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| Greetings!
It's spring now! Plants are blooming and so can we! How? By planting new ideas and watching the blooms take shape as the fruits and flowers of our professional association take hold!
Not only will you be able to cultivate new thoughts for yourself, but you will cross-pollinate these innovations with your students and voila - you have a beautiful garden of a studio! Find out more about these great new ideas at the Program Meeting: "Roundtable II" on Friday, April 13!
Enough of the planting metaphors - but annually (and more!) we need to get together and tend to our profession and whorl like plants around our common goals!
Congratulations to the recently reinstated CCM Collegiate Chapter. Read the article on their upcoming event! Hope you will consider supporting their efforts!
Happy gardening, happy spring and see you on the 13th - the most ominous of days to be sure!
Rachel
Rachel Kramer, NCTM, President
OhioMTA Southwest District
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Program Meeting
Friday, April 13
"Roundtable II"
Roundtable I was so popular in the fall - that we are having Roundtable II!
Bring your thoughts, opinions, brainstorms and ideas and dialogue with your colleagues about today's "hot topics".
"Spring" right into action as you get easy-to-use, dynamite ideas!
Topics to be covered include:
Favorite Recital/Performance Repertoire - your top ten for students of all instruments!
Making Learning Fun - activities, games and motivational ideas
It's All of OurBusiness - advertising and policies
Professional Development - What are you doing or would like to do?
Cornucopia - Any topics you would like to discuss.
Circle round the topic tables and get a little bit of everything! No one has a bad idea! Bring all of yours!
9:30 - 10:00 coffee and gathering
10-11:30 program meeting
St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church 320 Resor Ave; Clifton Map It
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| Spring 2012 Showcase Recital
April 29 - Registration Deadline April 4
The spring 2012 Showcase Recitals will be held at the Taft Museum of Art on April 29. Registration deadline is April 4. The Showcase Recital is a formal recital for students of all ages, instruments, and performance levels. Duets, duos, and chamber ensembles are welcome! The performance is free and open to the public. For more information and to register click here.
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CCM Collegiate Chapter
The College-Conservatory of Music MTNA Collegiate Chapter Presents: Piano Mosaic: A Community Concert and Fundraising Event Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 4 p.m. St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church Come join the newly reinstated CCM MTNA Collegiate Chapter for its first concert and fundraising event at St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, April 22nd! The concert will include fun and engaging piano solos, duets, and ensembles performed by members of the CCM Collegiate Chapter. Performances will be accompanied by insightful commentary and information about the collegiate chapter and its mission. Beginnings, the chapter's fundraising CD, will be available with a modest donation. The album constitutes a collection of our personal favorites, ranging from Bach to Rachmaninoff. All performances on the CD were recorded live by collegiate chapter members and represent each of us as musical individuals. So come meet the CCM MTNA Collegiate Chapter and enjoy a delightful mosaic of piano music!"
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| Conference Updates
The 2012 MTNA National Conference is now a memory. Lots of Ohioians were spotted at the conference and around the Big Apple!
We congratulate Amy Immerman as outgoing National Board member! Thank you Amy for representing the East Central Division with such expertise and professionalism!
Mark Your Calendars Now:
Empowering the Whole Musician-Mind and Body
June 27-29
New York, NY
More Info
National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Forum August 3-4 Austin, Texas More Info
March 9-13, 2013
Disneyland Hotel
Anaheim, California
Ohio State Conference
October 2013
Cincinnati, OH!
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| 2012 Auditions Festival Performers Shine!
This year approximately 360 students of 46 teachers participated in the Auditions Festival on March 11 at CCM.
So many students were exceptionally well prepared that the judges asked to nominate extra Honors Recital performers! Those 44 students, representing 22 teachers, performed at the Church of the Saviour on March 17.
Many thanks to Richard Van Dyke, who as Co-Chair acted as Judge Liason and helped at the Festival all day. Thanks also to Terry Granick and Benita Tse-Leung, who coordinated the Honors Recitals.
A special note of appreciation to all the teachers and students who volunteered as monitors, set-up, delivery and purchase agents, mailers, and greeters. The Festival could not happen without your willing hands!
And thank you to Darlene Suggs, who chairs this event with an expertise and grace that is unparalleled.
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