context of, and performance practice relating to, the repertoire.
Communication: evidence of a perceptive understanding of how to engage the listener, and to communicate the musical substance of the repertoire.
The audition must be conducted under conditions resembling as closely as possible those of a public performance. The entrant’s appearance and command of presentational matters should reflect this, and will be taken into account by the adjudicators.
Technical Accomplishment: the ability to manipulate the instrument or voice, as appropriate to the repertoire, with respect to accuracy, fluency, articulation, intonation, breath control, fingering, tonal variety and/or consistency, dexterity, tempo and dynamics.
Musicality: the ability to make sensitive and musical performance decisions, resulting in a sense of individual interpretative skill, so that the music is performed in a manner reflecting a degree of sensitivity and empathy, and an emerging musical personality; the ability to adapt to a variety of styles as may be required by the choice of repertoire.
Musical Knowledge: an understanding of all aspects of the notation occurring in the repertoire; an understanding of the stylistic context of, and performance practice relating to, the repertoire.
Communication: evidence of a perceptive understanding of how to engage the listener, and to communicate the musical substance of the repertoire.
The audition must be conducted under conditions resembling as closely as possible those of a public performance. The entrant’s appearance and command of presentational matters should reflect this, and will be taken into account by the adjudicators.
