Welcome to our recruitment center for all prospective students looking to enter Clark Atlanta University and join the band program for the 2024-2025 academic year.
CAU Admissions Application
(opens August 1, 2024 for the Class of 2025) |
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) |
Audition Process
- Please make sure you fill out our information form (click on "Join The MMP" button below)
- Please make sure you apply to the University (see above).
- After you have applied, you can set up an audition with a member of our band staff. Most auditions will be conducted via YouTube or in-person/on-site. If you will be on our campus and would like to audition, please e-mail [email protected].
Instructions for YouTube Auditions
- YouTube auditions will open on Monday, November 4, 2024, and will close on Wednesday. April 30, 2025.
- State CLEARLY your name, location and instrument
- BRASS/WOODWIND/MALLET PERCUSSION: Play your five best major scales with arpeggios
- BRASS/WOODWIND/MALLET PERCUSSION: Play the chromatic scale throughout the practical range of your instrument
- FOR PERCUSSION (Snare Drum) - Play the following six rudiments in open-closed-open format
- 5 Stroke Roll
- Single Paradiddle
- Flam Tap
- Flam Accent
- Single Ratamacue
- Paradiddle-diddle
- Play a prepared selection (e.g. All-State etude) of no more than 32 measures that displays your lyrical and/or technical proficiency (NO MARCHING BAND MUSIC! Marches are allowed.)
- If you are majoring or minoring in music, please contact Mr. Phil Davis, music department chair at [email protected] and Cc Reisha Jones, music department admin at [email protected] to schedule a separate audition.