Name: Mock All-State Audition
Start: 2025-09-06T09:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-06T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Unitarian Church

The Lincoln Music Teachers Association will host a mock all-state audition open to all instrumentalists. Students of LMTA members have the first opportunity to sign up and priority in scheduling.
September 6, 2025, 9:30-11:30am
Unitarian Church of Lincoln, 6300 A St, Lincoln, NE 68510
Apply here: https://forms.gle/67XEXhovNJTiUgTT6
Please register by September 1, 2025.
High school students preparing to audition for NMEA All-State Orchestra, Band, or Jazz Band have the opportunity to perform their materials for Dr. John Bailey from UNL. Depending on interest, this will either be a master class (oral comments) or an audition (written comments) format.
Clinician: Dr. John Bailey
Cost: $5, via cash, due upon arrival at the event.
Fees cover venue rental, and the remainder serves as a donation to the Lincoln Music Teachers Association - Music Outreach Program.
Acceptance/denial and approximate performance time will be sent September 2nd.
Dr. John Bailey Biography
Dr. John Bailey is Richard H. Larson Distinguished Professor of Music and a member of the Moran Woodwind Quintet, resident faculty quintet at the Glenn Korff School of Music. He is principal flutist with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, with which he has appeared as concerto soloist on numerous occasions, most recently in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Since 2005 he is also Director of UNL's annual summer Chamber Music Institute.
He received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University, where he studied with James Pellerite. Both his masters and doctorate were earned at Northwestern University, where he was assistant to Walfrid Kujala. He also studied at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, with Louis Rivière, piccoloist of the Vienna Philharmonic. From 1982 to 1996, he was program annotator for the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, where he was also co-principal flutist with the festival's orchestra.
Bailey is an active recitalist, lecturer and masterclass teacher. He has performed at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center (as part of the Dame Myra Hess series); Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL; numerous universities throughout the US; at many flute festivals, including Rochester, NY, Pittsburgh, Hot Springs, Norman, OK, Raleigh, NC, and St. Louis; and in recital in Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and England. With the Moran Woodwind Quintet he has toured throughout the Midwest and released a series of recordings on the Crystal label--The Wind Chamber Music of Theodor Blumer, Vols. 1-3. The third, released in December, 2007, contains one final quintet and three works for flute and piano. Bailey has discovered further gems by Blumer and is planning a fourth recording. His recording of American masterworks on the Centaur label (works by Ran, Larsen, La Montaine, Persichetti, Snyder and Heiden) is forthcoming. He has conducted the International Flute Orchestra (35 professional flutists and teachers) on tour in Greece, Chile, China, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Turkey, the Baltic Republics, and Russia. He was President of the National Flute Association in 2003-2004 and program chair of the annual NFA convention in August, 2002 in Washington, D.C. He is a past president of the Beta Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda and of the Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society.