2023/2024 MUSIC SUNDAYS

The concerts will take place for the 2023/24 season at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Café, unless the Museum, or a new Café Operator needs the venue for their own use.

Registration is now open for performers for the Spring concerts from January to May. The deadline for signing up is the Sunday before the concert. Any late registrations, or if the concert is already fully subscribed, will be signed up for the next concert.

These are the dates of the concerts being held this season.
October 29th, 2023
November 26th, 2023
January 28th, 2024
February 25th, 2024
March 24th, 2024
April 7th, 2024
April 28th, 2024
May 26th, 2024

general information

How to sign up to perform

To perform in these concerts you need to be a member or a student of a member of MTA-NWT. We encourage members of MTA-NWT to have their students sign up to perform at these concerts on a first come first served basis. To sign up for a concert, or if you or your students would like more information about participating in these low stress, friendly performance opportunities, please email us at MTAmusicsundays@gmail.com. The deadline for registration is the Sunday before each concert, but earlier submissions are always welcome. Please have the parent or guardian of each student complete a registration form and submit it by the deadline. If you or your child are an NWT resident but take lessons online from a teacher outside the NWT, either the parent or the student may join MTA as a ‘Friend of the Society’ for the student to be eligible to participate, or their teacher may join the society as a Full or an Associate Member.

Please note, if you are performing with an accompanist, your accompanist will need to complete this form.

Expectations

There are no auditions, however, these are not jam sessions. The expectation is that all pieces or songs will be well prepared and ready for a public performance at whatever stage a musician is in his/her learning journey. Students should only sign up on the recommendation of their teachers. Teachers are welcome to submit students for up to a maximum of 20 minutes total playing time per studio. Exceptions may be made by the organizer when appropriate.
No individual or ensemble performance should exceed 10 minutes.
For dates when there is high demand for performance opportunities, individual performances will be limited, at the discretion of the organizer and depending on the performance level, to one selection and the time per performer limited in order to accommodate the maximum number of performers. This means that very young beginners receive less than a minute and those at a more advanced level in their musical journey are granted a longer performance time per selection of up to 10 minutes.

AUDIENCE

We put up a few posters in strategic spots and on social media, but the rest is up to you! Post on Social Media, promote yourself! While there are always a few people who happen to be in the Museum who sit down to listen, and in the pre-COVID past had some regular audience members not related to the performers or teachers who loved our Sunday afternoon concerts, having an audience to play for is, as always, up to the performers! If you would like an audience when you or your students perform, invite your family and friends to come to the concert!

volunteers

We need people to assist with setting up and taking down for every concert! We need to move tables, chairs and a grand piano. Please consider volunteering for one or two of our concerts each season in order to keep this MTA-NWT program viable.