CODA Honor Orchestras

2025 CODA Honor Orchestras

December 5-6, 2025, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

CODA Honor Symphony Orchestra, Eric Dudley, Conductor
Lightspeed by Kevin Day
An American in Paris by George Gershwin
CODA Honor String Orchestra, Ruth Brittin, Conductor
Simple Symphony, Op. 4; I. Boisterous Bourée, IV. Frolicsome Finale by Benjamin Britten
River Stories; III. Stream by Yukiko Nishimura
Danse Nègre, from African Suite, Op. 34, No. 4 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arr. by Deborah Baker Monday
Monte Diablo: A Spanish Tarantella by Ruth Brittin

Student Information Form (for students to submit to their director)

Directors, please read the following instructions for setting up your Director’s account and adding student auditions.
Director Instructions for CODA Honor Orchestra Audition Submission

Schools with small or growing music programs may qualify for a School Fee Waiver. Information can be found at the bottom of our FAQs page.

Both of the CODA Honor Orchestras are only open to high school students in grades 9-12.  Students in grades 7 and 8 are eligible to audition for the Junior High All-State Orchestras.


Audition Excerpts and Instructions

CODA Audition Honor Code

Auditions will be due online by October 15, 2025.

Please contact Trish Adams at tadams@codaorchestras.org if you have any questions regarding the audition materials after speaking with your school music director.  Please do not reach out to the guest conductors with audition questions.

Recording Instructions and Excerpts for String Students
String Student Recording Instructions

CODA Honor Symphony Orchestra
Scale Requirements
Audition Excerpts

CODA Honor String Orchestra
Scale Requirements
Audition Excerpts

Recording Instructions and Excerpts for Wind and Percussion Students
Wind and Percussion Student Recording Instructions
Scales and Solo Excerpts
*Note: Due to the repertoire selection, there will be no Harp or Piano auditions for this year’s CODA Honor Symphony.  Auditions for Bass Clarinet and English Horn will be accepted.
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