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•••••• Friday, 07 January 2011 15:46 As we acknowledge the forty-year Login anniversary of Marni Nixon’s membership in the National Need Help? Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), we are pleased to share that Like NATS on Facebook she has been awarded the 2011 Friend NATS on Facebook George Peabody Medal for NATS Members-Only FB Group Outstanding Contributions to NATS Chat FB Group American Music. Like NMTC on Facebook Follow NATS on LinkedIn The Peabody Medal is the highest NATS Voice Pedagogy LI Group honor bestowed by the of The Johns Hopkins University. Prior recipients include James Lawrence Levine, "It's an exciting time to be a NATS , Eileen Farrell, André Previn, Bobby McFerrin, member. While other professional , , and . associations are cutting back on member services for voice teachers, While Marni Nixon’s face may not be widely known to the world, NATS keeps adding benefits and her voice is recognized as the singing voice of Deborah Kerr (The partnerships for members and students. King and I, 1956 and An Affair to Remember, 1957), Natalie I'm excited about the new music theater advertising opportunities Wood (West Side Story, 1961), Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady, competition, the Orlando conference, 1964), and many others. As Ms. Nixon describes in a recent NPR and the partnership with Carnegie Hall - The Achievement Program - to mention job center interview on All Things Considered, her dubbing career was “like a few. To borrow Joan Boytim'a phrase, a lark” to support her classical and operatic pursuits while I'm more 'nuts about NATS' than ever!" online store working as a messenger girl at MGM Studios. -Cynthia Vaughn, proud NATS member since 1984 Since her stint as a playback singer ended in the mid-1960s, contact us Marni has gone on to perform in one-woman cabaret shows and she has carried lead roles in Broadway, off-Broadway, and home regional musicals. In addition to movies and television, her career includes opera, chamber, and symphony performances with world-renowned conductors. She has won four Emmy Awards for Best Actress and two Classical Grammy nominations. Advertise here upcoming events Marni Nixon has been an active member of NATS since 1970, currently teaches singing privately, and presents Master Classes 02.04.2012 - 02.04.2012 in colleges and universities nationwide. She has served as a NATSAA Tennessee District judge for the prestigious National Association of Teachers of 02.05.2012 - 02.05.2012 Singing Artist Awards (NATSAA) Competition, and was an NATSAA British Columbia honored speaker at the 50th NATS National Conference at District Nashville, Tennessee in 2008. 02.11.2012 - 02.11.2012 NATSAA Florida District Auditions 02.11.2012 - 02.11.2012 Intracoastal Chapter Student Auditions 02.16.2012 - 02.16.2012 NATSAA North Carolina District Auditions

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