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INFORMATION ABOUT THE ALL-STATE MIDDLE LEVEL STRING ORCHESTRAWhat is the All-State Middle Level String Orchestra?
This event is in partnership with the Nebraska Chapter of the American String Teacher's Association. Who can attend?
2025 ALL-STATE MIDDLE LEVEL STRING ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR
Alison holds a Doctoral degree Her performance experience as a bassist includes serving full-time as principal in Tulsa, OK (8 years), a Tanglewood fellowship, an Aspen Music Festival scholarship, was co-principal with the National Repertory Orchestra for 2 summers, and won a substitute audition with the St. Louis Symphony. She has also performed chamber music in the United States and in Europe and has been a featured soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra, Tulsa Philharmonic, Breckenridge, CO Festival, and Rockford, IL Symphony 2025 ALL-STATE MIDDLE LEVEL ORCHESTRA REPERTOIRE
2025 MIDDLE LEVEL ALL-STATE REGISTRATION & AUDITION DATES
All Middle Level directors have from September 10 at 8:00 AM CST until 11:59 PM CST September 22 to make sure your students’ auditions have been submitted correctly. These deadlines will not be extended for any reason. Auditions must be completed in the timeframe approved by the NMEA board. No students will be allowed to submit an audition for All-State once the published closing date has passed because of illness or any other unforeseen events. Please make sure you follow all of the guidelines in this manual to help you and your students be successful. AUDITION INFORMATION & MANUALThere will be a $10.00 audition fee for all students who audition for the 2025 All-State Middle Level Orchestra and a $50.00 participation fee for those students who are selected. The audition fee payment will be made through your Festival Scores submission. Once selected students are announced, you will be invoiced for the participation fee. Click the link below to view the 2025 Auditions Manual for ALL high school AND middle level All-State ensembles. You can use the Table of Contents to jump to any specific area in the manual. Please read through this document carefully as it contains important information, including All-State eligibility requirements and other policies, contact information, step-by-step instructions on how to navigate Festival Scores, and more! All-State Auditions Manual (ALL ENSEMBLES)The portal for audition uploads is now open! Middle Level Orchestra directors should use Event Code J73PJ9F to activate the event in Festival Scores. This code is also provided within the Auditions Manual. Please reference this document when uploading audition files. AUDITION MATERIALSStarting in 2025, NMEA will utilize the services of Festival Scores to collect Middle Level student auditions. This is the same platform used for the High School All-State auditions. Auditions will include:
1. All-State Scale Sheets (click each link to download) Each scale sheet contains both major and minor scales. 2. All-State Etudes (click each link to download) Please note that etude sheets do not include bowings. |
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in orchestral conducting from the University of Kansas, Lawrence and a Master’s degree from U.S.C., Los Angeles in bass performance. Her professional conducting experience includes music director positions, assistant conductor positions, has been a conductor of youth symphonies, and has guest conducted various professional groups including 10 years as conductor of Brass Night and on various chamber concerts at the Breckenridge, CO summer music festival. Her academic conducting experience includes a year as interim Director of Orchestra at Iowa State and for Rock Valley College, IL, and for 4 years as conductor of the chamber orchestra at Illinois’ largest college, the College of DuPage. In addition, she has served as a clinician and guest conductor for music associations throughout the Midwest and for the Chicago Bass Festival. During her doctoral studies, she received assistantships from both the orchestral and jazz departments, where she worked and studied with British conductor, keyboards,t and recording artist Brian Priestman and with jazz educator, arranger and composer Dan Gailey. She has also received fellowships and won positions for conducting seminars through the League of American Orchestras, Chorus America, the Conductor’s Institutes in South Carolina (in opera), and at Bard College, NY.
