North All-Region Information
VIRTUAL AUDITIONS: North All-Region Auditions will be held virtually this Fall, by submission of a link to a YouTube video recording. Please review audition details carefully (updated by August 15, 2024). The same audition will qualify students for the 2025 All-State Orchestra festival.
The 2025 North Alabama All-Region Orchestra festival consists of the two following ensembles:
- North Region Symphony Orchestra for woodwind, brass, percussion and string students who seek an opportunity to perform full-orchestra music.
- North Region String Orchestra for string students who seek an opportunity to play in an honor ensemble with other string players.
2025 North-Region Orchestra Festival Details
When: January 11 – 12, 2025
Where: Randolph High School, 4915 Garth Road SE, Huntsville, AL 35802
Deadline to Register for the North-Region Orchestra Festival is Friday, December 27, 2024
Music for the North-Region Festival will be available through a drop box link emailed to students as they register for this event.
Please remember that string players who have placed in both North-Region and All-State Orchestras are expected to participate in both North-Region and All-State events. Please contact the Executive Director and President for approval if there are extenuating circumstances.
Festival Schedule:
Saturday, January 11
9:00 a.m. | Student's arrive and find their seats
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Rehearsal Block No. 1
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch (off-campus with chaperones/parents)
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Rehearsal Block No. 2 (including 20-minute break)
**conductors coordinate so that breaks do not overlap**
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Dinner (off-campus with chaperones/parents)
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Rehearsal Block No. 3
Sunday, January 12
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Rehearsal Block No. 4
1:30 p.m. | Reset for Concert
2:00 p.m. | Concert for both groups
3:30 p.m. | Drive Home Safely!
Final Concert: Sunday 2:00 pm; this concert is free to the public; all family and friends are invited to
attend.
Concert Dress Options:
Option 1: tux with black tie (bowtie or necktie), white shirt, black pants, black dress shoes, black socks.
Option 2: black suit with black tie (bowtie or necktie), white shirt, black pants, black dress shoes, black
socks.
Option 3: long black dress that comes below knee and below elbow. Black shoes and black
stockings/hose.
Option 4: all black dress clothes with black shoes and black socks.
Option 5: black pants or skirt with white long sleeve shirt or blouse, black dress shoes, black socks.
The 2025 North-Region Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Dr. Christopher Lawhorne. Dr. Lawhorne is the Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In addition to his work with the Marching Mocs and Pep Bands, Dr. Lawhorne serves as the conductor of the UTC Symphonic Band.
This year’s North-Region Symphony Orchestra will perform: (Order TBD)
Overture to Nabucco, Giuseppe Verdi
Symphony No. 8, Antonin Dvorak
The 2025 North-Region String Orchestra will be conducted by Laura Walters. Mrs. Walters teaches music at Ivy Classical Academy in Prattville, AL. She is the conductor for the Montgomery Youth Symphony and plays double bass with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.
This year’s North-Region String Orchestra will perform: (Order TBD)
Prelude from the “Holberg Suite”, Edvard Grieg/Arr. Brendan McBrien
Adagio and Allegro, Ludwig van Beethoven/Arr. R. Scott Whittington
Chasing the Storm, Deborah Baker Monday
A Mother’s Hymn, Robert W. Smith
Idylls of Pegasus, Richard Meyer
1812 Overture, P.I. Tchaikovsky/Arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle
Voyager, Soon Hee Newbold
