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AMIS International Asian Middle School Honor Band
(AMSHB)

Eligibility: Top Players in Grades 7-8.

In exceptional circumstances, auditions from 6th grade students will be considered.
Download “MSHB Audition/Recording Instructions”, below, for further information.

Audition Materials: use set  B

AMIS International Asian Middle School Honor Band
January 19-23, 2011
International School of Bangkok
Host Organizers: Brent Poling and Kentaro Udagawa
Guest Conductor:  Demosthenes Dimitrakoulakos

October 20

Deadline:

  • Audition CD’s and online track forms due at AMIS
28 -31 October
AMIS Middle School Honor Band Audition Panel
2 November
AMIS Middle School Honor Band Results Posted ont he Internet
17 November
Due
  • AMIS Festival Online Registration
  • Student Festival Agreement Forms mailed to AMIS
15 December

Due:

  • Festival Payment
  • Director's Expertise Form
  • Arrival/Departure Form
19 January
Travel
20-22 January
AMIS International Asian Middle School Honor Band
International School of Bangkok
23 January
Travel

Audition Downloads & Links
All AMSHB Audition Materials - New 2010-2011
Samples of MSHB 2010 Acceptable Recordings
Online Track List and Entries Form
Audition Results

AMIS Festival Online Registration
Online Acceptances/Registration/Housing/Arrival & Departure

Other forms
Student Festival Agreement Form
Financial Aid Forms

Festival Information
Contact Information | Dress Code
Draft Schedule | Concert Information| Festival Handbooks
Hotel & Housing Information | Visa Information | Fees
Membership Clarification | AMIS Policies | Financial Aid
Repertoire

AMSHB 2010 Picture Links
AMIS Album | SAS Album

Images - Beijing 2008 | Imanges - Manila 2009

Membership Clarification:

Students from schools that are AMIS members as of November 1, 2009 pay "member" fees. Students from schools other than those that are AMIS members as of November 1, 2009 pay "non-member" fees. Teachers from AMIS member schools (as of November 1) pay "member" rates. Teachers who are individual members of AMIS also pay "member" rates. All others pay "non-member" rates.Note: Only students from AMIS member schools are eligible to apply for financial aid.

Fees for AMSHB Festival

You can view all the fees, quoted in both Euros and Sterling, for all AMIS events by clicking on the link on this revised fees page.

Schools must choose to be invoiced in either Euros or Sterling. It will for the first time be possible to pay fees by cheque, transfer or by school credit card. Please contact Georgia Bassett at AMIS headquarters for details of credit card payment. You must be billed in sterling in order to use this facility.

Alternates will pay registration fees only if they are called to become a regular participant. - posted 17 November, 2009

Contact Information for AMSHB

 

Housing & Hotel Information

 

Visa Information for AMSHB

 

Repertoire

Aztec Fire; Jay Bocook
Estampie; Francis McBeth
Air for Band; Frank Erikson
Moscow, 1941; Brian Balmages
"World Premier" by Becca Schack (commissioned work)
Nessun Dorma from Turandot; Puccini, arr. Jay Bocook
Bohemian Rhapsody; Freddie Mercury, arr. John Berry
Danza Final; Ginestera, arr. Robert Longfield

Concert Information