ILMEA Senior Festival Audition Information

FALL AUDITION DATES - Set 3 Audition Material

Wednesday, September 11th

District Audition Excerpt Release on the website

*IMPORTANT NOTE - there will be only ONE set of cuts this year.  These will be the same for District and All-State auditions.  Students selected to All-State may use their district audition video if they want to, or they can re-record a new audition for All-State submission.  This is an effort to streamline the process for students and directors.

Wednesday, September 18th

Audition Nomination Deadline (11:59:59pm). Please note that schools must pay for any audition entered into Nominate at this time, regardless of whether the student submits a link. 

Audition Submission Window Opens (12:00:00am) 

Wednesday, October 2

Audition Submission Window Closes (11:59:59pm)

Additional Information:

IMEC 2025 Conductors and Information

All State Band - Dr. Kimberly Fleming is the Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Illinois

Music Selections:

Stride - Kevin Day; 

Folk song of Midu - Li Chan

Adventures of Jesse Owens - Michael Daugherty

Honors Band  - Dr. Clifton Croomes serves as the Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Longhorn Band at the University of Texas at Austin.

Music Selections:

Baron Cemitiere’s Mambo - Donald Grantham Shenandoah - Traditional, arranged by Omar Thomas 

Three Dance Episodes from “On the Town” by Leonard Bernstein, trans. by Paul Lavender