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)
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
FLUTE: effhkb3
OBOE: svczb45
BASSOON: buds6qq
CLARINET: k2aexdd
BASS CLARINET:r6xur7x
ALTO SAXOPHONE: sdd6nxt
TENOR SAXOPHONE: 44xj67x
BARI SAXOPHONE: wi3tep6
TRUMPET: odzmyhh
FRENCH HORN: q2hn5tx
TROMBONE: mnvqnxh
EUPHONIUM: t5cfmrx
TUBA: ayjm4su
SNARE: u454brw
MALLET/TIMPANI: grxtzu5
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.
REGISTRATION FORM
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