💙 Our Goal:
We are pleased to announce the first ever Do Re Mi International Music Competition! Open only to Do Re Mi tutors, our aim is to recognize students for their outstanding musical abilities and provide valuable feedback to all applicants.
🎼 How to Apply:
DEADLINE
DIVISIONS
ELIGIBILITY
NO APPLICATION FEE
REPERTOIRE & REQUIREMENTS
AWARDS
There will be Grand Prize, 2nd Prize, 3rd Prize, and Honorable Mention winners chosen from each division. There will be one overall BIPOC Composer Performance award given to an outstanding musician who performs a work by a BIPOC composer.
RESULTS
QUESTIONS
- Monday, May 1st, 2023 at 11:59pm
DIVISIONS
- Strings
- Winds, Brass, Percussion (not including piano), and Harp
- Piano
- Voice
ELIGIBILITY
- You must be a tutor for the Do Re Mi Project.
- You must be between the ages of 13-18 and enrolled in high school.
NO APPLICATION FEE
- There is no application fee for entering this competition.
REPERTOIRE & REQUIREMENTS
- Repertoire may be from any musical time period and style.
- The time limit for the video submission is 12 minutes. Videos that run overtime may be subject to disqualification.
- You may submit multiple recordings as long as they are under the time limit and compiled into one video.
- Videos do not need to be professional and must be taken in one take without any audio/video editing, except transitioning between pieces.
- Your face, hands, feet with pedals as well as instrument, must be visible for the entirety of the video.
- Videos must be uploaded to YouTube and submitted as a single “unlisted” link.
- Memorization is not required.
- If applicable, accompaniment is encouraged but not required.
AWARDS
There will be Grand Prize, 2nd Prize, 3rd Prize, and Honorable Mention winners chosen from each division. There will be one overall BIPOC Composer Performance award given to an outstanding musician who performs a work by a BIPOC composer.
- Grand Prize: $200
- 2nd Prize: $100
- 3rd Prize: $50
- Honorable Mention: $25
- (Overall) BIPOC Composer Performance: $100
RESULTS
- Results will be announced on May 20th, 2023.
- Individual feedback will be sent out shortly after.
QUESTIONS
- Email Yunah Kwon, Events VP at yunah@doremiproject.org.
🧑⚖️ Judges:
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Li-Kuo ChangVIOLA
Li-Kuo Chang is professor of music in viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He was previously acting principal viola of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), appointed by Riccardo Muti in 2017, and assistant principal viola of the CSO since 1988. Chang has performed at the Lucerne, Jerusalem, and Ravinia festivals as well as the Symphony Center in Chicago, Staatsoper Berlin, and numerous concert halls in Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. Chang has performed as soloist with the CSO on several occasions, and collaborated with many renowned artists, such as Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma, Christoph Eschenbach, among others.
An educator for more than 30 years, Chang has been on the artist faculty at several music institutes, including the Chicago College of the Performing Arts, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Peabody Institute, and Affinis Summer Festival in Japan. Chang pursued his formal viola study with Francis Tursi at Eastman with a full scholarship, Milton Thomas and Donald McInnes at the Music Academy of the West as a young artist fellow, and privately with Paul Doktor and William Magers. |
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Katherine Needleman
OBOE
Katherine Needleman joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as principal oboist in 2003, the same year she won first prize at the International Double Reed Society’s Gillet-Fox Competition. As soloist, she has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, and many more. She has performed as guest principal oboist with the New York Philharmonic, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New Zealand, and San Diego. Ms. Needleman’s chamber music engagements have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
A Baltimore native, Ms. Needleman served on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University for fifteen years, and is currently on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. Devoted to the music of our time, Ms. Needleman gave the American premiere of Ruth Gipps’ Oboe Concerto and Brenno Blauth’s Concertino, the West Coast premiere of Christopher Rouse's Oboe Concerto, and the premiere of Kevin Puts' oboe concerto, Moonlight, and has commissioned works by Luis Prado, Chia-Yu Hsu and David Ludwig. |
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Hui-Chuan ChenPIANO
Pianist Hui-Chuan Chen leads a diverse career as a concert pianist, chamber musician, and educator. She has performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared in major performance venues, including Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), The Kennedy Center Concert Hall, and The Supreme Court of the United States of America. She has featured at the Aspen Music Festival (Aspen, CO), The National Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Barge Music Festival in New York City.
Since completing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Peabody Institute, Hui-Chuan is devoted to teaching and academia. She previously served as faculty for the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Washington Conservatory of Music,and the Heifetz International Music Institute. She currently holds faculty and collaborative positions with the University of Maryland Baltimore County. |
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Susanne MentzerVOICE
American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer has established herself not only as an international singer but also as a writer, teacher and arts advocate. Her stellar singing career encompasses 42 years in nearly every major opera company, orchestra and recital organization. In 2016 she joined the faculty of SFCM after 12 years in academia as a Tenured Professor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and Associate Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. She teaches this summer at the TaosOpera Institute and the Napa Festival. As a recitalist, Susanne has appeared on the Great Performers series at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel halls, Kennedy Center, Spivey Hall Atlanta, Schwartz Hall at Emory, Santa Fe Concert Association, Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Ann Arbor University Music Society, and more.
She received her Bachelor and Master degrees from The Juilliard School and was trained in the Houston Opera Studio, studying with Rose Bampton and Norma Newton, respectively. Her outspokenness about vocal health has earned her the VERA Award 2013 (Voice Education Research Awareness) from The Voice Foundation. She received the Alexian Brothers USA Thelan Award for her help raising over one-million dollars through gala concerts for the AIDS cause in Chicago and continues to participate in charitable events. Susanne is also a writer and contributed regularly to the Huffington Post where her essays are still accessible. |
Apply to the Do Re Mi International Music Competition:
Submission Deadline: Monday, May 1st, 2023 at 11:59pm
Submissions have been closed.
💙 How is this Competition Possible?
Thank you to our generous parent donors for sponsoring our first ever international music competition!
To make a tax-deductible donation, visit our GoFundMe.
To make a tax-deductible donation, visit our GoFundMe.