In addition to paying the registration fee you must also fill out the registration form here to provide the following:
- Contact Info (Name, email, phone number, date of birth)
- Resume
- 3 video recordings performing on marimba: 2 solos (1 can be on another keyboard percussion instrument: vibraphone or xylophone) / 1 Chamber music piece with a substantial marimba part or a Marimba concerto with piano or ensemble. Each video recording must be at least 4 minutes in length.
- Statement of Intent
Competition Restrictions
- US artists only
- Must be 25 years or older as of June 1st, 2025*
- Masters Degree in Performance Required (completed spring 2024), Doctoral students welcome to apply
Semi-Final Interviews will take place in January 2025. Finalists will be announced Feb 1, 2025 - Winners will be announced during the summer of 2025. Finalists will appear with the HM Orchestra as an ensemble member in June 2025, travel and accommodations will be covered by HM. (2-3 finalists will be announced. HM holds the right to announce less than 3 winners. If the level isn’t sufficient, HM may not award an A or 1 winner.)
*For those who possess a masters degree and are under the age of 25 and wish to apply, please address your consummate professional and organizational experience in your statement of intent.
Prizes
- Winner 1 prizes
- $400 cash award
- Free mallets from M1 and Salyers Perc
- HM Artist roster contract
- Travel and accommodations covered to participate in the HM Orchestra, June 25-29, 2025, Waterloo, Iowa.
- Featured on concert, shared with shared with winner A and HMQ - Minneapolis, MN, fall 2025
- Winner A prizes
- $400 cash award
- Free mallets from M1 and Salyers Perc
- HM Artist roster contract
- Travel and accommodations covered to participate in the HM Orchestra, June 25-29, 2025, Waterloo, Iowa.
- Featured on concert, shared with winner 1 and HMQ - Minneapolis, MN, fall 2025
- Runner-up/First-call sub prizes
- $150 cash award
- Free mallets from M1 and Salyers Perc
Please Note: HM is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization committed to the advancement of the marimba and keyboard percussion art form, benefitting the careers of artists and composers, and placing great importance on community connection and education. Every member of the artist roster is expected to be involved in the day-to-day administration of the organization and booking events for each season. HM is 10 years old. It is a leader in the percussion field and chamber music world with a unique, multi-faceted model, and provides a one-of-a-kind benefit to its artists. To continue our impact and growth, all artists are busy taking care of organizational, behind-the-scenes work, just as much as they are busy with practicing and performing the music for our concerts. HM is exclusively a chamber music company. We rarely promote our artists as soloists. When we are on tour, we do master classes as a group, when we program for our performances, priority is always placed on doing chamber music. Artists are expected to maintain a robust performance career as a soloist, collaborator, educator, and/or large-ensemble musician outside of their work with HM, and those individual endeavors help to bolster HM’s impact worldwide. Each artist is also expected to list HM in their biography and to make being an HM Artist a visible and substantial part of their identity as a musician.
