PTNA NEWS LETTER 2016 www.piano.or.jp/english Piano Teachers’ National Association of Japan 1-15-1 Sugamo Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-8458 JAPAN Tel: +81 (0)3 3944 1581 Fax: +81 (0)3 3944 8838
[email protected] PTNA (PIANO TEACHERS’ NATIONAL Commitment To the Entire Music Life ASSOCIATION of JAPAN), founded by The 50th Anniversary of PTNA Yasuko Fukuda, is a nonprofit organization of professional piano and music teachers. Our mission is to advance the value of piano and music teachers committed to furthering a higher level of the pedagogical skills, and to explore cultural and artistic activities by ways of piano. We encourage piano and music teachers in the community to improve the quality of piano pedagogy and performance studies, promote a rich humanism from music pedagogy, communicate with internal and external associations, and contribute to a broader cultural development. -Established : 1966 -Chairperson: Nobuyuki Idei -Vice Chairperson: Yuichiro Hata, Yuko Ninomiya PTNA encourages all who -CEO : Seikoh Fukuda love piano. Its membership -Board Members: Trustees, Nobuyuki Idei service extends to families Treasurers. Advisor, and tuners this year. Councilors -Groups & Committees <1> Commitment to the performers, composers, researchers, *Administration and Organization Group students, amateurs, families, corporates *Research Group Enrichment of Musical Life *STEP Project Group and institutions, and tuners (added *Competition Group PTNA, established in 1966, com- in 2016). This year, a part of “sup- -Networks: Branches (124), Stations (449) memorates its 50 year anniversary port member”, a group of about 1,400 -Number of Members: 15,882 -Membership Status: Authorized member, this year. The association started with members, was shifted to “family mem- Teacher, Performer, Composer, Researcher, 30 teachers and now consists of over ber”.