Florida Music Educators Association

The Florida Music Education Association (FMEA) is a non-profit umbrella association of music education groups in the State of Florida that sets standards for the state in music education, provides continuing education and training opportunities to music educators in the state, provides a job bank for music educators, promotes the interests of music education with state and federal legislators, and showcases the top talents in high school and college jazz, concert band, classical and choral performance in their annual FMEA All-State honor bands and orchestras at their annual meeting in Tampa in January of each year.

Board members of the FMEA include:

The FMEA Board of Directors also includes the presidents of the major music education organizations in the state, including:

The FMEA describes its mission as the promotion of "quality, comprehensive music education for all Florida Students as a part of their complete education."

The FMEA puts out multi-year strategic planning and review white papers to help their members educate millions of children from elementary school to post-graduate work, and to continue to promote the importance of music education in the schools in Florida.

The FMEA works with the Florida Department of Education to showcase schools who do exemplary work in educating students in music.

The organization hosts a summer institute at the University of South Florida annually for continuing education of Florida music educators.

The FMEA hosts an annual meeting at the Tampa Convention Center each January that includes continuing education seminars, a trade show, organizational meetings, and rehearsals and performances of the Florida All-State bands and orchestras.

The annual trade show at the FMEA Tampa meeting is one of the largest in the state, bringing music publishing, equipment manufacturers, software companies, group travel companies, fundraising organizations, and major college and university recruiting programs to their members, the members of the organizations of FMEA, and the students attending the event for performances.

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