In an effort to continually align auditions statewide at the junior and senior levels, the Board of Directors voted at their Summer 2024 meeting to implement a cycle of commissioned etudes for Strings, Winds, Percussion and Instrumental Jazz at the Junior and Senior levels.

Instrumental Jazz etudes will be implemented in the Fall of 2024; Strings, Winds and Percussion etudes will be implemented in the Fall of 2025.

Junior Orchestra Auditions

1. Scales

  • Click Here to access District 9 Junior Orchestra Scales

  • 2 scales, scales should be played at the speed of 100 b.p.m. and detached bow strokes.

2. Statewide Junior Strings Etudes

3. District Supplemental Material

  • Selected excerpt (TBA) from Lullaby by William Hofeldt

Senior Orchestra Auditions

  1. Senior-Level Scales

  2. Beethoven Excerpts
    From the standing excerpt cycles

  3. District-specific Supplemental Material (if applicable)