Jane Snow sponsors voice competitions.

MTNA welcomes Jane Snow to its distinguished roster of competition sponsors. She joins corporate sponsors Baldwin Piano Company, Conn-Selmer, Inc., Yamaha Corporation of America, Gibson Musical Instruments, Slingerland Drum Company, Steinway & Sons, Warner Bros. Publications, Inc. and Sylvia Shepherd, sponsor of the Distinguished Composer of the Year award. Snow will support the national winner award in the Senior and Young Artist Voice Performance Competitions beginning in 2004.

"Advanced high school and collegiate singers need much encouragement and financial assistance on their road to a possible career. It is an extremely challenging and costly path they have chosen to follow," Snow says of her generous gift. "I am delighted to join with MTNA in recognizing the ability of these young people who are the future artists of classical vocal music."

Snow, an MTNA member from Albuquerque, New Mexico, is professor emerita in the Department of Music of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She was the founder of the UNM opera workshop, directing sixteen operas from 1950-1968, and was named Music Teacher of the Year by the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in 1996. She has been a piano and vocal recitalist throughout the United States and continues to teach in her independent studio.