Season Auditions

The Puget Sound Youth Wind Ensemble is looking for talented musicians to join us for the 2010-2011 Season. Auditions will held in August at the School of Music Building, Room L1 at the University of Puget Sound. Watch this web site for a schedule.

Tuition & Financial Assistance

Tuition for 2010-2011 season is $425.00. Payment in full is due by the first rehearsal. If financial circumstances require special arrangements, a request in writing may be made to: PSYWE Treasurer, P.O. Box 1152, Auburn, WA 98071-1152 or tuition@psywe.org. Please make all checks payable to "PSYWE."

Need-based financial aid is available to students who require financial assistance. Please e-mail the PSYWE at assistance@psywe.org or contact the PSYWE at 253-370-8806 for further information. Please include a telephone number in the body of the e-mail.
For more information email Mr. Gerard Morris at gmorris@ups.edu

For Puget Sound Youth Symphonic Band audition information click here.

Woodwind and Brass Auditions

All auditions will be played without accompaniment and evaluated for tone quality, intonation, rhythmic accuracy, technical precision, and musicality. Please prepare the following for your audition:

  1. Two musical selections of your choice, displaying contrasting styles (one fast and technical, the other slow and lyrical), no more than a total of five minutes in duration. Excerpts may be chosen from standard solo literature, etudes, or band/orchestra repertoire, and may come from one or two different works.
  2. Three major scales of your choice (two octaves, when possible), performed from memory.
  3. Chromatic scale demonstrating the full range of your instrument (as low and high as you can comfortably play), slurred, and performed as fast as possible.
  4. Sightreading chosen by the conductor.

Percussion Auditions

The audition requires performance on snare, timpani and mallets.

Percussion audition selections are from the Western International Band Clinic Web site. Please prepare the material in the following downloadable files:

Interested students can download a copy of the audition application form here. We are excited about our upcoming season and we hope you will join us on our musical adventure.