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High School Orchestra All-State Festival

The Nevada Music Educators Association All-State Festival features a high school level orchestra. This ensemble includes violin, viola, cello, bass, harp, and piano, as well as winds and percussion. String students audition for Orchestra; wind and percussion students audition for Band but select Orchestra as their preference. Students work closely with a guest conductor for two days before performing a final concert. Students who make the All-State orchestra are among the top performers in Nevada.

2025 Nevada High School Orchestra
All-State Audition Information

2025 All-State Audition Student Information 

Students see your music director for more information on the audition process.  All-State Audition and/or Participation fees will be paid by each school and their ensemble director/s. All students will need to see their school director for more information on audition fees and audition registration.  Students and parents please contact your school music or ensemble director with any questions you might have about your student's auditions. 

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All-State Orchestra Festival January 30-February 1, 2025​

2025 All-State Audition Director Information 

Directors, All-State Ensemble Auditions information as well as forms can be found below. The All-State results will be available no later than December 2. Please contact your All-State Chairpersons for any questions or help. 

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​High School All-State Orchestra Audition Links 

Important Dates
  • Friday, October 25: Registration deadline

  • Friday, November 1: Audition schedule posted

  • Friday, November 8: Payment for Audition registration due

  • Monday, December 2: Audition Results Posted

  • Wednesday, January 15: Southern Sectionals/Rehearsal, Clark HS, 6:00-8:00 PM, Strings only

  • Wednesday, January 22: Southern Sectionals/Rehearsal, Clark HS, 6:00-8:00 PM, Strings, Winds, Brass, Percussion

  • Wednesday, January 29 to Saturday, February 1, 2025: All-State Orchestra rehearsals and performances, UNLV Campus, 

Audition Dates Las Vegas

Audition Dates North

2025 Nevada All-State High School Orchestra
Festival and Conference Information

HS Orchestra All-State Festival Schedule and More

​Schedules for this All-State Festival are below. All schedules are subject to change and will be sent out to the ensemble chairs or NMEA. For more information on the Nevada All-State Festivals and Conferences go to the All-State home page for more detailed information. Contact your All-State Ensemble chair for any questions or concerns you may have.

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All-State Festival Directors Checklist 

All directors are responsible for the following items for All-State Festival and Conference. Go to the All-State Festival Homepage for more details on the Festival and Conference. If you have any questions or concerns contact your Ensemble Chair. 

Forms and Fees are due TBA

  1. Pay for Director and Student All-State Festival Participation fee 

  2. Ensure that each student completes the All-State Student Participation Form Not available yet

  3. Directors Form (Google Form) Not available yet

  4. Chaperones Form (Google Form) Not available yet

  5. All-State Book Hotel Room Information Not available yet

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All-State Festival Payments
  • All-State Audition Fee $15 per Student (web store) 

  • Pay for Student/Director All-State Festival Participation fee 

  • All fees are to be paid by each school and their ensemble director/s. All students will need to see their school director for more information fees and registration.

Payment Options - These are the 2 payment options found in the web store. 

  1. Pay with a Credit Card- follow the prompts and put in your card information, as well as billing address information if needed. Be sure all is accurate. 

  2. Manual Payment (school check) follow the prompts in the webstore and select the manual payment method to pay by check and generate an invoice. 

  • If you have questions or would like to verify payment contact David Morris, the State Executive, at stateexec@nmeamusic.org

  • Mail all checks to 1100 Wellness Place. #1115 Henderson, NV. 89011. Please write checks out to the Nevada Music Educators Association.

Chairpersons 

Gregory Maldonado All-State HS Orchestra Southern Nevada Chair

Email: maldogm@nv.ccsd.net 

Brian Fox  All-State HS Orchestra Northern Nevada Chair

Email: bfox@carson.k12.nv.us

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2025 Nevada All-State High School
Orchestra Conductor

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2025 Guest Conductor
Farkhad Khudyev
Music Director of the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra 
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Described by the critics as “phenomenon“ (Seattle Post Alley),“magician on the podium” (Performing Arts
Monterey Bay), with “the ability to connect with invisible worlds and to bring them alive in the
music” (Monterey Herald), Farkhad Khudyev, has been recognized by the government of the United States as an
Artist of Extraordinary Ability.
Admired for “meticulous guidance, superb musicianship and extraordinarily imaginative interpretation” (Performing
Arts Monterey Bay), Mr. Khudyev has worked with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Orchestra and Frankfurt Opera Orchestra of Germany, Danish National Symphony Orchestra of Denmark, Calgary
Opera and Calgary Philharmonic of Canada, Seattle Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San
Diego Symphony, Cape Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, National Orchestra of Turkmenistan,
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Romania, State Symphony Orchestra of Azerbaijan, Xi’an Symphony
Orchestra of China and the State Taipei Chinese Orchestra of Taiwan.
Mr. Khudyev is the winner of the Gold Medal “Beethoven 250” Special Prize at the 1st International Arthur Nikisch
Conducting Competition; the Solti Foundation US 2022 Career Assistance Award; the Solti Foundation US 2018
Career Assistance Award; the Best Interpretation Prize at the 1st International Taipei Conducting Competition in
Taiwan; the 3rd prize at the 8th International Sir Georg Solti Conducting Competition in Germany; the 1st Prize at
the Yale Chamber Music Society Competition; and the Gold Medal and Grand Prize at the 2007 National Fischoff
Chamber Music Competition in the US.
Farkhad has performed around the United States, Europe and Asia at world-class venues and festivals including the
Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy, DR Koncerthuset in Denmark, Zhongshan
Hall in Taiwan, Shaanxi Performing Center in China, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Canada, the Alte Oper
Frankfurt Großer Saal and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festpiele in Germany.
Mr. Khudyev has served as the Music Director of New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra, New Haven Chamber
Orchestra, Youth Music Monterey County, as well as the Associate Conductor of the Hidden Valley Opera and the
Assistant Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in England.
Currently, Mr. Khudyev serves as the Music Director of the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra and the
Assistant Professor of Music in Orchestral Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Music Director
of the Orchestral Institute at the Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts in Carmel, California.
Farkhad Khudyev was born in Turkmenistan, where he first studied violin, piano and composition at the State Music
School for gifted musicians. At the age of 10, he distinguished himself as the youngest performer selected to play
with the National Violin Ensemble of Turkmenistan, and toured around Central Asia and Eastern Europe. As a
soloist and a member of the Ensemble, Farkhad performed for the Presidents of France, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
In 2001, Farkhad came to the United States to study at Interlochen Arts Academy and then completed his studies at
the Oberlin Conservatory and Yale University.

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