2008 PianoArts National Piano Competition and Music Festival.

2008 PianoArts National Piano Competition and Music Festival. The 2008 PianoArts National Piano Competition and Music Festival,with prizes totaling more than $18,000, is open to contestants ages15-19. The semifinals and finals will be held June 19-24, 2008, inMilwaukee, Wisconsin For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation).Milwaukee is the largest city within the state of Wisconsin and 25th largest (by population) in the UnitedStates. . The postmark deadline for the preliminary DVD DVD:see digital versatile disc. DVDin full digital video disc or digital versatile discType of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. orVHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. Video submission is March 15, 2008. Contestants must submit a performance of a solo work of thecontestant's choice and the first movement of a Mozart or Beethovenconcerto from the PianoArts required repertory REPERTORY. This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found. Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Merl. Repertoire, h.t. 2. list with a secondpianist performing the orchestral reduction. Twelve contestants willadvance to the semifinal round held in June. Required repertory is onthe PianoArts website at www.PianoArts.org. For more information, visit www.PianoArts.org.