Audition Excerpts

2020-21 KMEA All-State String audition cuts – Download
Use this document for preparing audition audio files for upload.

Strings – Create three mp3 files, as listed below:

Violin
– [mp3 file #1] E flat Major Scale
– Excerpt #1, Mozart: DO NOT PLAY
– [mp3 file #2] Excerpt #2, Bizet: Beg-End
– [mp3 file #3] Excerpt #3, Dvorak: Beg-End

Viola
– [mp3 file #1] a Melodic Minor Scale
– [mp3 file #2] Excerpt #1, Berlioz: Beg-End
– [mp3 file #3] Excerpt #2, Brahms: Beg-End
– Excerpt #3, Enesco: DO NOT PLAY

Cello
– [mp3 file #1] a Melodic Minor Scale
– [mp3 file #2] Excerpt #1, Berlioz: Beg-End
– Excerpt #2, Brahms: DO NOT PLAY
– [mp3 file #3] Excerpt #3, Tchaikovsky: No Repeat

Bass
– [mp3 file #1] a Melodic Minor Scale
– Excerpt #1, Beethoven: DO NOT PLAY
– [mp3 file #2] Excerpt #2, von Weber: measure 19-end
– [mp3 file #3] Excerpt #3, Tchaikovsky: measure 9 (beat 2&) – end

Harp – Create three mp3 files, as listed below:

– [mp3 file #1] Major Scale
– [mp3 file #2] Melodic Minor Scale
– [mp3 file #3] Solo

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KMEA All-State Orchestra
2020-21 Audition Excerpts

Participation Eligibility Requirements

There are three requirements for a student to be eligible to audition for the KMEA All-State Orchestra:

  1. The student must first be a performing member of their District’s 2020-21 KMEA Band, Jazz Ensemble, or Orchestra.
  2. 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 KMEA All-State Ensembles Manager. These must be completed by the deadline established by KMEA.
  3. The student must be deemed an eligible freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior in good standing in their high school.
The following excerpts will be used for the 2020-21 school year.

Violin – Download (v2) (see Errata note)

Viola – Download (v2) (see Errata note)

Cello – Download

Bass – Download

Harp

  1. Scales & Arpeggios – One major and one melodic minor scale
    • Candidate’s choice of keys
    • Three octaves, hands together
    • Sixteenth notes, slurred
    • Quarter note at a minimum of 60 bpm
  2. Solo
    Musicians are expected to play 4-5 minutes from a solo of the musician’s choice, without accompaniment. Musicians are encouraged to choose a piece that best demonstrates their level of playing.

Errata

Violin – In the original version a mistake appears in the Bizet, second measure, on the second line. The grace note should be a G# leading into the 16th note section. A replacement file, marked as “v2” in the download links above is now available.
[posted July 16, 2020]

Viola – In the first measure of the Romanian Rhapsody No. 1-the last “A” in the first measure on the first half of beat six should be one octave higher than what is printed in the original excerpt. A replacement file, marked as “v2” in the download links above is now available.
[posted June 19, 2020]