Auditions

2024-2025 All-State

• All-State Audition Requirement Changes for 2024- READ THIS FIRST

• Video Files are still required this year! The videos will NEVER be seen by judges.
• MacPhail Center for Music has provided tutorial videos for auditions! Check them out HERE
• See Additional Resources for more information about creating and uploading All-State Auditions.

Auditions will open January 1, 2024 and the audition deadline will be NOON (12 PM) February 27, 2024. We strongly recommend that folks aim to upload no later than the evening of February 26th, so that staff can be available to support any issues that arise during the workday on February 27th.  This deadline is to help alleviate the issues related to audition recordings during Spring Break as well as giving our judges the amount of time required to evaluate audition recordings properly.

For Sponsoring Teachers: Enter the Opus Portal below to upload audition video.  The event in Opus is called “Minnesota All-State 2024”. Make sure to be searching under all events.

Enter Opus Portal

2024-2025 Audition Materials and Forms

Click below for audition materials:

• Choral Audition Page

• Winds, Brass, Percussion Audition Page

• Jazz Audition Page

• Strings Audition Page

Click below for audition forms:

• Woodwind/Brass/Percussion Audition Form

• Jazz Audition Form

• Strings Audition Form

• Choir Audition Form

Click below for audition rubrics. These are the rubrics All-State judges use to judge auditions!

• Woodwind and Brass Rubric 

• Percussion Rubric 

• Strings Rubric

• Vocal Rubric 

• Jazz: Woodwind and Brass Rubric

• Jazz: Piano, Guitar, and Vibes Rubric

• Jazz: Drum Set Rubric

• Jazz: Bass Rubric

Additional Resources

• NEW! All-State Audition Timeline for 2024
• Creating an account in OpusEvent
• Uploading an Audition to Opus: Instructional Video
• Uploading an Audition to Opus: Written Instructions
• Opus Audition FAQs
  • The event in Opus is called “Minnesota All-State 2024”
• Making a payment in OpusEvent
• NEW! Guidance for Creating Video Audition Files
  • NEW! Guidance for File Compression
  • NEW! All-State Audition Checklist  for recording auditions
• Read our Eligibility Policies
• View the Audition Statistics Landing Page.
  • Since 2015, MMEA has compiled audition statistics for All-State. Every year, we update the document with the total number of students that were selected for an All-State ensemble, the number of alternates that were selected, and the total number of auditions for the year. The statistics are divided by category, then by instrument/voice part. New this year, in addition to overall statistics, is statistics by region.

Tell us what you think!

Send your questions, input, or recommendations to auditions@mmea.org or an All-State Vice President.