Massachusetts 2012 All-State Auditions

Cutoff Scores
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What to bring to auditions
Eligibility
Registration Procedure
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Audition Results
Log in to the Audition database (http://www.mmeaonline.org/festivals) as you did to register your students, and click on the Audition Results link to view and print results.

Click on Festival Registration to register your students before the January 28 deadline! At the time you register each student for the Festival, please identify the student's gender and optionally supply the name of the student's choice of roommate.

Complete Information Packet for all Concert-related information for both Students and Directors is located here. Please download this information and disseminate it to your students who are participating in the Concert. All of the following forms and info sheets are included in this packet:

1. Welcome Letter
2. School Appointed On-Site Chaperone Form
3. Festival Information Packet
4. All-State Information And Policies
5. Festival Schedule
6. All-State 2012 Final Instructions And Checklist
7. Chaperone Shifts / Times
8. 2012 T-Shirt Order Form
9. Concert Ticket Order Form

Cutoff Scores
Following are the cutoff scores which resulted from the Festival Auditions:

All State Auditions
Location: Shrewsbury HS  (Directions)
Date: January 21, 2012
Snow Date: January 28, 2012

All State Audition Registration Dates
All State Audition Registration begins December 1, 2011 and ends January 6, 2012.
Late Registration begins January 7, 2012 and ends at 5:00 PM on January 13, 2012.

Audition Registration:  In order to register students for All-State auditions, a username and password are required, as follows:
Username:  The username for each school is the District Code of your particular school - different for each High School. Just the District Code; the name of your school is not part of the username.  Your username is not your MENC/NAfME ID.
Password:  Passwords are the same ones you used to register for All State Auditions last year. These may or may not be the same as the password you used to register for District Auditions, depending on your District. The expiration date of your MENC/NAfME ID is not your password.
If you don't remember your password, try using the "Forgotten Password" link available from the login page.
 
Festival Audition link: Please use this link to register for Festival Auditions: http://www.mmeaonline.org/festivals

Assistance:  If you need assistance with your username/password, please email Rick Lueth, at rick.lueth@comcast.net.

Transportation to/from Auditions
Schools are responsible for providing transportation to and from the All State Festival Auditions for All State students. No student is permitted to drive to/from the auditions, nor may any student drive or be driven by another student to/from the auditions.

What to bring to Auditions
1.) The signed Medical Permission Form for each student who is auditioning;
2.) The signed Principal Form* for your school;
3.) Payment for the amount indicated on the Principal Form.
*(The Principal Form is accessible when you register your students for auditions.)

All State Fees
2012 All State Audition Student Registration Fee: $20.00
2012 All State Audition Student Late Registration Fee: $50.00
2012 All State Festival Student Registration Fee: $300.00

Medical Form: The 2012 All-State Medical Permission Form

Audition Times:
The audition schedule by district is indicated in the following table. Note the time that corresponds to the name of your school and your geographic district.
Home-schooled students may come at any time during their geographic district's audition times, or arrange a suitable time with Tom Walters, the MMEA Auditions Coordinator, in advance. Contact Tom at tswalters@methuen.k12.ma.us.

Massachusetts All-State Audition Policy
Approved by the District Presidents and the MMEA Executive Board, May 2010.

Eligibility to Audition for Massachusetts All State Festival

• Students in the top half (50%) of accepted wind, percussion, string and vocal auditions from senior district audition scores will receive recommendations to audition for All State.  Substitutes, students filling in parts, or students moving up in seating due to cancellations will be considered ineligible to audition.

• All jazz students will receive a recommendation to audition for All State, provided that they have auditioned for and participated in senior district festivals.

• Students must participate fully and completely in their respective senior district festivals* to maintain All State eligibility.  No changes of instrument or voice part will be considered for an All State recommendation.  The ensemble in which the student actually participates at senior district will determine their All State eligibility. 

• Students may only complete one (1) audition for one All State ensemble.  Students qualifying for All State recommendations for two ensembles on the same instrument must choose either jazz or concert wind/percussion/string bass audition.

• Students that notify festival officials that they will decline to participate in the All State festival after the registration deadline, usually in February, because of conflicts with other activities or commitments, may forfeit their All State audition eligibility for the following year. 

* Students that are selected for their senior district but are unable to participate due to health-related issues that are documented by a physician will retain their eligibility to audition for All-State.

Registration Procedures to Audition for Massachusetts All State Festival