Please click here to sign up for an audition:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084FA4AD2CA6FC1-2020

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Returning members do not need to audition again unless moving to a different ensemble. 

All members participating are required to fill out the following form:
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Spring 2020 Auditions will be held on January 18, Saturday,

from 1-4 PM at the Neighborhood Creative Arts Center (106 St. Mary's Avenue, La Plata, MD)

Payments are due 31 January 2020.
 

Audition Information

Important Links

Music is the universal language. It allows us to communicate across cultural borders.

- Dr. Osman Kivrak, CCYO Director

Requirements for Prelude Strings

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1. One octave D major scale. (Focus on good position and technique.)

2. #86 Ode to Joy, or #92 Can Can from Essential Elements book 1 (Or equivalent piece.)

3. ​Sight reading​.

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Requirements for Encore Strings

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1. One octave scales - C, G, D, A, F, B-flat; and the g melodic minor scale. (See links below.)

2. A prepared piece at MMEA grade level 2 or above. For example- Suzuki Volume Two, a grade 2 piece from the MMEA manual for Solo & Ensemble, or the excerpt linked below.

3. Sight-reading.

4. Students wishing to be placed in the 1st violin section should be prepared to demonstrate 3rd position. This can be a prepared etude, solo, or the provided excerpt.

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Requirements for Encore Band

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1. Two scales of your choice.

2. 7th and 8th grade:  p. 22 or 38 of Standard of Excellence Book 2. 6th grade: Sawmill Creek, p. 20 in Standard of Excellence book 1. If you don't have the music please email Takako Mato. (See contact page.)

3. Sight-reading.

Requirements for CCYO Strings

1. Two-octave major scales - C, G, D, A, F, B-flat, and E-flat; Violin/bass -- a melodic minor; viola/cello -- d melodic minor. Scales should be memorized and slurred 2 per bow. 

2. Play a prepared piece at MMEA grade level 4 or above.  (For example- Suzuki Volume 4, a solo piece at MMEA grade 4 piece, or the excerpt linked below). All solos need to demonstrate shifting.

3. Sight-reading.

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​Requirements for CCYO Woodwinds and Brass

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1. Each student will be asked to perform the chromatic scale, beginning on a note of the student’s choosing, and major scales selected from the following keys: C, G, D, A, E, f, B-Flat, E-Flat, A-Flat. The scales must be performed from memory, evenly and smoothly in a 16th note pattern. All scales are to be played ascending and descending a minimum of one octave, except Flute and B-flat Clarinet who shall perform the scales a minimum of two octaves.

2. A solo piece at MMEA Grade 4 or higher. List provided here: 

3. Sight-reading.

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Requirements for CCYO Percussion

Percussion audition requirements are the same as for All-State auditions. The specific requirements can be found here.

Students should be prepared to audition on timpani and either snare drum or mallets.

A solo of MMEA Grade 4 or higher and sight-reading will be required on both instruments.

Students are responsible for bringing their own snare sticks, mallets, and a pitch source (tuning fork or pitch pipe) for tuning the timpani.

Timpani: Be able to tune all drums from a pitch source (tuning fork or pitch pipe). Demonstrate roll exercises from the All-State requirements (page 4).

Snare Drum: Rudiments from the All-State requirements (page 2)

Mallets: Two-octave scales up to 4 sharps and 4 flats, plus a two-octave chromatic scale, in a 16th note pattern (page 3)