Eastern Regional Junior Honor Allstate Orchestra

The NCMEA Jr. Eastern Region Orchestra is a string orchestra for students in 5th-8th grades. All students must be full-time members of their school orchestra, where one exists. If an orchestra program is not present at the student’s school, their private teacher or youth orchestra director should sponsor the student.​
Required Solo
  • The solos are on a 4-year rotation. All solos are from Solo Time for Strings, Book IV, by Etling. Each solo is to be prepared by all instruments.
  • 2021-22 Petit Bouree, DeProsse, p. 9
  • 2022-23 Sonatina, Breval, p. 13
  • 2023-24 Allegro, Mozart, p. 24
  • 2020-21 Air Varie, DeBeriot, p. 12
Sight-reading
 
All instruments will be required to sight-read.  Each student will be given a tempo with a metronome and thirty seconds to review an eight measure excerpt.

  • Students are responsible for knowing all audition requirements.
  • Unfortunately, no requests for specific audition times can be honored.
  • Parents will not be permitted in registration lines or in audition hallways.
 
Students should be responsible for and respectful of people, property and the process during the auditions.  Please remember your audition number and listen for which student numbers are being called to the audition hall at any given time.  Remember your audition number if you would like to access your individual score breakdown by category on the website after the results are posted.  If you have a concern about the audition process, please contact your child’s orchestra director.
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Scale Requirements
  • Perform all scales and arpeggios from memory. The tonic may be repeated in each octave. Perform scales as sixteenth notes at a minimum tempo of quarter note = 50. Perform arpeggios the same number of octaves as the corresponding scales, eighth note triplets at a minimum tempo of quarter note = 50.
  • Violin, Viola, Cello: C, G, D major 2 octaves; F major 1 octave; any melodic minor of the student’s choice 1 octave. Slur scales 4 notes per bow and arpeggios 3 notes per bow.
  • Bass: C, D, F major 1 octave; G major 2 octaves; any melodic minor of the student’s choice 1 octave. Slur scales 2 notes per bow and arpeggios separate bows.
The auditions are scheduled the first Saturday in March and the Clinic is scheduled the first Saturday in May. 

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