Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association

2016 VBODA All-Virginia Audition Information Package
Student Information
All-VA Eligibility, Procedures & Important Information for Student Participants
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Qualifying students must be enrolled in their school and be a regular performing member of their school band or orchestra program in
order to be eligible to audition for All-Virginia Band or Orchestra.
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Audition Time: All auditions will begin at 9:30. Students will be given a printed audition number at Student Registration. Students
must audition in that order and must give that slip of paper indicating their audition number to the guide upon entering the audition room.
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Wind and Percussion players who qualified to audition from both All-District Band and Senior Regional Orchestra on different
instruments must choose one or the other. For the All-Virginia Audition, a student may not audition on two different instruments
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String Bass Players who qualified to audition for the All-Virginia Audition from an All-District Band will audition with the orchestra
students using the orchestral audition materials at the Festival Conference and Student Center.
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Oboe Players who also play English Horn should be prepared to audition on both instruments. English Horn will only be used if the
music in the All-Virginia Band or Orchestra Event program requires its use.
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If a student has been dismissed from an All-District Band or Senior Regional Orchestra for reasons of attendance, conduct, or infraction
of the event rules, that student shall not be eligible to audition for All-Virginia Event in that same school year.
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Students should obtain a copy of the audition prepared etude from their director or directly from the VBODA website at
http://www.vboda.org.
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Any student who knows the he or she will not be able to participate in the All-Virginia event is not to audition! Students who
audition and decline to participate in the All-Virginia Event prevent deserving students from participating. Any student who declines
participation forfeits future eligibility to audition for the All-Virginia Event.
Registration Overview – Saturday February 27, 2016
Registration Times and Locations.
 Directors Registration: BAND:
8:00 AM in the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts – 1st Floor Lobby
STRINGS: 8:00 AM at the Festival Conference and Student Center
 Student Registration: Wind/Percussion from 8:00 – 10:30 AM in the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts – 2nd Floor Lobby
Strings from 8:00 – 10:30 AM in the Festival Conference and Student Center
Fees & Forms:
 Students should receive a Student Registration/Commitment Form from their director prior to the audition date.
 Students must complete this form prior to the day of auditions and present it at student registration (a parent signature is required).
 This form is only available from your director and is NOT available to students on the VBODA web site.
 Directors will pay their student’s registration fee, $20.00 per student, at Director’s Registration.
 The AUDITION TICKET has been removed from the registration process; students may proceed directly to registration cue.
Student Registration:
 Students must present their completed Student Registration/Commitment Form at registration.
 Students will be assigned an audition number in the order in which they register.
 A printed audition number will be given to the student.
 This number must be given to the audition room monitor when the student auditions.
WARM-UP & AUDITION LOCATIONS:
 Brass, Percussion and Low Woodwinds will audition in the Music Building
 Upper Woodwinds will audition in Taylor Hall
 Saxophones will audition in the Roberts Center of the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts
 All String players - Festival Conference and Student Center on the new campus
 All auditions will begin at 9:30 am.
 Unofficial audition results will be posted online at: www.vboda.org
Directors who are unable to attend the auditions must advise designated adults (as approved by the building principal) of the information
above. STUDENTS - If you are being registered by anyone other than YOUR director, that person must have a letter of approval signed
by the school principal, giving this person the authority in your director’s stead and a COPY of their valid NAfME Card. Student
auditions will only be considered qualified when all of the above criteria have been met.