Thank you for your interest in auditioning for the 2025-26 Chaska High School Wind Symphony! Please read all of the following information carefully so that you can submit a complete audition. 

This year, I will be having you submit your audition components to me electronically. Please record yourself playing through each of the elements below (separately). You should have the videos in a Google Drive folder - please send me the link to your folder (and change the viewing rights so that I can watch them). Please introduce yourself, especially for those of you that I don't know yet. :) You need to have all of these auditions submitted to me (becklert@district112.org) by Thursday, March 27th.

 Please fill out this brief Google Form to let me know of your interest. If you have any questions, please let me know. 

Please note that you will need to prepare the following elements for your audition:

• 1. Chromatic Scale (your full range - your lowest note up to your highest note and then back down).

  • Please remember that you can use a fingering/position chart to play your chromatic scale. Here is a good resource if you need access to a fingering/position chart. 

• 2. Concert Ab major scale (please see your individual scale sheet below).

• 3. Concert C major scale (please see your individual scale sheet below)

• 4. Excerpt #1 from Gustav Holst's First Suite in Eb  (find the correct excerpt sheet below) .

  • All of the wind excerpts are from mvmt. 1 

  • The percussion excerpt is from mvmt. 3. (7:52 on the recording). 

• 5. Excerpt #2 from Michele Fernandez's Of Endless Miles and Empty Rafts... (find the correct excerpt sheet below) . 

• All of the 5 components above should be recorded separately - Thanks!