All-State Student Information

Congratulations on earning a position as a 2026 All-State musician! Please begin preparing yourself to give this event your very best.

Important Dates

* Indicates a deadline

• November: All-State Dashboard and Music access for Jazz, Orchestra (Strings, Harp, and Piano), and Mariachi students
• *December 15: Deadline to pay All-State fees for Jazz, Orchestra (Strings, Harp, and Piano), and Mariachi
• January 12: All-State Dashboard access for Band (Winds and Percussion) and Vocal students
• *January 20–23 2:00 p.m. CT: Band Winds and Percussion online seating audition (not ATSSB)
• *January 20–23 2:00 p.m. CT: Orchestra Strings online seating audition
• January 20: Student printed forms available
• January 20: Student schedules available
• *January 31: Deadline to pay All-State fees for Band (Winds and Percussion) and Vocal
• February 9: Verify that you have your required forms printed and signed by your parent/guardian to bring with you
• *February 11: Present your signed forms in San Antonio to receive your badge and participate.
• At the convention: All-State family concert tickets, certificates, and patches distributed to students

All-State Member Dashboard

Log in to the All-State Member Dashboard to complete the following steps, required for your participation, and to download your music. Your director/member-sponsor will provide you with your login information.

1. Carefully update your record online, including accurate and current emails for you and your parent/guardian.
2. Pay your $30 All-State participation fee online by the deadline (exception: Doesn’t apply to ATSSB students).
3. Once payment is processed, you can download music and begin practicing!

On January 20, return here to log back in to the member dashboard and access the printed forms you and your parent/guardian need to sign. To participate, you must provide your forms, signed by your parent/guardian, in San Antonio at your All-State check-in.

TMEA All-State Seating Audition

For strings already named to All-State and TMEA winds and percussion who will be named to All-State on January 10, final rank/seating will be determined via recorded audition. Note the following process (does not apply to ATSSB All-State):

Orchestra Strings

All-State Strings will record cuts from the concert repertoire (the repertoire is available for download at the update link above once the All-State participation fee is paid). Cuts will be published online at noon CT on January 15. Cuts must be recorded in one take to individual tracks.

• January 20–23 2:00 p.m. CT: Orchestra directors assist All-State students to record their seating audition on the TMEA audition portal.
• January 25: Seating audition recordings are adjudicated by five-person panels and placed in rank order.
• January 25: Notification of seating results are posted on the TMEA website.
• January 26: Based on the ensemble to which they are named, students can download their concert music and begin practicing.

Schedule and Convention App

All-State rehearsal schedules will be available by January 20 online and in the TMEA convention app.

All-State Family Concert Tickets

(does not apply to ATSSB All-State)

When students pick up their convention badge in San Antonio, they will receive a sheet of 4 concert tickets. Family must arrange to obtain those tickets from the student outside their rehearsal schedule if they want to utilize them to enter the concert (not needed for Jazz, Percussion, or Mariachi concerts, as they have no concert lines). TMEA will not provide more than 4 tickets to anyone, regardless of circumstance.

For concerts in Lila Cockrell Theatre and Stars at Night Ballroom, attendees may line up no earlier than 1.5 hours before the concert start. Concert ticket holders and paid attendees are allowed entry before non-ticketholders (TMEA does not guarantee entry).

ATSSB concerts are not ticketed and ATSSB All-State students will not receive tickets. Families can go directly to the concert venue.