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 Band Auditions

1. Scales

2. ILMEA Etudes Cycle 2 (newly commissioned etudes)

3. District-specific Supplemental Material (if applicable)

Senior Band Auditions

1. Scales

2. ILMEA Etude Cycle 2 (newly commissioned etudes)

3. District-specific Supplemental Material (if applicable)