All-State posting
New Hampshire All-State band audition requirements
This page reports what the official organization posted. Virtunity does not write audition requirements.
Confirm every date and requirement with your director. Organizations update packets.
NHMEA
New Hampshire Music Educators Association (NHMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- NHMEA All-State Band, NHMEA All-State Orchestra
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Registration deadline Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m.; payment due November 2, 2026; live auditions Saturday, November 21, 2026 at Manchester Memorial High School; All-State Music Festival April 15-17, 2027 in Concord, NH.
- Instruments
- winds, brass, and percussion (strings and voice audition the same day under separate requirement lists)
What the organization posted
The 2026-27 auditions use Rotation #4. Winds and brass are scored 60 percent prepared solo, 20 percent scales, 20 percent sight reading; percussion is 60 percent specialty/secondary/auxiliary, 20 percent scales, rudiments and tuning, 20 percent sight reading. All solos are played unaccompanied and are named per instrument, for example flute plays Hindemith's Sonata for Flute (Schott), oboe the Mozart Concerto in C K314 expositions (Henle Urtext), clarinet the Prelude from Finzi's Five Bagatelles Op. 23, bassoon the Mozart Sonata No. 2 in E minor (Kalmus), piccolo the Sousa Stars and Stripes plus the Largo of the Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C RV443. Scales are memorized at quarter note = 160, one to three octaves depending on the instrument's range: majors C, F, B-flat, G, D; minors a, d, g, e, b; plus chromatic. Sight reading is generated from Sight Reading Factory in a key drawn from the repertoire or the scale list. Students must have the original printed music in hand at the audition; without it they receive comments but no rating and are not considered for the ensembles.
Notes
The requirements document is a Google Doc linked as 'Auditions Information' from the NHMEA All-State Music Festival page at https://nhmea.org/festivals/all-state-music-festival/, which also links per-instrument resource folders and the scale reference sheets. NHMEA's separate all-state rules PDF covers fees ($25 per audition), eligibility, and chaperone policy. A Modern Band audition is submitted digitally November 9-19, 2026 and is a separate track; the classical registration form is labeled 'Classical All-State Auditions'.
Retrieved from the organization's page on August 23, 2026.
NHMEA All-State Auditions 2026-2027 - New Audition Requirements, Rotation #4Prepare the scales and etudes
Use a structured practice plan for scales, excerpts, and recordings. The official packet still sets the requirements.