Click the link below to access practice tracks for the 2023-2024 All-State Choir music!!!

Important Information:

To check for rehearsal notes to mark your music: https://www.tmea.org/vocal/audition-material/

To listen to recordings of all the music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKJrr5AVj_QGU_vAC-YrOwUjQ8jzJPYf0​

Here are some audition details

• There are four rounds of auditions: District on September 16th, Region on October 14th (we are hosting this at our school!!!), Pre-Area on November 30th (unlike the other auditions, this is on a Thursday evening), and Area on January 6th.
• All varsity choir members will audition for all state.  This is an expectation for varsity students. 
• Pre-Area and Area rounds of auditions will have Sight-Reading (see information below).
• You will only sing certain parts of each song for auditions (we call those parts cuts).  You will learn the cuts the morning of your auditions.
• Beautiful, musical, and completely accurate singing is CRUCIAL.  The top ranked singers in each room are the singers that not only sing correct pitches, rhythms, and words, but sing all of their cuts with musical and smart nuance.

Pre-Area and Area Sight Reading Criteria

• The sightreading audition shall be 20% of your total score - the other 80% is your cuts.
• The sightreading exercise will be written in one of the following key signatures: C, G, D, A, E, F, B-flat, E-flat or A-flat. You will need to be able to identify where 'do" is in each of these keys.  There will be no modulations (key changes) or altered tones (like 'fi' or 'te').
• The sightreading exercise will be written in one of the following meter signatures: 2/4, 3/4 or 4/4, and approximately 8 measures in length.  
• The sightreading exercise may include the following rhythmic devices: half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, sixteenth notes, quarter rests, eighth rests, and simple syncopation.
• The sightreading exercise will include a minimum of 30 notes.