Nominate a college student for the IMTA StAR Award before June 1, 2011

Collegiate Chapter Reception
The Indiana Music Teachers Association (IMTA) Student Achievement Recognition Award (StAR) may be presented by any college or university in Indiana to a deserving student, either undergraduate or graduate, who will graduate during the current academic year, and who plans to teach in an independent or collegiate music studio following graduation. (Students who plan to continue pursuing another degree after graduation are eligible.) The student should be selected on the basis of excellence, including academic achievement, successful teaching experience, and/or demonstrated leadership abilities. Please complete the online nomination form located at
http://tinyurl.com/IMTASTAR by June 1, 2011 to make the award to a student from your school. (No awards will be recognized by IMTA after June 1.)
Please contact the IMTA Collegiate Chapters Chair, Dr. Lori Rhoden, @lrhoden@bsu.edu or 765-285-5449 if you have any questions.

Butler Students to present at MTNA National Conference

The Butler MTNA Collegiate Chapter has been invited to present a session at the 2011 MTNA national conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their session, “Grow and Play Together: Preparing Children to Be Successful Collaborative Musicians,” will be on Monday, March 28, 11:00am. The Chapter invites all Indiana attendees at the national conference to come! The session was selected by MTNA as part of a competitive proposal process for collegiate chapters. There were submissions from eight chapters and three were selected for the upcoming conference. The Butler proposal was written by five graduate students in piano performance and pedagogy. The session will feature eight members of the collegiate chapter (five graduate, three undergraduate). Here’s a short description of their session: “Children are our future collaborative musicians! Come explore ensemble and group activities to develop collaborative performance skills in young musicians. Designed for ages 5-12, these activities include body percussion, singing and chanting, improvisation and movement.”
 

In Their Words: BSU Collegiate Chapter reflects on 2010 MTNA National Conference

by Lori Rhoden
Three members of the Ball State University Collegiate Chap­ter represented the state of Indiana at the 2010 Music Teachers National Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Each student submitted a conference retrospective on what this experience meant to them. We attended the collegiate chapters forum as well as the collegiate members reception and got to interact with a lot of other chapter members and their advisors. The national confer­ence will be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 26-30, 2011.  Make your plans now to attend the conference – let’s have a great representation from Indiana next year!
Conference Retrospective from Yuka Nakayama, Doctor of Arts Candidate at BSU
While I have attended the IMTA state conference several times in the past, this was the first time for me to attend the MTNA national conference. I had a great experience; I made many musical contacts, was musically inspired by the master classes and performances, and gained a new respect for piano pedagogy. There were many sessions and master classes on Chopin’s works, some of which I have played in the past, but not to the level of detail that was taught. I especially enjoyed attending the master classes where the pianism as well as the teaching were of the highest caliber.
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