Violettes 2nd Youth Composition and Songwriter Contest Awards

Violettes by Becky Presents Awards

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Dear Students, Parents and Teachers,It was such a pleasure to listen to each of the compositions/songs. Congratulations to all who entered! The level of entries was very high, and the number of entries more than doubled from last year. This contest is meant to encourage you. The judges' feedback is meant to be helpful, so I hope you find it that way. (I don't have all the judges comments yet, so I will be emailing them with your certificates over the next 2 weeks.)We all must thank the wonderful volunteer judges : The 2 Songwriter judges, David Lauver and Tammie Dischner are both singer/songwriters who have won both Regional and National Songwriting Competitions. (Blog featuring Ms. Dischner coming soon). Senior composition judges are Esteban Alvarez and Richard Prior. Junior composition judges are Julie Fischer and Paul Brody.We also need to thank our generous prize donors: Digitrax Entertainment, SoKnox Studios,     JW Pepper (Sheet Music), Sheet Music Plus, and Performers Music. In addition, we thank our generous anonymous donor for the $1,000 Scholarship.Scoring: With the competition growing, we will post an official scoring method for next year. Previously, I left it up to the judges for individual scoring, but we had a rough time choosing winners in several catagories. Deciding whether instrumentation, form, creativity, length ... takes priority was impossible in cases. In one case, we had to resort to age to help break the several way tie!Next week, Violettes will post photos, bios and more music of winners.

Songwriter Contest Awards:

Senior - 1st Place presented in video by Violettes by Becky ( from Redondo Beach, CA)(I hope you don't mind the video announcement).-------------2nd Place Hanah Breck-Moore (Winnsboro, Texas)-------------3rd Place Hayden Kesterson (Knoxville, TN)Junior - 1st Place Ankitha Gopal (Campbell, CA)-------------2nd Place Aria Abhyankar (Richardson, Texas)Special School Team Award: Dr. Eisenberg and students Carlos Gomez, Anisa Napier,Taziyah  Briant-Prieto and Bryce Fraites. (New York)_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Composition Competition Awards:

Senior - 1st Place Winner presented in Video by Violettes by Becky (from Oyster Bay, NY)(I hope you don't mind the video).-------------2nd Place David Ghesser (Tarzana, CA)-------------3rd Place Scott Etan Feiner (Roslyn Harbor, NY)-------------Honorable Mention Davis Zamboanga (Dublin, CA)Junior - 1st Place Meagan Drinnon (Vero Beach, Florida)------------2nd Place Tie Nathanael Fleming (Harrisville, Pennsylvania)------------------------------------and Helena Abney-McPeek (Chicago, Il)------------Honorable Mention: Theo Harsham (Newton Highlands, MA) Please don't forget to support ViolettesbyBecky.com when you need awesome gifts!This also supports our Composition Competition and Songwriter Contest****************************************************************************************************************************************************************For competition Guidelines, See this LINK.