2026-2027 Continental League Honor Band Dates

 Auditions

Thurs., Nov. 12, 4:00-7:00pm, Highlands Ranch HS - All brass, woodwind, percussion.

Rehearsals

Wed., Dec. 2, 6:30-8:45pm, Highlands Ranch High School - with band directors

Wed., Jan. 6, 6:30-8:45pm, Highlands Ranch High School - Sectionals

Fri., Jan. 8, 6:30-8:45pm, Highlands Ranch High School - with guest conductor

Sat., Jan. 9, 1-6pm, Highlands Ranch High School - with guest conductor

Mon. Jan 11, 10am-12pm, 2:00-2:30pm, + 7pm Concert, Boettcher Concert Hall

All students auditioning and participating must be members of their high school music program.

Our Final Rehearsal and Performance will be at Boettcher Concert Hall - 1000 14th St, Denver, CO 80202

Audition Music

Scales

• Please play all 3 scales as listed on the excerpts & scales page for your instrument.

Sight Reading

• A sight reading excerpt for your specific instrument will be provided at the audition 

  • You will have 30-45 seconds to look at the music before performing it

  • You may NOT play the excerpt during that time. Singing/clapping/counting are allowed.

  • You are responsible for your own tempo. Your judge will not count you off.

• If you would like practice, use Level 4 exercises on Sight Reading Factory 

2026 Excerpts & Scales are posted below. Use the CSU/NOCO cuts. 

• Flute 

• Oboe 

• Clarinet

• Bass Clarinet 

• Bassoon 

• Saxophone 

  1. NOTE: There is a PUBLISHED mistake in the saxophone 2 excerpt (measure 39 beat 2 should be an F#, not G#). This was a publisher's mistake when adapting the etude from its original form into the Voxman Selected Studies compilation.  Students can play the note as G# (as notated) or F# (as the composer intended) and their score will NOT be impacted regardless of how the pitch is performed.

• Trumpet 

  1. NOTE: The grace notes in measure 6 of the first etude sound better as E-D-C than C-D-C.  Students can play them as notated or with this change and their score will NOT be impacted regardless of how the grace notes are performed.

• Horn 

• Trombone/Euphonium

• Bass Trombone 

• Tuba 

• Percussion 

  1. NOTE: There is an error in the metric modulation at measure 30 of the timpani excerpt which should be eighth note equals sixteenth note (not eighth to eighth). 

  2. Percussionists will NOT have a sightreading to compensate for their additional etude