Solo & Duet

Praising God is not just a group activity. The teachings and traditions of our Church fathers clearly show how praise is considered prayer and how God’s presence could be felt during praise that flows from the heart.

Competition Guidelines:

• The Solo & Duet activity is for all ages.

• In a Solo or Duet performance, contestants are required to present part of a song with or without music.

• This is different from a solo performance within a choir.

• The Solo & Duet performance must not exceed 3 minutes.

• At the final submission, the project must be uploaded to Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/c/CopticFestival.  File size must not exceed 500 MB, using MP4 format indicating church name, name and age group

• An approval letter from the church's priest need to be provided and uploaded by the festival's servants otherwise media will not be counted.  

Evaluation Criteria

Performance: 45%

Important aspects to determine the quality of the performance:

• Clearly singing the words/lyrics

• Mastering of the pitch, rhythm, tempo

• Singing in tune and with the music

• If a duet, both participants are singing together in harmony.

Presentation: 20%

• Visual presentation: posture, body language (eg. slouching with hands in pockets), facial expressions (Do they seem to be enjoying/connecting with the praise).

• If Duet, uniformity (eg are both reading the lyrics, standing in the same position etc)

• Participants are singing with a positive and engaging attitude

• Engaging video: eg has a title screen, included lyrics, and other creative elements.

Relates to theme: 20%

Score should be given based on how strongly the song links to the theme. 

Singing with music: 5%

• Singing in tune and in time with the music.

• If the music is too loud and participants voices cannot be heard clearly then marks will be deducted. 

Quality of the recording: 5%

• Is the quality of the audio recording good so that you can hear everything clearly? Can you hear any background noise (e.g. white noise, footsteps etc)?

• Score 1-5 (1 is the lowest, 5 is the highest score).

Within time limit: 5%

If song is within 3 minutes score 5, if it exceeds 3 minutes by more than 10 seconds score 2.