MPA
​Music Performance & Assessment Festival

The APS District Music Performance & Assessment Festival (MPA) is a district festival for curricular choirs from Albuquerque to perform and receive comments and ratings from experienced choral judges. The festival takes place during the day and will excuse students from classes for part of the day. This performance is regarded as the most important of the entire year. It is the district-wide standardized testing equivalent for APS choir programs. Friends and families are welcome to attend.

2022-23 Music Performance Assessment
Dates, location and details TBD - Please see details from last year to get an idea of what this field trip will entail.

2021-22 Music Performance Assessments (MPA) Field Trip
Monday, March 14, 2022 
Volcano Vista High School. 
Beginning, Mixed, and Concert Choirs

​Please read the itinerary for your child’s class.

• Permission slips will be sent home today (Friday, Feb 25) and are due March 7. 
• All students should wear concert attire - EMS Choir shirt plus black bottoms/shoes.
• General Admission (6th graders) and Mixed Choir
  • Students arrive at school & gather in the choir classroom at 7:45 a.m. **Please make sure your child arrives by 7:45 a.m. on 3/14**
  • Warm-up, 8:50 a.m. Performance 9:15 a.m.; Sight Reading 9:50 a.m.
  • Lunch 10:30 a.m. 
  • Return to school at 12:00 p.m. and return to classes 
•  Concert Choir
  • Students will leave EMS at 2:00 p.m. 
  • Warm-up, 3:05 p.m. Performance 3:30 p.m.; Sight Reading 4:05 p.m.
  • Dinner 4:45 p.m.
  • Return to school at 6:15 p.m. **Please pick up your child from school at 6:15 p.m. on 3/14**
• Meals & Water: Students do NOT need to bring food or water on this trip. We will have water available for students, and the EMS Choir Boosters will provide a celebratory lunch for the students after their assessment. 
• Chaperones Needed for General and Mixed Choir: We need five chaperones in the morning for the General and Mixed Choir assessment and lunch. A supervised APS background clearance is required. (See below for more information about volunteering.) If you would like to chaperone, please click here to sign-up.
• MPA Ratings: If Concert Choir does well at MPA, they will qualify to go to the State Choir Competition on April 8-9.​