High School Orchestra
2025-26
ClinicianRuss Pieken
Important Dates
Aug. 23 - Kick-off meeting @ Andover-Central HS
Oct. 14 - Audition Registration Deadline - $10 per audition
Oct. 26 - Audition Registration - Late Deadline #1 - $35 per audition
Nov. 7 - Audition Registration - Late Deadline #2 - $60 per audition
Nov. 8 - Audition Registration - Late Deadline #3 - $100 per audition
Nov. 8 - Auditions @ Goddard HS
Dec. 6 - Clinic & Concert @ Maize HS - $15 participation fee per selected student
Audition Registration
Auditions must be registered in the KMEA Members site. Students may not audition for orchestra and choir. Students should communicate with their teachers regarding audition plans.
Fees
Use the SCKMEA Invoice Generator to create your fee invoices. An invoice print-out must be included with each payment. Make checks payable to South Central KMEA.
Audition Information
Audition Materials will be an abbreviated version of the KMEA All-State Audition Materials.
Violin
- e melodic minor scale
- Excerpt # 1
- Excerpt #2
- e melodic minor scale
- Excerpt #1
- Excerpt #2
- e melodic minor scale
- Excerpt # 1
- Excerpt #2
- e melodic minor scale
- Excerpt # 1
- Excerpt #2
Procedures
- Students will be assigned audition times prior to the audition day. Each teacher is responsible for giving these times to their students.
- Each student needs to check in with the door monitor at his or her assigned room 10 minutes prior to the assigned audition time.
- Audition numbers will be assigned at the door and must not be traded.
- Each student will audition in 2 rooms: Room 1-excerpts, Room 2-prepared scale and sight-reading.
- The door monitor will communicate students' audition number with judges. All auditions will be blind-meaning students will not talk with judges.
- The judges will wait an appropriate amount of time for "no shows" at each room before moving their final scores into the tabulation room.
- The tabulation room will remain closed for the event.
To the extent the schedule allows, students who need special consideration for their scheduled audition time can be scheduled at the beginning or end of the auditions. Directors must note all such requests when entering students online. This should be used extremely sparingly. Personal preferences for directors or students cannot be accommodated and should not be entered.
Director Participation in the Audition Process
Results- Communicate audition time and location with students
- Participate in judge's meeting starting at 8:30 AM the day of the auditions
- Provide one judge/adult helper per 15 orchestra auditions.
- Any school that registers students for an orchestra audition is required to provide 1 judge/adult helper per 15 student registrations. Any school that registers more than 15 orchestra entries is required to send at least one (1) qualified judge and one (1) additional adult to assist with audition day (to serve as a monitor or runner) for every 15 entries. All judges/helpers must be present for the entire day of the event if they registered students. Directors agree to participate in judging when they register students, regardless if their student cancels after they have been registered into the KMEA system. SCKMEA will excuse directors from judging without penalty only if they are directly involved in the operations of SCKMEA events (Board members, area chairs and assistants) on the day of auditions. Directors that do not secure a replacement judge or adult helper and refuse to participate in judging will be assessed a $100 non-participation penalty fee per judge/helper to be paid with their entry fees. (Approved by SCKMEA Board on June 14, 2025)
The roster of selected students will be posted on the SCKMEA website no earlier than the Monday following the day of auditions.
Teachers will receive music to deliver to their students following the posting of results. String teachers will want to make sure to attend the 10:00 AM Mini-Convention meeting.
Repertoire
TBA