Middle school all state band 2025

Friday  January 24 -  Saturday January 25, 2025

Location: Otis A. Singletary Center for the Arts 

 405 Rose Street,

Lexington, KY 40508

The  Kentucky  Band  Organization  invites  any  6-8th  grade  student  currently  enrolled  in  a  public  or  private  school  in  Kentucky  to  audition  for  the  Kentucky  Middle  School  All-State  Band.  Rehearsals  will  be  on Friday, January 24  from  9am-5pm (eastern standard time) and  Saturday, January 25 from  9-5pm, completing the event with a concert.  Students  who are  selected   must  attend  all  scheduled  rehearsals  in  order  to  perform  in  the  concert  on  Saturday  at  5pm.  Parents  are  responsible  for  the  transportation  to  and  from  rehearsals and lunch.  

The director of this year's ensemble will be Christine Wolf. Christine Wolf serves as the Director of Bands at Central Davis Junior High, in Layton, Utah and has been teaching junior high band for 29 years. Mrs. Wolf teaches the Beginning Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion, Advanced Percussion, Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Jazz Band. Mrs. Wolf is the Past-President of the Utah Bandmasters Association. She is also the Music Education Advocacy Chair for the Utah Music Educators Association where she has organized and produced the Utah Music on the Hill events on behalf of raising awareness for music education in the State of Utah. Mrs. Wolf is the Utah Chapter President of the Women Band Directors International Organization. She was named one of School Band and Orchestra Magazine’s 50 Directors Who Make a Difference in 2017. Mrs. Wolf has received numerous National Band Association Citation of Excellence awards. She has been a contributing author for the UMEA Journal and is an active clinician across the United States with all state bands, honor bands, summer camps and festival adjudications.

Under Mrs. Wolf’s direction, the Central Davis Junior High Symphonic Band was

invited to perform at the 2018 Utah Music Educator’s Conference in St. George,

Utah. The Central Davis Junior High Band Program is a 2018 Division Finalist for

the National Band Association’s Programs of Excellence Blue Ribbon Award.

Alongside her husband and Director of Bands, Heath Wolf, Mrs. Wolf assisted,

and guest conducted the Farmington Junior High Symphonic Band and Jazz Band

at The Midwest Clinic in 2011 and 2018, the Music for All National Concert Band

Festival in 2009 and 2015, and the Utah Music Educators Association Mid-Winter

Conference in 2007 and 2014.

Mrs. Wolf and her band program have been featured in three different

publications. Two of the publications are the books Rehearsing the Middle School

Band by Stephen Meyer and Life Habits of a Successful Musician by Scott Rush. In

May of 2017, Matthew Arau of Lawrence University, wrote an article in The

Instrumentalist Magazine entitle “Growth Mindset” where he featured some of

the educational concepts that Mrs. Wolf uses in her band room.

Mrs. Wolf has presented at numerous Music Education conferences, including the

Midwest Clinic and multiple presentations at the Utah Music Educators

Conference. She has been featured in The Growing Band Directors Podcast and

written blogposts on intonation and clarinet development for the Make Music

Power Up Series.

Mrs. Wolf earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of

Utah and a Master of Music Education Degree at Brigham Young University. She

teaches private lessons in a large clarinet studio, and her high school students are

well represented in the Utah All-State Band at both the Junior High and High

School level. Mrs. Wolf is a member of the Utah Music Educators Association,

National Band Association, and the Utah Bandmasters Association and Women

Band Directors International. Mrs. Wolf is married to band director, Heath Wolf

and together they have four amazing children.

AUDITION MATERIAL (Available Below on September 1, 2024)

1. Play 6 major scales and chromatic scale with ♩=108  (50pt)

• *Metronome should be on while scales are  performed consecutively without stopping the video 

2. Lyrical and technical excerpts performed at tempos marked (100pts)

Try your best to achieve the goal tempos and octaves marked for the major scales and excerpts. Perform at the tempo that you feel the most comfortable and confident. Specific issues for certain instruments and octaves are located in the instructions on the google classroom assignment for the audition. 

REGISTRATION

A registration form and audition fee of $13 per audition is required for  every student. Parents/guardians may complete the registration  online below. Completing the online registration, the parent/guardian is agreeing to the rehearsal attendance policy and grant permission for their student to participate in the all state band Friday January 4-Saturday January 25, 2025. The registration form and non-refundable audition fee along with the audition materials must be received by Monday, December 9, 2024 by 6:00pm.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Auditions will be submitted in video format through google classroom. A gmail account must be  used  to  join  the  instrument  specific google classrooms.  Students will not be able to use student email  accounts due to district restrictions on access. The student name registered on google classroom MUST match the student name  entered on registration form.  

1.  Download the google classroom app

2.  Log in using student’s personal gmail account (NOT SCHOOL ACCOUNT)

3.  JOIN CLASS using the code for the instrument student

4.  Click on ”Classwork” and select the only assignment for auditions 2024-25

5.  Click “YOUR  WORK”, attach /upload your videos here, and submit.

* Scales and excerpts should be recorded and uploaded as two separate videos

GOOGLE  CLASSROOM  CODES and REGISTRATION FORM will be available on  DECEMBER 1, 2024. 

SELECTION

Feedback will be given to the students through their submission in google classroom. Results will be posted within a week after the audition deadline. If selected, there is a folder fee of $35.