All-State posting

Louisiana All-State band audition requirements

Two rounds.

LMEA | District (first round)

Waiting for results

Check LMEA for District (first round) results. Ask your director about the release date.

Keep a passage of your etude ready, or start music for your next goal.

Check official results information

Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://lmeamusic.org/band/

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 - Review a familiar scale or pattern. Choose one connected to the etude. Keep the tempo comfortable.
10 minutes - Revisit an etude passage. Choose a section you want to keep ready. Work slowly where needed.
5 minutes - Record and check. Record a short section. Listen with the score and mark one detail to practice next.
10 minutes - Read something different. Try a short, unfamiliar piece or a possible solo. Look over its key, meter, and rhythms before playing.

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LMEA

Louisiana Music Educators Association (LMEA)

2026-27 materials are posted.

Ensembles: All-State Symphonic Band, All-State Concert Band
Season: 2026-27
Audition window: All auditions, registrations and fees were due to the district director by October 10, 2026 (11:59 pm); that deadline has passed. Each of the nine districts set its own date, fee and location; results are posted October 20, 2026 (by 11:59 pm); registration for selected students closes November 6, 2026 (by 11:59 pm). No time zone is stated.
Instruments: all band instruments - winds and percussion, including melodic (mallet) and four-mallet percussion

What the organization posted

Two rounds. Round one is a live district-level qualifying audition; round two is the state-level round, described by LMEA as a live monitored audition submitted as an mp3 file. Wind players perform all twelve major scales and the chromatic scale in the order and with the articulation printed on the LMEA All-State scale sheets, plus two prepared etudes, one slow and one fast, drawn from the current rotation - Set III for 2026-27 - using the selected cuts provided by the Band Division chairperson. All students also sight-read a short selection. Melodic percussionists play three of the twelve major scales on a rotating basis from the mallet scale sheet, and students auditioning on percussion instruments will prepare one 4-Mallet Exercise, which includes three progressions, as part of the 4-year rotation (Set III - 2026-27). Students must be in grades 9 through 12, enrolled in a Louisiana-accredited high school and active in that school's ensemble program, and the director must be a current LMEA member. The second-round fee is $15 per audition; the first-round fee is set by the district.

Notes

The Set III cuts PDF for 2026-27 was posted in May 2026 and is linked directly from this page along with the scale sheets and the four-mallet exercise sheet. LMEA runs nine districts that each set their own first-round dates, fees and locations, so students should also check their district site. The LMEA All-State Middle School Jazz Ensemble has a single live monitored audition.

Retrieved from the organization's page on September 21, 2026.

All-State High School Band - Louisiana Music Educators Association

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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.
A recorded audition: Practice the run-through. Record a final take and listen back in Review before you record the real one. A saved take stays private until you choose to share it with a connected teacher.
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.