FMEA is soliciting scholarship applications for the 2025 June M. Hinckley Music Education Scholarship. The Association will award $1000.00 scholarships to selected 2024-2025 graduating high school students who participated in a Florida All-State ensemble and intend to major in music education at a Florida college or university. Please encourage your students to apply.
The Florida Music Education Association and Florida NAfME Collegiate will host their ninth annual Collegiate Music Education Advocacy Day on March 25. This is an exciting opportunity to advocate for music education. Registration deadline is March 21, 2025. Click below for more information.
FMEA and FSMA are encouraging our members to participate in the 2025 Make Music Day on June 21st. This is a global event that features a new (FREE!) composition from Brian Balmages: "Critical Impact!" By participating, schools can help amplify the message that music and music education make a Critical Impact in our communities! Options include uploading a recorded performance and/or performing Live somewhere in your community on June 21st. Please check out all the information at the NFHS Make Music Day 2025 webpage, and review the unique ways you can get involved this year, including an opportunity to win a share of $15,000 in new music.
The FMEA Guitar Festival is Back with multiple sites throughout the state. The festival is a day full of guitar activity, including ensemble performances from elementary, middle, and high school programs. Ensembles of all experience levels perform for instant feedback in areas of technique, tone, musicality, and musical interpretation.
The purpose of the Steel Band Festival is to provide steel band students and directors a positive performance outlet and motivating goal, to share ensemble literature among teachers, to create an event that allows teachers to become more knowledgeable in their craft through clinician contact time, all to ultimately advance the experience of steel band students throughout the State of Florida. It will be held on April 12, 2025, at Blankner K-8 School in Orlando. See below for more information and the entry application.
The FMEA Crossover Festivals are designed to encourage musical creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration by students in K-12 schools. Teachers are welcome to bring their student bands to a festival experience that will celebrate their students’ achievements in the area of cover song and original song performance. The festivals will be held in multiple locations around Florida in May, and the application deadline is March 21.
Join Us for the 2025 FMEA Multicultural Network (MCN) Annual Summer Music Education Conference Workshop on June 20, 2025, at St. Thomas University. With the theme, "Harmony in Motion," the conference will emphasize collaboration, creativity, and the power of multicultural music to inspire and transform classrooms and communities.
Registration is now open for Exhibitors to join us for the trade show as part of the FMEA 2026 Conference, January 14-17, 2026. Click below for more information.
Please click below for options to request assistance for your program or to help our music programs recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and other recent flooding, fires, tornados, and other natural disasters. Please also share this website with others who may need help, or who may be able to help. See the links below for more information.
Interested in becoming a Music Teacher in Florida? We can help! Please see our new "Teach Music Florida" page for information and resources for students, parents, and guidance counselors about how to become a music teacher, as well as resources for current music teachers interested in relocating to Florida.
The FMEA Job Bank is a free service to Florida schools and teachers who would like to teach in Florida. If your school has a music vacancy that you would like posted, please click the link below to complete the job vacancy form. Jobs listed here will automatically be deleted after 90 days, however you will receive an e-mail confirmation that includes a link to extend, edit, or remove your job posting.
Meet our latest group of early-career Music Educators that FMEA is spotlighting for making an “immediate impact” in their schools, communities, and students.
Visit our Advocacy page for new resources to print out and distribute regarding the benefits of arts participation based on findings in our latest cohort study.
If you are planning on participating in interscholastic music events such as Concert, Marching, and Solo & Ensemble Music Performance Assessments (MPA), make sure your school's FSMA membership is renewed. The early payment discount deadline is September 15. Purchase orders should be submitted early enough so that the actual check arrives by September 15.
It is imperative that all students have access to an equitable delivery of arts education that includes dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts that supports their educational, social, and emotional well-being, taught by certified professional arts educators in partnership with community arts providers. #ArtsAreEssential
FMEA invites parents, guardians, and grandparents of Florida students who take music classes to register as music parent advocates. FMEA will engage with registered advocates about legislation and related issues that impact music education in Florida.
Thank You For The Support!
FMEA is saying “THANK YOU” to all of the donors who showed their support through financial donations over the past year. By deciding that it is important to support music education through actions, not just words, these individuals have helped elevate the level of music education in Florida. Please join FMEA and the Board of Directors in thanking the individual donors below:
The FMEA Corporate and Academic partners help strengthen music education in Florida through their tireless work to support teachers. FMEA expresses its greatest thanks to each of our Partners, Corporate and Academic, for their partnership over the past year. We hope that FMEA members from across the state support our partners as they support FMEA and Florida music educators.
Contact Us
Our offices are located within the June Hinckley Center for Fine Arts Education building:
402 Office Plaza Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
850-878-6844
Toll-Free 800-301-FMEA (3632)
Fax 850-942-1793
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Eastern
Our office is closed for most holidays observed by Florida's school districts and on Fridays during June and July.
Components & Councils
FMEA is an umbrella organization concerned with activities that affect all aspects of music education. Our component organizations and councils handle activities that deal specifically with a particular area:
Component Associations
- Florida Bandmasters Association
- Florida Elementary Music Educators Association
- Florida Orchestra Association
- Florida Vocal Association
Councils
- Florida College Music Educators Association
- Florida Music Supervision Association
- Florida NAfME Collegiate
- Multicultural Network
1-800-301-FMEA(3632) • Fax: (850) 942-1793