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 Elton Joel RW2   2'25
With apologies to them both. A rock piano solo without lyrics.

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 Elegy RW2   2'25
Many, many parts to weave and balance - needs ensemble skills, even though it's for solo piano.

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 Grumpy Trolls RW2   2'25
A contest piece with bite. Storms and stamps all over the piano before the jump-up-and-bow finish.

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 Snowflakes RW2   2'25
A delicate picture piece - how many shades of quiet can you play?

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 MicroWaltz RW2   2'25
Less than a minute long. For early intermediate students.

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 Processional RW2   2'25
A concert opener that quickly breaks out of its initial stately reserve.

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Running a competition          back to magazine homepage

by Philip Johnston

 

Introduction | Hyping the lead-up | Limiting the time | Creating prize categories
Choosing great rewards | Certificates | The "Doubler" factor | Creating leaderboards | Team based competitions | Strategic timing | Interstudio competitions
Creating a Hall of Fame | Turning it into a fundraiser

 

Creating a Hall of Fame

This is a great way to allow your students now to compete with students you taught a decade ago.

Once the competition is over, and the winners have been decided, add the names of the victors to an honor board that lives permanently in your studio.

Future students will be able to see the names—and practice times—of past champions. It gives your more competitive students a chance to be the Greatest Ever, while growing ivy on the walls of the competition itself.

Getting it done properly

This is not something you should do using cardboard and markers. This honor board will be a growing chronicle of a highlight of your studio year—it's going to be a hugely impressive curiosity piece for prospective students, and is worth shelling out a few extra dollars to have it look the part.

Most of the expense will be in the very first year as you pay for the board itself, but thereafter you only will have to pay to have the new student's names engraved.

Another alternative is to have a gallery instead, where the signed photos of past winners are displayed, together with the details of the results that got them there.

If you have your own studio website, then you can easily create a permanent online Hall of Fame gallery of past competition winners.