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New Mexico All-State band audition requirements
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NMMEA
New Mexico Music Educators Association (NMMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
The full requirements were not readable from a public official source.
- Ensembles
- All-State Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Band and jazz All-State auditions run October 28 through November 7, 2026. Audition registration opens September 1, 2026. The All-State Music Festival and In-Service Conference is January 6-9, 2027.
- Instruments
- winds and percussion (harp and piano handled through a separate process)
What the organization posted
Recorded audition submitted as file uploads through the Opus audition platform, not a live audition. Wind players record three scales - a chromatic scale plus two major scales that NMMEA releases one week before the audition - and all scales must be recorded in the same continuous take and submitted as one file. Two etudes are then recorded separately, one file per etude, from NMMEA's posted etude materials. Sight-reading is administered through Opus and recorded directly into the platform. Percussionists have no scale component at all; they record a triangle etude in a single file, are not required to record preliminary timpani tuning, but must record any tuning changes that occur inside an etude. A signed All-State Commitment Form with three signatures goes to the student's teacher before the audition.
Notes
NMMEA links this requirements document from its own auditions page at https://www.nmmea.com/all-state-auditions/; the canonical link NMMEA publishes is https://docs.google.com/document/d/17sQzT3xE42pyey11zL7W3SPVvjnlRw36ZHjRDyiIXLw/edit?usp=sharing and the cited mobilebasic URL is the same document ID rendered as readable text. Marked partial because the specific etude titles, numbers, and published scale ranges sit in further linked documents that were not opened. NMMEA also runs six geographic districts with their own honor groups, and a separate Honor Ensemble track. Jazz is a separate requirements document, returned as its own row.
Retrieved from the organization's page on August 23, 2026.
NMMEA All-State Band Audition RequirementsNMMEA
New Mexico Music Educators Association (NMMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- All-State Instrumental Jazz
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Band and jazz All-State auditions run October 28 through November 7, 2026, with registration opening September 1, 2026. The Jazz All-State event is held January 21-23, 2027, separately from the January 6-9, 2027 All-State Music Festival.
- Instruments
- jazz winds plus rhythm section (piano, bass, guitar, drums) and vibes/auxiliary percussion
What the organization posted
Recorded upload audition through the Opus platform. Instrumentalists record a swing etude, a funk etude, and an improvisation on an F blues, all in one file. The improvisation is performed against a backing track played on an audible external device, using the supplied lead sheet with chord progressions to improvise two choruses; written-out notation is not allowed. Trumpet candidates additionally complete a trumpet range assessment and play the bottom divisi only on the swing and funk etudes. Rhythm section players on piano, bass, guitar, and drums must also improvise for two choruses rather than comping or walking a bass line. Vibes and auxiliary percussion candidates audition on vibes for both the etudes and the improvisation. Sight-reading is administered through Opus and recorded directly into the platform.
Notes
Linked from NMMEA's own auditions page at https://www.nmmea.com/all-state-auditions/; canonical published link is https://docs.google.com/document/d/19YuQjDGvII-tYuq04yvDMy9g3VtwaB_wcRVsz1AX4ZQ/edit?usp=sharing and the cited mobilebasic URL is the same document rendered as readable text. The same document also covers Vocal Jazz, which is out of band scope and excluded here.
Retrieved from the organization's page on August 23, 2026.
NMMEA All-State Jazz Audition RequirementsPrepare the scales and etudes
Use a structured practice plan for scales, excerpts, and recordings. The official packet still sets the requirements.