2025 ATSSB All-State Band Links

Letter of Congratulations with instructions for State. Click HERE for a flyer from Pepwear regarding memorabilia available for purchase at State or afterward.

Please go to this URL (https://www.atssb.org/all-state-band-student-information/) to fill out the data we need for our records. You may be asked to do this by TMEA also, but we need this for ATSSB purposes.

Press Release for ATSSB All-State students (do not use the one available from the TMEA site).

Symphonic Band and Color instruments (oboe, bassoon, alto clarinet, contrabass clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass trombone, string bass) need to go to THIS URL and get the BAND APP for Symphonic Band to allow the band organizers to better communicate with the all-state students and parents.

Concert Band and Color instruments (oboe, bassoon, alto clarinet, contrabass clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass trombone, string bass) students and need to go to THIS URL and get the BAND APP for Concert Band to allow the band organizers to better communicate with the all-state students and parents. Color instruments will delete the app they will not use after chair auditions.

Jazz Ensemble students need to go to THIS URL and get the BAND APP for Jazz Ensemble to allow the band organizers to better communicate with the all-state students and parents.

Piccolo and Eb Soprano Clarinet with details regarding auditions for these instruments.

4A Alto Saxophones: There is a Soprano Saxophone solo on one of the selections Dr. Wilson has programmed. Take a look at it HERE. If you would like to play the solo, bring a soprano saxophone and prepare to play it for Dr. Wilson and let him select the soloist.

Map of San Antonio showing rehearsal and performance sites.

Rehearsal Schedule

State Chair Audition Rules and Procedures detailing the process used for state chair auditions.

Hotels in San Antonio to give to directors who might need this information to give to parents wanting to go for the concerts.

Hotel Tax Exemption Form

2025 ATSSB All-State Band Chair Audition Excerpts

You will audition for chairs using cuts as marked on the parts below. Instruments will use the part assigned to them with cuts as marked. Be sure you are using the correct excerpts by verifying it with your band director. There will be NO SCALES and NO AREA ETUDES used in chair auditions at State.

3A CONCERT BAND	COLOR INSTRUMENTS	4A SYMPHONIC BAND
3A PICCOLO	OBOE	4A PICCOLO
3A FLUTE	BASSOON	4A FLUTE
3A CLARINET	ALTO CLARINET	Eb SOPRANO CLARINET
3A BASS CLARINET	Eb CONTRABASS CLARINET	4A CLARINET
3A ALTO SAXOPHONE	Bb CONTRABASS CLARINET	4A BASS CLARINET
3A FRENCH HORN	TENOR SAXOPHONE	4A ALTO SAXOPHONE
3A TRUMPET	BARITONE SAXOPHONE	4A FRENCH HORN
3A TENOR TROMBONE	BASS TROMBONE	4A TRUMPET
3A EUPHONIUM BC	STRING BASS	4A TENOR TROMBONE
3A BARITONE TC		4A EUPHONIUM BC
3A TUBA		4A BARITONE TC
3A PERCUSSION		4A TUBA
		4A PERCUSSION

You may only print the excerpts above for your practice leading up to chair auditions at state, after which you must delete any copies you may have printed or saved on your computer or any other media. We only have publisher permission to make excerpts available online for this chair audition. Published parts are purchased by ATSSB for the rehearsal and concert.

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You can find recordings of all of the pieces programmed for the ATSSB All-State Bands online or elsewhere.

The entire program for both bands is scheduled as follows:

Concert Band under the direction of Dustin Seifert (Eastern New Mexico University):

Star-Spangled Banner by John Stafford Smith, harmonized by Walter Damrosch, arranged by John Philip Sousa
River of Life by Steven Reineke
Meditation from "Thais"by Jules Massenet, arr. A.A. Harding
Tuebor by Andrew David Perkins
Riften Wed by Julie Giroux
National Emblem by E.E. Bagley, arr. Loras Schissel

Symphonic Band under the direction of Dr. J. Eric Wilson (Baylor University):

Alpina Fanfare by Franco Cesarini
Canticles by Paul Dooley
Grace Before Sleep by Susan LeBarr, arr. Eric Wilson
Rise, mvt. I "Beginnings" by Adam Schoeberg Lament for Wind Orchestra by Chand Su Koh
Give Us This Day by David Maslanka
Tachyon by Julie Giroux (commissioned by ATSSB)