Updated 11/2/2024

Junior High School Audition Information

Registration deadline for band directors : December 18, 2024 (Student deadlines will likely be earlier. Ask your band director if you have questions)

Audition date and location: January 11, 2025 at Madisonville Jr. High

Audition cost: $15 per audition slot, paid through the student's band program.  Please contact your student's band director for more information.

Audition Materials

The audition includes scales, prepared material, and sight-reading.  Percussion students will sight-read on both snare and mallets.

Prepared Materials

Middle School and Junior High students will play the following assigned sets for District Honor Band:

• • • 2024-2025: Set 1 All-State Etudes with cuts 

Wind Player Scales: The following scales will be required every year for all Middle School students auditioning for District Honor Concert Band: C Concert, F Concert, Bb Concert, Eb Concert, Ab Concert , G Concert and Chromatic.  Students can choose to play scales from the All-State Scale Sheet or play scales with reduced octave requirements as written on scale sheets below. 

Flutes Clarinets Tenor Saxophones Trombone & Baritones BC 

Oboes Bass Clarinets Trumpets & Baritones TC Tubas 

Bassoons Alto & Bari Saxophones French Horns Mallet Percussion 

Percussion: 3 scales for mallets and 4 rudiments for snare.

• • • 2024-2025 Set 1 Scales:  C, Bb, and Ab Concert Scales (1 octave) Students can choose to perform octave requirements from All-State

    • 2024-2025 Set 1 Rudiments (Open Closed Open): Concert Roll, Rudimental Roll, Flam Tap, and Single Drag Tap Rudiments 

Rehearsals and Participation Fees

• If your child is selected as a member of the District IX Jr. High Honor Concert band, there is a $20 participation fee.  You may also choose to include a boxed meal from Chick-Fil-A for lunch on February 27, 2025. Your child's director will ask you to choose between one of the following options. 

• Option 1: $35.00 (includes boxed meal from Chick-Fil-A)

• Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich

• Bag of Waffle Potato Chips

• Chocolate Chunk Cookie

• Bottled Water

• Option 2: $20.00 (no meal, student will provide own lunch)

• Participation fee is to be paid directly to your child's band program.  Please talk with your child's director(s) to see how this fee will be handled.

• Schedule: As a member of this prestigious group your child is expected to be at the following rehearsals:

  • February 20, 2025 6 to 8:30 pm Fontainebleau Jr. High School Band Room 

  • February 26, 2025 6 to 8:30 pm Covington High School Band Room

  • February 27, 2025 9 to 11:30 am and 1:00 to 5:00 pm Covington High School Band Room

(Lunch break from 11:30 to 1:00 and Dinner break from 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm)

• • Concert Performance: February 27, 2025 at 7 pm in the Covington High School Auditorium  

Concert dress is required for all students at this event. Please check with your child's band director(s) for specific dress attire.