CU Boulder High School Honor Band Festival

Middle School Honor Band concert

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Bands

Welcome to the Middle School Honor Band听at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music!

Our goal is to enhance the opportunity students receive in their school band program by allowing them to meet and perform with other students.听Participants benefit from听master classes with College of Music听faculty.听After听two days of rehearsal,听students听present a full-length concert to highlight their growth and development.

Feb. 21-22, 2025

Guest clinician
, instructor of music education, Michigan State University

Audition materials for the 2025 CU Boulder Honor Band will be posted here in fall 2024. All rehearsals and performances will take place at the University of Colorado Boulder. Check-in will begin at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, with rehearsals and the CU Boulder band concert that evening. The Middle School Honor Band will rehearse from approximately 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, and will perform a concert in Macky Auditorium that evening.

2024 schedule

2025听Middle School Honor Band results

Audition results and feedback will be communicated to students by Dec. 5,听2024.

Auditions

Audition deadline:听All audition submissions must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. on听Wednesday, Nov. 6,听2024 att 11:59 p.m..

Notifications of acceptance, as well as audition feedback, will be emailed to directors by Dec. 8, 2023. Music will be emailed to directors by mid-January 2024.听If selected, students will be expected to attend听all听scheduled rehearsals and activities, including attending the Friday evening CU Boulder Wind Symphony + Symphonic Band concert. Parents are responsibile for transportation, lodging and supervision during Honor Band weekend.

Audition materials

2025 Middle School Honor Band audition materials

Audition process

Auditions are online only. 麻豆淫院 are required to record and submit a video file of their audition through a sharable link on the application form. Please see the link below for more information.

2025 Recording + application guidelines

Step 1: Prepare to record your audition

  1. Prepare the requirements for your instrument.听Practice stating your name, grade, school and instrument, and performing the scales and etudes in the order you will record them.听
  2. No metronome is allowed for audition recordings.
  3. Gather the materials you need to record your audition.听For best results, make recordings using a high-quality microphone.听

Step 2: Record your audition

  1. Record your audition as a video file. We will only accept one file per student.听
  2. You may splice together separate recordings of each scale and excerpt, but听the scales and excerpts themselves should NOT be edited. Any edits to the听individual components of the audition (including added reverb, metronome,听pitch correction, etc.) will result in disqualification.听
  3. Please title your video file with your Lastname_Firstname_Instrument.
  4. Make sure that you and your instrument are visible in the video frame at all times.听

Step 3: Submit your audition

All students must submit their audition via the online registration form (see links below).听Note:听There is a separate form for each instrument.听听

Step 4: Submit your audition fee

  1. The audition fee is $25听per audition submission (i.e., students auditioning on two instruments would pay $50听total).听Whoever is paying the student鈥檚 audition fee (directors and parents, please connect with one another to determine this for yourselves), .听If you require a pay-by-check option, email MSHonorBand@colorado.edu.
  2. Once registration has closed, we will notify directors whose students submitted auditions, including student names and instruments, and what their payment status is.听Unpaid auditions will not be scored.

Questions?听Email MSHonorBand@colorado.edu.听