What is MPA? (Music Performance Adjudication)
The North Carolina Bandmasters Association (NCBA) sanctioned concert band festival will:
Provide a performance opportunity for students and directors that offers a critical assessment of the quality of their performances by highly qualified experts in band performance.
Encourage participation in the only state-sanctioned event that provides a summative, standards-based assessment, designed to measure student performance as related to the goals, objectives, and grade-level competencies specified in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Provide the opportunity for students and directors to perform for and learn from their peers in a formal concert venue.
Provide a model that connects quality preparation with quality performance and supports the continued musical growth of students and directors.
Provide a performance opportunity for students and directors that offers a critical assessment of the quality of their performances by highly qualified experts in band performance.
Encourage participation in the only state-sanctioned event that provides a summative, standards-based assessment, designed to measure student performance as related to the goals, objectives, and grade-level competencies specified in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Provide the opportunity for students and directors to perform for and learn from their peers in a formal concert venue.
Provide a model that connects quality preparation with quality performance and supports the continued musical growth of students and directors.
Congratulations to the 2016-2017 8th Grade Band for their Excellent Rating at MPA!
Congratulations to the 2015-2016 8th Grade Band for their Excellent Rating at MPA!
CONGRATULATIONS! TO THE 2014-2015 8TH GRADE BAND FOR THEIR SUPERIOR RATING AT MPA!!
This is the first time in Ellis history that a band has gone grade III and made a Superior Rating!
CONGRATULATIONS! TO THE 2013-2014 8TH GRADE BAND FOR THEIR SUPERIOR RATING AT MPA!!
CONGRATULATIONS! TO THE 2012-2013 8TH GRADE BAND FOR THEIR SUPERIOR RATING AT MPA!!
