PHS students to sing with the best in the Northwest

Posted 1/14/25

Powell High School choir students Geo Dilworth and Natalie Black beat out thousands of students from five states to get the chance to learn and perform at All Northwest in Spokane, an exclusive …

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PHS students to sing with the best in the Northwest

The Powell High School Choir performs during a December concert in the Powell High School auditorium. Two members of the choir, Geo Dilworth and Natalie Black, will be attending All Northwest, a prestigious conference for high performing music students in the Northwest region. This will be Dilworth’s second time attending the conference and Black’s first.
The Powell High School Choir performs during a December concert in the Powell High School auditorium. Two members of the choir, Geo Dilworth and Natalie Black, will be attending All Northwest, a prestigious conference for high performing music students in the Northwest region. This will be Dilworth’s second time attending the conference and Black’s first.
Tribune file photo by Braden Schiller
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Powell High School choir students Geo Dilworth and Natalie Black beat out thousands of students from five states to get the chance to learn and perform at All Northwest in Spokane, an exclusive opportunity for standout band and choir students Feb. 13-16.

“I’m just excited to get to go and see what different techniques the teachers use, and maybe bring some stuff back here,” Black said. 

The music conference sources band and choir students from Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Alaska, with the band attending every other year. 

Dilworth, a junior at Powell High School, attended All Northwest last year and said, “It was a really amazing experience.”

She’s excited to see the friends she made last year, she added.

This year, things are going to be a little different, Dilworth said, as last year the conference was run only by choir. She’s excited to see how it’s different with band added, while Black is hoping to catch a musical while they’re in town.  

This will be Black’s first year at All Northwest and she didn’t decide to enter the auditioning process until a week before, and after talking to Dilworth, “the music was pretty simple to learn, it was a lot of skills and stuff that I already knew how to do,” Black said, while noting that adjusting to auditioning via recording was difficult and she didn’t think she had made it.

“I think the biggest thing they're looking for was like tonal stuff,” Black said, adding “So even though my audition might not have been the best, they probably just liked my tone, and so that's why I made it in.”

Like Black, Dilworth also didn’t think she was going to make the cut.

“I mean, it's amazing just to feel validated that you're like, good at it, and getting chosen out of all these people, and getting to be in a huge choir that is so much farther above a classic choir,” Dilworth said.

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