NAfME Webinar: Building Bridges: Partnerships That Transform Music Education
2025-09-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Discover how meaningful partnerships can elevate music education programs and create impactful learning experiences for students. Educators Mikayla Bush and Samuel Davis share their journey of building innovative music technology programs at economically disadvantaged schools. By leveraging collaborations with community organizations, school-based teams, and industry professionals, they’ve developed programs that include podcasting, DJing, live recording, and show production—all designed to engage students, foster creativity, and prepare them for success in the music industry and beyond.

NAfME Collegiate Fall Membership Rally
2025-09-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Join NAfME Collegiate members and advisors from around the country during NAfME Collegiate Kickoff Week for an exciting back-to-school virtual rally! Get to know your Collegiate Advisory Council representatives, hear from your national leadership, and enjoy a special message from keynote speaker Dr. Benny Bolden.
Invite your chapter and prepare for the most inspiring back-to-school event yet! Continue to prepare for this year’s NAfME Collegiate Kickoff Week and follow NAfME Collegiate on Instagram (@nafmecollegiateofficial) and Facebook (@cnafme.)

NWAPA Fall Championships Committee
2025-09-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom

NWAPA Clinic Show
2025-09-27 | Liberty High School, 7445 NE Wagon Drive, Hillsboro, Oregon, 97124

Portland Youth Philharmonic: Double Bass Class
2025-09-27 14:00 - 15:15, 2025-10-04 14:00 - 15:15 | Jackson Middle School, 10625 SW 35th Ave, 97219

NAfME Webinar: Integrating Hip-Hop into Music Education: Strategies for Engaging Students
2025-09-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Hip-Hop is the most influential and widely consumed music genre globally, yet many educators struggle with integrating it into their classrooms. This interactive workshop introduces the Hip-Hop Music Education Guidelines, a framework designed by a Roundtable of Hip-Hop Educators, Music Will, and the Hip-Hop Education Center, to help educators incorporate Hip-Hop culture and pedagogy into formal education, fostering student engagement and deeper learning.

Portland Youth Philharmonic: Woodwind Workshop
2025-10-01 18:30 - 20:15 | Jackson Middle School, 10625 SW 35th Ave, 97219

University of Portland: Jazz Ensemble & Combo Concert
2025-10-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Mago Hunt Recital Hall, 5000 N, Willamette Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, 97203

NWAPA Pacific Coast Invitational
2025-10-04 | Sprague High School, 2373 Kuebler Road, SE, Salem, Oregon, 97302

NWAPA Music In Motion
2025-10-04 | Mariner High School, 200 120th St, SW, Everett, Washington, 98204

OMEA District 12 Elementary Music Workshop
2025-10-04 08:30 - 12:00 | Buena Vista Spanish Immersion Elementary School, 1500 Queens Way, Eugene, Oregon, 97401

University of Portland: Bel Canto, and Chamber Choir Concert
2025-10-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Buckley Center Auditorium, 5000 N, Willamette Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, 97203

All-State auditions due!
2025-10-05 | Online

University of Portland: Wind Symphony Concert
2025-10-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Bauccio Commons, 5000 N, Willamette Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, 97203

NAfME Webinar: Teaching Guitar through Riffs and Licks: Stepping Away from the Method Book
2025-10-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Building a guitar curriculum? The guitar elective usually has teachers reaching for a guitar method book, and for good reason: they give a scope and sequence in both fretboard knowledge, music literacy, and lead and rhythm playing. However, method books are limited in their ability to present culturally relevant and accessible material to the wide array of students that we see every day. This workshop will present a curriculum built around popular music, giving students choice in the music genres that they engage with, with a variety of levels of complexity for each student’s access point. This is a workshop aimed at teachers who work in inclusion settings, with students of a varied level of experience in music and guitar playing at the middle and high school setting.

OMEA District 8 Fall String Workshop
2025-10-09 09:30 - 14:30 | Grants Pass High School, 830 NE 9th Street, Grants Pass, Oregon, 97526

WIBC Auditions due
2025-10-10 | Oregon
WIBC

State-wide Inservice
2025-10-10 | Oregon

ACDA Middle School Honor Choir
2025-10-10 | Silverton High School, 1456 Pine Street, Silverton, Oregon, 97381

OMEA District 4 Fall Inservice
2025-10-10 08:30 - 15:30 | Sprague High School, 2373 Kuebler Road, SE, Salem, Oregon, 97302

ORASTA String Professional Development Day
2025-10-10 09:30 - 15:30 | North Medford High School, 1900 N Keene Way Drive, Medford, Oregon, 97504, United States
Professional Development for String Educators🗓 October 10, 2025📍 North Medford High School, Medford, Oregon
📩 Register: https://forms.gle/pCdVa8TbFYh6zX7U7
Cost: $50 (paid with cash or check to “GP Orchestra” day of or mailed, or the QR code below)
GPHS c/o Krista DeBolt
830 NE 9th Street
Grants Pass, OR 97526
For questions, contact: Krista DeBolt
kdebolt@grantspass.k12.or.us
Join string educators from across the region for high-impact professional development featuring Dr. Dijana Ihas, a specialist in historical and modern string pedagogy. This event will focus on practical, efficient strategies for both group and private lesson settings. Bring instruments if you are able.

University of Oregon Day of Improvisation
2025-10-10 09:30 - 18:00 | West Linn High School, 5464 W A St, West Linn, Oregon, 97068
This is a FREE day-long workshop meant to serve your most motivated students and inspire them to get to the next level as improvisers.
Our ask of you…

Fill out the nomination form at jazz.uoregon.edu/doi by September 12th, 2025.

In the form, you can also let us know if you would like to attend. Even if you have no students participating, you’re welcome to join in on the fun.

What happens next…

By September 17th, we will notify both you and your students to let them know who was selected.

As part of their invitation, we will ask students to RSVP and we will send along several required forms. Students must RSVP by October 1st.

We will also ask participating students to record and submit a short musical example of their playing prior to the DOI. We will use these to place students in ensembles for the day. These recordings should also be submitted by October 1st. These recordings don’t need to be perfect – we’re just trying to get a feel for where the students are at.

Haven’t done this before? Here is what you need to know…

As their band director, we are asking you to identify and nominate deserving students to attend.

From your nominations, we will invite approximately 50-60 students to attend each workshop. Because we will be placing students in small groups, there will be a limit to the number of students on each instrument that we can accommodate.

Did we mention that it’s FREE?! We don’t want cost to keep any student from attending. Students just need to get to and from the school. Lunch will be provided.

Please join us! As a band director, if you want to hang out for the day, you are most welcome to move in and out of any rehearsal, session, or concert.

What participating students will be doing:

Arrive at 9:30 am

Play in small groups

Study improvisation methods with UO jazz faculty

Eat pizza while being serenaded by UO jazz faculty and students

Attend masterclass sessions

Perform at day’s end (this will be open to the public)

Leave for home at 6:00 pm

Again this year, we will be hosting two workshops to increase access for students. You can nominate your students for either date (students may only attend one of them). This year’s DOI will take place on the following dates:

October 10 at West Linn High School

November 8 at the University of Oregon

Portland State University: Echoes of Spain - Music for Violin and Piano
2025-10-10 12:15 - 13:15 | Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97201

Linfield University: Homecoming Choral Concert
2025-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Linfield University, 900 SE Baker Street, McMinnville, Oregon, 97128
Celebrate Linfield Homecoming weekend with Concert Choir and Wildcat Glee! Selections from Classic Musical Theatre and school spirit will be included.

Southern Oregon University: Tutunov Piano Series
2025-10-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Oregon Center for the Arts, 450 South Mountain Avenue, Ashland, Oregon, 97520

NWAPA Pacific Northwest Marching Band Championships
2025-10-11 | Union Stadium, 12509 N. Market Street, Mead, Washington

NWAPA Pride of the Northwest
2025-10-11 | Grants Pass High School, 830 NE 9th Street, Grants Pass, Oregon, 97526

NWAPA Liberty Marching Arts Challenge
2025-10-11 | Liberty High School, 7445 NE Wagon Drive, Hillsboro, Oregon, 97124

Registration Opens for YMA Summer Camps
2025-10-11 | Online
