In an effort to continually align auditions statewide at the junior and senior levels, the Board of Directors voted at their Summer 2024 meeting to implement a cycle of commissioned etudes for Strings, Winds, Percussion and Instrumental Jazz at the Junior and Senior levels.

Instrumental Jazz etudes will be implemented in the Fall of 2024; Strings, Winds and Percussion etudes will be implemented in the Fall of 2025.

Junior Orchestra Auditions

1. District 1 Junior Orchestra Required Scales

• Violin Scales

• Viola Scales

• Cello Scales

• Bass Scales

2. ILMEA Commissioned Etudes Cycle 2

3. District-specific Supplemental Material (if applicable)

Senior Orchestra Auditions

1. Senior-Level Scales

2. Beethoven Excerpts
   From the standing excerpt cycles

3. District-specific Supplemental Material (if applicable)