2024-2025 Auditions

Auditions will take place in Alden Memorial Hall on 8/20, 8/21, and 8/22 from 11am to 4pm. Warm-ups are in the Perrault Music Room in the basement of Alden, and the auditions will happen upstairs in Room 210 Jazz Office. Please sign up using this link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JI1lsfsGXoP1mzLE5n4gvysb0sS9qP9QaYeDSCwARsM/edit?usp=sharing

Below are the audition requirements for the jazz ensembles:

  1. play a prepared piece of your choosing
  2. 2 major scales of your choice, Bb blues scale
  3. improvise over blues progression or a tune of your choosing
  4. basic sight reading

Below are the requirements for the brass ensemble auditions:

  1. play a prepared piece of your choosing
  2. 2 major scales of your choice, chromatic scale
  3. basic sight reading

Practicum Recordings Online Now!

The online D’20 term hasn’t stopped the members of our D20 Jazz Practicum Class! The 10 committed students each perfected their skills within the course, and premiered their recordings live online.

The full playlist of songs recorded music can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtklkB61L3x_98-bHjabhG2i-NN06uLVI

While not all students submitted their content for our YouTube, below are direct links to the performances of each student who did: