Mizzou Jazz Fest

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Registration opens November 1 (limited to 20 bands)
Entry Deadline: January 15, 2025
Entry Fee: $250 for first group, $200 for each additional group

Held at the Sinquefield Music Center on the MU Campus in Columbia, MO, this festival is open to middle and high school groups. Each participating band will receive a clinic with an adjudicator, and has the option be rated and/or participate in sight-reading. The group with the top overall rating will receive the opportunity to participate in a Command Performance that evening with the MU Concert Jazz Band at the historic Missouri Theatre. While most festival events will occur on Saturday, February 15, an option is available to perform on Friday evening, February 14, should that work better for your ensemble. 

Mizzou Jazz Fest Registration Link

Champion of Champions Marching Festival

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Spectator Information/FAQ

Early Registration ($350): August 1, 2024 
Final Registration ($400): August 15, 2024

This season-culminating event allows bands the opportunity to perform for a nationally-recognized adjudication panel in a large performance venue. Memorial Stadium features a state-of-the-art FieldTurf performance surface and ample seating for spectators. Bands will compete in a prelims/finals format. The event will also include exhibition performances by the Marching Mizzou Drumline and “The Big M of the Midwest,” Marching Mizzou. This event is limited to the first 24 registered bands. Classes with more than seven bands entered will be split into sub-groupings for competition. Classes must have at least three entries for the top-scoring band to automatically advance to finals. Prelim scores will determine eligibility for remaining spots in finals competition. Bands will be assigned performance times within each division based first on 2023 results followed by registration date for all new applicants.

Champion of Champions Registration Link

Band Day

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Registration Deadline: August 15, 2024

We are pleased to invite you back to the University of Missouri for our 77th Marching Mizzou Band Day, now with full band AND individual registration options for all instruments and auxiliary! Join the acclaimed 350-member Marching Mizzou for a massed-band performance to cheering crowds during half-time on Faurot Field. 

Students whose high school bands are unable to attend are encouraged to register as individual participants. Individual registration for instrumentalists, drum majors, and color guard members in grades 9-12 will include complimentary admission to the game for the participant and one chaperone. Individuals are also welcome to attend the Marching Mizzou rehearsal on Friday, September 6 from 4-6 PM. 

Twirlers ages 7-18 are also invited to participate in Band Day. Twirlers attending independently will receive a Mizzou Twirler Day t-shirt, two complimentary tickets to the game (student twirler and one adult chaperone), box lunch, and picture with current Marching Mizzou Feature Twirlers and Truman the Tiger. Select advanced high school twirlers are eligible to perform a solo routine in the end zone wearing black and gold. Twirlers participating as a member of their band do not need to complete the separate twirler registration form below since you will be included with your band's registration.  

Full bands will receive complimentary admission for all participating students, directors/staff, and chaperones.  

Additional tickets for band families and other supporters may be purchased at mutigers.com or via phone at 1-800-CAT-PAWS.  

All participants will be given access to our Marching Mizzou Band Day website with music for the massed band performance as well as a color guard and feature twirler choreographed routine to learn for the event.  

Individual Instrumentalists, Drum Major, and Color Guard Registration: $25 fee 

Individual Twirler Registration: $75 fee 

Full Band Registration: $75 fee covers parking for one bus. Additional parking passes can be purchased for $75 per bus and $25 per equipment vehicle. 

If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact Brooke Danielsen, Coordinator of Large Ensembles, at mubands@missouri.edu.  

All-State Music Prep Day

Sunday, November 17, 2024
1:00-4:00PM
Sinquefield Music Center, MU Campus

FREE instrumental All-State material preparation clinic with masterclasses by MU faculty.

Register here

Additional All-State resource videos can be found at the University of Missouri School of Music YouTube Channel.

Mizzou Jazz Fest - Saturday, February 17, 2024

This annual jazz festival brings together the finest junior high and high school instrumentalists, highly qualified and respected jazz adjudicators, and top quality clinicians.

Spectator Information

The 2024 Mizzou Jazz Fest will be hosted at the Sinquefield Music Center on the MU Campus in Columbia, MO. Each participating band will receive a clinic with an adjudicator, and has the option to be rated and/or participate in sight-reading. The group with the top overall rating will receive the opportunity to participate in a Command Performance that evening with the MU Jazz Band at the Missouri Theatre. 

Esterhazy String Quartet Seminar, Trombone Boot Camp, Missouri Summer Composition Institute (COMP), Summer 2024

Information is available at this link: https://music.missouri.edu/mizzou-summer-music-camps-and-programs

Mizzou Homecoming Parade & Band Competition - Saturday, October 21, 2023

Experience the excitement of the historical MU Homecoming by participating in the annual Mizzou Homecoming Parade & Band Competition! This event is limited to 15 high school bands. Bands will be placed into divisions based on wind/percussion size. New for 2023 is a reduced  entry fee, and the options for schools to participate without competing.  

Registration Deadline: September 15, 2023
Entry Fee: $75

Homecoming Parade Competition Registration Link

Band Day - Saturday, September 9, 2023 

Registration Deadline: August 15, 2023 

We are pleased to invite you back to the University of Missouri for our 76th Marching Mizzou Band Day, now with full band AND individual registration options for all instruments and auxiliary! Join the acclaimed 350-member Marching Mizzou for a massed-band performance to cheering crowds during half-time on Faurot Field. 

This year, students whose high school bands are unable to attend are encouraged to register as individual participants. Individual registration for instrumentalists, drum majors, and color guard members in grades 9-12 will include complimentary admission to the game for the participant and one chaperone. Individuals are also welcome to attend the Marching Mizzou rehearsal on Friday, September 8 from 4-6 PM. 

Twirlers ages 7-18 are also invited to participate in Band Day. Twirlers attending independently will receive a Mizzou Twirler Day t-shirt, two complimentary tickets to the game (student twirler and one adult chaperone), box lunch, and picture with current Marching Mizzou Feature Twirlers and Truman the Tiger. Select advanced high school twirlers are eligible to perform a solo routine in the end zone wearing black and gold. Twirlers participating as a member of their band do not need to complete the separate twirler registration form below since you will be included with your band's registration.  

Full bands will receive complimentary admission for all participating students, directors/staff, and chaperones.  

Additional tickets for band families and other supporters may be purchased at mutigers.com or via phone at 1-800-CAT-PAWS.  

All participants will be given access to our Marching Mizzou Band Day website with music for the massed band performance as well as a color guard and feature twirler choreographed routine to learn for the event.  

Individual Instrumentalists, Drum Major, and Color Guard Registration: $25 fee 

Individual Twirler Registration: $75 fee 

Full Band Registration: $75 fee covers parking for one bus. Additional parking passes can be purchased for $75 per bus and $25 per equipment vehicle. 

If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact Brooke Danielsen, Coordinator of Large Ensembles, at mubands@missouri.edu.