Evaluation Forms and Rubrics Currently in Use for Adjudicated Orchestra Festivals in the U.S.

The purpose of this project, created in partial fulfillment of a doctoral degree at James Madison University, is to gather and share scoresheets and rubrics currently in use for Adjudicated Orchestra Festivals held throughout the United States. It is my hope that event organizers and directors will find this information helpful and potentially lead to increased educational benefits for participants.

Please send comments, additions, or corrections to Thoma8lm@jmu.edu. Click HERE for the full research proposal with bibliography.

Alabama
- Alabama OMPA Rubric
- Alabama Orchestra Scoresheet
Alaska
- No statewide AOF currently held
Arizona
- ABODA HS-Area_State-Concert-Adjudication-Form
- ABODA ELJH Evaluation sheet
Arkansas
- ASBOA Adjudicator’s Scoresheet
- Arkansas ASBOA-Sight-Reading-Adjudicator-Sheet-Revised-2025
California
- CMEA Bay Area Band/Orchestra Performance Scores and Comments
- SoCal Band-Orchestra-Festival-Adjudication-Form-17
Colorado
- Colorado Instrumental Large Group Adjudicator Rating Form
Connecticut
- No statewide AOF currently held
Delaware
- No statewide AOF currently held
Florida
- Florida Orchestra Association Concert Adjudication Forms
Georgia
- Georgia Orchestra Large Group Performance Evaluation
Hawaii
- Hawaii ASTA Parade of Orchestras Adjudication Sheet 1
- Hawaii ASTA Parade of Orchestras Adjudication Sheet 2
Idaho
- Idaho Concert BandOrch Adjudication
Illinois
- Northern Illinois Music Conference Orchestra Rating Form
- IGSMA – Orchestra
Indiana
- Indiana–NFHS Large Group Music Adjudication Form
Iowa
- Iowa HS Music Association Large Group Adjudication Form
Kansas
- Kansas Judges’ Score and Comment Sheet
- KA KMEAAssessRulesOrchandClassicalGuitar1819
Kentucky
- Kentucky KMEA Orchestra Large Group Performance Assessment
Louisiana
- LMEA Band/Orchestra Large Assessment Stage Performance
- LMEA-Judges-Rubric-Sightreading-2022-Band_Orchestra
Maine
- Maine Band Evaluation Form and Rubric (no orchestra festivals currently held)
Maryland
- MMEA State Large Ensemble Festivals on pause 2024-25
Massachusetts
- MICCA Scoring Sheet
- MICCA Scoring Rubric
- MICCA-SCORING-LEGEND
Michigan
- Michigan SBOA Festival Concert Adjudication Booklet
- Michigan MSHAA_MMEA-FORM-5B
Minnesota
- Minnesota SHSL Music Adjudication Form
Mississippi
- MS MSHAA-SPA-FORM-6
- MSHAA-SPA-FORM-5B (1)
Missouri
- Missouri MSHSAA Large Group Evaluation Scoresheet
Montana
- Montana HS Association Adjudication Form Orchestra
Nebraska
- Nebraska NSAA orchestra
Nevada
- Clark County MS Orchestra Festival Assessment Form (Fillable)
New Hampshire
- NHMEA LG Instrumental Rubric (3)
- NHMEA Large Group Adjudication Form-Instrumental (3)
New Jersey
- CNJMEA Orchestra Festival Scoresheet and Rubric
New Mexico
- NM MEA Orchestra Music Performance Assessment Scoresheet
- NM MEA MPA Rubric Guiding Document
New York
- NYSSMA Band/Orchestra Evaluation Form
North Carolina
- NC Orchestra Music Performance Adjudication Assessment Form
- NC Orchestra Music Performance Adjudication Rubric
North Dakota
- NDHSAA Instrumental Ensemble Music Adjudication Form Class A
- NDHSAA Instrumental Ensemble Music Adjudication Form Class B
Ohio
- OMEA Band Orchestra Choir Large Group Adjudicator’s Sheet
- OMEA Band Orchestra Choir Large Group Performance Rubric
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma SSAA Music Contest Band/Orchestra Concert
- Oklahoma SSAA Music Contest Band/Orchestra Sight Reading
Oregon
- OSAA/OBDA Large Group Evaluation and Judging Form
Pennsylvania
- PMEA Band/Orchestra MPA Adjudication Form.pdf
Rhode Island
- RI band_orch_festival_rubric
- RI band_orch_festival_adjudication_form
South Carolina
- SCMEA AOF EvalForm6_7 (2)
South Dakota
- SD MUS-ContestBallots (1)
Tennessee
- TN TMEA_eval_sheet
Texas
- Interscholastic Texas Orchestra_Concert_Evaluation_Rubric
- Interscholastic Texas SR eval
Utah
- UTAH Large
- Utah LargeInstrumentalEns
- Utah Adjudication-Orchestra
Vermont
Virginia
- Virginia- VBODA String-Orch-Performance – 2024rev
- Virginia- VBODA-Full Orch Performance – 2024rev
Washington
- WA-ASTA-WWU 2025 HS Adjudication Forms Sample
West Virginia
- No statewide AOF currently held
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin School music association (1)
Wyoming
- Wyoming Orch Assessmt Form
National Federation of High Schools
- NFHS large-group-2024_copy
Scoresheets and Rubrics not affiliated with state-administered Adjudicated Festivals
- String_Ensemble_Ballot (1)
- InstrumentalPerformanceevaluationrubric (2)
- music-2-performance-assessment-rubric (2)
- music-rubric-1 (2)
- Music-Rubric-Instrumental-Performance_Individual (2)
- Music+Performance+Rubric (2)
- Orchestra_Concert_Evaluation_Rubric (1)
- Playing test rubric (2)
- Playing test rubric (1)
- R01B3DD playing_test_rubric (2)
- InstrumentalPerformanceevaluationrubric (2)
- Performance Assessment Rubric (2)
- performance_assessment_rubric (1)
- sjmea_lg_orch_rubric (2)
- sjmea_lg_orch_adj_form (2)
- Strings-Rubric (2)
- STRINGS PLAYING TEST 2018-19.docx (2)