2025 Indiana NATS Fall Student Auditions
Auditions: November 1, 2025

The In-Person auditions will be held at: Indiana Wesleyan University, 4201 S. Washington Street, Marion, IN 46593.  

The Fall 2025 NATS Indiana Chapter Student Auditions will soon be upon us! For the 2025-2026 audition season Auditionware will be used again.   It will be accessible from National’s website www.nats.org as in previous years.  Currently there are no real changes in the registration process. When you log into www.nats.org, it should take you to your “Member Home” page.  (If not, you can simply click on your email address in the upper right-hand corner of the page, and it will take you to your “Member Home” page.)  You can then scroll to the bottom of the “Member Home” page where you will find the button to register for an audition. You will simply click on the registration button, and it will take you directly to AuditionWare, where you will already be logged in and able to register yourself and your students. 

For the 2025 Indiana Student Auditions, we will be offering Classical, Music Theatre, Commercial Music, Hall Johnson Spirituals, and Children and Youth categories.  All categories will be in person at Indiana Wesleyan University, 4201 S. Washington Street, Marion, IN 46593, on November 1, 2025.  

• Indiana NATS categories 2025  lists the categories and allotted performance times at Indiana’s Fall auditions.   NOTE: The repertory requirements have not changed for any of the categories, only wording for repertory requirements:
• MT: – # of songs- musical theatre selections contrasting by composer, tempo, and text.  
• CL: # of song- selections from classical repertoire contrasting by composer, tempo, and text.
• CM: -# of songs- contrasting by composer, tempo, and text performed in a CM style(s)
  
• For the Children and Youth categories, permission forms must be submitted prior to the auditions.  Each student under legal age, must be accompanied by a chaperone at all live NATS events.  

• A parent or legal guardian will have to complete and sign a form appointing a chaperone, who bears all legal, health, and safety liabilities for the minor-aged student. This form will be included in the online registration. According to national guidelines, NATS Teachers cannot serve as a student’s chaperone. 

2025-2026 Minor Chaperone Form

Category Entry Resource Guidelines 

The NATS adjudicator training videos for Children and Youth Categories and Commercial Music Categories are getting very positive reviews. You may wish to review those in preparation for this year’s auditions. Additional training videos for Spiritual and Musical Theatre categories are also available. 

Adjudicator Training Videos: 

Children and Youth:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krCjmYo-cEk 

Commercial Music:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eir_g_jfEx8  

Musical Theatre:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTaU28J2qfg  

Spirituals:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV0THC4xi38  

Classical:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbYYT1RNlcs  

Should you have any questions or run into any registration issues, please send us an email and we will work through it together (see below).   

Indiana’s NATS Student Audition policies remain: 

• An Accompanist may only play for 10 events. 
• Students or teachers must print off and provide Adjudication Sheets to each judge on the day of the auditions. There will be three judges per category. 
• All instructors registering students are required to judge on the day of auditions. 
• Instructors needing to be excused from judging for extenuating circumstances must pay a $75.00 fee in addition to the $40.00 registration fee, to support the hiring of a replacement judge.  
• Whenever possible, please provide your own accompanist.  If you require a Staff 
• Accompanist, fees are per event
  • $25.00 for 2 songs  
  • $55.00 for up to 3 songs
  • $65.00 for 4 or more pieces.   

• If using a Staff Accompanist, instructors must provide readable PDF files of each piece to David Mannell, Auditions Chair (dbmsal@aol.com), due by the close of registration.  

• • Separate PDF files for each song/aria to dbmsal@aol.com immediately. 
    •  Label each file-
      •  Student Name
      • Song Title
      •   Category 

• Students may register for more than one category (Classical, Musical Theatre, CCM) 

• Each registered event is $15.00 per event. Happy registering and let us know if you have any questions! 

Additional information: 

Video Submission Guidelines
Musical Theatre Resources  

Commercial Music Resources
Children & Youth Resources 

Category of Entry Resources 

 

Sincerely, 

Mary-Katherine Brewer, President, NATS Indiana Chapter (mrbrewer@taylor.edu)  
Tammie Huntington, Host, NATS Indiana Chapter (tammie.huntington@indwes.edu) 
Lisa F. Moore, Host, NATS Indiana Chapter (lisa.moore3@indwes.edu) 
David B Mannell, Auditions Chair, NATS Indiana Chapter (dbmsal@aol.com )