Menu
Log in



Account Login

Log in
Provincial Jazz Honour Band - Audition Requirements

Students, you can either work on your audition recording on your own or with the support/help of your jazz band teacher.

Please practice and prepare your audition recording - be sure to NOT identify yourself in any way on your audio recording. 

You are to submit only ONE recording. Please label the file with your last name & instrument. (ex: Jones/Trumpet)

Complete the application form 
including uploading your audio recorded audition - by the February 02, 2025 audition deadline.

Audition Requirement #1

Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet players: play a chromatic scale slurred over your playing range, ascending and descending in eighth notes with an audible metronome in the background. Pick a tempo that demonstrates your technique clearly and cleanly.

Pianists: play a three-octave chromatic scale with two hands ascending and descending.

Bassists: play a 2-octave chromatic scale beginning on low/open E. 

Guitarists: play a 3-octave chromatic scale beginning on low/open E. 

Audition Requirement #2

Perform a prepared jazz study or selection of your choice.
(This may even be one of your parts that your high school jazz band is performing this year.) It should at least 16, but no more than 48 bars in length. Try to select a piece or passage which showcases your abilities!


Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software