2025 MMEA All-Collegiate Band: Nomination/Audition Information

87th annual mmea in-service workshop/conference

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
9:00pm – Paradise A Ballroom

All participants must be undergraduate students in good standing and enrolled at your institution for the spring 2025 semester.
Participants must be a member of a university concert band (if the offering exists).
All participants must attend an institution that awards at least an associate’s degree or music minor.
It is highly recommended that all participating students be currently enrolled in the applied music studios of your college or university (if the offering exists).
Participants must be in attendance at the 2025 MMEA Annual In-Service Workshop/Conference beginning the evening of Monday, January 27 through the performance on the evening of Wednesday, January 29, 2024.
Cost is $160 per student.

An online nomination must be submitted by the ensemble director for each nominee.
Directors teaching at institutions with an associate’s degree or music minor may submit 4 names, those with a bachelor’s degree may submit 8.
Nominees will be ranked, with 1 being the most deserving, regardless of instrumentation.
Directors may visit the NOMINATION PAGE for additional information and instructions.

Auditions must be recorded using a smartphone or tablet.
Auditions will be submitted online by November 20.
Audition excerpts will be compiled from 2025 All-Collegiate Band repertoire.
Applied faculty from Missouri colleges and universities will serve as evaluators. Auditionees will be scored, ranked, and scores averaged by a committee of at least two applied faculty members from our state institutions.
Section part placement and principal players will be announced on December 5, 2024.