MTNA piano competition winners to perform at NCKP.National winners of the MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) piano competitions will perform in a recital August 4, 2005, at the opening of the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP NCKP National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy ) at the Doubletree Inn in Oak Brook, Illinois Oak Brook is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, in Illinois. The population was 8,702 at the 2000 census. History Oak Brook was incorporated as a Village in 1958, due in large part to the efforts of Paul Butler, a prominent civic leader and landowner whose father had . The performers are Grace Ma, winner of the 2004 MTNA Junior Piano Performance Competition, sponsored by Baldwin Piano Company The Baldwin Piano Company is the largest US-based manufacturer of keyboard instruments, most notably pianos. It is a subsidiary of the Gibson Guitar Corporation. History ; Pallavi Mahidhara, winner of the 2005 Senior Piano Performance Competition, sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division; and Brandon Stewart, winner of the 2005 Young Artist Piano Performance Competition, sponsored by Steinway & Sons. Ma, of Phoenix, Arizona, studies with Fei Xu. Mahidhara, of Bethesda, Maryland, studies with Julian Martin and Rachel Franklin. Stewart, of Provo, Utah, studies with Susan Bana. "This recital is a wonderful opportunity for these young performers," says MTNA President Paul Stewart, NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of Music NCTM North Carolina Transportation Museum NCTM National Capital Trolley Museum NCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage . "A performance featuring these fine students is indicative of what is possible when talented students study with talented, dedicated teachers." This performance marked the third time MTNA's competition winners have performed for this conference, the first being in August 2001. |
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