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Maine All-State band audition requirements

Auditions are offered both as recorded submissions through MMEA's virtual audition portal and as in-person auditions at regional sites.

MMEA | BOC All-State

Start with one passage

Check MMEA's BOC All-State requirements for your instrument. Audition date: confirm with your director.

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

Acceptance notification is stated; no public results-list URL is stated.

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Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://mainemmea.org/boc-all-state-audition-info

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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MMEA

Maine Music Educators Association (MMEA)

2026-27 materials are posted.

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

Ensembles: BOC All-State Band
Season: 2026-27
Audition window: Registration and payment closed Friday, October 9, 2026, with a $25 fee through Da Capo. Northern hybrid auditions are Saturday, October 24, 2026 at Houlton High School. Recorded auditions are due Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at 5:00 pm. Southern auditions are November 6-7, 2026 in Brunswick; central auditions are Saturday, November 14, 2026 in Skowhegan. Acceptances are announced Friday, December 11, 2026, with acceptance forms due December 18, 2026. The $255 participation fee, including housing, is due January 23, 2027. The festival is May 13-15, 2027 at the University of Maine, Orono.
Instruments: woodwinds, brass, and percussion

What the organization posted

Auditions are offered both as recorded submissions through MMEA's virtual audition portal and as in-person auditions at regional sites. The 2026-27 season is Year C of MMEA's four-year rotation. Woodwind and brass players perform two major scales plus the chromatic scale - Ab major and G major for Year C - written pitch for transposing instruments rather than concert pitch, and all scales must be memorized. They then play the universal lyrical etude for Year C, Scheherezade arranged by Shun, and the universal Technical Etude (C). Piccolo players add the trio from Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever. Percussionists audition on all three of snare drum, timpani and xylophone, performing the 16 measures of the technical etude marked START and STOP on each instrument, plus rudiments: a long closed roll from ppp to FFF back to ppp on snare and a long roll from fp to FFF to ppp on timpani, each roughly 15 to 20 seconds. No sight-reading is listed for the wind and percussion audition.

Notes

The requirements document is MMEA's own, linked from mainemmea.org/auditions/, updated May 2026 and explicitly headed '2026-2027 Updates', but it also carries an 'All pages are under construction-please check back frequently' banner, and MMEA's own BOC All-State Audition Info page still reads '2025-26' - so re-check before students commit to preparation. Maine organizes auditions by northern, central and southern sites rather than districts, and the site dates on MMEA's printable 2026-27 calendar include some rows whose stated weekdays do not match 2026, so confirm the specific site date with the host. Maine also runs a separate Jazz All-State posting with its own requirements and an earlier fall timeline (registration closed Friday, September 25, 2026, with a $25 fee; recorded auditions were due Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 5:00 pm; live auditions Friday, October 16, 2026 at UMaine Augusta; festival January 14-16, 2027). Source: https://mainemmea.org/boc-all-state-audition-info/. Source: https://mainemmea.org/jazz-all-state-audition-info/.

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

Maine MEA BOC All-State Audition Materials - Four-Year Rotation (linked from mainemmea.org/auditions/)

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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.
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.

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