2026 ATSSB All-State Band Links

Letter of Congratulations with instructions for State. Click HERE for a flyer from Pepwear regarding memorabilia available for purchase at State or afterward.

Please go to this URL (https://www.atssb.org/all-state-band-student-information/) to fill out the data we need for our records. You may be asked to do this by TMEA also, but we need this for ATSSB purposes.

Press Release for ATSSB All-State students (do not use the one available from the TMEA site).

Symphonic Band and Color instruments (oboe, bassoon, alto clarinet, contrabass clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass trombone, string bass) need to go to THIS URL and get the BAND APP for Symphonic Band to allow the band organizers to better communicate with the all-state students and parents. Color instruments will delete the app they will not use after chair auditions.

Concert Band and Color instruments (oboe, bassoon, alto clarinet, contrabass clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass trombone, string bass) students and need to go to THIS URL and get the BAND APP for Concert Band to allow the band organizers to better communicate with the all-state students and parents. Color instruments will delete the app they will not use after chair auditions.

Jazz Ensemble students need to go to THIS URL and get the BAND APP for Jazz Ensemble to allow the band organizers to better communicate with the all-state students and parents.

Piccolo and Ef Soprano Saxophones: Details regarding auditions for these instruments. Ef Soprano Clarinet will not be used in either band.

Map of San Antonio showing rehearsal and performance sites.

Rehearsal Schedule

State Chair Audition Rules and Procedures detailing the process used for state chair auditions.

Hotels in San Antonio to give to directors who might need this information to give to parents wanting to go for the concerts.

Hotel Tax Exemption Form

2026 ATSSB All-State Band Chair Audition Excerpts

You will audition for chairs using cuts as marked on the parts below. Instruments will use the part assigned to them with cuts as marked. Be sure you are using the correct excerpts by verifying it with your band director. There will be NO SCALES and NO AREA ETUDES used in chair auditions at State.

3A CONCERT BAND	COLOR INSTRUMENTS	4A SYMPHONIC BAND
3A PICCOLO	OBOE	4A PICCOLO
3A FLUTE	BASSOON	4A FLUTE
3A CLARINET	ALTO CLARINET	4A CLARINET
3A BASS CLARINET	Eb CONTRABASS CLARINET	4A BASS CLARINET
3A Eb SOPRANO SAXOPHONE	Bb CONTRABASS CLARINET	4A ALTO SAXOPHONE
3A ALTO SAXOPHONE	TENOR SAXOPHONE	4A FRENCH HORN
3A FRENCH HORN	BARITONE SAXOPHONE	4A TRUMPET
3A TRUMPET	BASS TROMBONE	4A TENOR TROMBONE
3A TENOR TROMBONE	STRING BASS	4A EUPHONIUM BC
3A EUPHONIUM BC		4A BARITONE TC
3A BARITONE TC		4A TUBA
3A TUBA		4A PERCUSSION
3A PERCUSSION

You may only print the excerpts above for your practice leading up to chair auditions at state, after which you must delete any copies you may have printed or saved on your computer or any other media. We only have publisher permission to make excerpts available online for this chair audition. Published parts are purchased by ATSSB for the rehearsal and concert.

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You can find recordings of all of the pieces programmed for the ATSSB All-State Bands online or elsewhere.

The entire program for both bands is scheduled as follows:

Concert Band under the direction of Randall D. Standridge (Composer and Clinician):

Star-Spangled Banner by John Stafford Smith, harmonized by Walter Damrosch, arranged by John Philip Sousa
Sonic Pathways byNathan Hervey
Shadow Falls byJulie Giroux
UNTITLED by Randall D. Standridge (commissioned by ATSSB)
Animation (Episode 1: WABBIT!), by Randall D. Standridge
Symphony no.1, "A Ghost Story", Movements 3&4 "Midnight" and "Ascent" by Randall D. Standridge
Galop, by Shostakovich/Hunsberger

Symphonic Band under the direction of Dr. Richard M. Heidel (University of Iowa):

Shimmering Sunshine by Kevin Day
I Vow to Thee, My Country by Gustav Holst, arr. Geoff Knorr
Unidad en Ritmo by Michele Fernandez
Washington Grays by Claudio Grafulla, arr. G. H. Reeves, ed. Tommy Fry
El Camino Real by Alfred Reed