2024-2025 Ola Bands Placement Audition Information

Prior to each school year, all woodwind, brass, and percussion students entering the Ola High School Band Program will be required to perform a placement audition that will determine which concert ensemble they will be assigned to for the upcoming school year.   All students will perform major scales and a prepared etude.  Once the auditions are completed, students will be placed in one of the three concert ensembles based on the results of their performance.  Please understand that we must do everything we can during course registration to ensure that students are placed in the correct concert ensemble.  Students will not be permitted to perform with an ensemble that they do not rehearse with daily.  If a scheduling issue arises, students may bump down an ensemble but will not automatically bumped up.  BAND IS A YEAR LONG CLASS.  Students are required to participate for the full year.  Students who participate in band for four full years will be awarded a band cord at the spring awards ceremony.  Students that do not audition will be automatically placed in the Symphonic Band.

 

The band program at Ola High School consists of three concert ensembles, an optional jazz band and percussion ensemble.  After school we offer the Marching Mustangs, color guard, winter guard, and possibly a competitive indoor percussion.

 

SYMPHONIC BAND - (indicated in Infinite Campus as, “Intermediate Band”) – this ensemble is a performance-based ensemble with a set instrumentation that will perform level 3-4 literature.  Students may consist of grades 9-12.

SYMPHONIC WINDS - (indicated in Infinite Campus as, “Advanced”) – this ensemble is a performance-based ensemble with a set instrumentation that will perform level 4-5 literature.  Students may consist of grades 9-12.

WIND SYMPHONY - (indicated in Infinite Campus as, “Mastery”) – this ensemble is a performance-based ensemble with a set instrumentation that will perform level 6 and collegiate literature.  Students may consist of grades 9-12.  The Wind Symphony is considered the premier instrumental ensemble at Ola High School, with the ensemble’s approach to music making modeled after a collegiate level program.

COLOR GUARD - auditions are open to all students grades 9-12 campus wide. This ensemble meets in conjunction with the marching band after school from July – November.  AUDITIONS ARE HELD EACH SPRING.

MARCHING MUSTANGS - all students in grades 9-12 are eligible to perform in The Ola High School Marching Mustangs regardless of which ensemble that the student has been placed in.   The Marching Mustangs is the most visual performance ensemble at Ola High School.  Information related to The Marching Mustangs may be found at: www.olahighschoolband.com

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KICK OFF MEETING FOR

THE MARCHING MUSTANGS 

 April 25 | 7:00pm | OHS Band Room

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