How To Organize a Virtual Piano Festival

Any other music teachers out there, wondering how you’re going to run the Fall Festival this year? Or the Sonatina Festival, the Solo & Ensemble events – it’s hard to know what the rest of the year even will look like at this point! Music is vital, it’s essential to our lives and to children’s lives. Yet with constantly changing restrictions, we’re all wondering how to host music evaluations and assessments this year. Simplissimo takes away any concerns by offering a simple way to host Virtual Music Festivals. We make it easy and simple to run a virtual music festival. Easy for the festival administration, the teachers, and the adjudicators.

Simplissimo software makes festival administration easy.

It makes everything simple for volunteers from teachers associations and busy teachers at schools. No more check collecting, waiting for the mailed entries, and worrying about accidentally missing one entry. When you consider hosting a festival there are so many questions:

Will your venue allow you to meet there?
Is it possible to have required social distancing for a festival?
Do we need to buy sheets of plexiglass?
How is the air filtering and circulation in your venue?
What will my state and county even allow in the fall or the spring?

The questions go on and on. Festival organizers have to deal with a lot of unknowns now. Transitioning your festival to be online solves a lot of these challenges, but raises a few new ones – How do teachers submit student videos? How do judges submit ratings? Will everyone need to be a techie to make it work?

Teachers love Simplissimo.

Now if you’re worried about teachers managing new programs we have good news! Many teachers have successfully navigated Simplissimo online festivals! They assure us it really is easy to figure out. With smartphones and tablets, teachers or parents can easily record a good quality piano performance and upload it right to YouTube. For extra help, we offer simple checklists and instructions to share with teachers so they have something to refer to if they get stuck. And our customer support team is great at handling any problems that may arise so teachers & admin can always feel free to contact us.

Adjudicating online festivals is organized and efficient.

You still get to hire your favorite adjudicators, just like you do for in person festivals or competitions. Once teachers finish submitting everything, the administrator will send their judges a link to their private dashboard. Here they can easily view performances & scanned music while entering comments and ratings quickly. There’s no hassle of sharing 20+ videos, scanned music files, and comment sheets for each student through emails. It’s all saved in one spot that’s easy for everyone to access. When finished, teachers can print adjudication sheets to share with students.

All the wonderful results of a festival are right here. From the growth in our students as they work hard to prepare, to the leap in learning that comes with from an amazing adjudicator’s comments. And we can’t forget the increase in confidence a successful performance brings to every student.

Running a virtual festival with Simplissimo is easy and possible! It requires no stress for the festival administrators, the teachers or the adjudicators.

Are you ready to start planning your next event? Contact our team and get set up now. Ask about our Fall Discount that ends September 1st!