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Video Submissions

The Festival may permit select performances to be submitted in the form of video submissions on a case by case basis, or the Festival may have entire classes that permit such submission. In either case, performers submitting videos to the Festival are required to observe the rules in this section. Note that these rules apply to virtual classes and not to recordings submitted as supplemental materials for classes that are otherwise undertaken live.

  1. You must submit your video submission and associated scores on or before the date specified by the Festival in writing and/or given on the Festival website.
  2. In the event the Festival includes entire classes that accept videos, select submissions may be put together into a Highlights Video or playlist featuring the most outstanding or entertaining performances. If your video submission is selected to appear in such a compilation, you may request that it be removed.

Videography Requirements

  1. A professional recording is not required. Personal-use equipment and even mobile phone cameras are capable of producing video at a satisfactory level of quality for the purpose of the Festival.
  2. The video may be recorded in any location with suitable lighting. Please take care to ensure that sensitive personal effects, such as, for instance, medications, are not visible in the video.
  3. The recording must offer a clear picture of each performer, showing face or profile and hands and instrument (keyboard only in the case of piano).
  4. Professional collaborative pianists or accompanists need not be shown in the video.
  5. The camera must remain stationary as much as possible. Video recordings may include limited stage movement or choreography to allow the camera to track performers while still offering a clear picture.
  6. Please comport yourself as if undertaking a live performance or as if preparing a video audition.
  7. At the start of the video, you must display the following information: the discipline and class, the name of the performer or ensemble, and the repertoire being performed. This information may be displayed by any means, such as a sign held up by the performer or an assistant, or added in a title card via editing.

Instrumentation

  1. When undertaking a video recording for an instrumental class, you must perform using a standard instrument for your discipline, except in the Piano discipline, where you may perform using any keyboard instrument capable of reproducing piano tones. For instance, a digital piano is permissible, while a harpsichord is not.
  2. If your performance is accompanied, you may include live or pre-recorded accompaniment, such as a backtrack purchased for download. Your collaborative pianist or accompanist can perform in person as part of your recording or, if technology permits, remotely.

Video Editing

  1. Each repertoire selection must be recorded as a single, continuous take. Any form of editing of a single performance is prohibited. Non-performance elements of the video may be freely edited.
  2. Each individual movements of a larger multi-movement work must be recorded as a single, continuous take, but multiple movements may be recorded individually and edited together to form the entire work.
  3. In the event members of an ensemble record their material remotely, while the performance of each individual ensemble member must be a single, continuous take, these performances may be edited into a single video. Some light editing of the audio is permitted to balance instruments against each other.
  4. If you are considering a video submission to Provincials, please note any differences between video submission requirements for this Festival and for Provincials.

Submission Requirements

  1. You must submit one (1) video for each class requiring or permitting a video submission.
  2. A video submission must usually be submitted by means of a platform such as YouTube or Vimeo. Such videos must have either public or “unlisted” visibility, according to the standards of the platform on which it is made available.
  3. If you are performing an unpublished repertoire selection, a selection of your own composition, or a selection that you or your teacher deems to be reasonably obscure or little-known, you must also submit a score for that selection. You must also submit a score upon request by the Festival.
  4. Scores must be submitted in PDF format, with one file per selection, by uploading them to a cloud storage service (Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, and so on). Links to the score or folder must be provided to the Festival by means of a format requested by the Festival.
  5. You must ensure the Festival and adjudicator do not require additional permissions, subscriptions, or user accounts to access any files. For example, please refrain from setting YouTube visibility to “Private”.