All-State Student Information

Congratulations on earning a position as a 2025 All-State musician! Please begin preparing yourself to give this event your very best.

Get Your Music!

Complete the following steps, required for your participation and to download your music.

  1. Carefully update your record online, including accurate and current emails for you and your parent/guardian.
  2. Pay your $30 All-State participation fee online (exception: Doesn’t apply to ATSSB students).
  3. Once payment is processed, you can download music and begin practicing!
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TMEA All-State Seating Audition

For strings already named to All-State and TMEA winds and percussion who will be named to All-State on January 11, final rank/seating will be determined via recorded audition. Note the following process (does not apply to ATSSB All-State):

Orchestra Strings

All-State Strings will record cuts from the concert repertoire (the repertoire is available for download at the update link above once the All-State participation fee is paid). Cuts will be published online at noon CT on January 15. Cuts must be recorded in one take to individual tracks.

  • January 17–23: Orchestra directors assist All-State students to record their seating audition on the TMEA audition portal by 11:59 p.m. CT on January 23.
  • January 25: Seating audition recordings are adjudicated by five-person panels and placed in rank order.
  • January 25: Notification of seating results are posted on the TMEA website.
  • January 27: Based on the ensemble to which they are named, students can download their concert music and begin practicing.

Band Winds and Percussion

Band winds and percussion will record the same etude cuts utilized at Area auditions. Etudes must be recorded in one take to individual tracks.

  • January 13–16: Band directors assist All-State students to record their seating audition on the TMEA audition portal by 11:59 p.m. CT on January 16.
  • January 18: Seating audition recordings are adjudicated by five-person panels and placed in rank order.
  • January 19: Students and directors meet on a virtual meeting to receive results and choose ensemble preference.
  • January 19: Notification of seating results are posted on the TMEA website.
  • January 20: Based on the ensemble to which they are named, students can download their concert music and begin practicing.

All-State Family Concert Tickets (does not apply to ATSSB All-State)

All-State students will receive a sheet of 4 concert tickets when they pick up their convention badge in San Antonio (at their first rehearsal [sectional or full]). The student’s family must arrange to obtain those tickets from the student in advance and outside their rehearsal schedule if they want to utilize them to enter the concert. Concert ticket holders are allowed entry before non-ticket holders. For concerts in Lila Cockrell Theatre and Stars at Night Ballroom, attendees may line up no earlier than 1 hour before the concert start.

TMEA will not provide more than 4 tickets to anyone, regardless of circumstance. Non-ticket holders may attend All-State concerts, but they will enter the concert venue after ticket holders and paid attendees (TMEA does not guarantee entry).

ATSSB concerts are not ticketed and ATSSB All-State students will not receive tickets. Families can go directly to the concert venue.