FSMTA Competitive Events

Competitions with monetary awards are usually held in late May. Each year FSMTF presents awards to student winners of FSMTA Competitive Events.

A list of all available Awards and Scholarships is available for viewing and downloading.

See the Handbook of Student Activities for general information about FSMTA Competitive Events.

Contacts:

Vice President for FSMTA Competitive Events: Erin Bennett
State Concerto Competition – Piano, Instrumental and Vocal Coordinator: Ken Hanks
Gray Perry Young Collegiate Piano Award Competition Coordinator: Erin Bennett
Byrd Competition Coordinator: Erin Bennett
Pre-College Chamber Music Coordinator: Erin Bennett
Guitar Competition Coordinator: Erin Bennett
King Music Education Scholarship Coordinator: Erin Bennett
Community Service Awards (held separately) Coordinator: Joanna Sobkowska

Use the PayPal button to pay registration fee for State level competition fees. Do not use this PayPal button for District fee. District fees should be paid to the district.

Concerto Competition

Other Competitions

Click on the links below to open and print. Read-only (PDF) files are opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click on the Adobe icon to the right to download this free program.

Please note the following important changes:

Interactive PDF forms should first be saved to your personal computer, filled out, saved again, and emailed as an attachment.
Biographical information, 250 words or less, and photo are required to be electronically submitted only by winners to the Competition Chair within one week of winning.
For State Concerto Competition only: requests for help in securing an accompanist must be submitted to the Concerto Chairman, Ken Hanks, no later than April 10.

District and State Concerto Competition Application Forms:

Concerto Competition Coordinator Forms:

Byrd Memorial Piano Ensemble Competition

Byrd Memorial Piano Ensemble Competition Application - Pre-college and College levels
Byrd Ensemble Rating Sheet

Gray Perry Young Collegiate Piano Competition

Pre-College Chamber Music Competition

Pre-College and Collegiate Guitar Competition

Community Service Awards
- Local and District Presidents Community Service Award for Ninth Graders

- FSMTA Community Service Award for 12th Graders

King Music Education Scholarship

District Concerto Chairs:

District 1: Melissa Westman, 1992 Winners Circle, Cantonment, FL 32533; 850-490-0699

District 2: Kyung-Ae Gibson, 8835 Winged Foot Dr. Tallahassee, FL 32312; 850-894-1887
District 3: Anne Falik, 3317 NW 38th Street, Gainesville, FL 32606; 352-514-4109
District 4: Sarah Hartley, 2614 Sunrise Ridge Lane, Jacksonville, FL 32211; 321-514-0010
District 5: Mary Mincy, 981 Auburn Ave. Clermont, FL 34711; 770-309-8364
District 6: Huifang Chen, 11451 NW 49th Dr., Coral Springs, FL 33076; 954-258-6592
District 7: Dr. Michael Baron, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965; 239-590-7209
District 8: Denise Verheul, 2495 Browning Street, Sarasota, FL 34237; 770-335-4247
District 9: Sheron White, 2435 Peterson Road, Lakeland, FL 33812-3253; 863-860-6541

Copyrighted Materials

Photo Permission Form

IMPORTANT:
FSMTA fully respects the copyright law and expects its members to be aware of the guidelines for the use of all copyrighted materials. (See Section V of the Code of Ethics.)

Students entered in any FSMTA event, competitive or non-competitive, shall follow the MTNA guidelines as posted on MTNA website.

MTNA copyright guidelines

If a winning student's photo will be submitted for publication in the FSMTA newsletter or on the website, please download this photo permission form and have it signed by the student and their parent. We cannot print or post photos without signed permission forms.

Photo permission form