Accompaniment CD

• Only Music-CD format will be allowed to use as accompaniment. Cassette-tape, MD nor MP3 player are not allowed.
• We strongly recommend to use CD-R media. Please do NOT use CD-RW to avoid trouble while playing.
• Please pay attention for sound level and quality when you make your accompaniment CD.
• We strongly recommend to double check by playing on CD player, not only on PCs.
• To make accompaniment CD, you should divide track for Classical and Popular pieces and record those pieces in the same CD.
• Don’t divide in tracks on your performance, meaning if the song is made by a series of pieces. (ex. you play 1st movement and 2nd movement continuously. If so, you should make one track for 1st and 2nd movements on your accompaniment CD.)
• You should prepare two accompaniment CDs, those should be completely the same, one for main, one for sub. And write your name and entry number and main/sub using felt-pen on the CDs.
• We will be sending the “Performance Form” by e-mail, so please fill them up and bring with you. The staff will collect your accompaniment CDs with the form at the Entry Orientation from 9am on Apr 6th.
• After Allied Arts, the staff will return your accompaniment CDs. Please don’t forget to pick them up. If you were classified for the Final, you must fill out another “Performance Form” for the final and handle it to the staff.
• If we have a read error on your CDs and can’t play your accompaniment, you can perform without accompaniment (points deducted for acapella) or drop out.
• The interval between Classical and Popular performance is not included on your performance time.

Volume Balance

• We will not have rehearsal. If you fell any problem for volume balance during your performance, you can inform to the audio engineer by making gesture.

Microphone, Mic-stand

• The Microphone model is Shure SM58 with mic-stand without wind-screen.

Music-stand

• We strongly recommend to perform without score. So, we will not prepare music-stand except Allied arts.

Dress-code

• We don’t have any particular dress-code but we expect to be suitable choice for your performance.

Practice

• The dressing room on the second floor is not soundproof, so, it is not allowed to practice in that room. Please use shared practice room on the 4th Floor for your practice.
• It is not allowed to whistle in corridor (or hallway), outside hall, back stage and lobby as well.

Performance order

• In the second selection, the order is inverse alphabetical (Family Name). (Z to A)
• You should come at the back stage until finishing performance of the second advance contestant.
• In the final, the order may be random. The result of the second selection and the order of the final will be posted at the lobby after the announcement.
• The order of category is Classical first and then Popular second.

Other

• We are going to take photo with all participants at the stage after the Award Ceremony, please be around at the time.