Conference events.

Master Classes

Piano Master Class
John Perry
Monday, March 18
9:15-11:15 A.M.

John Perry, professor of keyboard studies at the University of Southern California, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Eastman School of Music. He has won numerous prizes in international competitions and has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America. Perry has attained an international reputation as a teacher, presenting master classes throughout the world. He is a member of the faculty of the Colburn School for Performing Arts, a frequent guest faculty member at the Banff Centre, and an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival, the Sarasota Festival and the Holland Music Sessions.

String Master Class
Richard Aaron and Mimi Zweig
Sunday, March 17
2:00-3:30 P.M.

A former member of several major orchestras in Israel, Switzerland, England and the United States, cellist Richard Aaron will share his expertise with attendees. He is on faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and in 1998 was a visiting professor at the New England Conservatory. He gives solo recitals throughout Europe. Aaron founded the Tre Voce Piano Trio and Moore Quartet and is a current member of the Elysian Trio. He has taught throughout the United States at dozens of universities and music schools in cello pedagogy workshops.

Violinist Mimi Zweig will join Aaron during this string master class and share her experiences working with the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi, a unique collection of thirteen violinists between the ages of 13 and 18 who perform as soloists and as a violin ensemble. They are gifted students who study at the Indiana University (IU) String Academy. Zweig is director of the Academy and is a professor of violin and viola at IU. Her students perform and teach throughout the world.

Voice Master Class
Jerrold Pope
Tuesday, March 19
2:00-3:30 P.M.

Jerrold Pope, baritone, will share his operatic skills during this voice master class. Pope is an associate professor of voice at Florida State University who has performed at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, England's Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Buxton Opera Festival, and the Netherlands Opera Forum and Kiel Opera in Germany. Pope's festival appearances have included the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest and the London BBC Proms with the late Leonard Bernstein, and the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein, among others. Pope also serves on the voice faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Technology in Music Symposium

Friday, March 15-Sunday, March 17

The fifteenth MTNA National Technology in Music Symposium returns this year to its full-featured format with "something for everyone," from computer experts to novices, encompassing learning tools for students of all ages--preschool through the university. The Symposium will focus on topics of importance to today's teaching and learning, including how to develop musical creativity, improvisation and composition skills; how to build music literacy and sight-reading skills; strategies for solo performance with accompaniment disks; successful keyboard ensembles; how to effectively use Internet resources and much more. Each session will include a discussion of teaching strategies, how to integrate the appropriate technology and practical applications for the studio.

The Symposium "kick-off" will be Friday evening at 7:00 P.M. with a keynote address followed by a very special performance. Maud Hickey, assistant professor of music education and technology at Northwestern University, will deliver the keynote: "Creativity, Composition and Computers: The Journey from Chaos to Harmony." Immediately following, the Concert Choir from the University of Campbellsville (Kentucky), accompanied by The Kentucky Music Teachers, a twelve-piece keyboard ensemble, will perform under the direction of Susan Ogilvy.

Symposium sessions will continue all day Saturday and Sunday. The hands-on computer/MIDI lab will be open Sunday through Tuesday. Quick-Start Software Training sessions will be offered in the lab on Monday and Tuesday. These mini-sessions will include introductions to Finale (notation and composition), Cakewalk (sequencing), tours of the software available in the lab, beginning web page building and many others.

Register early. A detailed Symposium schedule will be mailed in advance to those who preregister by March 1.

Pedagogy Saturday VI

Saturday, March 16
8:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.

Exploring Learning Styles: Developing A Flexible Teaching Approach

This sixth day-long event promises to be one of our most exciting yet! We will explore, in depth, the various learning styles and approaches that teachers must be aware of and respond to in each student. We will open with Earl Oremus, the headmaster of Marburn Academy, a school especially designed for children with learning differences such as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Oremus will explain how teachers can use his intuitive/non-intuitive learner concept to create successful learning experiences for their non-intuitive students

Following the opening plenary session, four specialists will present individual sessions titled "Ages and Stages: Is That The Same Child I Taught Last Year?" In this session, we will explore various issues of child development. Our special speakers will be:

* Kenneth Guilmartin--The Very Young Beginner

* Donna Brink Fox--The Elementary-Aged Student

* Kim Dolgin--The Adolescent Student

* Judith Piercy--The College Student

These sessions will be presented twice, so that you can attend the two that interest you the most.

At noon, you will have the opportunity to participate in round table discussions with your colleagues from around the country. Box lunches are available for advance purchase. You also will have the opportunity to fill out a short personality test to see which type best describes you.

Our afternoon session will open with Keith Golay, the creator of the "Temperament Teaching Model." This model describes how to increase student achievement by teaching to temperament-based learning styles. In this session, participants will identify their own personality type and the implications it has to teaching and learning.

Following Golay's session, we will return to our child development theme with a panel of expert teachers joined by the morning's Ages and Stages speakers. They will watch video clips of teaching situations and respond to the children's developmental stages, as they are portrayed in the videos. Two sessions will run concurrently; one will address the "Young Child and Elementary-Aged Student," and the other will focus on "Adolescents and College Students."

Golay will return with a session titled Looks Like an Ape To Me! In this session, he will share video clips of teaching sessions and discuss the personalities he sees from the interactions.

And then, the big finish! The wonderfully talented children's ensemble, The Starling Chamber Orchestra, will play a short program to celebrate successful teaching and learning. These children study in the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's Community Music School and have earned a well-deserved reputation for excellence.

Join us for an invigorating day of exploring learning styles and teaching approaches!

Members of the MTNA Pedagogy Committee are: Rebecca Grooms Johnson, chair; Edward Adelson; Bruce Berr; Diane Cawein; Martha Baker-Jordan; and Martha Randall. The lunchtime discussion coordinator is Tom Pearsall.

Professional Studio Saturday

Saturday, March 16
9:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.

Professional Studio Saturday offers three sessions that get to the heart of the independent studio teacher's career. In the first session, "What We Charge, and Why," Kenneth Lee, National Chair of the Independent Music Teachers Forum (IMTF), and Beth Gigante Klingenstein, NCTM, an IMTF Advisory Committee Member, frequent MTNA presenter and writer, will explore the central economic issue of independent studio teachers--the tuition rate. This session will provide an in-depth look at where we have been and where we are going in regard to income. From anecdote to history, from tongue-in-cheek economic analysis to survey data, this session will provide valuable insights and new perspectives on what probably is the most important question for independent teachers. You can plan on leaving this session with some answers.

The second session, "Studio Policies to Keep You Sane," will feature a presentation by Nancy Kaesler and Marjorie Lee, assisted by panel members from the IMTF Advisory Committee. From make-up policy to swap lists, from music deposit accounts to billing practices, from expectations to contracts, those who attend this session will leave with dozens of tried-and-true solutions to studio policy concerns.

A lively round of "Stump the Panel" is anticipated for both sessions.

The third session, "My Home is My Teaching Castle, Right?--Zoning and Licensing for the Home Music Studio" will feature three recent cases of imperiled home teaching from across the country. The focus of this session will be on exactly what happened, why it happened, the related costs and the appropriate actions to preserve and protect our opportunity to teach music in our residences. For those who teach from the home, the threat of a single angry neighbor trying to "close us down" is, perhaps, our most significant fear. Licensing and zoning issues, neighborhood associations, Chambers of Commerce and legislative and judicial rulings will be the topics of discussion. Come and hear what we can and cannot do to protect ourselves.

The profession of independent music teaching is evolving. Many highly qualified and experienced teachers are establishing the viability of a professional career as an independent music teacher. Attend Professional Studio Saturday and share in the excitement!

Awards Brunch

Wednesday, March 20
10:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.

Join MTNA as it honors members who have devoted extensive time and energy to better the association and further the prestige of the music teaching profession.

Renowned pedagogue Nelita True will be the recipient of the Achievement Award. Other awards to be presented include the Teacher of the Year, State Affiliate of the Year, Local Affiliate of the Year, Collegiate Chapter of the Year and the American Music Teacher Article of the Year. As part of the festivities, fifty-year members, outgoing MTNA leadership and the recipient of the Piano Technicians Guild Foundation award will be honored.

Reservations must be made in advance; use the registration form on page 41. Cost: $30.

Competitions Winners Concerts

Treat yourself to a dose of inspiration--enjoy performances by winners of the MTNA Junior High School, High School, Collegiate and Chamber Music Performance Competitions, as well as the winners of the MTNA Composition Competitions. In addition, the composition by the MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year will be performed during the Collegiate Winners Concert on Tuesday. Competition sponsors include: Warner Bros. Publications; The Selmer Company; Baldwin Piano & Organ Company; Yamaha Corporation of America, Band and Orchestral Division; Yamaha Corporation of American, Piano Division; Gibson Musical Instruments; Slingerland Drum Company; Steinway & Sons; the MTNA FOUNDATION; the Allen I. McHose Scholarship Fund; and Dr. Sylvia Shepherd. Concerts are at 3:30 P.M. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday; the organ concert is at 9:00 A.M. Wednesday at the Christ Church Cathedral.

Studio of the Future

Saturday, March 16-Tuesday, March 19

Today's music students, from kindergarten through college sophomores, have always lived in a world almost totally different than most of today's music teachers did in their first eighteen to twenty years. They have never known that CD players, personal computers, color TV, remote controls, "Walkman" personal music listening devices and digital pianos did not always exist.

For many years the affiliated companies of the International Association of Electronic Keyboard Manufacturers (IAEKM) have been presenting workshops to MTNA members on the value of these "new" yet old (eighty-eight black and white keys) instruments. For the second year, IAEKM-affiliated piano and keyboard companies will showcase making fine music with these "new" instruments by focusing on performances in many of their workshops and showcasing numerous actual models of home studios in their exhibit spaces and elsewhere throughout the conference venue.

Although this is titled, "Studio of the Future," you will see the "Studio of Today." We encourage you to take advantage of this very special project and visit all the sample studio setups you can. Teaching with technological components will make you a better and in many cases more profitable teacher; visit the exhibits and see how.

Exhibit Hall

Drop by the exhibit hall to see dazzling displays of the latest exciting musical offerings. From pianos and sheet music to the latest innovations in music technology, the exhibit hall is the place to browse, rub elbows with famous composers and pedagogues, ask questions and shop. It will be open Sunday, March 17, from 10:00 A.M.-5:30 P.M. and 9:30-11:30 P.M. and Monday and Tuesday from 9:00 A.M.-5:30 P.M.

Highlights of Cincinnati Tour

Wednesday, March 20, 2002
1:00-6:00 P.M.

From the heart of the city at Fountain Square, you will pass the Contemporary Arts Center, Procter & Gamble's International Headquarters and the Taft Museum in beautiful Lytle Park. Become familiar with many of Cincinnati's most well-known landmarks including Music Hall; City Hall; Plum Street Temple; the Museum Center in historic Union Terminal; Cinergy Field, home of the Cincinnati Reds; and Paul Brown Stadium, home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Then you will cross the Roebling Suspension Bridge to Kentucky's historic Riverside Drive and its antebellum homes. While in Kentucky, you will visit the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, a tribute to Gothic grandeur. During your visit to the cathedral, you will be treated to a private pipe organ demonstration with Robert Schaffer. Also, enjoy the Basilica's magnificent stained-glass windows handcrafted in Munich, Germany.

Then it is on to the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). New construction and extensive renovation have transformed CCM from a music school to a unique performing arts "village." CCM will treat you to a short recital and reception following the campus tour.

Cost: $28 per person. See page 43 for additional details and the reservation form.

2002 Conference Gala

Hyatt Regency Hotel
Regency Ballroom
Monday, March 18, 6:30 P.M.

MTNA is rolling out the red carpet for this black-tie optional event with entertainment by William Bolcom and Joan Morris. This famed duo performs American popular songs from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s and 30s, the latest songs by Leiber and Stoller and cabaret songs by Bolcom and poet-lyricist Arnold Weinstein. Always a festive celebration, the Gala promises to be the "crown jewel" of the conference. Reservations must be made in advance; use the registration form on page 41. Cost: $60.

William Bolcom and Joan Morris

Pianist and composer William Bolcom and Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano, have been concertizing together as husband and wife since 1972. They have performed throughout the Unites States, Canada and abroad. Recent appearances for Bolcom and Morris include the Alice Tully Hall/Lincoln Center, the Grace Rainey Rodgers Hall/Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Jordan Hall in Boston. In May they entertained the Justices of the United States Supreme Court.

To date, Bolcom and Morris have recorded twenty-two albums. After the Ball--A Treasury of Turn-of-the-Century Popular Songs garnered a GRAMMY nomination for Morris for "best overall vocal soloist performance on a classical album."

Morris attended Gonzaga University in Spokane prior to her scholarship studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She has appeared in off-Broadway and road productions and with harpist Jam Miller at the Cafe Carlyle, the Waldorf-Astoria's Peacock Alley and other Manhattan night spots. Since 1981, Morris has taught cabaret class at the University of Michigan's School of Music, where she is an adjunct professor of musical theater.

Bolcom entered the University of Washington at age 11, studying composition with John Verrall and piano with Berthe Poncy Jacobson and earning a bachelor of arts degree. He then attended Mills College in California and the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris, completing his doctorate in composition at Stanford University.

Bolcom has earned numerous awards for his compositions, including the 2e Prix from the Paris Conservatoire, a BMI award, two Guggenheim fellowships, several Rockefeller Foundation awards, the Pulitzer Prize for music, the March Blitzstein Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters and many others.

Bolcom has taught composition at the University of Michigan since 1973, where he has been a full professor since 1983 and chairman of the Composition Department since 1988. He was named the Ross Finney Distinguished University Professor of Music by the University in 1994.

In addition to their rigorous performance schedule, Bolcom and Morris frequently give master classes throughout the Unites States and Canada in the "classical American popular song."

Special Presentations

Music, movement and their effects on the brain have been a hot topic among teachers for several years. For the first time, two preeminent authorities on the subject will be making presentations at a national conference. Robert Abramson, professor of rhythmics at the Juilliard School, has long been internationally recognized as the preeminent authority on Dalcroze Eurhythmics, the century-old method of teaching music through movement. The nationally recognized neurologist, Fritz Mengert, professor emeritus of the University of North Carolina, Greenboro, has spent more than twenty years interpreting the latest neurological research and its pedagogical implications to teachers throughout the United States. The information and skills found in the presentations of these two men are being used by teachers to transform not only the teaching of music and musical performance, but educational institutions in the United States. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear and work with these two authorities at the same conference. Don't miss it!

The nature of music is to inspire and bring humans into contact with emotions and feelings, as well dreams and desires. David Darling, founder and artistic director of Music for People, an inter national organization dedicated to teaching music in a positive and humanistic way, will share his love of improvisation by showing simple techniques and exercises for developing a natural and organic way of improvising. He also will introduce procedures and games that provide ways to understand technique and style. Darling's two sessions are a must-see for conference attendees.