2025 MMEA All-Collegiate Band: Selected Member Audition Information
87th annual mmea in-service workshop/conference
January 28 – February 1, 2025 * Tan-tar-a conference center
Mmea all-collegiate band
performance
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
9:00pm – Paradise A Ballroom
General eligibility Information
- 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.
Audition information (after nomination acceptance)
- Auditions must be recorded using a smartphone or tablet.
- Auditions will be submitted online by November 30.
- 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 9, 2024.
Audition Recording Information
1. Please record audio only on your mobile device.
2. Do not speak at any time during the recording or indicate who you are in any way.
3. Your recording should be an unedited performance of each excerpt.
a. DO NOT edit/splice different performances of an excerpt together. This will result in the disqualification of your audition.
4. You will need to upload your audition to a cloud or YouTube.
5. Submit your link only.
*Please be sure this is an active, working link. Your audition will not be adjudicated if the link is broken.Your recording should be an unedited performance of each individual excerpt. DO NOT edit/splice different performances of an excerpt together. This will result in the disqualification of your audition. You DO NOT have to perform all excerpts together in one continuous session. You may record each individually and submit one link.
2025 Audition Materials