Passages.Joanne Johnson Baker, a long-time faculty member at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC UMKC University of Missouri-Kansas City ), died December 27, 2004, at age 81. Baker's contributions to MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) were extensive and far-reaching, as she served as national coordinator for the MTNA High School Piano Performance Competitions and Repertoire Committee, and was a frequent competitions adjudicator ad·ju·di·cate v. ad·ju·di·cat·ed, ad·ju·di·cat·ing, ad·ju·di·cates v.tr. 1. To hear and settle (a case) by judicial procedure. 2. and clinician at many state and national MTNA conferences. Baker was named an MTNA FOUNDATION Fellow in 2003. Baker held both B.A. and M.M. degrees in piano performance from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . In 1986, Baker was the first recipient of the UMKC Conservatory of Music Excellence in Teaching award. She became UMKC's longest-serving faculty member, teaching at the school for forty-nine years and chairing the Keyboard Division for the last twenty-five of those years. She was designated a Curators' Professor, the university's highest honor. Baker chaired the prestigious Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition for two decades and was the first American artist invited to teach in China after the Cultural Revolution. Baker's many other awards include the Burlington-Northern Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching, the Conservatory Trustees' Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Standard Oil Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Award of Merit from Mu Phi Epsilon Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ) is a co-ed international professional music fraternity and honor society. It boasts over 75,000 members in 128 collegiate chapters and 74 alumni chapters in the US and abroad. . Baker's legacy continues in the form of The Joanne Baker Prize, to be given in perpetuity Of endless duration; not subject to termination. The phrase in perpetuity is often used in the grant of an Easement to a utility company. in perpetuity adj. forever, as in one's right to keep the profits from the land in perpetuity. at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, recognizing that she is "known throughout the United States and the world as one of the most charismatic and exceptional musicians and teachers by her students and colleagues." Dianne Brimmer, 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 , MTNA member, died December 13, 2004, at age 72. Brimmer served as an active member and past president of several professional organizations, including Northeast Iowa Area Music Teachers Association, Iowa Music Teachers Association and the National Federation of Music Clubs National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to Music Education and the promotion of creative and performing arts in the United States. . For years, Brimmer was chairperson of the District 201 Iowa Federation of Music Clubs festival, as well as a member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers and the National Guild Faculty. In 1949, Brimmer graduated from Independence [Iowa] High School and then continued her studies at the Sherwood School of Music in Chicago. Since 1948, Brimmer, a devoted educator for more than fifty years, taught piano, voice and organ lessons to literally thousands of students, in her music studio. |
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