Eastern Division Competitions and Conference.

West Virginia University 

Creative Arts Center * Morgantown, West Virginia * January 16-18, 2004

Competitions Chair: Debra Martin, NCTM, 983 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY14850; home: [phone], work: [phone]; [e-mail]

Competitions Co-Chair and President-elect: Millie Eben 2419 Cumberland Ave., Reading, PA19606; [phone]; [e-mail]

MTNA Student Composition Competitions Coordinator: Kathleen Maskell, MusicWorks, 885 Main St., Tewksbury, MA 01876; [phone]; [e-mail]

MTNA Junior Performance Competitions Coordinator: Judy Greenhill, NCTM, 25 Crosby Ln., Londonderry, NH 03053-3274; home: [phone], fax: [phone]; [e-mail]

MTNA Senior Performance Competitions Coordinator: Melanie DeMent, 210 George St., P.O. Box 85, Chesapeake City, MD 21915-1234; or Department of Music, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716; (302) 831-12122; [e-mail]

MTNA Young Artist Performance Competitions and Chamber Music Performance Competition Coordinator: Veda Zuponcic, Rowan University, Department of Music, Glassboro, NJ 08028; [phone]; [e-mail]

Local Site Coordinator: Christine Kefferstan, NCTM, 322 Kenmore St., Morgantown, WV 26505; [phone], ext. 153; [e-mail]

President: Debra Ronning, NCTM, Elizabethtown College, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Elizabethtown, PA 17022; home: [phone], work: [phone]; [e-mail]

Registrar: Carol Beall, NCTM, 1208 Bakers Ridge Rd,, Morgantown, WV 26505; [phone]; [e-mail]

Certification Chair: Karen Taddie, NCTM, 1122 Queens Ct., Morgantown, WV 26508; [phone]; [e-mail]

Lodging

Hampton Inn: 1053 van Voorhis Rd. Rate: $72/double, includes deluxe continental breakfast. Specify MTNA when making reservations by the January 2, 2004, deadline. Call 1 (800) Hampton or [phone].

Transportation

Fly to Morgantown Airport or Pittsburgh Airport, approximately a one-and-a-half-hour drive south to Morgantown. Car rentals are available. Shuttle service reservations should be made by December 15, 2003, with Airport Limousine Service, Inc. at 1 [phone]. One-way cost ranges from $80/person to $130/five people; e-mail [e-mail] for more information and reservations.

Registration and Reservations

To register for the conference, send $25 (check payable to MTNA) to Carol Beall, 1208 Bakers Ridge Rd., Morgantown, WV 26505. A boxed lunch is available on Saturday at noon for $7.95. Please indicate your choice of chicken, tuna or seafood salad on croissant. A banquet meal for Saturday night is available for $25. To reserve the boxed lunch and/or banquet, send a check made payable to WVMTA to Carol Beall at the above address. Postmark deadline for all registrations and meals is January 2, 2004.

Conference Artists/Clinicians

Sedmara Rutstein, artist teacher at Oberlin, will present a lecture recital "Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues by Sergei Slominsky." Molly Weaver will present a clinic on "Telling Isn't Teaching; Asking Isn't Assessing, Nonverbal Strategies to Improve Pedagogical Performance." Connie Arrau Sturm will give a lecture "Cultivating the Art of Piano Teaching in America; Innovative Contributions of Early Twentieth-Century Female Piano Teachers."