High School Band Audition Excerpts
2025-26
Follow this link for 2025-26 KMEA All-State Band Audition Information
Participation Eligibility RequirementsThere are two requirements for a student to be eligible to audition for the SWKMEA High School Band:
- The student's director must be a member of KMEA, will register each audition online, and send the Audition Invoice with appropriate payment to the SWKMEA Executive Director. These must be completed by the deadline established by SWKMEA.
- The student must be deemed an eligible freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior in good standing in their high school.
- Chromatic Scale: Play the chromatic scale as printed in the state audition music.
- Unison Etude: Perform the etude at the prescribed tempo indication. (Percussionist: Mallets Only)
- District Excerpt Selection: Perform the selected excerpt from the State Audition Material linked above.
Unison Etude for 2025-26
25 Studies (Louis Francois Drouet), No. 16 (Entire excerpt)
Oboe
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Anton Dvorak). VII (measures 1-17)
Bassoon
Suite in Eb (Gustav Holst), II (Entire excerpt)
B-Flat Soprano Clarinet
Sea Songs (Ralph Vaughn Williams) (Entire excerpt)
B-flat Bass Clarinet; also E-flat and B-flat Contra Bass Clarinet
Rhapsody in Blue (George Gershwin) (Entire excerpt)
Alto Saxophone
Symphony in Bb (Paul Hindemith), II (Entire excerpt)
Tenor Saxophone
Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger), "Lost Lady Found" (Entire excerpt)
Baritone Saxophone
Blue Shades (Frank Ticheli) (Entire excerpt)
Trumpet
Florentiner March (Julius Fucik) (Entire excerpt)
Horn
28 Etudes (Oskar Franz), No. 10 (Start at beat 3 of m. 17, end on beat 2 of m. 33)
Trombone
40 Progressive Studies (Tyrrell), No. 2 (Entire excerpt)
Euphonium (BC and TC)
The Promise of Living (Aaron Copland), from "The Tender Land" (Entire excerpt)
Tuba
Overture to Rienzi (Richard Wagner) (Entire excerpt of PART 2)
Percussion
For the 2025-26 SWKMEA Percussion auditions, percussionists will decide which instrument(s) to audition for. Our requirements are DIFFERENT than the All-State requirements of auditioning on all instruments. Percussionists may audition in one or more areas, but a separate entry and payment must be submitted for each audition. Percussionists are encouraged to audition on more than one instrument, but not required.
TimpaniFor the 2025-26 SWKMEA Percussion auditions, percussionists will decide which instrument(s) to audition for. Our requirements are DIFFERENT than the All-State requirements of auditioning on all instruments. Percussionists may audition in one or more areas, but a separate entry and payment must be submitted for each audition. Percussionists are encouraged to audition on more than one instrument, but not required.
Rotation No. 3 (John Wickersham) (Entire excerpt)
Note - You and your student can decide if the four drum option or 2 drum option is better for you. There is no need to indicate if you are playing four or two drums on the recording.
Mallets
Colas Breugnon Overture (Dimitri Kabalevsky) (Entire excerpt)
Snare Drum (2 separate recording files)
Peter and the Wolf , March (Sergei Prokofiev) (Entire excerpt)
Etude No. 3 (Jeff Smikahl) (Entire excerpt)