Studio Fellowship Award winner. (Association News).

Thu Nguyen Carey, an independent music teacher from Sugar Land, Texas, is the recipient of the first Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Studio Fellowship Award. The award, in the amount of $3,000, was made possible by the MTNA FOUNDATION. Carey was selected from a group of more than forty music teachers who applied for the award.

Carey, who came to the United States from Vietnam in 1975, started piano at age 4 and now maintains a studio in Sugar Land, where she is active in local and Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA)-sponsored events. She currently serves as vice president of Forum Music Teachers Association and as chair of the District 5 TMTA State Performance Contest. Carey is also a private piano instructor at the University of Houston Moores School of Music Intermediate Piano Camp.

The MTNA Studio Fellowship Program was established to help music teachers develop and enhance their newly established studios. The award is presented to the candidate who most clearly demonstrates a strong commitment to the music teaching profession.

Judges for the MTNA Studio Fellowship Award Program were Robert Duke, University of Texas professor; Marienne Uszler, NCTM, former editor of Piano & Keyboard magazine; and Joanne Smith, NCTM, University of Michigan professor emerita and MTNA 2002 Teacher of the Year.