Questions?  Please contact:
Ian Melrose
[email protected]
608-318-8000 ext. 5864

Interested in being a part of Sun Prairie Honor Bands?

• Practice the audition material (see below)
• Event Information & Audition/Application Procedure
  • Parent/Caregivers - print off pg. 3 and give your student's Band Teacher as soon as possible.
  • Also make sure your audition video is shared with your teacher. 
• Band Directors submit their recommendations by October 1 
• AUDITION FORM LINK

2026 Audition Scales & Etudes

• AUDITION INFO
• AUDITION MUSIC

Sun Prairie Honors Band 
Saturday November 7, 2026 @ Central Heights Middle School

• The Sun Prairie Middle Level Honor Band is for 6th, 7th & 8th grade students.  .
• For general information and festival schedule please Click Here

2026 Conductor -Dr. Amy Lewis
 Dr. Amy Lewis is the daughter of Jayne McShann Lewis and Bennie Lewis and is the granddaughter of Frances McShann Shelton and jazz pianist Jay McShann.
      Her research is focused on systemic oppression, equity, and racism in music education. As a public music teacher, she taught K-1, 6-8 general music, beginning band, middle school choir, and jazz band in the Chicagoland suburbs. She received the 2022 Compass Visionary Award, the 2019 Black Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Association Emerging Leader Award, and was also named the 2015 Illinois Education Association Teacher of the Year.
      She earned her B.M.E. degree from DePaul University, M.A. from Concordia University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her work is published in The Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, Action, Criticism, & Theory in Music Education, and Michigan Music Educator Journal, and she is on the editorial board of the Research and Issues in Music Education Journal. 

NEW THIS YEAR - Dr. Lewis specializes in group improvisation and compositions. This year’s honor band will collaboratively experiment, create, prepare, and present a group composition. Honor Band selected members should come with curiosity and adventurous spirit! This the first time Sun Prairie Honor Band has done something like this and we’re grateful to Dr. Lewis for leading us through a new way to create and share music.

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