The Great Falls Public Schools music department is sending 54 students high school students to the All-Northwest National Association for Music Education Honor Ensembles.

The C.M. Russell and Great Falls High students will perform with students from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska in the Northwest Festival concert on Feb. 18 in Bellevue, Wash.

GFPS piloting chamber orchestra ensemble

This event will be the conclusion of the NW-NAfME Music Educators Conference that will be running concurrently with the Honor Ensemble Festival.

To be accepted, the students had to pass through a rigorous audition procedure.

Great Falls College choir presenting original pieces at Dec. 15 concert

“We are immensely proud of their musical success, and are also thankful of the public school teachers that have worked with the students in the classroom as well as the private instructors that work with the youth in our community,” according to a GFPS music department release.

The CMR symphonic band, with Christopher Kloker as director, has been selected as a showcase performing group for the NW-NAfME Music Education Conference on Feb. 17. They are one of three Montana groups slated to perform, and the only high school band invited to play a concert at the conference, according to the release.

Here is the list of students that were selected for All-NW, broken down by school:

School	Student Name	Assignment
GFH	Hailey Anderson	Alto 1
GFH	Daja Armitage	Alto 1
GFH	Hayley Bouchard	Alto 1
GFH	Elli Dunn	Soprano 2
GFH	Emily Fleming	Soprano 2
GFH	Abie Huntting	Soprano 1
GFH	Wynter Kelley	Soprano 1
GFH	Marin Lake	Alto 1
GFH	Trey LaRocque	Bass 1
GFH	Caleb Litzinger	Tenor 2
GFH	Alyx McAdam	Alto 2
GFH	Andrew Park	Tenor 2
GFH	Tabitha Poppe	Alto 1
GFH	Ashlyn San Miguel	Soprano 2
GFH	Sanne Segers	Soprano 2
GFH	Colton Spicher	Tenor 2
GFH	Isabelle Swanson	Soprano 1
GFH	Brayden Taylor	Tenor 2
GFH	Grace Woldtvedt	Alto 1
GFH	Claire Woods	Soprano 2
GFH	Jackson Bautista	Trumpet (Cornet)
GFH	Emma Guter	French Horn
CMR	Elizabeth Barnes	Soprano 2
CMR	Tristin Bobo	Bass 1
CMR	Grant Brumwell	Tenor 1
CMR	Julia Bushard	Soprano 2
CMR	Heidi Clifton	Soprano 1
CMR	Celia Conklin	Soprano 2
CMR	An Dinh	Tenor 1
CMR	Morgan Dunn	Soprano 2
CMR	Cameron Gimenez Fisher	Bass 2
CMR	Isabelle Grosenick	Soprano 2
CMR	Alex Luongo	Bass 1
CMR	Makenna MacDonald	Alto 2
CMR	Jenika McCool	Alto 2
CMR	Nora McKelvey	Alto 2
CMR	Chloe Miller	Soprano 1
CMR	Sofia Molyneaux	Soprano 1
CMR	James Onstad	Bass 2
CMR	Jack Orthman	Tenor 1
CMR	Brennen Schmidt	Tenor 1
CMR	Joshua Schultz	Tenor 2
CMR	Joshua Shettel	Tenor 1
CMR	Jacob Snider	Tenor 2
CMR	Marcus Wait	Tenor 2
CMR	Tristan Zaremski	Soprano 1
CMR	Ashlynn Martinez	Alto 2
CMR	Luke Banks	Percussion
CMR	Madylin Connell	Percussion
CMR	Landon Crook	Trombone
CMR	Adam Elkin	Tuba
CMR	Ari-El Gray	Bb Soprano Clarinet
CMR	Onika Gray	Bassoon
CMR	Kalub Janicke	Tuba