V. Eligibility Requirements A. School B. Student C. Home-schooled or Non-WSMA Member Student Participation D. State Festival E. School or Student Festival Transfer Requests
A. School Eligibility Requirements 1. To enter a WSMA-sanctioned Festival, a school must be a paid member of WSMA for the current academic year.
2. To enter WSMA Solo & Ensemble events each school must participate in a WSMA-sanctioned Concert Festival, Clinic Performance Assessment or Alternative Clinic Performance Assessment with at least one group each year. In addition, one concert group of each type (Band, Orchestra, Choir) is required to participate in a WSMA Concert Festival, Clinic Performance Assessment or Alternative Clinic Performance Assessment a minimum of once every two years.
3. Failure to meet the concert group participation requirement for ONE year will result in a letter to the teacher and school administration placing the school on probation. The probation will be removed by fulfilling the concert group participation in the subsequent school year.
4. Failure to meet the concert group participation requirement for TWO consecutive years will result in a letter to school administration placing the school on final probation. Final probation removal requires the school to complete two WSMA concert group activities during two consecutive school years.
5. Failure to remove the final probation status may result in the suspension of Solo & Ensemble Festival participation for the member school.
6. Waivers to the above requirement may be granted if the school has no concert group that meets the minimum size requirement. Waiver requests must be made in writing to WSMA. See Rule VI.C.2.
7. Any school, concert group, solo or ensemble event that does not meet the WSMA eligibility requirements will not be scheduled for participation in a WSMA Music Festival.
B. Student Eligibility Requirements 1. To participate in a WSMA-sanctioned Festival, students must be enrolled as full or part-time in a WSMA member school.
2. Students must be enrolled and regularly attend concert group rehearsals (Band, Orchestra, Choir) at their WSMA member school. Exceptions to this rule are outlined in Section V.C.
3. School music teachers or administrators may submit a written request to waive the above requirement if one of the following conditions exists: a. There is a schedule conflict with a class required for graduation; b. The school does not offer an appropriate group in which the student may participate. In this case, a student may be eligible to participate in a WSMA festival by completing one or more of the following: 1) Enroll in and complete an independent music class; 2) Participate in a WSMA-member school music ensemble that rehearses regularly throughout the school year;
3) Serve as a coach (tutor/peer coach) for other music students.
c. The written waiver must be submitted to WSMA at least four (4) weeks prior to the WSMA Solo & Ensemble Festival.
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Piano students who are not members of a regularly scheduled school music performing ensemble may participate in a WSMA District Solo & Ensemble Festival by accompanying at least two solo and/or ensemble events. Class C piano students are exempt from this requirement.
5. Students must be in grade 7 or above to receive a rating in a WSMA Solo & Ensemble Festival. Sixth grade students may participate in a rated ensemble only when at least 50% of the ensemble members are in grade 7 or above.
6. Students in grade 6 or above may participate at a WSMA District Solo & Ensemble Festival for Comments Only.
7. Students performing together in regular ensembles must be from the same WSMA member school. An exception is allowed only if all students in the ensemble are brothers and sisters from the same immediate family.
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