& News From Our Division Chairs
Band Performance Al Bazzel
856-358-2054
fenwayfollwer5@comcast.net
We hope you had an enjoyable summer and are having a successful start of the school year. During the summer months the NJMEA Band
Procedures Committee met to plan for the upcoming school year. The 2015 All-State Wind Ensemble will be conducted by Michael Votta, Jr., Director of Wind Activities at the University of Maryland.
Evan Feldman, Director of Bands at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will conduct the Symphonic Band. Due to extenuating circumstances beyond our control, the originally published bass trombone and tuba solos are now unavailable from
the publisher. As a result, there are now additional solos for bass trombone and tuba. Students will be permitted to audition using either solo for the 2014-2015 bass trombone and tuba auditions. Students must have an original published solo to use for the auditions. Please visit
njmea.org for the updated solo list. The battery percussion audition will now consist of snare drum rudiments, solo, and sight-reading, traps studies, and a mallet etude.
There will no longer be a traps solo or sight-reading component to the audition. Starting this year there will be a new application procedure for All-State Band. The process will be online with a printable signature page to be submitted with the audition fees. More information will follow in the coming months. Any solo suggestions need to be submitted to Bruce Yurko, solo chair, or any region representative. The recommendation must include a copy of the suggested solo, the solo it is to replace, and rationale for the change. The region representatives are: Region I - Lewis Kelly, Gregory Mulford, Mindy Scheierman; Region II - Jules Haran, Mark Kraft, Brian Toth; Region III – Thomas Rafter, Deb Knisely, Phil Senseney. If you have any additional questions or concerns please contact Matthew Spatz, Band Procedures Chair.
Choral Festivals Donna Marie Berchtold
609-476-6241 x1013
berchtoldd@hamiltonschools.org
The 62nd Annual NJMEA Middle School – Junior High Choral Festival Dates are scheduled for the spring of 2015. Donna Marie F.
Berchtold, chairperson, and choral/instrumental director at the William Davies Middle School, Mays Landing, along with Karen Blumenthal, choral director at Von E. Mauger Middle School, Middlesex, NJ will co-coordinate and host the Middle School Choral Festivals again for this year.
The Festivals are currently scheduled to be held at two separate locations. The first event (South Site) will tentatively take place at Rowan
University on April 1, 2015. The deadline for applications is March 2, 2015. The second event (North Site) will be held at Rutgers University on May 27, 2015. The deadline for applications is April 20, 2015. The time of each event is 9:15 – 1:30 pm.
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