SEMSBA AUDITIONS
Audition Updates
Audition lists are in progress. Please stay tuned! [6/4/2025]
Note: Registration must be completed by a SEMSBA music educator affiliated with a SEMSBA school. Individual registrations by parents or students is not permitted. If you would like to register for a SEMSBA audition, please contact your school director.
2025-2026 Audition Information
Note: Medical Forms are no longer required for SEMSBA auditions or festivals. Please ensure that you are in compliance with whatever school district documentation is required for your city/town.
School Codes & Passwords
School codes and passwords are the same as in previous years.
Directors: If you need assistance, please email the Auditions Coordinator.
Individual Audition Times
If students requrie an individual audition time separate from their school, directors can fill out the link below:
Individual Audition Time RequestImportant Dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Regular Registration Period | December 1, 2025 - February 2, 2026 |
| Late Registration Period | February 3 - 4, 2026 |
| Portal Closed for Registrations | February 5 - 12:00AM |
| Audition Date | February 7, 2026 Abington High School |
| Festival Registration | February 9 - 13, 2026 |
Audition Guidelines
(SEMSBA Manual pg. 29-30)- Students in grades 9-12 may audition for Senior S.E.M.S.B.A.
- Students in grade 7-9 may audition for Junior S.E.M.S.B.A.
- Grade 9 students may audition for either Senior or Junior SEMSBA, but not both.
- A student who does not meet the criteria listed above may apply for permission to audition through their group director if there is a need for a particular instrument or voice, with the approval of the S.E.M.S.B.A. Executive Board. (e.g. 6th grade oboe or bassoon player)
- Limitations: No more than 5 of any wind or percussion instruments may audition from any one school. No more than 6 sopranos or 6 altos from one school may audition.
- Double auditions will be restricted to instruments.
- Students auditioning on voice cannot double audition on an instrument.
- Wind players may double audition on the following secondary instruments: trombone, baritone horn, French horn, tuba, oboe, bassoon, mallet percussion.
- Percussion may double audition on timpani, snare drum, and mallets. No triple auditions allowed.
- String players may double audition on a string bass.
- Students must be registered on the day of auditions by a school staff member or a parent who has obtained a letter from their school principal indicating that the parent has been authorized to do so.
- Each school must have a music staff member or duly authorized chaperone on duty the entire time that school’s students are at the audition site.
- Students MAY NOT drive themselves to or from auditions.
- "Alternate" players for a festival will be contacted when a previously filled position becomes vacant if time and situation permit it to be done.