Region 23

(includes Regions 23 and 27)

Updated 11-16-09

Fred Angerstein, Coordinator

Contact information:

Email address: fred.angerstein@kinkaid.org

Telephone: (713) 243-5436

All-Region Jazz Auditions

Online entry deadline September 15, 2009

Auditions will be held at The Kinkaid School on September 22, 2009

Alfred Angerstein, Kinkaid Band Director, host (713-243-5436)

All-Region Band Auditions

Online entry deadline November 1, 2009

Auditions will be November 14, 2009, at Sealy High School

Bruce Kenner, Sealy HS Band Director, host (979-885-2114)

Judges' Meeting 9:30 a.m. followed by Junior High auditions. HS auditions to follow no earlier than 2:00 p.m. with another judges' Meeting at 1:30 p.m.

Entries are due through the TMEA website. Hard copies of ATSSB membership card, fee payments, and copies of your entries are to be postmarked by the deadline for each contest (forms are found on the TMEA website after you enter your students). Make checks out to ATSSB Region 23 and mail to:

Alfred Angerstein
The Kinkaid School
201 Kinkaid School Road
Houston, Texas 77024

All-Region Clinic-Concert

November 21, 2009

The Kinkaid School (yes, that is the Saturday of Thanksgiving Break with Thanksgiving on the following Thursday -- so make plans accordingly).

Rehearsals start at 8:30 a.m. and the concert will be at 6:00 p.m. in the Kinkaid Brown Auditorium. There is no admission charge and the public is invited to attend.

Audition Music for 2009-10
High School - First four lines of the ATSSB Prescribed Audition Music, Year D and all prescribed scales

Junior High Music - First three lines of the ATSSB Suggested Junior High Audition Music, Year A (NOTE: FRENCH HORN WILL USE TRUMPET ETUDES, and the scales as prescribed by the region (see below links).


Region 23 Middle School Scales:


Year A SmartMusic Files

You will need SmartMusic to play the file ($30 per year for students, $130 per year for teachers). Open it, select solo track, unselect accompaniment track, then play.

(Some files are not yet available)

Flute page 31 Flute page 49
Oboe page 20 Oboe page 49
Clarinet page 47 Clarinet page 57
Low Clarinet page 17 Low Clarinet page 42
Saxophone page 22 Saxophone page 25
French Horn No. 8 French Horn No. 7
Trumpet No. 8 Trumpet No.7
Baritone TC page 10 Baritone TC page 23
Baritone BC page 10 Baritone BC page 23
Trombone page 10 Trombone page 23
Tuba page 10 Tuba page 23

Here are the rules and procedures followed in region 23:

REGION 23 RULES 2009-10