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2010 Region IV Festival
(Region IV: Glendale, Hollywood, San Fernando West Valley, West Los Angeles)

Chair: Alpha H. Walker
Judges: Deborah Erftenbeck, Helen Batteiger, Peter Yazbeck

 May 9, 2010

The Southern California Junior Bach Festival was founded in 1961 by Madame Alice Ehlers, protégé of Wanda Landowska and professor of harpsichord at the University of Southern California.  It was her goal to encourage the study and appreciation of the music of J.S. Bach among student musicians.  In 1977, the Complete Works Audition was established.  This event provides opportunities for the most accomplished students to challenge themselves by performing a complete work of J. S. Bach.

All of today’s performers were previously selected as winners at one of the SCJBF Branch Festivals.  The adjudicators for the Region IV Festival have selected 45% of today's performers to receive the Regional Honors Award.
Teacher Packets, which will include Adjudicator Comment Sheets, and SCJBF Regional Honors Award Medals, will be mailed to Branch chair in the next few days.

Congratulations on a successful Regional Festival.  Thanks to everyone for all their support and help throughout the day!

--Alpha H. Walker
 

2010 Region IV Festival Winners

Winners from the SCJBF Region IV Festival who meet the repertoire requirements will be eligible to perform in the Complete Works Audition on Sunday, October 3, 2010, at California State University Long Beach.  First place winners of the CWA will be invited to perform at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles on the Complete Works Awards program on Saturday, October 16, 2010.  The Complete Works Awards program is one of the featured highlights of the prestigious Los Angeles Bach Festival Concert Series, sponsored by the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.

Fees for the Complete Works Audition

Teacher participation fee:
Each teacher entering students in the Complete Works Audition will pay a $15 participation fee, which will cover all students of that teacher.

Student entry fees (piano):
    1. Short Preludes and Fugues, Various Dance Movements, Inventions and Sinfonias, Preludes and Fugues WTC Bk. I and II, Short Various Works (Cat. X) and Duettos: $30.
    2. French and English Suites, Partitas, Toccatas, Longer Various Works (Cat. XI), Goldberg Variations, Italian Concerto, Sonatas, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, and Keyboard Concertos: $35.

Teachers are requested to write one check covering all fees.

The annual Concerto Audition will take place this year in late September.  The winner will be presented in concert with the Los Angeles Bach Festival Orchestra during the Los Angeles Bach Festival on October 22, 2010.
These auditions are open to all past and current Regional Winners.  Please contact Sue Scofield through the "Contact Us" page at www.scjbf.org for further information about the Concerto Audition.

If you have questions – please contact Alpha H. Walker, Bach Region IV Festival Chair, at alphamuse@ca.rr.com or (310) 216-7618.

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