2024 Governors Honor Festival
February 22-24, 2024
We are delighted to announce the 2024 installment of our annual Honor Festival for both band and orchestra students. Like last year, our festival will feature a 10-12 band, a 7-9 band and a 7-12 string orchestra. This year’s clinicians are Dr. Isaiah Odajima (Associate Director of Bands at Baylor University), Susan Waters (Secondary Music Coach for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools) and Dr. Tammy Yi (Professor of String Education at Chapman University and conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic YOLA Orchestra).
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Tuesday, November 28 – Applications open
Thursday, January 11 – Deadline for applications
Friday, January 26 – Notification of acceptances
Friday, February 9 – Deadline to finalize registration
Thursday, February 22 – 2024 Governors Honor Festival Begins
Seating auditions for Strings and 10-12 Band will be held on Thursday, February 22 from 5-7pm. Ensemble rehearsals will continue through 9:30pm that day. Friday’s rehearsals will take place from 9am until 9pm with a special afternoon concert featuring both the APSU Symphony Orchestra and the APSU Wind Ensemble. Saturday activities will start at 9am with the closing concert beginning at 1pm.
An application for our event must be initiated by the student. Your director or private teacher must be indicated and will be contacted to complete your application. If you are notified of selection, you will have until February 9 to complete your registration, including the $45 nonrefundable registration fee, which does include two meals on Friday.
Below you will find a link that will take you to a Google form to complete your application.
The following link will take you to the application form:
https://forms.gle/P3xhY5efSJfXX9ws8
All applications must be received by 5pm on Thursday, January 11.
As explained in the section above, applications will be initiated by the individual student. As part of that application, they will provide contact information for a director or private teacher, who must complete the brief recommendation in order for the student to be considered. Recommendations forms will be sent to directors/teachers after the closing of applications on January 11 including all students from their school or studio.
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