MUSIC PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
The Music Performance Assessment program provides opportunities for students, ensembles, and directors to benefit from the performance assessment experience through our professional association, PMEA. Music Performance Assessments are a compulsory component of a quality music education. It gives credibility to our curriculum and provides students and directors with invaluable information on how to make their ensembles better!
Participation is open to bands, orchestras and choruses from the elementary, middle and high school levels and to students from grades 3-12 in Solo & Small Ensemble MPA’s. A Jazz Ensemble MPA structure is also available. Directors may participate in any MPA held in any PMEA District.
District 7 has been a leader in both hosting and participation in recent years!
Hosts have considerable flexibility in structuring a large ensemble MPA with numerous options available in addition to the typical mix of ensembles from different schools in either the ‘Traditional’ and ‘Festival’ performance context.
• ‘Internal’ MPA’s where all the participating ensembles are from the host’s school district
• ‘All-Festival’ MPA’s where all ensembles participate in the Festival performance context.
• ‘All Middle School’ MPA’s where the participating ensembles could include students from as young as grade 5 through grade 7 or 9. This MPA could be ‘internal’ with just ensembles from the host’s school district.
• ‘All String Orchestra’ MPA where all the ensembles are elementary, middle and/or high school string orchestras. It could also be structured as all ‘Festival’ or the typical mix of Festival and Traditional.
The current MPA Calendar as well as all guides to participating and hosting, selective music lists, forms and resources supporting Music Performance Assessments may be easily accessed within the MPA area of the PMEA website.
Contact District 7’s MPA Rep, Scott Muenz from Cedar Crest HS, with questions about participating in or hosting an MPA.
The PMEA Music Performance Assessment program coordinator, Tom Snyder, is also available as a resource. Tom is a retired music teacher and Arts Coordinator at West Allegheny SD in D1, currently living in Cranberry Township in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh.
Participation is open to bands, orchestras and choruses from the elementary, middle and high school levels and to students from grades 3-12 in Solo & Small Ensemble MPA’s. A Jazz Ensemble MPA structure is also available. Directors may participate in any MPA held in any PMEA District.
District 7 has been a leader in both hosting and participation in recent years!
Hosts have considerable flexibility in structuring a large ensemble MPA with numerous options available in addition to the typical mix of ensembles from different schools in either the ‘Traditional’ and ‘Festival’ performance context.
• ‘Internal’ MPA’s where all the participating ensembles are from the host’s school district
• ‘All-Festival’ MPA’s where all ensembles participate in the Festival performance context.
• ‘All Middle School’ MPA’s where the participating ensembles could include students from as young as grade 5 through grade 7 or 9. This MPA could be ‘internal’ with just ensembles from the host’s school district.
• ‘All String Orchestra’ MPA where all the ensembles are elementary, middle and/or high school string orchestras. It could also be structured as all ‘Festival’ or the typical mix of Festival and Traditional.
The current MPA Calendar as well as all guides to participating and hosting, selective music lists, forms and resources supporting Music Performance Assessments may be easily accessed within the MPA area of the PMEA website.
Contact District 7’s MPA Rep, Scott Muenz from Cedar Crest HS, with questions about participating in or hosting an MPA.
The PMEA Music Performance Assessment program coordinator, Tom Snyder, is also available as a resource. Tom is a retired music teacher and Arts Coordinator at West Allegheny SD in D1, currently living in Cranberry Township in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh.
D7 MPAs for 2025
** NEW FOR 2025 – District 7 WILL PAY THE REGISTRATION FEE for any ensembles that are NEW to PMEA MPAs as of 2025! Funds are available on a first come, first served basis, so please contact D7 MPA Rep, Scott Muenz, at [email protected] if you plan to take your group out for the first time! **
- March 10-14, 2025 - Millersville University - (Band, Chorus, Orchestra) - *in conjunction with LLMEA - During school day - Host – Scott Muenz – [email protected] (Google form registration sent to LLMEA members on January 3)
- April 1-3, 2025 - Cedar Crest HS - (Band and Orchestra) - During school day - Host – Jared Daubert – [email protected] (REGISTRATION CLOSED - MPA FULL)
- April 15, 2025 - Camp Hill HS - (Band) - During school day - Host - Armon Raygani - [email protected]
- March 10-14, 2025 - Millersville University - (Band, Chorus, Orchestra) - *in conjunction with LLMEA - During school day - Host – Scott Muenz – [email protected] (Google form registration sent to LLMEA members on January 3)
- April 1-3, 2025 - Cedar Crest HS - (Band and Orchestra) - During school day - Host – Jared Daubert – [email protected] (REGISTRATION CLOSED - MPA FULL)
- April 15, 2025 - Camp Hill HS - (Band) - During school day - Host - Armon Raygani - [email protected]