Time Limit: 06:00

Date: 6:30pm, Tuesday 1 July Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre Registration Fee: $25 Time limit: 6 minutes Requirements: Music of own choice within classical styles of vocal music. Prizes: 1st – $90, 2nd - $55, 3rd – $30 Accompanist fee: $10 The official accompanist must be booked and the fee paid at the time of entry. The accompanist fee covers the performance only. Rehearsals are strongly encouraged and can be arranged directly with the accompanist. These will incur additional fees as determined by the accompanist. Entrants may use their own accompanist by private arrangement. Pre-recorded accompaniment is not permitted for this section.

Time Limit: 06:00

Date: 7.30pm, Tuesday 1 July Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre Registration Fee: $25 Time limit: 6 minutes Requirements: Oratorio or cantata of own choice. Prizes: 1st – $125, 2nd – $75, 3rd – $50 Accompanist fee: $10 The official accompanist must be booked and the fee paid at the time of entry. The accompanist fee covers the performance only. Rehearsals are strongly encouraged and can be arranged directly with the accompanist. These will incur additional fees as determined by the accompanist. Entrants may use their own accompanist by private arrangement. Pre-recorded accompaniment is not permitted for this section.

Time Limit: 06:00

Date: 8.30pm, Tuesday 1 July Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre Registration Fee: $25 Time limit: 6 minutes Requirements: Art song or lieder of own choice. Prizes: 1st – $125, 2nd – $75, 3rd – $50 Accompanist fee: $10 The official accompanist must be booked and the fee paid at the time of entry. The accompanist fee covers the performance only. Rehearsals are strongly encouraged and can be arranged directly with the accompanist. These will incur additional fees as determined by the accompanist. Entrants may use their own accompanist by private arrangement. Pre-recorded accompaniment is not permitted for this section.

Time Limit: 08:00

Date: Heats – 6:30pm, Wednesday 2 July; Final – 2pm, Sunday 17 August Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre Registration Fee: $25 Time limit: Heats – 8 minutes; Final – 12 minutes Requirements: Heats – One operatic aria of own choice. Final – Finalists must sing the operatic aria from their heats together with one other contrasting classical piece of own choice (e.g. lieder or art song) which has not been sung in any other section at this year’s Eisteddfod. Eligibility: Participants must have also performed in either Section 2.01, 2.02 or 2.03 Prizes: 1st – $800, 2nd – $500, 3rd – $300 Accompanist fee: $10 The official accompanist must be booked and the fee paid at the time of entry. The accompanist fee covers the performance only. Rehearsals are strongly encouraged and can be arranged directly with the accompanist. These will incur additional fees as determined by the accompanist. Entrants may use their own accompanist by private arrangement. Pre-recorded accompaniment is not permitted for this section.

Time Limit: 08:00

Date: 6:30pm, Monday 30 June Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre Registration Fee: $25 Time limit: 4 minutes Requirements: Song of own choice. Contemporary styles – not musical theatre. Prizes: 1st – $60, 2nd – $35, 3rd – $25 Adjudicator: TBC Participants who are either related to the adjudicator or have been taught privately by the adjudicator within 6 months prior to date of event are ineligible to participate in this section. Accompanist: There is no official accompanist for this section. Participants must either provide their own piano accompanist, or provide pre-recorded accompaniment in mp3 format on USB on the day of the event. Participants are not allowed to accompany themselves.

Time Limit: 08:00

Date: 7.30pm, Monday 30 June Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre Registration Fee: $25 Time limit: 8 minutes Requirements: Two contrasting songs of own choice (e.g. upbeat and ballad, jazz and pop). Contemporary styles – not musical theatre. Prizes: 1st – $90, 2nd – $55, 3rd – $35 Accompanist: There is no official accompanist for this section. Participants must either provide their own piano accompanist, or provide pre-recorded accompaniment in mp3 format on USB on the day of the event. Participants are not allowed to accompany themselves.

Time Limit: 08:00

Date: 8.30pm, Monday 30 June Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre Registration Fee: $25 Time limit: 8 minutes Requirements: Two contrasting songs of own choice (e.g. upbeat and ballad, jazz and pop). Contemporary styles – not musical theatre. Prizes: 1st – $125, 2nd – $75, 3rd – $50 Accompanist: There is no official accompanist for this section. Participants must either provide their own piano accompanist, or provide pre-recorded accompaniment in mp3 format on USB on the day of the event. Participants are not allowed to accompany themselves.