Music OMTA News Opus 64 March/April 2010 No. 4 OMTA Member IN TH I S ISSUE Rhonda Ringering Wins President’s Corner 2Article of Year Award State News OMTA member Rhonda Ringer- a certificate and an award check in ing’s article “Keeping the Beat: the amount of $1,000. The event OMTA Conference 3 How to Teach Classical Piano will take place on Wednesday, Certification 4 Students to Play with a Jazz Band,” March 24, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. in Syllabus 5 which appeared in the April/May the Sendero Ballroom at the Hyatt Level 10 Syllabus Recital 6 2009 issue of American Music Regency Albuquerque. Education 6 Teacher magazine, has been selected Congratulations to you on this as the 2010 American Music Teach- honor, and I look forward to seeing Ensemble 7 er Article of the Year. “Keeping the you in Albuquerque. Participation Trophy 7 Beat” offers easy and practical tips Publications 8 for classical piano teachers on how Sincerely, Membership 9 to teach their students to play the piano with their school jazz bands. Gary L. Ingle District News A letter from Gary L. Ingle, MTNA Executive Director Central Oregon 10 MTNA Executive Director and and CEO Eugene 11 CEO, included the following: Linn-Benton 11 Dear Rhonda: Roseburg 11 Salem 12 … The selection was made by the Tualatin Valley 12 AMT Editorial committee in recog- nition of your outstanding work. Articles of Interest You will be recognized at the MTNA Student Competition News 13 MTNA National Conference in 21st Century Collaborative Piano 14 Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Awards Brunch. During the Outside Events presentation, you will be presented Brentano String Quartet 15 Adult Playing Class 16 Aaron David Miller Workshop 16 Supplementary Materials 17 Rhonda Ringering Additional Study Guides 22 OMTA Chairs 23 OMTA Officers 25 OMTA District Presidents 25 President’s Corner Dear Colleagues, Collaboration—the act of working together our concerts in a private home, but this with one or more people in order to achieve month was really special, as it was our 100th something. This March MTNA will kick off concert. We played at the lovely Allison the Year of Collaborative Music, culminating Hotel in Newburg, part of a fundraising in a special Day of Collaborative Music on event that inspired attendees to generously Saturday, January 22, 2011. As you begin donate funds to help build the Chehalem to think about your plans for the 2010–11 Cultural Arts Center, which will be opening teaching and performing year, keep in mind in March. Our quartet was joined by three the thought of collaboration—within your singers, a cellist and a flautist as we played studio walls, and stretching outside. Think a variety of music, ranging from Bach and about including studio family members and Liszt to stride pianist James P. Johnson and collaborating with other studios. Be sure to the beloved Irving Berlin. Many people watch the Music News (and Rhonda Ringer- wrote to tell us how much they enjoyed the ing’s article on page 14 of this issue) and afternoon, but I think we musicians had the American Music Teacher for more ideas. If most fun of all, and we certainly did achieve you have some great ideas, consider writing something. an article for either publication or telling our Here’s to your collaborative efforts, and I collaborative committee about them. Molly look forward to hearing about them. Wheeler is the chair of this committee. This January I had a wonderful collab- Happy Trails, orative experience. I play in a piano 8-hand Susan M. Todd, NCTM group called Too Grand. We usually hold President, OMTA Members of Too Grand—(left to right) Margo Foeller, Susan Todd, Sonja Haugen and Carol Petrone—celebrate their 100th concert. 2 OMTA Music News State News OMTA Conference Fern McArthur, NCTM OMTA Conference Chair Come one, come all … to the 2010 OMTA Conference July 22–25 Held at the LaSells Stewart Center in Corvallis on the beautiful OSU campus. Housing at the Hilton Garden Inn. Recitals, master classes and pedagogy presentations fortechnic, interpretation, repertoire, jazz piano & more. Dr. Dean Kramer: guest artist Dr. Helen Marlais: guest clinician Dr. Matthew Cooper: guest presenter Dr. Claire Wachter: guest presenter FJH Publisher’s Showcase Additional presenters to be added. Outings and Events Friday Evening: outing to the wine country Saturday Evening: banquet Saturday Evening: guest artist recital Thanks to a generous grant from the Nellie Tholen Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, attendees will receive a substantial rebate for their housing. Now, all we need is YOU, the loyal members of OMTA. Please join us for the fun, education and camaraderie. It is you that make it happen! Registration form, daily schedule of events, and further information will be available on our Web site in March. 3 Opus 64/No. 4 • March/April 2010 State News Certification Patti Widener, NCTM Happy New Years Colleagues! Certification Chair willamette university What are your goals for 2010? Hopefully, professional growth is on that list! Check Department of Music out the brand new National Certification program. You can find it on the MTNA Web site under Certification at the very top of the page. Pull down the menus and explore. This program is designed for you, the teacher. No transcripts are turned in, no tests are taken. This new program consists of five teacher projects, done consecutively. Through the completion of Become these projects you are certified by dem- the MusicMusic onstrating knowledge of pedagogy, music history and theory as it applies to your teaching. Performance skills and profes- Degree Programs Music Scholarship Audition BA in Music Dates for Fall 2011 sional studio management are also evalu- BM in Composition November 13, 2010 ated. These projects provide ways for you BM in Performance January 22, 2011 BM in Music Education February 21, 2011 to further your teaching skills and enhance Minor in Music February 25, 2011 your studio. Meeting national standards by Minor in Arts & Technology Schedule an audition: 503-370-6687 becoming certified gives the independent music teacher professional standing. In A faculty dedicated to educating the complete musician, fact, most professions—from beauticians to artist and person. doctors and lawyers—require some type of Willamette University • Office of Admission licensing after former schooling. willamette.edu/admission • 503-370-6303 Did you know Oregon is the leader in willamette.edu/cla/music the MTNA Northwest Division for newly certified teachers? (Nine since 7/08.) Way to go, teachers! OMTA_MarApr10.inddMeeting. There1 will also be examinations2/2/10 3:46 PM Congratulations to Wilma Hawkins offered at the Oregon State Conference in NCTM, our newest certified teacher. She Corvallis, Thursday July 22. finished her certification in December and I ask all who did apply under the old we are so proud of her hard work to reach program to please contact me so I can this goal. confirm that I have you in my records; also, Applications to be certified under the please let me know when your application pre-2010 program were due by December is accepted. This will help me in planning 31, 2009. By my counting, nine Oregon for additional test times, if necessary. teachers applied by this deadline. There Many have expressed interest in start- are two teachers presently in the testing ing the new certification program this year. process. Our next examination will be Will you be one of them? As always, I am Saturday, February 20, after the State Board here to answer your questions. 4 OMTA Music News State News Syllabus Bethany Crosby Spring Syllabus is right around the corner! • Offer to host evaluations. If you have Syllabus Chair Here are some things to remember as you a studio that can accommodate Sylla- prepare for Syllabus Evaluations this spring: bus Evaluations, then use it. If you are entering over three hours of evaluations • Use the appropriate type of exam then you should seriously considers for your student. If your student has hosting Syllabus at your studio or find not mastered the requirements for a a location where you can act as hostess. full Evaluation, please change it to an Audition or Demonstration. You may • Be considerate of your hostess. If you make this change when you introduce and your students go to another studio the student to the adjudicator even if for Syllabus, be there for the whole the entry indicates that it will be a full time and act as a monitor. Evaluation. • Schedule a Teacher Conference. You • Observe deadlines. Not sure of the are required to schedule a Teacher deadlines? Check the Web site. Portland Conference each Syllabus season you members—go to omta-portland.org, enter students—one in the fall and click on “Members and Teachers” and one in the spring. If your district holds then go to “Syllabus” to find appropri- separate Lower and Upper Division ate forms and schedules. evaluations, then you only need to schedule one in the spring. If you have • Use current forms. Again, go to the Web three hours or more of Evaluations, site and get the current forms. There then you are required to schedule a are small changes made each year and 25-minute conference. If you will have it’s important that you use the forms enough students for two days, you that are current each year. If you have should schedule one conference each trouble getting to a computer or using day. Work with your District Chair if the Web site, have a fellow teacher help you have questions. or call your Syllabus Chair for some names.