United States Open Music Competition

12/29/2018

Hello friends of USOMC! Are you looking for ways to become more involved in the competition? As our 2019 competition fast approaches, we are seeking volunteers to help run the event more smoothly.

No prior musical knowledge required, although a demonstrated enthusiasm for music is a plus! If interested, please check the link below or email [email protected] for more information

The United States Open Music Competition (USOMC) is seeking volunteers to monitor each competition room to ensure that each event runs smoothly and without interruptions. Since 1992, the United States

02/20/2017

USOMC 2017 has officially kicked off! Stop by the information desk to claim your very own USOMC pen and to find out where your event meets. Good luck to all our amazing competitors!

01/14/2017

Hello music enthusiasts! Our 2017 competition schedule is finally available! Please check out our website for scheduling information:

04/16/2016

Finally all concert videos have been uploaded. If you go to the concert page and you do not see all concerts, refresh the browser again. Enjoy! these folks are really good.

Go Warriors!

https://www.usomc.org/2016-concerts/

The Concert Video links from the final weekend of USOMC 2016 are now available to view and/or download. I hope you will enjoy watching and sharing these wonderful performances. Please also take time to watch and listen to other performers. Listening is a critical part of musical development. You mig…

04/11/2016

Wow! Videos are finally here. We have the concert #1 now and the rest should be coming soon. Please check this out and check out those wonderful performances.

https://www.usomc.org/2016-concerts/

03/16/2016

Pictures are in. Visit our web site and see those wonderful pictures. Videos should be available end of March, beginning of April. https://www.usomc.org/2016-competition/photo-gallery/

03/08/2016

A few update:

Some statistics for you: we have processed 168 medal shipping orders. That is unprecedented. It seems that a lot of people were missing the concerts on Saturday where the medals would have been presented. There were also a lot of questions about whether other places like 2nd and 3rd will have medals or not. All these 24 years, USOMC have been presenting medals for all places.

A correction on the 2017 event. It will be the week of Feb 20th as we always line up our event with the President Day of the year.

02/23/2016

Today is Feb 23rd, 3 days after the competition and the weekend concert. What a event, I will say.

I quoted from the program book "we have 2462 entries from different parts of the world to participate in 153 events (in total)"

And sure enough, it was one hack of a week. The competition ended with 5 concerts. Each concert was also a competition within a competition. The highest honor of USOMC was also awarded to 5 to 6 extremely talented individual who performed marvelously in the concerts. However, surprises did not stop here. In some categories, there were special momentary award where generous donors provided additional fund to categories of their interest.

All right now. Videos are in production. USOMC will notify all contestants when they are available. While you all could rest, USOMC staffs are processing medal orders right now.

thank you all for another wonderful USOMC year! Stay tune and definitely see you again next year.

02/12/2016

Wow! 2 more days and that is it.

2016 USOMC Event Program is available now. We are posting it online and with limited hard copy availability. Trying to save the trees.

http://www.usomc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/2016_USOMC_Program_Final.pdf

02/11/2016

4 more days! Keep counting.

Want to give you a preview of the 2016 Program cover. Isn't this beautiful!

02/10/2016

Hi there! Anyone watched the Super Bowl? A good game, isn't it? For people in the SF bay areas, I think it is a relief that all those barricades have been removed and downtown is back to normal again. Hey! no complaint. Can't wait to see the next excitement. So everyone, wake up and get ready. USOMC 2016 is just 5 days away!!!

Whether you have checked your schedule before or not, I suggest that you check it again. Making sure there is no last minutes surprising.

Shine your saxophone, file your fingernails and come on in.

Schedule link is here just in case you do not know: https://www.usomc.org/competition-schedule/

1. We continue to host the 2016 Competition at the Oakland Inter-Stake Temple (Mormon Temple) in Oakland, California. The address is 4770 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602. (This beautiful facility is situated in an enclosed garden in the Oakland Hills).

12/05/2015

Today I would like to share something a bit different. It is not about music. It is about love; mother's love. This article makes me thinking about all the moms that I was working with during the registration period. Mothers tirelessly sent emails to USOMC making sure that their kids’ registration were fine. Mothers that might not be tech savvy trying to navigate the jungle of web pages to get their children registered. Mothers stayed up 2:00 am in the morning trying to registrar their kids on the night of the registration deadline. Mothers felt frustrated because their kids did not register right and now the deadline had passed; sent multiple emails to USOMC asking for exception. No matter how tiring or how frustrating they are, at the end you will see them sitting in the competition room joyfully waiting for their kids’ turn. Kids, you should really appreciate your mom’s love.

Bobby Wesson's tribute to his wife, Rayena, had been shared more than 155,000 times on Facebook as of Monday night.