All-State posting
Oklahoma All-State band audition requirements
Live, in-person audition.
OkMEA | District (first round)
Start with one passage
Check OkMEA's District (first round) requirements for your instrument. Audition date: November 7, 2026.
Begin your etude with a short passage. Confirm the official packet with your director.
Ask your director how your organization informs students who advance.
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Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://okmea.org/all-state/symphonic-band-and-wind-symphony/
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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Confirm every date and requirement with your director. Organizations update packets.
OkMEA
Oklahoma Music Educators Association (OkMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- All-State Jazz Ensemble
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Entry deadlines passed 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 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, plus double-time swing trading fours and eight bars of swing ballad with brushes at 80 bpm. 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
OkMEA lists jazz separately from the Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony audition, with its own audition date and site, though it shares the September entry deadlines. The Oklahoma Jazz Educators store lists the OkMEA All-State Etudes as a $27 PDF at https://okje.weebly.com/audition-music.html, linked from this OkMEA page.
Retrieved from the organization's page on October 5, 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 passed September 12, 2026 ($20 per entry) and September 19, 2026 ($45 per entry), with emergency entry at $100 arranged through the Band Chair. First round auditions Saturday, November 7 at district sites; second round Saturday, December 5; contingency date Saturday, December 12. OkMEA lists these three audition dates without a year.
- 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. 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; Rhoades-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, measures 34 to the end. The page says scales are no longer required at the district audition and have moved to December. It also says a prelim room plays etudes and scales, and finals then play only 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. Round 1 etudes are linked at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OwXWWIFaSByNRumUHH3DhiA99cr98Zuo/view. OkMEA's band page lists Second Round Etudes without a link; the Round 2 Drive link on OkMEA's eligibility page was unavailable on October 5, 2026 (404). Confirm Round 2 material with the director. Source: https://okmea.org/all-state/symphonic-band-and-wind-symphony/student-eligibility/.
Retrieved from the organization's page on October 5, 2026.
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- 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.
- Sight-reading
- Sight Reading Sprint in the Lab puts one note at a time on the staff for a 60-second round of fast note reading. It is not a full sight-reading excerpt, so read something new every day too, and keep your counting steady with the Lab's rhythm modules.
- 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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