Solo ensemble festival Audience: anyone who are learning an instrument and want to get advice from professionals in Ann Arbor. Yesterday, I went to the district 12 solo ensemble festival at Pioneer High School. I played 2 trio with me friends and a solo. The trio we played were called Song of The Watchman and Entr'acte. I really like these two pieces they are slow and both has lots of dynamic changes. Both piece was not hard for individual players and it was easy put up together, but it is hard to express the music, especially for Entr'acte. We really have a hard time to understand what the composer what to show the audience with that piece, but we find how we want to play the piece and we got a I rating, which was the highest rating. The solo I did was called Nocturne. It was a much harder piece compare to the trios. And it was a pretty long piece. I was really out of breath at the end of the piece and get a 2 rating for it. So how does the whole thing works? First pick a piece that you like to play and submit a request form to AAPS music department. Next, practice your music, remember it must be longer than 2:00 minutes. Then you will get a time for the solo or ensemble time. And will have a section number as well. When the date for solo ensemble festival arrived. Go to the location of the event and look for the section number. The first room is the section number plus W. For example the section number I got was 10, so I went to 10W first. W Stands for warm up, every player will have 30 mins warm up time before performance. After warm up, there will be a student to show the way to the next room, which was the section number plus P. For example !0P. P stand for performance. There will be one judge in the performance room. He or she will be the judge and will give out the score. Each player will be graded on five different aspect. And will have the final grade from the average of the five. And the score sheet with judge's comments will be sent by mail. Those comments were really useful to me. And it really tells me what I should work on more. And what I was doing great.