Audition Excerpts

Music Requirements for the String Live Auditions:

  1. Students auditioning will be required to perform a two or three octave major scale (ascending and descending) as posted.
  2. Students auditioning will be required to perform a two or three octave minor scale (ascending and descending) as posted.
  3. Students auditioning will be required to perform the required excerpts from orchestra literature as posted.
  4. No sight reading

Scales and excerpts will be posted on the KMEA website by May 1st prior to the next year’s auditions.


KMEA All-State Orchestra
Audition Excerpts

The following sets of excerpts will be used in a 4-year rotation. Use the correct set as indicated by the school years listed.

Year 2
2027-28
2031-32
2035-36
Errata [Oct. 23, 2023] – In Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor by Bach, the Double section 2 measures from the end has a letter F# as the dotted 8th note going to an E. In the original, it is a dotted 8th note letter G, not an F#.
Viola (ver.3) posted May 9, 2023

Year 3
2024-25
2028-29
2032-33
Harp
First posted Sep. 17
Download

Year 4
2025-26
2029-30
2033-34
NOTICE FOR 2025-26
Year 4 Excerpts have been revised. New files were posted June 17, 2025. New files contain “v2025” in the file name.