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WMEA Update
SURVEY ABOUT THE COMPOSITION CATEGORY AT SOLO AND ENSEMBLE
All members are invited to complete this survey to help improve this new and innovative composition category.
JAZZ SURVEY FROM THE ALL-STATE COMMITTEE
The All-State Committee invites you to complete their survey concerning the All-State Jazz ensemble audition process.
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.
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.
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
