Upcoming Events
| Date | Place | Time | Type of Performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 9, 2010 | Parkwood Meadows | 3:00pm | Senior apartment living (small intimate venue) | November 13, 2010 | Parkwood Meadows | 3:00pm | Senior apartment living (small intimate venue) |
| December 4, 2010 | TBA | 9:30pm & 11:00pm | Christmas Recital |
| May 7, 2011 | TBA | 9:30pm & 11:00pm | Spring Recital |
| May 21, 2011 | TBA | 5:00pm | Band Concert |
Round Rock Music Academy offers several performance opportunities for students to participate and showcase what they have learned.
Several special music performances are scheduled throughout the school year to allow students to showcase their musical talents and to develop confidence in performance. Round Rock Music Academy offers Piano Guild which is a yearly adjudicated performance, a Christmas and Spring recital and the rock bands perform an exhilarating concert in the spring. Students are also encouraged to participate in the small performance opportunities at various venues around town.
The Piano Guild is open to students of all ages and levels. The purpose of the auditions is to establish goals for the earliest beginner as well as the advanced student. These goals attempt to give music study direction and provide a measurement for progress. As a result, a piano curriculum encompassing the best of piano literature and stressing American compositions has been standardized. All piano students have a yearly opportunity to attain these goals through non-competitive adjudication in the National Piano Playing Auditions. Auditions are private (student and judge only) with well-qualified musicians serving as judges. Students are judged on individual merit in the areas of accuracy, continuity, phrasing, pedaling, dynamics, rhythm, temp, tone, interpretation, style and technique.
Students may participate in Guild Auditions in many classifications; the pieces selected may be memorized or unmemorized, they may present a duet program, a jazz/pop program, an all Bach program, an all sonatina program, or a program in social music (consisting of hymns, patriotic and folk songs). A program is decided and agreed upon by the student, teacher and parent. Each parent is urged to cooperate with the teacher of his or her child to the fullest extent before and during the National Auditions so that the best possible preparation may culminate in the most successful Audition results and musical development.
Every year a student enters Auditions, he/she will receive the following rewards:
- A Membership Certificate according to classification.
- An NFSM Membership Pin in Bronze (Pledge, Local & District), Silver (State), or Gold (National or International.) Hobbyists also receive a bronze pin.
- A copy Analysis Chart and Report Card signed by the Guild examiner.
- The student’s name on his/her teacher’s NFSM Certificate.
- His/her name listed and photo published in Piano Guild Notes in the fifth, tenth, or fifteenth year as a National or International Winner.