Participants in the 2025 Tri-State Band Symposium will be selected via . Nominations must be submitted by Friday, 15 November at 5pm.
Auditions for placement and seating into one of the two Symposium wind ensembles will take place on the Friday of the event. We at the NKU Bands are aware that there are many honor band festival opportunities for our Tri-State area’s high school musicians. In order to not overload our young musicians, we are instituting the following changes for the 2025 NKU Tri-State Band Symposium, in the hopes that this will make life a little easier for our high-achieving students who wish to participate in as many events as possible:
Audition music for the 2025 NKU Tri-State Band Symposium may consist of any of the following:
All auditions will call for the following, regardless of which of the above excerpts you choose:
Pianists and Harpists should perform an excerpt of your own choosing, between 1:30 and 2:00 in length. Please select something that demonstrates technical and lyrical facility.
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