Run the whole event
from first check-in to final results.
Registration, scheduling, blind adjudication, honor-group rostering, and results delivery — one platform for every audition and festival. Built by music educators, for music educators.
| Performance | School | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Flute Solo | Riverside HS | I · Superior |
| Sax Quartet | Westfield HS | I · Superior |
| Trumpet Solo | Northgate HS | II · Excellent |
| Clarinet Choir | Fairview HS | II · Excellent |
Click through a festival and an audition
The Live Demo is a guided mock with sample data. Switch between the people who use MusicEdge on event day. No account needed, and nothing you click is saved.
- DirectorMy Events, the schedule, results with comment sheets, registration.
- JudgeScore a festival performance or a blind audition, or try the practice link.
- AccompanistOne timeline across every school, with tight transitions flagged.
- AdminThe Audition Manager and Festival Manager: scheduler, check-in, results.
Two systems. One platform.
One very smooth Saturday.
Doors open. Everyone’s already registered and scheduled.
Every director registered their solos, ensembles, large groups — and their accompanists — through one portal during registration. The auto-scheduler can cluster each school’s performances together, and when you move an entry on the grid it warns you about a room that doesn’t fit it, a clash with that school’s large group, or a time outside the room’s hours.
A performance ends. The rating is already posted.
The judge scores on the rubric from their device, and the moment they submit, the rating is live — the director sees Superior as soon as the judge is finished typing. Written comments and recorded voice feedback attach to the performance automatically. Nothing to collect between rooms, nothing to key in later.
A director asks to move a slot. You drag it.
The visual scheduler is a drag-and-drop tile grid with a bank sidebar — auto-generate, balance rooms, fill gaps. Director clustering keeps a school’s performances close together, and you publish the schedule when you’re happy with it.
Awards checkout in minutes, not hours.
As ratings post, the admin portal builds the checkout list for you: every school with its rating counts and exactly how many medals and plaques to hand over. Pull each school up at the awards table, hand off their awards, and mark them Done — the line keeps moving instead of stalling while someone counts slips. Certificates print in landscape with the administrator’s signature, and directors pull their comment sheets from their own portal.
The rest of the job, handled.
Recorded auditions
Directors record each student in their portal; judges score blind with the same rubric, with optional play limits.
In 2026 the 94th Annual Regional Music Festival ran its 1,100 entries on MusicEdge. Judges scored on their own devices, and directors saw their ratings as soon as each judge submitted.
Everything you might be wondering
Judge, director and registration pages work on phones; the admin tools are built for a laptop or tablet. Judges typically score on iPads or laptops, but a phone works in a pinch, and directors can check ratings from theirs. No app download required — it runs in any browser.
The judge portal has a built-in retry queue. If a submission fails because of the connection, the score is kept on the judge’s device and sent again automatically when the connection comes back (there is a Retry Now button too). Judges can keep scoring in the meantime. We also recommend printing blind schedule packets as a backup so judges can work on paper if needed.
Absolutely — that’s how most auditions work. Each judge logs in independently, sees the same blind queue, and submits their own scores. The system tracks each judge separately, averages scores across judges per category (or ranks them, your call per event), and the admin can see an audit trail showing every judge’s individual scores with timestamps. If a judge accidentally submits twice, the system updates rather than duplicates.
Each director has an account from registration. For a festival there is no release step: ratings, written comments and any spoken feedback appear in the Director Portal as soon as the judge submits, and directors can print comment sheets and certificates. For an audition, you finalize the results and directors see their students’ placements in the portal; you can also email them from the admin panel with one click.
Registrations and scores are visible only to signed-in people with access to that event. Audition judges see numbers, never names. Festival schedules (performer, school, time and the posted rating) are public, as at most festivals. For an audition, you decide when results are finalized.
Yes — that’s what makes this platform different. The registration portal handles both festival entries (solos, ensembles, large groups with I-V ratings) and audition entries (blind rubric scoring for honor bands, choirs, and orchestras). Directors register through one portal, and you manage everything from one admin dashboard. No need to juggle two different systems.
Built-in division support. Create a “High School” division (grades 9-12) and “Junior High” division (grades 7-8) inside the same event. Students auto-sort by grade. Rooms, scheduling, scoring, and rostering all filter by division. Each division gets its own roster configuration with independent band counts, instrumentation, and alternates. Judges don’t see divisions — they just score who’s in their room.
Recorded auditions are in development for the 2027 season with a pilot organization. Ask us if you’d like to be part of it.
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