Audition Registration
2025 YES Auditions will take place at Irving Middle School on Wednesday, January 8th and Thursday, January 9th. Plan to arrive 15 minutes before your audition to check in, tune, and warm up. Click the link for your instrument below to register for an audition time.
*To be eligible for YES, students must be enrolled in LPS, grades 5-8, and must participate in their school orchestra. Students who are homeschooled may audition for an LPS All-City Music Ensemble, but must be enrolled and participate in their LPS school orchestra. See our guidelines page for more information.
*Please check the Rehearsal/Concert Information page to make sure your schedule works with ours before auditioning.
Audition Music
2025 Audition Materials
Students will be expected to play both scales and excerpts in their audition, as well as a short sight reading example. The sight reading will be provided at the audition.
2025 Audition Practice Recordings
Consider using the practice recordings below to help you prepare your audition. They are recorded at the tempos listed on the audition pages.
*Bass coming soon*
Helpful Hints
- Use a metronome in the practice room. Using a steady beat helps your rhythmic accuracy.
- Do a scavenger hunt in your audition sheet. Find time signatures, key signatures, accidentals, difficult rhythms/notes, dynamics, bowings, and articulations. Are you demonstrating all of these when you play?
- Play musically. Prepare your music further than, “I can play the correct notes.” Dynamics, Bowings, and Phrasing will be adjudicated, as well as intonation.
- Practice sight reading. It is a skill. Open your book to a new page and try to learn a new song every day you practice for the audition.
- Play with great posture. Poor posture often hurts your chances of playing as accurately as you would with better posture.
Past Audition Materials
