All-State posting

Rhode Island All-State band audition requirements

Live audition, open to grades 10-12, registered online by the sponsoring teacher at rimea.org/allstate.

RIMEA | All-State audition

Start with one passage

Check RIMEA's All-State audition requirements for your instrument. Audition date: November 14, 2026.

Begin your etude with a short passage. Confirm the official packet with your director.

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Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://www.rimea.org/allstate

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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RIMEA

Rhode Island Music Education Association (RIMEA)

2026-27 materials are posted.

Ensembles: All-State Senior Band, All-State Senior Orchestra (winds)
Season: 2026-27
Audition window: RIMEA's page says registration for 2026/27 opened September 1. The deadline was Friday, October 9, 2026 (no time given). Live auditions are Saturday, November 14, 2026 at Ponaganset High School. RIMEA's 2026-27 calendar lists the All-State Jazz Concert on March 3, 2027, and the Junior/Senior All-State Chorus and Band/Orchestra concerts on March 7, 2027 at The VETS.
Instruments: band and orchestra wind instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, all saxophones, bassoon, trumpet, horn, baritone/euphonium in both clefs, trombone, tuba)

What the organization posted

Live audition, open to grades 10-12, registered online by the sponsoring teacher at rimea.org/allstate. Three components. First, a required solo assigned by instrument for 2026-2027: flute plays J.S. Bach Sonata in Eb (International); oboe, Nielsen Fantasy Pieces for Oboe Op. 2 (Alfred); clarinet, Weber Concertino Op. 26 (Carl Fischer); bass clarinet, Bennet Deepwood (Carl Fischer); bassoon, Mozart Concerto in Bb mvt. 3 Rondo (International); alto saxophone, Creston Sonata Op. 19 (Shawnee); tenor saxophone, Singelee/Voxman Solo de Concert (Rubank); baritone saxophone, Hoffman Serenade Basque (Alfred); trumpet, Ropartz Andante & Allegro (Carl Fischer); horn, Mozart Concerto No. 3 mvts. 2 and 3 (Carl Fischer); trombone, Guilmant Morceau symphonique (Alfred); baritone/euphonium, Vaughan Williams Studies in English Folksong #1, 4, and 6 (E.C. Schirmer, treble and bass); tuba, Marteau Morceau Vivant. Second, memorized scales: all major scales, at least two octaves where possible, at quarter note = 60 in an eighth/sixteenth-note pattern, plus a chromatic scale in eighth notes at quarter note = 60 over a range stated per instrument (for example flute C over three octaves, clarinet from E below the staff to G above the fourth line, all saxophones low Bb to F above the staff, trombone and tuba Bb over two octaves). Third, sight-reading appropriate to the grade level. Alto clarinet is not accepted in any All-State performing ensemble.

Notes

Audition fee $25.77 online or $25 by cash/check per student per audition; participation fee $92.78 online or $90 by cash/check. RIMEA also runs a Junior Division (grades 7-9) under the same posting with its own requirements document, and percussion, jazz band, and classical guitar have separate audition documents on the same hub page (https://www.rimea.org/allstate) - percussion, for example, uses Sartini Snare Drum Etude #4 and Forsthoff Auxiliary Percussion Etude #2. RIMEA's page is marked "Updated 9/29/26"; neither its page nor the senior wind requirements lists June 8, 2026 or Updated 8/20/26. Audition site and concert dates: https://www.rimea.org/allstate, checked October 5, 2026.

Retrieved from the organization's page on October 5, 2026.

2026-2027 Senior Division All-State Audition Procedures, Grades 10, 11 & 12 - Band and Orchestra Winds

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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 solo: 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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