Jazz Auditions — Illinois Music Education Association

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 Instrumental Jazz Auditions

Please visit the Instrumental Jazz Division Page for audition material.

Senior Instrumental Jazz Auditions

Please visit the Instrumental Jazz Division Page for audition material.

Senior Vocal Jazz Auditions

  1. 2025 Statewide Prepared Selections

  2. Swing: Turn That Frown Upside Down - Dakota Andersen (Kerry Marsh) 

  3. Ballad: Two for the Road - Matt Falker (Anchor Music)

  4. Tonal Skills

  5. Improvisation on C-Blues