Honor Band Audition Date

Saturday, December 13th, 2025

Winds & Percussion Audition & Rehearsal Site: 

Sanger West High School

8:00AM-12:00PM

Audition Location
Sanger West High School, 1850 S Fowler Ave, Fresno, CA 93727

• A-Building: Woodwinds

• H-Building: Brass & Intermediate Percussion

• Band Room: High School Percussion

A campus map is attached for reference.

**Wind & Percussion Audition Times**

Arrival Time:

Please arrive 25–30 minutes before your student’s scheduled audition time.

This allows time to:

• Navigate the campus

• Find warm-up and audition rooms

• Warm up before performing

Rehearsals

Saturday, December 13th - 2:30-5:30pm, Sanger West HS

Rehearsal Locations (For Selected Students)

• High School Honor Band: Sanger West MPR

• Intermediate Honor Band: Sanger West Innovation Room (H-Building)

• High School Symphony Orchestra (winds & percussion): Fresno Pacific University

Friday, January 9th - 9am-4pm, Sanger West HS 

Saturday, January 10th - 9:00AM-1200PM, Clovis North/Performing Arts Center

Honor Band Concert

Saturday, January 10 - 1:30pm

Clovis North High School, Performing Arts Center

Jr. High School Winds and Percussion Audition Materials

Download instrument parts here.

Download audio examples here.

High School Winds Audition Materials

High School Winds will be the same audition for the CBDA Golden State Honor Band.  Excerpt list can be found here.  

High School Percussion Audition Materials

Percussionists must play the required 2-mallet excerpt (A Minor Violin Sonata, Allegro) posted on www.cbda.org under HS Solos & Supplemental Material from the top to the spot indicated in red, as both as solos in the order listed below:

Snare Drum Etude #3 (p. 5), Portraits in Rhythm, A. Cirone (Belwin)

m. 1 thru m. 25

Timpani Etude #48 (p. 180) from Fundamental Method For Timpani, Mitchell Peters (Alfred)

m. 16 to End

Sightreading for mallets and snare will take place between the mallet excerpt and snare excerpt, respectively. 

Guest Conductors