All-State posting
Oklahoma All-State band audition requirements
This page reports what the official organization posted. Virtunity does not write audition requirements.
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OkMEA
Oklahoma Music Educators Association (OkMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- All-State Jazz Ensemble
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Entry deadlines September 12, 2026 ($20 per student) and September 19, 2026 ($45 per student), with an emergency deadline at $100 arranged through the Jazz Chair. Live auditions Saturday, November 21, 2026 at Midwest City High School.
- Instruments
- jazz winds (saxes and brass) plus rhythm section: guitar, piano, bass, vibes, and drums
What the organization posted
Live, in-person audition. Horns, guitar, piano, bass, and vibes prepare Etude No. 2 from Etudes for the Developing Jazz Musician by Will Campbell (Stonemill Music). Drummers instead play Count Bubba's Revenge from the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band Play-Along Series Volume 4, page 106, measures 1-60, and additionally play sixteen-bar phrases in prescribed styles: funk, swing, double-time swing, samba, and jazz waltz. All students sight-read immediately after their prepared material. An optional improvisation audition can add points to the overall score: two twelve-bar blues choruses in the key of F, accompanied by track 10 of Jamey Aebersold's Maiden Voyage Volume 54.
Notes
This is a genuinely separate OkMEA posting from the Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony audition, with its own audition date and site, though it shares the September entry deadlines. The printable audition music is hosted on the Oklahoma Jazz Educators site (okje.weebly.com/audition-music.html), linked from this OkMEA page.
Retrieved from the organization's page on August 23, 2026.
All-State Jazz Ensemble | OkMEAOkMEA
Oklahoma Music Educators Association (OkMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- All-State Symphonic Band, All-State Wind Symphony
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Entry deadlines September 12, 2026 ($20 per student) and September 19, 2026 ($45 per student), with an emergency deadline at $100. First round auditions Saturday, November 7, 2026 at district sites; second round (finals) Saturday, December 5, 2026; contingency date Saturday, December 12, 2026.
- Instruments
- all band winds and percussion
What the organization posted
Live, two-round audition. For the first (district) round students prepare the two assigned etudes for their instrument from the 2026-2027 OkMEA Round 1 audition material and must be ready to play any of them, and they sight-read. Scales are no longer part of the district-level audition. Named etude sources in the Round 1 document include Voxman Selected Studies (Rubank) for flute/piccolo (p. 13 and p. 7), clarinet (p. 28, p. 5), alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, cornet/trumpet (p. 32, p. 19), trombone (p. 45), and baritone/euphonium in both clefs; Ferling 48 Studies Op. 31 (Kalmus) for oboe; Weissenborn Practical Method plus Milde 50 Concert Studies Op. 26 for bassoon; Rhoads-Weissenborn Advanced Studies plus Denny-Chambers Finger Fitness Book 2 for bass and contra clarinet; Shoemaker Legato Etudes plus Kopprasch Sixty Selected Studies for horn; Rochut Melodious Etudes Book 1 for trombone; Tyrell Advanced Studies plus Bordogni 43 Bel Canto Studies for tuba; and for percussion, Cirone Portraits in Rhythm #4 (snare), MacMillan Masterpieces for Marimba (two-mallet), Adam Bruce Eight Solos for Marimba #8 (four-mallet), and Delecluse Twenty Studies for Timpani #5. At the December finals round students play scales, etudes, and sight-reading; scales do not have to be memorized. A separate OkMEA scale-sets document defines the required scales.
Notes
Eligibility is grades 10-12 with membership in the corresponding school ensemble and a recommendation from an OkMEA-member director; students must be academically eligible under OSSAA rules. First-round auditions happen at district sites, but they are run under this single state posting rather than as separate district honor bands. The Round 1 etude list, scale sets, district audition guidelines, and percussion audition procedures are hosted on OkMEA's own Google Drive and linked from this page; the Round 1 etude PDF is stamped 'Updated 4/28/2026'. OkMEA also runs a separate All-State Orchestra posting.
Retrieved from the organization's page on August 23, 2026.
All-State Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony | OkMEAPrepare the scales and etudes
Use a structured practice plan for scales, excerpts, and recordings. The official packet still sets the requirements.