(Clarkston, WA) – Outstanding ninth through twelfth-grade music students from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have received top honors by being selected to participate in our Biennial NAFME All-Northwest Ensembles. Chaz Nollette from Clarkston High School will join more than 1500 other outstanding young performers in Spokane for this gala event during the 2025 National Association for Music Education Northwest Division Conference.
The All-Northwest Bands, Choirs, and Orchestra, as well as the Washington Music Educators Association All-State Band, Choir, and Orchestra, will perform on Saturday, February 15, 2025. These outstanding musicians will rehearse together under the direction of outstanding music educators and present a final concert that afternoon. 3000 students auditioned to participate in this prestigious event sponsored by the WMEA.
Many professional musicians credit their All-State or All-Northwest experience with helping them choose music as a career. Thousands of others whose career paths took them in other directions have great memories of participating in this inspiring and motivating musical experience and claim that it was a life-changing experience for them.
Well-known Washingtonians who have participated in past years’ WMEA All-State groups include The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey, 2008 National Teacher of the Year Andrea Peterson, and jazz saxophonist Kenny G.