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Fall 2021 Auditions

  Greetings to you all, Michigan NATS members! This is just a quick note to let you know that your Michigan NATS Board has voted to hold our  fall auditions online  again this year. Our timeline will be similar to last year:  September 20: Online Registration Opens November 5: Registration closes at 11:59 pm November 6-8: Audition committee reviews entries November 9-15: Online adjudication takes place This schedule is subject to revision, but please consider  November 5th to be the deadline  for the purposes of planning for your students.   I will send out a full final schedule and information as soon as possible.  The Board is interested in  sponsoring the membership of a Student member  (graduate student  or undergraduate student with a strong interest in teaching) who would help us coordinate our social media and be a programming consultant.  If you have any students who might fit the bill, please contact me to nominate them:  altadantzler@oakland.edu   Lastly, please note that the
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FAQs

With our auditions this fall being fully online, I wanted to address some FAQ's that may help us all prepare for our upcoming November 4th deadline: 1. New CCM categories: We have three-- High School, Collegiate and adult. Children can sing in any style, so no need for a separate category there 2. Judging Preferences: Please update your judging preferences in the system. Since we don't have to deal with room logistics we have a wonderful opportunity to align your assigned categories with your expertise! 3. Time limits: they still apply-- if a category has a 10 minute limit, we will listen to the songs in the order they are listed, and will stop after 10 minutes. Cuts are allowed in piano introductions, interludes and playouts. 4. Registration/Payment: At the state level, this is handled by teachers-only! no students may register themselves 5. Residence requirements: Many of us are teaching via zoom which means greater geographical flexibility. Students are entered ba
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Announcing the FULLY ONLINE 2020 Fall Student Auditions (Deadline Nov. 4, 2020)

  Your NATS Michigan Board is thrilled to announce that this year's Fall Student Auditions are moving forward as a fully online event.   This is a fantastic opportunity for all of us and our students to showcase the work we've done in our new teaching & learning environments.   We have worked to make the categories as diverse and inclusive as possible.   After the successful addition of Youth and Adult Categories last year, we have now added two more new categories for CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) singers! This year we will also invite students to enter in more than one category, and have lowered the fee structure both for teachers, and for students entering multiple categories. Online auditions will be conducted just like live auditions, judging assignments will be made accessible on the AuditionWare site. Judges will review, critique, score and complete comment sheets for each singer in their assigned category. These will be submitted through the AuditionWare site.
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COVID-19 Resources

NATS has been providing really outstanding leadership at the National Level this past week.  If you're not on social media, please know that most of the communications are being distributed that way, through  Facebook Some examples:  They have in short order released the following special edition NATS Chat videos:  Calming the Corona Virus Crisis and Taking Your Teaching Online Moving Voice Pedagogy Classes Online during Covid-19 Teaching Lyric Diction Online During Covid-19 NATS You Tube Channel can be found  here  for further video topics In addition, members are doing an outstanding job sharing resources such as: Digital Voice Pedagogy Resources Setting up Zoom for Voice lessons I know not everyone is on Facebook, so I wanted to take a moment to reach out to be sure that you're aware of these resources and to encourage us to connect in any way we can.  I will make an effort to share any livestream concerts on the  NATS Michigan Like Page  (for us, st
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Michigan Fall Student Auditions Results

Hope College and our host Dr. Jung Woo Kim offered us all a beautiful day of music making! Please find the results below.  We hope you all join us at the Regional Auditions, Hosted by Bowling Green State University on March 7th, 2020.  Click here for more information. NATS MICHIGAN FALL 2019 STUDENT AUDITIONS- HOPE COLLEGE RESULTS SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD FEATURING MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS 3B Mariella Piazza Liebst du um Schönheit Perry 7B Cassidie Singelyn The Year's at the spring Boover 8B Joshua Danielson The Apple Orchard Peavler 11A Lindsay Nichols Ah Love but a day Olivacce 11B Grace Van Hoven Grace Van Hoven Olivacce YOUTH 1st Zoe Straley Noelle Jacquez 2nd Chiara Martella Jessica Fielder 2nd Madison McKeown Sally Mikat ADULT 1st Ellen Wallenfang
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NATS Michigan Auditions Deadline October 15th!

Hello all, Keep in mind that our deadline to register is fast approaching-- Tuesday October 15th.  The auditions will take place at Hope College in Holland MI on Saturday November 2nd.  The cost is $25 per teacher plus $25 per student.  You are more than welcome to bring your own pianist, if you'd like to use a staff accompanist, the fee will be $40 per singer.  Please read the full informational email at our registration home page accessible through your member home on nats.org New awards this year to honor Women Composers-- have your students program music written by women to qualify!! Thanks
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2019 Great Lakes NATSAA Auditions Deadline September 9th

As announced in March the Great Lakes Region NATSAA auditions will be at Purdue University Fort Wayne.  The dates are November 8th and 9th.   If you've never participated or directed students to participate in NATSAA, click here to read more about it.  It's intended to help singers launch their professional careers.  The age range is 21-35 as of the application deadline.  For details on our Great Lakes Preliminary Round please click here to be directed to the Great Lakes Regional website. The Great Lakes website is still being designed and updated but has the needed information on it.  It can be  viewed at    https://greatlakesregionnats. weebly.com/ if you have troubles with the link copy and paste the link.
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