All-State posting

Montana All-State band audition requirements

Recorded, unedited audition uploaded to OpusEvent using Set A materials, four uploads per band instrument.

MHSA | Recorded All-State audition

Build the basics for next season

MHSA usually posts Recorded All-State audition requirements around February. Next season's date may change.

Build your instrument basics. Revisit your etude as practice, not next season's assigned music.

Audition-status notification is stated; no public results-list URL is stated.

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Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://www.mhsa.org/music-festivals/

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 - Work on sound and rhythm. Use a familiar short exercise. Listen for the sound and note lengths you intend.
10 minutes - Practice scales or patterns. Choose a manageable range and tempo. Work on one unfamiliar part rather than rushing the whole pattern.
10 minutes - Sight-read a short piece. Look it over first, then play through at a manageable tempo. Revisit one difficult spot afterward.
5 minutes - Revisit an old etude. Record a short passage and listen back. Choose one detail to develop next week.

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MHSA

Montana High School Association (MHSA)

2026-27 materials are posted.

Ensembles: MHSA All-State Band, MHSA All-State Orchestra
Season: 2026-27
Audition window: Recorded auditions were uploaded through OpusEvent between May 1, 2026 and June 12, 2026 (window now closed, no late submissions). The All-State Music Festival ran October 14-16, 2026 at Montana State University in Bozeman, with on-site placement auditions beginning 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
Instruments: winds and percussion for band and orchestra; strings audition on separate string materials

What the organization posted

Recorded, unedited audition uploaded to OpusEvent using Set A materials, four uploads per band instrument. Upload 1 is a chromatic scale over a specified range in legato-tongued quarter notes at MM = 132 ascending and descending (for example B-flat clarinet E3 to G6, flute C4 to C7, saxophone B-flat3 to F6). Uploads 2 through 4 are three prepared etudes from a named method book with printed metronome markings: flute from Voxman Selected Studies for Flute, oboe and tuba from the Rubank Advanced Method, clarinet from Rubank Advanced Method for Clarinet Vol. 1, bassoon from Weissenborn 50 Studies Op. 8, trumpet and trombone from Arban's, saxophone from Voxman Selected Studies and Ferling, percussion from Audition Etudes by Garwood Whaley. The whole audition must be a single session of no more than 20 minutes (percussion excepted), unedited, with no student or school identification on the recording. Wrong materials, wrong keys, or wrong starting pitches are automatic elimination. Accepted band students play an on-site placement audition on portions of the all-state repertoire. The audition fee is $10; accepted students pay $55 plus site and meal charges.

Notes

Montana's all-state is run by the state high school activities association (MHSA), not the state MEA. The 68-page Set A packet is linked from the MHSA Festivals page (mhsa.org/music-festivals) and includes the printed audition music. The audition submission window for this festival already closed June 12, 2026 - the packet is still the correct reference for a student preparing, and the next cycle's set rotates. No jazz ensemble is part of the MHSA All-State Festival.

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

2026 All-State Music Festival - Memo and Audition Materials, Set A (MHSA)

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How it fits each part of this audition

Chromatic scale: Practice it with the metronome at the marked tempo and the tuner in the same window, so you can see your note and how sharp or flat it is.
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.

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