High School Band All-State Festival

The Nevada Music Educators Association All-State Festival features a middle school and high school level band. These ensembles include woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Students work closely with a guest conductor for two days before performing a final concert. Students who make the All-State bands are the top performers in Nevada. Both Middle and High school students audition to earn a spot in the ensemble.

2025 Nevada High School Band
All-State Audition Information

2025 All-State Audition Student Information

Students see your music director for more information on the audition process. All-State Audition and/or Participation fees will be paid by each school and their ensemble director/s. All students will need to see their school director for more information on audition fees and audition registration. Students and parents please contact your school music or ensemble director with any questions you might have about your students auditions.

All-State HS Band Festival January 30-February 1, 2025

High School All-State Band Audition Results:

Directors, All-State Ensemble Auditions information as well as forms can be found below. The All-State results will be available no later than December 2. Please contact your All-State Chairperson for any questions or help.

High School All-State Band Audition Links

How to register your students for High School All-State Band:

Click the attached link and make a copy of the registration form. Replace the words "INSERT SCHOOL" with the name of the registering program in the heading of the sheet. Please refrain from having individual students register, and have all students from the program on one registration form. Once completed, send your registration to matthjr2@nv.ccsd.net. Registration is due Thursday, October 24th.

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Important Dates

Audition Registration deadline is October 24th,
Audition Schedule will be sent out on November 4th, 2024.
Audition fees are due by November 12th, 2024.

Audition Dates Las Vegas

South Audition Schedule
November 12 th at Arbor View High School
November 13 th at Coronado High School
November 14 th at Clark High School (Percussion)
November 15 th at Clark High School (Percussion)

Audition Dates North

November 13 th Damonte Ranch High - Reno
November 12 th Carson City High School

2025 Nevada All-State High School Band Festival and Conference Information

2025 HS Band All-State Festival Schedule and More

Schedules for this All-State Festival are below. All schedules are subject to change and will be sent out to the ensemble chairs or NMEA. For more information on the Nevada All-State Festivals and Conferences go to the All-State home page for more detailed information. Contact your All-State Ensemble chair for any questions or concerns you may have.

All-State Festival Directors Checklist

All directors are responsible for the following items for All-State Festival and Conference. Go to the All-State Festival Homepage for more details on the Festival and Conference. If you have any questions or concerns contact your Ensemble Chair.

Forms and Fees are due TBA

Pay for Director and Student All-State Festival Participation fee
Ensure that each student completes the All-State Student Participation Form Not available yet
Directors Form (Google Form) Not available yet
Chaperones Form (Google Form) Not available yet
All-State Book Hotel Room Information Not available yet

All-State Festival Payments

Pay for Student/Director All-State Festival Participation fee
All fees are to be paid by each school and their ensemble director/s. All students will need to see their school director for more information fees and registration.

Payment Options - These are the 2 payment options found in the web store.

Pay with a Credit Card- follow the prompts and put in your card information, as well as billing address information if needed. Be sure all is accurate.
Manual Payment (school check) - follow the prompts in the webstore and select the manual payment method to pay by check and generate an invoice.

If you have questions or would like to verify payment contact David Morris, the State Executive, at stateexec@nmeamusic.org
Mail all checks to 1100 Wellness Place. #1115 Henderson, NV. 89011. Please write checks out to the Nevada Music Educators Association.

Chairperson and Committee

Joshua Matthews All-State HS Band Chair

Email: matthjr2@nv.ccsd.net

Carl Backer

Blair Williams

Jordan Mathisen

2025 Nevada All-State High School
Band Conductor

2025 Conductor

Julie Ann Giroux

Composer, Orchestrator, and Conductor

Julie Ann Giroux was born 1961 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and Monroe, Louisiana. She received her formal education from Louisiana State University and Boston University. She studied composition Bill Conti, and Jerry Goldsmith, to name a few. Julie is an accomplished performer on piano andhorn, but her first love is composition. She began playing the piano at the age of three and had published her first piece at the age of nine.

In 1985, she began composing, orchestrating, and conducting music for television and films. Within three hours after arriving in Los Angeles, she was at work on the music for the Emmy Award winning mini-series North and South, followed soon by work on the television series Dynasty and The Colbys, as well as the films Karate Kid II, White Men Can’t Jump, and Broadcast News. She received her first Emmy nomination in 1988 for North and South Part II - Love and War, and over the next three years was nominated each year for her arranging and original compositions for the AcademyAwards show. To date, Julie has well over 100 film and television credits and has been an Emmy award nominee several times. When she won her first Emmy Award, she was the first woman and the youngest person ever to win the award in that category. Julie has also been privileged to arrange for Celine Dion, Paula Abdul, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, Madonna, Reba McEntire, Little Richard, Billy Crystal, Michael Jackson and many others.

Julie is an extremely well rounded composer, writing works for symphony orchestra (including chorus), chamber ensembles, wind ensembles, soloists, brass and woodwind quintets and many other serious and commercial formats. She began writing music for concert band in 1983, publishing her first band work Mystery on Mena Mountain with Southern Music Company. Since that time, she has composed and published numerous works for professional wind ensembles, military bands, colleges and public schools and has conducted her music in clinics worldwide. She is also a very well received speaker and clinician. Julie is a member of The American Bandmasters Association and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).