November/December –
Recordings for Year A will be posted here
January 23rd – Registration and $10 Audition Fee due. Please make checks payable to MS ASBDA
February 20th – Audition Recordings due
Mid to late March – Audition results posted
May 27th – 30th – All-State Band at PRCC
Percussion Rudiments: Paradiddle, Flam, 5 Stroke Roll, 7 Stroke Roll, 9 Stroke Roll, Flam Accent, and Long Roll - Rudiments must be played in 5 minutes or less.
Mallet Percussion: Required Scales - Concert C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, and Db Major Scales; Chromatic Scale
**All Concert Scales and Chromatic Scale must be played in 90 seconds or less.**
Cliff Croomes serves as the Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Longhorn Band at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his return to Austin, he was the Assistant Director of Bands at Louisiana State University and the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Baton Rouge. Previous to his appointment the faculty he studied at LSU for his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Prior to his time at LSU Dr. Croomes served as the Director of Bands at Georgetown High School in Georgetown, Texas. Under his baton, the Georgetown Wind Symphony was named a 2014 Mark of Excellence Commended Winner. Earlier in his career Dr. Croomes was the Associate Director of Bands at Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas. He has also taught at Westview Middle School, Pflugerville High School and Bastrop High School. He has also had the pleasure of serving on the faculty of the University of Texas Longhorn Music Camp from 2001-2014.
Dr. Croomes earned his Bachelor of Music Studies degree from the University of Texas at Austin and is an alumnus of the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps from Rosemont, Illinois. He has performed with ensembles throughout the United States and Europe as well as serving as an international consultant in Japan. He has served as an adjudicator and clinician for marching and concert bands throughout the United States.
Dr. Croomes holds an artist/educator endorsement with Innovative Percussion Inc. and is a founding board member of the composer diversity initiative “And We Were Heard” as well as a member of the Dr. William P. Foster Project advisory board. Dr. Croomes is currently the President of the Minority Band Directors Association. He also holds professional memberships in the Texas Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, the Percussive Arts Society, Louisiana Music Educators Association, Florida Music Educators Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and Phi Beta Mu, the international bandmasters fraternity.