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Arizona All-State band audition requirements

AMEA's handbook requires on-site auditions, with screens for woodwind and brass players.

AMEA | All-Regional auditions

Start with one passage

Check AMEA's All-Regional auditions requirements for your instrument. Audition date: January 23, 2027.

Begin your etude with a short passage. Confirm the official packet with your director.

Results are emailed to teachers, not posted publicly.

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Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://azmea.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/AMEA-ACTIVITIES-HANDBOOK-26-27-3.pdf

What to work on this week

Use this plan for your next round, a solo, or next season. Not taking another audition? Choose music with your director and use the same steps.

5 minutes - Read before playing. Find the required passage in the official packet. Mark its start and end. Count through a rhythm that needs attention.
10 minutes - Work on one small chunk. Choose a few notes or a short phrase. Play slowly enough to follow the notes and rhythm.
10 minutes - Connect two chunks. Practice the next small section. Then join the sections, paying attention to the connection.
5 minutes - Record and listen. Record the joined passage. Follow the score while listening. Write down one thing to revisit.

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Arizona Music Educators Association (AMEA)

2026-27 materials are posted.

The full requirements were not readable from a public official source.

Ensembles: High School All-State Band
Season: 2026-27
Audition window: AMEA's 2026-27 handbook gives on-site High School All-State auditions March 5-6, 2027 at Gilbert High School. Registration through OpusEvent closes at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 19, 2027.
Instruments: high school woodwinds, brass and percussion

What the organization posted

AMEA's handbook requires on-site auditions, with screens for woodwind and brass players. Winds and percussion prepare Set 2 etudes for 2026-27, available in the Etudes Folder in AMEA's members area. Woodwind and brass players perform two major scales chosen from all keys plus one chromatic scale, all from memory. Major scales need a minimum quarter note = 120 for full credit. The required scales are posted at the registration desk. Sight-reading consists of one or two short selections.

Notes

AMEA's 2026-27 Activities Handbook gives the All-State dates and requirements on pages 68 and 74-77. The band and orchestra audition fee is $35 per audition (page 73). Set 2 etude music is in AMEA's members area; ask your director for your instrument's etudes.

Retrieved from the organization's page on October 5, 2026.

AMEA Activities Handbook 2026-2027

Practice for your audition with your tempo, tuner and drone on one screen

Virtunity is a practice app built by a band director. Set up each scale and excerpt, then work it up a step at a time.

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How it fits each part of this audition

Scales: Set up each scale in Virtunity and practice it with the metronome at your audition tempo, with the tuner and drone in the same window. Scale Checker confirms scale notes on your iPhone. Notes only. Not tone, rhythm or a complete performance.
Prepared etudes: Keep the PDF in your Music Library and set the piece up in practice with the metronome, tuner and your notes beside it. Start under tempo: good reps in a row move the tempo up a step, and Keep lets you stay at the old tempo.
Sight-reading: Sight Reading Sprint in the Lab puts one note at a time on the staff for a 60-second round of fast note reading. It is not a full sight-reading excerpt, so read something new every day too, and keep your counting steady with the Lab's rhythm modules.
Tone and intonation: Every judge listens for these. The tuner shows your note and how sharp or flat it is, and the drone gives you a steady reference pitch for long tones.
Tempo: Tap tempo finds a marked tempo, and subdivision clicks keep your eighths, triplets and sixteenths even.

For students 13 and up. Virtunity helps you prepare. Your playing on audition day earns the chair.