Audition and Registration

You may email Mr. Serina, cserina@wcpss.net during the month of March to set up an audition to be held in April. All students must audition to be placed in an ensemble. Afternoon audition dates are listed below and will take place in the Leesville Road High School Band Room. Please print out the audition form, fill it out, and bring it your audition.

Audition requirements for the Symphonic Band are the following:

  • Brass/Woodwind Players: Perform 12 major scales and chromatic scale (two octave range) and a short solo of your choice to show your musicality. Your private instructor or band director can assist you in finding a suitable selection. Students will also be asked to sight-read a selection during the audition.
  • Percussionists: Perform 12 major scales and chromatic scale (two octave range) on a mallet percussion instrument. All percussionists should demonstrate the ability to tune and perform a short timpani solo, perform a rudimentary snare drum solo, and a short xylophone/marimba solo. Students will also be asked to sight-read a selection during the audition.

Audition requirements for the Concert and Ninth Grade Bands are the following:

  • Brass/Woodwind Players: 6 major scales (C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db concert), chromatic scale (two octave range), short solo of your choice to show your musicality and a sight-reading selection.
  • Percussionists: 6 major scales (C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db concert), chromatic scale (two octave range) on a mallet percussion instrument and TWO short solos on two different of the following instruments of your choice to show your musicality: demonstrate the ability to tune and perform a short timpani solo AND/OR perform a rudimentary snare drum solo AND/OR a short xylophone/marimba solo. Students will also be asked to sight-read a selection during the audition.

Spring 2012 Audition days for Symphonic Band:
April 9th - 18th. Please contact Mr. Serina to schedule an audition time. It is best to schedule an audition during the month of March. The last day for Symphonic Band auditions is Wednesday, April 18th.

Please click on Organization of Bands to read about each ensemble. See our homepage for the date and time of our New Parent Meetings in the LRHS Band Studio for all new Parents!

At the audition process, an ensemble placement will be made. Each ensemble carries the same class registration number so no matter which ensemble the student is placed in, the numbers are the same. We place them in either the Symphonic Band Section, the Concert Band Section, or the Ninth Grade Band Section depending on their audition.

All musical ensembles are year length, receiving two units of credit.

  • Uprising Freshman sign up for Band I (first term) and Band II (second term)
  • Uprising Sophomores sign up for Band I (first term) and Band II (second term)
  • Uprising Juniors sign up for Band III (first term) and Band III Honors (second term)
  • Uprising Seniors sign up for Band IV Honors (first term) and Band IV (second term)