This is an off year for Scale Olympics – an amazing event that gives students the opportunity to set goals in the areas of Scales, Cadences, Arpeggios, Triads, Harmonization, Transposing, Sight Reading and Theory.  Each event is offered at eight levels of difficulty so all students – even beginners – can participate.  Students are awarded ribbons for each event they enter.  Students entering all eight events have the opportunity to receive one of the two top awards.

       Date:        Saturday, December 4, 2010

      Time:        9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

      Location:        Battelle Fine Arts Center – Otterbein College, Westerville

 Complete information will be available next year.

 There will be revisions to the Scale Olympics Handbook for 2010. You will be notified of these revisions, and an updated handbook will be posted to our website early in 2010.  In the meantime, the 2008 Handbook (available through the link below) has all of the information you need to fully understand this event.   Replacement and/or additional Handbooks are available from the chairman for $10 each, or you can download the Handbook by clicking on this link:
Scale Olympics 2008 handbook

An error has been discovered on the Fingering Chart in the Scale Olympics Handbook.
The error is in the left hand of the g#(ab) harmonic minor scale. The fingering listed is: 3213214 32132143

The correct fingering should be the same as the c# harmonic minor scale:
3214321 32143213

The judges will be instructed to accept either fingering for the g#(ab) harmonic minor scale for the 2008 Scale Olympics. The fingering will be changed the next time the Handbook is updated. In the meantime, please make this change in your Handbook.

Chairman/Registrar:
Cynthia Adams
1446 Weybridge Road
Columbus, OH 43220
(614) 327-1395
AdamsPiano@sbcglobal.net

Videotaping, photography, and any electronic recording are forbidden at all OMTA recitals and performance events.

Participation earns recertification credit.