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.
Please check our social media pages for summer auxiliary audition information as well as audition information for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Application opens August 1st for early admission (ends November 1st)!
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 caubands@cau.edu.
Instructions for YouTube Auditions
- YouTube auditions for the 2024-2025 academic year will open on Monday, December 5, 2023 and close on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 11:59 PM
- 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 Dr. Michael Decuir, interim music department chair at mdecuir@cau.edu and Cc Reisha Jones, music department admin at rjones@cau.edu to schedule a separate audition.