NATS Student Auditions - Los Angeles Chapter (SEP)
Sunday, November 3, 2024
10:30 AM - 6 PM
FULLERTON COLLEGE
321 E. Chapman Ave., Fullerton, CA 92832
registration: 9/3/2024 - 10/3/2024
It's time to register for SEP (our NATS Student Auditions - Los Angeles Chapter - Student Evaluation Program 2024 event)!
Online registration (via our NATS National website) will “open” for current NATS-LA members on September 3, 2024.
WHAT IS SEP?
The purpose of our Student Evaluation Program (SEP) is to provide an opportunity for student singers to perform before a panel of outstanding NATS adjudicators in a positive and constructive format. Singers receive written evaluations to assist them in growing as performers and musicians. Outstanding participants are selected to perform in a Special Recognition Awards' Recital on a different day and venue.
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NEW THIS YEAR…
We will be returning to our previous system - AuditionWare - for registration.
NATS is requiring that all participating minors have a chaperone for the duration of the event, and that the parent/guardian complete the chaperone agreement form. NATS National would like all teachers to email these to their minor student's parent(s), collect them back, and then scan them all as ONE pdf file to the Audition Chair.
All students must be registered with a unique email address (including siblings).
Our Awards' Recital will be combined with our SEP Extravaganza, on a different date, at another venue (Whittier College, 1/26/2025). Singers will ONLY need to audition on our SEP date (11/3/24). They are free to leave after they have sung. Results will be posted, as they become available, online.
Reminder: Age is determined by the student's age on 9/1/24. This will be that student's age for ALL NATS events for our entire 2024-2025 season (including CalWestern, NSA, etc.)
Important dates:
9/3/2024 - Registration opens in AuditionWare
10/3/2024 - Registration closes
11/3/2024 - SEP - LIVE auditions at Fullerton Community College
1/26/2025 - SEP Extravaganza and Awards' Recital at Whittier College, in Whittier, CA.
1) Collect student info.
You may wish to use the helpful “Fillable Form” below to help gather your students’ information.
2) Log in to NATS.org, scroll down the page until you see the following, and click on the green “auditionWARE” button.*
*(Registration begins: September 3, 2024)
3) select “Los angeles” chapter using the drop down list at the top.
4) using drop down list in main body of page, select “NATS Student Auditions - Los Angeles Chapter - Student Evaluation Program (SEP) 2024”.
5) Follow prompts to input teacher info and student info.
Data is saved, and changes may be made*, as needed, until the registration deadline.
*PLEASE NOTE: Do not pay for your students’ registration until you are sure you have no more changes to make! Once you pay the registration fees, no more changes may be made!
Registration Deadline: October 3, 2024
6) Pay registration fees.
Registration fee - $45 per student per category
Staff accompanist fee - $45 per student per category
Students may register for up to 4 categories:
Classical
Musical Theater
CM (Commercial Music)
Hall Johnson Spiritual
Registration Deadline: October 3, 2024
7) Receive Judging assignment(s) and re-familiarize yourself with the rubrics for those categories.
Please review rubrics on NATS.org:
8) plan to attend and participate in judging (all teachers who submit students for participation in sep must attend on sunday, 11/03/24 and participate as judges &/or room monitors for the day.
It is strongly encouraged that teachers set aside time to read the most recently updated regulations and category clarifications, to re-acquaint yourselves with the very specific requirements of our auditions. The full document may be found here.
Please read pages 8-15 with particular attention, for useful clarifications regarding repertoire, transpositions, and audition procedures for students.
Please note that some division/category names may have changed - please check these carefully so that your student is registered in the correct division/category.
We will only be requiring TWO selections (out of the requirements' list for that division/category) for ALL divisions and categories for our SEP event*.
*Note: If your students will also be participating in our Cal-Western Regional Student Auditions, they will need to observe the full repertoire requirements (e.g., 3 songs for High School divisions).
There is a wealth of information on our NATS National Website about NATS Auditions. Please refer to it at your leisure.
• Accompanists may play from iPads and other electronic devices, provided that our NATS Copyright Policy is being observed. Please review the Copyright FAQ’s provided by NATS National.
• Matriculated music majors studying in college/university programs are not eligible to participate in SEP*. These students may participate in our NATS-LA Collegiate Auditions held in the Spring, wherein Classical, Musical Theater and Spiritual divisions will be offered.
*However, matriculated college students ARE invited to participate in our Open CM category in SEP, since this category is not offered at our college auditions held in the spring (see below).
Note: CalWestern Regional Auditions open for registration next month. College level singers may register for that event, if they are eager to participate in NATS auditions this semester. Singers do not need to participate in our Chapter Collegiate auditions in order to advance to our Regional auditions.
• TWO song selections will be required for the Classical and Musical Theater Categories, for High School and below.
* Please note that at the Regional and National auditions, THREE song selections are required for High School categories.
• TWO song selections are required for the Adult Categories for SEP only.
• TWO song selections will be required for our added "open" (all ages) CM (Commercial Music) and Hall Johnson Spiritual categories.
• Our CM Category is open to college students studying voice (since there is no CM category at our Collegiate Auditions)
• We will have Adult Classical and Adult Musical Theater categories for students older than High School age, who are ineligible to participate in our Collegiate Auditions
• Fees:
Registration: $45 per student per category
Staff accompanist: $45 per student per category
• The responsibility of abiding by NATS copyright policy, AND copyright law now rests with the teachers/parents/students.
Although singers are not required to provide adjudicators with an ORIGINAL copy of their songs, they (and their accompanists) must still be able to substantiate that the scan of the music on their iPad is legal, if asked.
Therefore, please bring one ORIGINAL copy of each song to your auditions. The accompanist may either play from the legal sheet music/anthology, or place it on the piano or somewhere visible if they are playing from a device, so that everyone can be reassured that our copyright policy is being observed.
• For any questions, please contact NATS-LA SEP Chair Susan Wong at auditions@natslachapter.org.