Orchestral woodwinds required will be — Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, English horn, Clarinet, E-flat Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and Bassoon. Those of you who double on piccolo, English horn, or bass clarinet please note that fact on your audition form and select a solo to perform in conjunction with your audition on your primary instrument. Please record your doubling solo on a separate audition tape/CD. All individuals who double must audition on their primary instrument to be considered for acceptance. Students auditioning on two instruments should pay one fee of $20.00 if auditioning within one family of instruments, i.e. oboe and English horn. Students auditioning on two or more instruments, such as clarinet/bassoon must pay the $20.00 audition fee per instrument. Please prepare your audition using the guidelines listed below. Minimum requirements of octaves and tempi for scales are those listed. Woodwind students auditioning for All-State Orchestra will perform scales, the required excerpts(s) and a solo. Please notice the required solos for wind instruments!

Please read the taping procedures carefully and complete the audition form clearly and correctly. CDs/tapes, materials and fees (payable to Colorado Music Educators Association) must be postmarked by October 16, 2009. No CD/tape will be accepted for adjudication thereafter.

Tapes/CDs should contain the following material: (Do not announce the student’s name on the recording!)

Scales: Concert E Major – 2 Octaves in Sixteenth Notes (Quarter = 112)

Concert E Harmonic minor scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter = 120)

Chromatic Scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter Note = 80)

Excerpt from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn

Concertino for flute and piano, Op. 107 by Cecile Chaminade – Beginning - m. 31 AND the cadenza (m. 110 – Tempo I)

Scales: Concert E-flat Major – 2 Octaves in Sixteenth Notes (Quarter = 112)

Concert E-flat Harmonic minor scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter = 120)

Chromatic Scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter Note = 80)

Excerpt from Symphony No. 4 – mvt. II by Tchaikovsky

Concerto in C Major, K. 314 – mvt. 1 (exposition only) by W.A. Mozart

Scales: Concert E Major – 2 Octaves in Sixteenth Notes (Quarter = 112)

Concert E Harmonic minor scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter = 120)

Chromatic Scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter Note = 80)

Excerpt from Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov

Sonata No. 6 – Larghetto AND Alla breve by John Ernest Galliard

Scales: Concert D-flat Major – 2 Octaves in Sixteenth Notes (Quarter = 112)

Concert D-flat Harmonic minor scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter = 120)

Chromatic Scale – 2 Octaves in Eighth Notes (Quarter Note = 80)

Excerpt Pines of Rome – Mvt. 3 by Respighi

Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 – mvt. 1 (exposition only) by W.A. Mozart