About State Farm Original Score Contest

Texas State Farm agents, in a new partnership with Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) presents the 2010 State Farm Original Score Contest. 

The contest is open to all students enrolled in a Texas public or private high school music program.

The goal of the program is to give educators and students a unique, engaging and valuable Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - based learning experience and award high school music programs for excellence in musical collaboration, creativity and performance.

State Farm has committed $100,000 to be awarded to Texas high school music programs. 

Music educators are asked to lead students in a project in which they will -

-          Compose an Original Score that reflects something great about Texas.

-          Bring together an ensemble of student musicians to perform the composition

-          Post the Audio or Video production online at  OriginalScoreContest.com.

Winning ensembles will be selected based on scores received from a panel of third-party adjudicators and online voting. A complete outline of judging criteria and process will be available at OriginalScoreContest.com and in the official Original Score Contest participation packet available after March 16th, 2010.

The competition is structured to benefit public and private high school music programs in all classifications and offer equal awards within two competition groups. 

High schools within 4A and 5A divisions will compete and high schools within 1A – 3A divisions will compete separately with awards being distributed equally among small and large school programs.

The grand-prize winner in each classification group will receive $25,000 for their music / fine arts program – two (2) $25,000 awards will be given for a total of $50,000.

The second-place winner in each classification group will receive $15,000 for their music / fine arts program – two (2) $15,000 awards will be given for a total of $30,000.

Twenty (20) honorable-mention winners in each classification group will receive a $500 award for their music / fine arts department. Up to $20,000 will be shared among 40 schools.

In total, State Farm will award $100,000 to Texas high school music programs to be utilized at the discretion of the high school music / fine arts director.

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State Farm has committed $100,000 toward Texas high school music education programs through a new partnership with Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA).  The 2010 State Farm Original Score Contest encourages collaboration among music educators, music students and other fine arts departments.  The goal of the program is to award high school music programs for excellence in musical collaboration, creativity and performance.