Senior Solo
The winner of the annual DMEA Senior Solo competition will perform with the Delaware All-State Orchestra and with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra at one or more of their designated concerts. Applicants must be a twelfth grade string, woodwind, brass player, percussionist or vocalist. A panel of judges affiliated with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and the Delaware Music Educators Association will adjudicate the auditions.
Applicants audition by performing their choice of a selection for solo instrument or voice for which an orchestral accompaniment exists. Concertos, concertinos or movements thereof, operatic arias and art songs are acceptable pieces; popular songs and songs from Broadway Musicals are excluded. The length of the piece should not exceed ten minutes. Memorization of the solo is mandatory for the performances; music may be read at the audition. Each applicants must audition with piano accompaniment, secured on his/her own.