The hard work and dedication of these students has truly paid off, and we are so proud of your accomplishments! Students earning two score of 90 or above, or an average of 90+ from the three adjudicators scores, advance to the Semifinal Round.

While the AuditionWare team is updating a coding error, there is delay in publishing the judging schedule for the Semifinal Round. The information should be available for your judging assignments by mid-morning on Monday.

SEMIFINAL ROUND ADJUDICATION REMINDERS

• Adjudicators will watch the video designated for the HONORS RECITAL in its entirety.
• Adjudicators will rank the singers in the semifinal. No student can receive the same rank as another student.
  • Auditions will be ranked from 1 – __ (the number of singers in the room).
  • 1 is the top/best rank.
  • There will be no written comments, and these ratings will not be returned to the teachers or students.

CLASSICAL DIVISIONS

CL 1	CL 2
Hannah Anand Keren Jolly Anand Josephine Chern Rosalyn Foreman Charlotte Li Stella Li Hrim Manish Mehta Daniel Philips Sophie Powada Kate Xu	Eva Adzhamoglian Rachel Liz Anand Ovi Ballal Angela Bibu Cynthia Cai Cora Dirk Brayden Flores Annie Myers Josie Perez Shreya Philips Audrey Wu

COMMERCIAL MUSIC DIVISIONS

CM 1	CM 2
Sri Gauri Doppalapudi Diya Desai Abigail Medina	Aurora Anne Carreon Emery Dunham Parth Gupta Josie Perez Shreya Philips Emerson Morgan
CM 3A	CM 3B
Elisa Feygin Madeline Darwin Aarushi Dinakar Agata Martini Tianah Mathew Cierra Demaris Areeba Syed Madelyn Taylor	Alejandra Baird-Valenzuela Ian Jacobs Elise King Alyssa Klecha Abigail Foster Catherine Clontz Melody Salinas Sariti Stewart Sarah Rodriguez
CM 4B	CM 5
Aidan Kohler Andrew Tran	Amarachi Nzeakor
CM 11
Addyson Ellis

MUSICAL THEATRE DIVISIONS

MT 1	MT 2
Keren Jolly Anand Avalyn Ann Bibu Josephine Chern Alan Csallner Rosalyn Foreman Carson Huang Molly Li Charlotte Li Ivy Liu Jessilyn Rodriguez Daniel Philips Hasini Prasanna Sophia Reyes Victoria Song Kate Xu Audree Martin	Ovi Ballal Eliza Bevan Cynthia Cai Cora Dirk Emery Dunham Beau Durkin Brayden Flores Lizzy Garcia Liam Loera Cosette LaBorde Annie Myers Mia Nguyen Josie Perez Shreya Philips Yujo Park Evelyn Sefcik Ellisyn Villarreal Isabelle Wright Hannah Wu
MT 3A	MT 3B
Claire Butler Vivian Connelly Elisa Feygin Olivia Garde Riley Hudnall Lexi Killian Mia Nguyen Caitlyn Peconga Clara Sankey Madelyn Taylor Renee Tse Himali Wickramasinghe	Alexandra Beaber Nicole Blanco Ava Cui Jack Curtis Danica Feig Emily Ford Micayla Gildon Brooklyn Hermance Erin LeBlanc Clare Kernan Lillie Eichenlaub Lyndal Heer Olivia Holloway Quinn Morgenroth Anna Nelson Addison Rives Sarah Rodriguez Evelyn Traynor Madaline Turbiville Veronika Wade Katherine Warner Abby Williams Diwa Zarate
MT 4A	MT 4B
Jevan Casten Kellan Jewett Jack Curtis Gavin Warner	Benjamin Akers Cooper Brandy Zayden Demler Luke Evans Creighton Garcia Wade Helkey Adam Hyink Tycho Larsen Liam Niznik Philip Ridley Andrew Tran
MT 5	MT 6
Michaela Alvarado Olyvia Owen Madeira Thomas	Luis Sanchez
MT 7	MT 8
Hannah Herrera Ericka Pugliese Alexandra Sanchez	Jonathan Gonzales Jacob Leal Dorian Speights Lazaro Perez
MT Avocational Adult	MT Non-Traditional Adult
Sean Clark Kathleen Cooley Jenna Cross Katalina Oviedo	Avalyn James

We will be sending an announcement with the names of the students advancing to the Final Texoma Spring NSA Round next Sunday, March 16th. Stay tuned for more updates, and best of luck in the next stage of the competition!

Happy New Year Texoma!

I hope this message finds you all well and having a wonderful start to your spring semesters! Registration opens on Monday, January 20, for our Spring 2025 Texoma Region Auditions. Please find essential information extracted from the attached PDF document to prepare for registration.
Please spend a few moments familiarizing yourself with the new requirements for Video Auditions that are outlined in-depth at the close of this message. It is imperative that you share the information with yourstudents and pianists and manage the details of the recordings and YouTube uploads carefully as recent
regulatory changes will impact the ability of your student videos to be adjudicated. Follow the step-by-step
instructions and you will have great success.

QUICK SUMMARY:
The Texoma NATS Spring Auditions will be held online utilizing the AuditionWare system beginning March 3, 2025.
The registration process for the auditions will open on Monday, January 20 th .
The registration deadline is Friday, February 14 th at 4:00 pm central time.
Video links are due Tuesday, February 25 th at 6:00 pm central time.
As a reminder, if you are submitting students to the auditions, you must be present and be available to judge for any session over the entire adjudication period (March 3-22). 
Please carefully review the following calendar, eligibility and registration requirements, and the highlighted changes for these auditions.
If you do not plan to register students for these auditions but would be interested in serving as a judge, please send Casey an e-mail by February 17 (ccarter@collin.edu).

AUDITIONS CALENDAR

• • Monday, January 20: registration opens

• • Sunday, January 26, 4:30 pm: Informational Meeting on Zoom. Request the meeting link here.

• • Friday, February 14, 6:00 pm: registration closes (all student information, repertoire, and payment for registration must be completed by this date)

• • Sunday, February 23, 3:00 pm: Adjudication Meeting One (teachers entering students must attend one of the two Adjudication Meetings on Zoom)
    Tuesday, February 25, 6:00 pm: video submission deadline

• • Sunday, March 2: Adjudication Meeting Two (teachers entering students must attend one of the
    two Adjudication Meetings on Zoom)

• • Sunday, March 2: Form Submissions Required (NSA Adjudication Video Viewing, Minor Forms)

• • Sunday, March 2: Adjudication

• • Monday, March 3: Preliminary Round judging begins

• • Saturday, March 8, 9:00 pm: Preliminary Round scores and comments are due

• • Sunday, 9 March, 7:00 pm: Semifinalist Announcements

• • Monday, 10 March: Semifinal Adjudication Begins 

• • Saturday, 15 March, 9:00 pm: Semifinal Adjudication Complete

• • Sunday, 16 March, 7:00 pm: Final Announcements

• • Monday, 17 March: Final Adjudication Begins

• • Saturday, 22 March, 9:00 pm: Final Adjudication Complete

• • Sunday, 23 March, 7:00 pm: Final Announcements

ELIGIBILITY REMINDERS:

• • Eligibility to Register:
    To register students for the Student Auditions, you will need to be up to date on your NATS
    national dues.

• • You will access the registration process through the NATS website at nats.org. Login at the NATS website, click on Member Home, and then scroll down until you see the green box “NATS Audition Registration.” 

• • This will take you to the AuditionWare registration program. 

• • Please be aware that it can take up to 24 hours for your dues to roll over into the registration website; this means, if you do not pay your dues until February 13, you will not have access to the registration website to register your students in time. Your best bet to make the process as easy as possible is to go ahead and check now that your dues are up-to-date and
    that you can get into the registration system, regardless of when you plan to register.

NATS STUDENT AUDITIONS RESOURCE.  Please utilize these resources for your repertoire, auditions, and audition questions.

• •  NATS NSA Resource Center

• • NATS NSA – Frequently Asked Questions

• • Children & Youth Category Resources

• • Commercial Music NSA Category Resources

• • Musical Theatre NSA Category Resources

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS & INFORMATION

• • Student registration fee: $25.00 per category

• • Registration for the auditions is accessed through AuditionWare, the new registration website.
    You must access Audition Ware through the NATS website.In order to access AuditionWare and register students, you must:
    – Login to https://nats.org. The login information for this website is unique to you and administered by the National NATS Office.
    – Once you are logged in, navigate to the “Member Home” page (the link is accessed through the “Menu” link, in the upper right corner of the website).
    https://nats.org/cgi/page.cgi/members_home.html
    – On the Member Home page, scroll down and select the green “NATS Auditions Registration” box. This will open AuditionWare. (If you do not see this link, your dues are not up-to-date.). This will take you directly to AuditionWare and log you in automatically.
    – On the left panel of the AuditionWare landing page, confirm that the Region is listed as “Texoma Region.” Depending on your NATS Chapter, you may also be working on registration for Chapter Auditions. You can switch back and forth from your Chapter to the Texoma Region using the “Location” button.
    – Select the “2025 Texoma NATS Online Auditions” box. This won’t be available until registration opens on Monday, January 20th .
    – If your School or Studio is NOT listed in the drop-down menu, send Casey Carter an email to request the information is added to the menu [ccarter@collin.edu].

SPRING TEXOMA CATEGORIES

Full details about the age limits, repertoire requirements, and audition specifics can be found here.

• • The top five finalists from most categories are eligible to enter the NSA National YouTube
    Round.

• • Starting in 2023, the student will enter the category of their age on September 1 st of the
    audition cycle.

• • Your singer’s age as of September 1, 2024, is the age that AuditionWare will use to sort
    your singer into the appropriate category.

MUSICAL THEATRE CATEGORIES

• • Children and Youth Categories (MT1, MT2)

• • High School Categories (MT3, MT4)

• • Post High School Categories (MT5, MT6, MT7, MT8)

• • Advanced Categories (MT9, MT10) – these categories do not advance to the NSA Auditions during the 2024/25 auditions cycle.

• • Adult Categories (MT11, MT12, MT13, MT14) – these categories do not advance to the NSA Auditions during the 2024/25 auditions cycle.

COMMERCIAL MUSIC CATEGORIES

• • Children and Youth Categories (CM1, CM2)

• • High School Categories (CM3, CM4)

• • Post High School Categories (CM5, CM6, CM7, CM8)

• • Advanced Categories (CM9, CM10)

• • Adult Categories (CM11, CM12, CM13, CM14) – these categories do not advance to the NSA Auditions during the 2024/25 auditions cycle.

CLASSICAL CATEGORIES

• • Children and Youth Categories (CL1, CL2)

Before you begin to register students, you will need the information in the Fillable Student Pre-Registration
Form for Teachers for each student.

• • Information must be accurate and complete since it is also used in the submission process
    as students advance towards the National rounds.

• • You can save and leave the audition form if you find you need to complete it later.

• • Do NOT use the teacher’s email, mobile, nor address.

• • Each entry must have a unique email and mobile identifier.

• • Minor students? You MUST enter the parent/guardian email and mobile information.

• • Do not enter the email and telephone information of a minor in the system

You may find it useful to have students fill out the Fillable Student Pre-Registration Form for Teachers.

• • First Name

• • Last Name

• • Phone Number (unique for each student)

• • Minor Students: provide the phone number for a parent/guardian – we will not contact
    minor students.

• • Email (unique for each student)

• • Minor Students: provide a unique email for a parent/guardian – we will not contact
    minor students.

• • Complete Mailing Address

• • Birth Date (month, day, year)

• • Audition Category

• • Pianist Name

• • Pianist Email Address

ENTERING MINOR STUDENTS?

• • As of the 2023/2024 NATS NSA Season, all minor students require a chaperone and signed permission form to perform and attend a NATS event. It is essential that you only provide email addresses and telephone numbers of the parent/guardian when registering minor students.

• • After registration closes, teachers will receive information to secure the NATS Permission of a
    Minor in Live Events documentation from Stephanie Beinlich.

COLLABORATIVE PIANIST AND ACCOMPANIMENT REQUIREMENTS

In Musical Theatre and Classical Category Auditions:

• • Perform with a live pianist whenever possible. If a live pianist is not available, you may perform
    your video audition with a piano-only accompaniment track.

• • If your voice teacher is your accompanist, their face or identity should not be visible in the video.

• • Pianists must play piano or a keyboard either from memory or from copyright-compliant scores.

• • A page-turner other than a voice teacher may be visible on camera as needed.

• • At live national-level NSA auditions, live collaborative pianists are required in these categories.
    Staff collaborative pianists are available to request when completing your online national NSA entry
    forms.

In Commercial Music Category Auditions:

• • Mandatory: Perform with a microphone on camera amplifying vocals—using no additional
    effects/filters. The microphone used on camera may feed directly into the camera or an external
    amp/speaker.

• • In either live auditions or video submissions, for each song entered you may choose to: 1. self-
    accompany from memory on an acoustic instrument, 2. perform with only one live acoustic
    instrumentalist (a keyboard is accepted as the only acoustic exception), or 3. perform with an
    instrumental pre-recorded track with no backing vocals. Remember: an acoustic guitar is accepted,
    but an electric guitar is not due to time and tech limitations.

• • You may make the same or different accompaniment choices for each selection taking care to follow
    the NSA Commercial Music requirements for the category entered.

• • If your voice teacher is your accompanist, their face must not be visible in the video.

• • Accompanying instrumentalists may play by ear, from memory, from a score the singer composed,
    or from copyright- compliant: lyric sheets, lead sheets, sheet music, music in a published book,
    purchased transpositions, original music for original songs, or published music with markings to
    personalize your interpretation. Any photocopies must be accompanied by written permission of the
    copyright holder.

• • A page-turner other than your voice teacher may be visible on camera as needed.

VIDEO SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Please share the following PDF with your students and pianists to ensure compliance with the
requirements: https://www.nats.org/_Library/NSA_Files/2024-25_NSA_Video_Submission_Guidelines.pdf

RECORDING LOCATION

• • You should record your video in the spirit of a live audition or recital performance. You may
    record in a home, school, church, synagogue, recital hall, rehearsal room, or voice studio with
    good natural acoustics with or without an audience. You should dress professionally, as you
    would for a recital or live audition.

• • Alternately, you may excerpt an unedited video clip of your solo performance with a pianist of
    a song/aria from a recital performance performed on or after September 1st in the NSA
    cycle/academic year in which you are entering. Video excerpts from concerts, operas, revues,
    musicals, or operettas cannot be accepted.

RECORDING SPECIFICS

• • All NSA video auditions must be performed on or after September 1st in the current NSA
    Cycle/academic year

• • Record a separate, unedited video of each song/aria entered.

• • Your camera must record your audition in LANDSCAPE (a horizontal camera-frame), from a
    fixed, audience- center position, as if adjudicators were seated in front of you.

• • Face the camera as you would face adjudicators in a live audition.

• • Your video must clearly show your face with your waist upward or more of your body in the
    camera’s frame as needed to keep your physical performance within the camera’s frame. Avoid
    empty space above head on video.

• • View a short [4:37] video of best practices for recording video submissions.

• • The student’s slate (see script at bottom of this page) may be recorded as part of the performance or recorded separately from the singing, then edited to the beginning of the unedited video of the song/aria performed.

AUDITION-PERFORMANCE

• • MANDATORY: Slate/Introduce yourself and your selection at the beginning of each video.
    Introduce by stating only:
     – I am (Your Name)
     – I will perform (Title of Selection) or I have (Title of Selection)
     – from (Title of Larger Work) OMIT THE TITLE OF THE LARGER WORK WHENEVER NOT APPLICABLE
     – by (Composer’s Name)

• • IF A MUSICAL THEATRE SELECTION has an additional lyricist, ADD THE FOLLOWING LINE and (Lyricist’s Name)

• • WHEN A MUSICAL IS BY A KNOWN WRITING TEAM, THE LAST TWO
    LINES ABOVE MAY BE SAID IN ANY ORDER: Lerner & Loewe, Maltby &
    Shire, Ahrens & Flaherty, Lieber & Stoller, Barlow & Bear, and more are best
    known as lyricist & composer

• • Perform each of your selections from memory in your video, unless otherwise stipulated in the NSA regulations.

• • Participants in ALL NSA Categories (Classical, Musical Theatre, Spirituals, and/or Commercial Music) must perform full songs or arias. 16-bar, 32-bar, etc. audition cuts are not accepted.

• • The identity, logo, or image of your teacher, school, location, or NATS chapter/district/region must not be spoken or revealed in your video in any way including posters, photographs, reflections in mirrors/glass/shiny surfaces, diplomas, flags, banners, video’s titling and description, etc.

YOUTUBE VIDEO SETTINGS

• • Select “Unlisted” in the privacy settings found under the Broadcasting and Sharing Options, when uploading your video files to YouTube. No other settings are accepted in NSA.

• • Each video’s title should be in the following format: NATS NSA – Singer’s Full Name

• • All video titles must be the same at all levels of NSA. Video titles must not contain any reference to
    chapter, district, or region, school, teacher, etc.

• • Type in the YouTube “Description” for each video:
     – I DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHT TO THE MUSIC IN THIS STUDENT AUDITION
     – “Title of Selection”
     – Title of LARGER WORK whenever applicable
     – Composer’s Name
     – if a Musical Theatre selection, ADD: & Lyricist’s Name

• • Turn OFF the video comments option on each video uploaded to YouTube.

• • YouTube Channel Background, Banner, Titles, Logos, and Images must NOT reveal Teacher, School, Location, NATS Chapter/District/Region, Studio Names, or Affiliations of the Teacher or the Student auditioning.

• • YouTube is the only video uploading platform accepted. (No video auditions uploaded to Vimeo, Flickr, Vevo, or personal websites, etc. will be accepted.)

SUBMISSION – By teachers only

• • In your online registration/entry, the teacher must provide a copy the complete web link/URL for each video matching the selection’s title. No extra blank space either before or after the web address, please.

• • Check your video submission’s link to be sure the video and music are in sync, the volume of the singing is adequate to be adjudicated, and the performance is of a complete selection. The silences before and after your performance may be trimmed.

• • Double-check to be certain the video performance matches the selection’s title on YouTube and on your entry’s registration. Video performances not matching titles may disqualify an audition.

• • Upload 2, 3, 4, or 5 separate videos matching the number of selections required in your Category of Entry.

INVALID VIDEOS

The following issues make a video submission unacceptable and result in the disqualification of the singer.
If possible, comments will be provided for singers that are disqualified from the auditions.

• • Videos uploaded as “private” or “removed by user” obviously cannot be adjudicated

• • Videos revealing teacher’s identity, image, school, location, voice/music studio; student’s school, location; or NATS: chapter, district, or region—in the video submitted OR on the YouTube channel used for uploading videos submitted

• • Videos that pan and/or zoom during performances

• • Videos using recording equipment that alters the acoustics of the venue or the sound quality of the singer by adding distractingly unrealistic reverb, altering the pitches sung, digitally altering or filtering the vocals either during or after the video is filmed

• • Videos of repertoire not entered in your region’s category in which you placed to qualify for national preliminaries

• • CM Video Submissions, on which the singer is not performing with a microphone visible on camera to amplify their vocals

• • CM Video Submissions with backing vocals on the accompaniment track

• • CM Video Submissions with electric instruments other than one keyboard, or with more than one acoustic instrument providing the live accompaniment, i.e. any handheld percussion instruments like shakers count as one accompanying instrument

• • CL, HJ, or MT Video Submissions with more than a piano or electric keyboard playing on the
    accompaniment track

• • Videos that are incomplete—full songs are required

• • Videos in which the singer appears to be looking at anything written to aid memorization

• • Videos recorded/filmed before September 1st in the academic year of the video’s submission

• • Any video audition conducted or side-coached by another person (positioned on or off camera) during the video’s recording

• • YouTube submissions monetized on YouTube; ads will delay adjudication and may result in YouTube’s blocking or removing the video submitted

If you should need further assistance regarding the upcoming conference or auditions, the following points
of contact will come in useful.  For questions regarding… 

• • Student Auditions: Casey L. Carter [ccarter@collin.edu] – Auditions Chair

• • Audition Repertoire: Stephanie Beinlich [stephanie.beinlich@gmail.com] – Assistant Auditions Chair

• • Registration/Payment: Greg Brookes [gregory.brookes@ttu.edu] – Treasurer/Registrar

• • Texoma Website: Mikhail Smigelski [smigels.m@gmail.com]  – Webmaster