All-Illinois Junior Band (AIJB)
Upcoming All-Illinois Junior Band: February 8-9, 2019
Auditions are due by 11:59pm on November 2, 2018
"The All-Illinois Junior Band was founded for the express purpose of creating a premier musical experience for the state’s finest middle school band students. As the first statewide middle school honor band in over half a century, membership in AIJB is determined solely through competitive blind auditions. Its goals are to provide an opportunity for middle school students to perform excellent literature with a mature ensemble and distinguished conductor, to interact with similarly dedicated student musicians from around the State of Illinois, and to encourage and inspire these outstanding young musicians to continue their musical studies."
Beach Park Middle School students have the opportunity to audition for this elite ensemble each year. Each fall, a group of BMPS students will be selected by the director and encouraged to audition. Only those students with a serious commitment to preparing the audition music and with a high standard of musical excellence will be considered. Those students will then need to prepare the music, record an audition, and submit it to Mrs. Grabot for submission to the AIJB band. If any student is selected to be in the AIJB band, they will then travel to the University of Illinois in January to rehearse and perform with the AIJB band in the prestigious Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
For more information, check out the AIJB website. http://www.aijb.org/
Auditions are due by 11:59pm on November 2, 2018
"The All-Illinois Junior Band was founded for the express purpose of creating a premier musical experience for the state’s finest middle school band students. As the first statewide middle school honor band in over half a century, membership in AIJB is determined solely through competitive blind auditions. Its goals are to provide an opportunity for middle school students to perform excellent literature with a mature ensemble and distinguished conductor, to interact with similarly dedicated student musicians from around the State of Illinois, and to encourage and inspire these outstanding young musicians to continue their musical studies."
Beach Park Middle School students have the opportunity to audition for this elite ensemble each year. Each fall, a group of BMPS students will be selected by the director and encouraged to audition. Only those students with a serious commitment to preparing the audition music and with a high standard of musical excellence will be considered. Those students will then need to prepare the music, record an audition, and submit it to Mrs. Grabot for submission to the AIJB band. If any student is selected to be in the AIJB band, they will then travel to the University of Illinois in January to rehearse and perform with the AIJB band in the prestigious Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
For more information, check out the AIJB website. http://www.aijb.org/
FORMER ALL-ILLINOIS JUNIOR BAND MEMBERS FROM BPMS:
Terra Herberger, bass clarinet (2017)
Donovan Reno, tenor saxophone (2016)
Terra Herberger, bass clarinet (2017)
Donovan Reno, tenor saxophone (2016)