2024 Nebraska All-State Orchestra

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2024 ALL-STATE ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Emmy award-winning and Grammy-nominated conductor, celebrating 35 years of professional conducting, and with a deep commitment to passing his experience on to the next generation of musicians, he is currently the Director of Orchestral Studies at Baylor University, where in addition to performing, he teaches orchestral conducting at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
He has also established The Conducting Institute to teach the fundamentals of conducting to students ages high school and up, of all levels, through intensive summer and winter programs, workshops, courses, and seminars.

Harth-Bedoya has amassed considerable experience at the helm of orchestras, including tenures as Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, where he now holds the title of Music Director Laureate. Previously he has also held Music Director positions with the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand and the Eugene Symphony in Oregon, and the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. He also held the Director of Orchestral Studies position at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Harth-Bedoya guest conducts with orchestras around the world, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, London Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Harth-Bedoya has conducted traditional and premiere opera productions at the English National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Bremen Opera, among others, and this fall, he will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, leading Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar.
Harth-Bedoya is the founder and Artistic Director of Caminos del Inka, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching, performing, and preserving music of the Americas.

He has recorded for notable labels like Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Naxos, and Harmonia Mundi, receiving critical acclaim for interpretations of various works.

www.miguelharth-bedoya.com

2024 ALL-STATE REGISTRATION AND AUDITION DATES

***UPDATED***

All instrumental directors have from September 18 at 8:00 AM CST until 11:59 PM CST September 28 and all vocal directors will have from September 26 at 12:00 PM CST (excerpts announced 8:00 AM CST that day) until 11:59 PM CST September 28 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.

2024 ALL-STATE ORCHESTRA REPERTOIRE

2024 AUDITIONS MANUAL

Click the link below to view the 2024 Auditions Manual for ALL high school 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 FesitivalScores, and more! 

The Event Tags for each All-State ensemble will be posted in the Auditions Manual (linked below) starting September 18.

2024 Auditions Manual (ALL ENSEMBLES)

2024 AUDITION MATERIALS

• Scales
• Etudes Set 2 from common repertoire (For some instruments, there may be multiple etudes.)
• An excerpt from the All-State Orchestra music (which will be made available on the NMEA website in August)

1. All-State Scale Sheets (click each link to download)

Please see the 2024 All-State Scales & Audition Requirements for Strings to view the scales chosen for the 2024 audition season. 

2. All-State Etudes (click each link to download)

3. All-State Orchestra Music Excerpts

• Bass Excerpt
• Cello Excerpt
• Viola Excerpt
• Violin Excerpt
• Harp Excerpt
• Piano Excerpt