Oct 2 –    All State Junior Band, Chorus and Orchestra Application Deadline

Oct 9 –    All State Senior Band, Chorus and Orchestra Application Deadline

Oct 16 –    Fall In-Service Conference

Oct 30 –    Deadline for receipt of All State Jazz Band Video Taped Auditions

Nov 14 –    Auditions for Junior All State Ensembles

Nov 21 –    Auditions for Senior All State Ensembles

Jan 21-23 – Maryland Jazz Conference and All State Jazz Band

Feb 25-27 – All State Junior Band

Feb 26-27 – Annual In-Service Conference, Baltimore

Feb 26-28 – All State Junior Band, Senior Band, Orchestra, and Choruses

March 12-14 – All State Junior Chorus and Orchestra, Frederick

April 1 –  Deadline for Band, Chorus and Orchestra State Festivals/Assessmt

           – Deadline for Solo and Ensemble Festivals

April 26-30 – High School Band, Orchestra and Choral Festival/Assessments

May 3-7 – Middle School Band, Orchestra and Choral Festival/Assessments

May 8 –  State Solo and Ensemble Festival for Strings and Voice

May 15 –  State Solo and Ensemble Festival for Winds and Percussion

Student Eligibility for MMEA State-Wide Activities

Maryland Music Educators Association (MMEA) is a professional association of music educators who teach in Maryland public and private schools and colleges. Its purpose is the advancement of music education in Maryland. It does this by supporting and enhancing school music curricula. Its first two corporate purposes deal with teacher in-service.

MMEA also sponsors state-wide student activities which are grade and class (band, chorus, orchestra) specific. The activities adhere to guidelines established by Music Educators National Conference, the National Association for Music Education, of which MMEA is a state affiliate. Prior to 1980, only students of MMEA members were allowed to participate in any state-wide activities. Currently, by agreement with the Public School Superintendents Association of Maryland (PSSAM ), students of MMEA members and non-members are eligible to participate in state-wide activities according to the following policies:

1. Only students enrolled in band, chorus or orchestra classes in Maryland public and private schools in the appropriate grade designation may audition for and participate in state-wide activities.

2. Only the music teacher who teaches the specific band, chorus, or orchestra class may initiate the application process for his or her students to audition for or participate in state-wide activities.

3. All applications must be signed by the school principal, attesting to the eligibility of the listed students as members of the specific classes.

4. Students in high schools in which alternate scheduling models are in operation are eligible to participate in state-wide activities only in the years in which they receive full credit for those classes.

5. Regardless of their musical ability, students who choose not to participate in their school band, chorus, or orchestra class for any reason are not eligible to participate in MMEA state-wide activities in the years in which they are not part of their school ensembles.