News

WMEA  Update

2025 HONOR GROUP AUDITION MATERIAL 

 

TIME TO RENEW PARTNER MEMBERSHIPS FOR THE 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR

There are many benefits to becoming a partner school, including unlimited FREE All-State auditions for your school's music students. For more information, please visit the WMEA  Partner Members page. To become a member, or renew your membership, please visit the partner membership payment page.


Tri-M Guide_ How (and Why) to Get Started! (1).pdf

NAfME Update


With careful consideration, the National Executive Board (NEB) has formally adopted the 2024-2025 NAfME dues for active members at $104, a $2 increase over 2023-2024. We value the commitment to music education made by each member through their join or renew decision annually while recognizing the cost of providing support and service to our members that has continued to increase.

This $2 dues increase will help NAfME pursue many important initiatives in support of our unified membership, consistent with the 2022 NAfME Strategic Plan as well as A Blueprint for Strengthening the Music Teacher Profession. It will bolster valuable NAfME benefits and programming supporting NAfME members at every phase of their careers – collegiate, active, or retired. (Please see the updated Value and Benefits of NAfME Membership flyer for more information.) The NEB’s decision also reflects the “cost of doing business,” which continues to increase annually.

Valley Region Music Educator Directory Update

Please help us keep our  Contact Page up-to-date! If your location/position/email has changed, please let us know. 

Please scan, click, or tap the QR code to submit updated information via Google Forms.

Puyallup colleagues, your domain change has already been updated, so no response is necessary if that is the only issue. Locations and positions have been updated, but please check for accuracy here.

Valley Region Choral Project "Alone Together" Performance

The VMEA is pleased to present a collaboration with Erin Guinup, director of the Tacoma Refugee Choir.  The Valley Region Choral Project included a commissioned piece composed with lyric input from students in our region, a virtual field trip in May, and a virtual performance that premiered on June 9th, 2021.  "Alone Together" reflects the emotions that our students  struggled with during the pandemic and expresses hope for the future.

"Alone Together" by Erin Guinup, performed by Valley Region Choir members
from Federal Way, Puyallup, and Sumner-Bonney Lake School Districts




Puyallup School District Logo


Sumner-Bonney Lake School District Image