Washington Music Educators Association

The exhibit dates are February 18 and 19 in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington. An Early Bird special is offered if your contract is received by August 1.

Audition Materials
2011 All-State and All-Northwest Honor Groups

Here are the audition materials for 2011 All-State and All-Northwest Honor Groups. Please note that applicants for the high school groups will be considered for both All-Northwest and All-State honor groups. The audition materials are identical and one application is all that is needed to be considered for both.

High School All-State and All-NW

2011 All-State and All-NW String Audition Materials
2011 All-State and All-NW Voice Audition Materials
2011 All-State and All-NW Wind and Percussion Audition Materials
2011 All-State and All-NW Jazz Instrumental Audition Materials
2011 All-State and All-NW Jazz Vocal Audition Materials

Junior All-State

2011 Junior All-State String Audition Materials
2011 Junior All-State Voice Audition Materials
2011 Junior All-State Wind and Percussion Audition materials

Youth Honor Chorus

2011 Youth Honor Chorus Audition Materials

These are not the application packets. Application packets, audition instructions, and deadline information will be available for download at this site beginning September 1. If you have any questions, please email studentevents@wmea.org.

Registration is open for MENC's 2010 Music Education Week, coming up June 24-29 in Washington DC! Read the flyer for information about the details of the week or follow this link to register.

Make your plans now to attend Music Education Week and help spread the word to your fellow MENC members. See you in June!

ADVOCACY IN ACTION

The March 2010 issue of VOICE features two articles with the theme Advocacy in Action. Here, for members only, are four previously published VOICE articles that deal with advocacy issues. Follow the link to log in, then click on to the articles. The titles include:

High School Music and College Success: A Case Study
CTE, OccEd, Cross-Credit - Oh My!
A Perspective from the University of Washington
Students CAN Take Music throughout High School and Still Go to College

WMEA CONNECTIONS FORUM

A new WMEA program providing the opportunity for peer relationship through communication.

“Creating successful teaching by bridging generations”

Log in to WMEA Members-Only and Get Connected!

WMEA PARTICIPATING IN MUSIC MATTERS LICENSE PROJECT

MusicAid Northwest, a nonprofit organization formed to support music education statewide, is going to approach the Washington State Legislature this session and ask that a special license plate be designed to be sold, with all profits retuning to music education programs in the schools of Washington.

MusicAid Northwest is sponsoring fundraisers to pay the required fee needed before special plates can be issued. They also need 3,500 signatures indicating an interest in purchasing these plates ($35/set/year).

As these funds will revert to support music programs of WMEA members statewide, WMEA is asking members and friends to acquire one or more signatures on the attached form and sending those pages to MusicAid Northwest as instructed on the form.

The first deadline was February 1. But you don’t have to stop then. Send in what you have by that date, but keep gathering signatures and sending them in every week until the Legislature is adjourned or until we post a notice “Mission Accomplished.”

You can download this pdf and print as many copies as needed. Thank you.

WMEA YELLOW PAGES

WMEA's Yellow Pages contains contact information for music stores, private teachers, adjudicators, travel companies, music camps, recording companies - if it's related to music education in Washington, you'll find it in the WMEA Yellow Pages.

Are you interested in advertising on WMEA's Yellow Pages? Follow this link to learn more about making your services known to the state music education community.

Tuesday-Thursday, August 10-12, 2010
Summer Board Retreat/State Assembly
WMEA Headquarters, Lynnwood

Monday, November 1, 2010
Fall Executive Board Meeting
WMEA Headquarters, Lynnwood

Thursday-Sunday, February 17-20, 2011
MENC Northwest Division and WMEA State Conference
All-State and All-Northwest Performing Groups
Combined - Bellevue

Monday, February 21, 2011
Winter Executive Board Meeting
Bellevue

Friday-Saturday, April 29-30, 2011
State Solo/Ensemble Contest
Central Washington University, Ellensburg

Long-range master calendar of WMEA events

The Washington Music Educators Association provides and promotes educational resources for music educators and students in our public and private schools and colleges. Opportunities for teachers to improve their skills exist through the biennial conferences, periodic in-service sessions and publications.

Students are showcased at 22 regional solo and ensemble contests and at our State Solo and Ensemble Contest, by participation in our sixteen WMEA All-State performing groups, in clinics and workshops at our conferences and at a variety of statewide in-service sessions.

WMEA believes a good music education is a critical component of a basic education for all students.

MENC
WMEA is a state affiliate of MENC - The National Association for Music Education.

Washington Interscholastic Activities Association
WMEA partners with WIAA to present the state Solo and Ensemble Contest

Young Musicians Excelling
Help to make the cost of All-State more affordable for students who need it by contributing to this fund.

OSPI Arts
Washington's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction provides valuable resources for all Arts Educators.