High School Band
Audition Excerpts

2024-25

Piccolo

• Bolero (Maurice Ravel)
• Divertimento for Band (Vincent Persichetti) III. Dance
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Flute

• Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (Richard Wagner)
• Overture to "Candide" (Leonard Bernstein)
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Oboe

• Chester (William Schumann)
• Second Suite (Gustav Holst), "Song Without Words"
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Bassoon

• Colonial Song (Percy Grainger)
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Paul Dukas)
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Clarinet

• 32 Etudes (Rose), No. 6
• Second Suite (Gustav Holst), "Song Without Words
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Bass Clarinet

• The Water Goblin (Anton Dvorak)
• Molly on the Shore (Percy Grainger)
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Contra Bass Clarinet

• The Water Goblin (Anton Dvorak)
• Molly on the Shore (Percy Grainger)
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Alto Saxophone

• First Suite in E-flat (Gustav Holst), "March"
• Symphony in Bb (Paul Hindemith), I.
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Tenor Saxophone

• Colonial Song (Percy Grainger)
• Second Suite (Gustav Holst), "March"
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Baritone Saxophone

• Colonial Song (Percy Grainger)
• Only Light (Aaron Perrine)
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Trumpet

• Flourish for Wind Band (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• Characteristic Study (J.B. Arban) No. 9
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Horn

• Symphony No. 5 (Gustav Mahler). III
• Symphony No. 3 "Organ" (Camille Saint-Saens), I
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Trombone

• Second Suite (Gustav Holst), "Song Without Words"
• Academic Festival Overture (Johannesburg Brahms)
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Euphonium

• First Sutie in Eb (Gustav Holst), II.
• Melodious Etudes (Joannes Rochut), No. 4
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Tuba

• Symphony No 3. (James Barnes), I.
• Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughn Williams), "Seventeen Come Sunday"
• Chromatic Scale
• Concert Eb Major Scale

Percussion
Although KMEA at the state level has moved to a Total Percussion audition for 2024-25, NWKMEA HS Band will continue to audition as three separate sections. Please encourage your students to audition on multiple instruments in the percussion section.

• Snare: Etude No. 2
• Mallets: Etude in Eb Major (Emory Dease)
• Timpani (1234A Excerpt) Rotation No. 2 (John Wichersham)