Ensemble Auditions
Ensemble Auditions
2020-2021 Ensemble Audition Information
Ensemble auditions for the 2020-2021 academic year will take place the week of August 17. Audition materials will be available below before or on July 1, 2020, and audition procedures and sign-ups will be available later in July.
Instrument Area
To sign up for an audition, click on the link in your instrument area.
Brass |
Choral |
Jazz |
Percussion |
String |
Woodwind |
Anyone who wishes to audition but is not a current UNO student, please email ahilt@unomaha.edu to get access to the sign-up sheets.
If you are interested in performing with UNO Athletic Bands, Maverick Marching Band or Maverick Machine, please visit the Athletic Bands page for further information. The Maverick Marching Band begins rehearsals approximately two weeks before the start of classes, and the Maverick Machine will hold separate auditions after the academic year begins. Please contact Dr. Joshua Kearney for specific questions regarding Athletic Bands.
Brass Auditions - Coming Soon
Anyone who wishes to audition but is not a current UNO student, please email ahilt@unomaha.edu to get access to the sign-up sheets.
Learn all excerpts for band and orchestra auditions. Jazz audition music is posted in the Jazz Audition section.
Trumpet
Tuba
Horn
Trombone
Euphonium
Bass Trombone
Choral Auditions - Coming Soon
For more information on UNO Choirs, click here: Choir Information
Jazz Auditions
UNO Jazz Auditions will consist of sight reading, scales, and the Nebraska All-State Jazz Band Set D Audition Etudes. Students should prepare BOTH Etude D-1 AND Etude D-2 and perform them with the provided play-a-long tracks.
Please click here for the D-1 etudes and play-a-long tracks.
Please click here for the D-2 etudes and play-a-long tracks.
Both etudes should be performed with the provided play-a-long track. The improvisation sections are optional but encouraged. Trumpet players wishing to be considered for a lead chair should also play the lead trumpet excerpt.
Jazz vocal auditions will take place on Wednesday, August 26 at noon in room 109. Candidates will sing with the UNO Big Band. Vocal jazz audition material will be posted on or around July 1.
If rhythm section call backs are necessary they will take place on Monday, August 24 at noon in room 109.
Reserve an audition time under either Brass, Saxophone, Rhythm or Jazz Vocal.
String Auditions - Coming Soon
Anyone who wishes to audition but is not a current UNO student, please email ahilt@unomaha.edu to get access to the sign-up sheets.
Woodwind Auditions
Anyone who wishes to audition but is not a current UNO student, please email ahilt@unomaha.edu to get access to the sign-up sheets.