2025 Honor Groups - Registration

Congratulations to all students who have been accepted to 2025 Honor Groups!

Families, friends, and teachers may purchase tickets to the All-Northwest and All-State concerts here: All-Northwest and All-State Concert Tickets @ TicketsWest

The registration deadline has now passed. We are processing registration forms and payments, and will contact any teachers with unregistered students before January 17. Please review our new Frequently Asked Questions for information about music mailing, hotels, and Opus.

The registration and music mailing process involves a lot of manual back-end processing. Most of this work is done by our All-State Manager, Todd Giltner; our Student Events Coordinator, Anita Kumar; and our Financial Coordinator, Allison George. We appreciate your patience as we work to make sure we have all registration forms and payments, and have mailed music to the correct students. Please accept our advance apologies for any errors or delays; we are only human, and things happen. Thank you.

NAfME All-Northwest and WMEA All-State

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NAfME All-Northwest and WMEA All-State HIGH SCHOOL Honor Groups

WMEA Junior All-State Honor Groups

All NAfME-Northwest and WMEA All-State Honor Group events will take place at the 2025 NAfME Northwest Conference, February 13-16 in Spokane, Washington.

All High School Honor Groups will rehearse and perform February 13-15, 2025.
The Junior All-State Groups (including Youth Choir) will rehearse and perform on February 16, 2025 (except for the Junior Jazz Band, which will rehearse and perform on February 14).

For a complete list of all rehearsals and performances, see our All-Northwest and All-State Overview (updated 1.1.25)

Please review the below “Frequently Asked Questions” for updates. For any other questions, please contact studentevents@wmea.org.

Frequently Asked Questions (Updated 1.9.2025)

When will we get our music?

Music is sent to schools once students registration fees are paid and registration forms received. Music mailing proceeds in waves to take advantage of favorable shipping rates. We have completed two waves thus far:

On December 10th, music was mailed for all Junior Honor Group registrations marked paid and forms received postmarked by November 18.

On January 6th, Music was mailed for all registration marked paid and forms received postmarked by December 6th.

Once we mail the music, the amount of time it takes to get to your school will depend on the USPS.

Where possible, we try to mail all music to the same school at the same time. The process involves considerable cross-checking and human effort. Sometimes, errors occur due to simple human error. We appreciate your patience as we continue to work on this project.

For any other questions regarding music mailing, please contact allstate@wmea.org.

How do I book a hotel room for my Honor Group students?

A link to a document entitled “Hotel Information 2.0” was sent to all High School teachers on November 29th. If you did not receive it, or you are a Junior teacher wishing to book rooms, please email either studentevents@wmea.org or your Group Manager for the link. You can find your Group Manager contact email in the Information Packets below.

Teachers, school personnel, chaperones, or parents may make reservations on behalf of students.
Note: We are aware that the link for the Centennial was not functional for several days. This error has been corrected, and the deadline extended.
Deadlines vary; the deadlines for the Centennial, Davenport Grand, and Davenport Tower have been extended to January 21st!

How do I purchase concert tickets?

All-Northwest and All-State Concert Tickets can be purchased here: All-Northwest and All-State Concert Tickets @ TicketsWest

When/where are my groups’ rehearsals and concerts?

For a complete list of all rehearsals and performances, see our All-Northwest and All-State Overview (updated 1.1.25). This includes Google Maps links to all venues.

Did you get my registration forms/payment?

Unfortunately, we cannot respond to individual teacher or school requests for confirmation of mailed registration forms. We have over 2300 students participating in the honor groups across six states, and ingesting all of that data is very time consuming for our small staff. We will follow up with teachers about any unregistered students by Friday, January 17.

Why does my Opus account say “missing reg data”?

This was a normal Opus status as we collected some data (namely health insurance information) on paper registration forms. It was only after cataloguing all of those forms that we were able to reset statuses. As of January 9, registered and paid registrations should be reflected in Opus with a status of “complete,” “registered,” or “ready” in Green. If your student is listed as something else, we will be in touch.

Why does my Opus account say “unpaid,” when I sent you a Purchase Order or Check?

We are making every effort to log Purchase Orders and checks into Opus; this has to be done manually for each student covered under the PO or Check. Some have yet to be logged. Check back again in a few days. If we have a problem, we’ll let you know. If we received a Purchase Order, we mailed your music to you.

I can’t print my Payment Summary. What should I do?

If you contacted us before the December 6th deadline regarding an inability to print the payment summary, we apologize that an Opus setting turned that function off temporarily. We have enabled the setting, but understand that several teachers were unable to print Payment Summaries for All-Northwest in the days leading up to the deadline.

If you paid by credit card (whether school card or parent card), your payment is automatically recorded by Opus. No further action is required. You do not need to send in payment summaries that were previously unavailable.
If you paid by Purchase Order or Check, these payments are logged into Opus manually. Again, we have one staff member available for this task, so please allow processing time. We have accepted the “receipt” or other documentation in lieu of the Payment Summary. You do not need to send it to us if your payments are reflected in Opus.
If your PO or check was delayed because you needed the Payment Summary for your school financial processor, it should be available now.
If you need adjustments to be made to your payment summary, or believe it is incorrect, please contact studentevents@wmea.org.

I have a student invited as an alternate. How do I complete their registration?

If one of your students was invited as an alternate, once you confirm their participation to us, your access to Opus will be reopened shortly. We will send you a direct link to the event, in case it has disappeared from your event list. Please check back into Opus to pay registration fees and download registration forms. You may email signed registration forms to studentevents@wmea.org and allstate@wmea.org.