2024 Quad State Middle School Band Festival

Registration is open until October 15th at 4:00PM Central

Click below to view the Quad State Middle School Program

We are thrilled to announce the application  for the 2024 Quad State Middle School Band Festival on November 25th on the campus of Murray State University. Please only submit Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets forms - NO PDFs!

CLICK HERE for the Microsoft Excel Template OR
CLICK HERE to create a sheet in Google Sheets.

Applications are due by October 15 by 4:00PM and the fee this year will be $30 per student AND INCLUDES a T-SHIRT for each student. Over the last few years of hearing suggestions from many of you, we will provide a shirt that students can wear for the concert, and then keep as a memento of their experience

SUBMIT ALL REGISTRATION FORMS TO:
[email protected]
Downloadable schedule available HERE


Once again this year, we will have three bands of equal ability, and we will offer one Honor Band. The Honor Band will require an audio or video file link containing two components:
-Chromatic scale on their instrument (either one octave, or range of their ability, your choice)
-Excerpts in the folder HERE, from pieces selected by our Honor Band conductor. Each pdf is labeled by instrument, with marked cuts. 

Students should include both the audition excerpt AND the chromatic scale in the same link. You will see a place in the application to add the link. Please upload each student's audition to the web and include the link in your nomination form. PLEASE make sure all links work, and all permissions are unlocked. Unaccessible videos will be disqualified from the honor band process. 

Once students have been selected, we will return an invoice for you to process and keep for your records. Thanks in advance to those of you who are able to help us process payment prior to the day of the festival, it certainly takes some of the chaos of the day away!

Our clinicians this year are:
Honor Band - Linda Pulley, Band Director at Noe Middle School - Jefferson County
Blue Band - Savannah Starks, Associate Director of Bands at Beechwood Independent
Gold Band - Amanda Cornish, Band Director at Kammerer Middle School - Jefferson County
Green Band - Sarah Byrnes, Director of Instrumental & Vocal Music at Rockford Environmental Science Academy - Rockford, IL 

We look forward to working with all of you very soon! If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at any time. Also, if you have new people in your district, please forward this information along to them!

Peruse the QSMS 2024 Program:

PROGRAM: QUAD STATE MIDDLE SCHOOL 2024 by Brent Johnson

Band Directors - please click here sign-up to be part of our Director's reading band with Jeff Girard from Midwest Sheet Music