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57Th Annual Conference SOUTH CAROLINA MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION November 2-4, 2017 57th Annual Conference SOUTH CAROLINA MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION November 2-4, 2017 Winthrop University Rock Hill, South Carolina www.scmta.org Welcome to the 57th SCMTA Annual Conference Table of Contents Greeting from Winthrop University School of Music Chair . 4 COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Greeting from the SCMTA President . 5 Greeting from the Southern Division Director . 6 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Greeting from the MTNA President & MTNA Executive Director . 7 2017 Conference Schedule . 8-9 Degrees 2017 MTNA Performance Competitions Schedule . 10 Student Presenters . .10-11 Bachelor of Music in Performance Campus Map, Winthrop University . .12-13 (performance track in all band and orchestral instruments, Conference Artist, Anton Nel . 14 piano, organ, voice, and guitar; NEW track in music composition) Conference Artist Program . 15 Conference Clinician, Diane Hidy . 16 Bachelor of Arts in Music Conference Presenter | SCMTA Poster Session Coordinator . .17 SCMTA Commissioned Composer, Performers, Narrator . 18 (with a double major option) SCMTA Teacher of the Year . 19 SCMTA Leadership . 20 Bachelor of Music Education SCMTA District Chairs and Local Association Presidents . .21 (Choral or Instrumental) SCMTA Genesis Grant . 21 SCMTA Presidents . .22 SCMTA Teacher of the Year Award . .22 Master of Music in Conducting SCMTA Conference Sites . 23 (Choral or Wind Instrumental) Three Tales for Four Hands . 24 Real Kids — Real Solutions . 25 Bob Jones University Ad . 26 Master of Music in Performance Anderson University Ad . 27 (performance track in all band and orchestral Newberry College Ad . 28 instruments, piano, organ, voice, and guitar) Rice Music House Ad . .29 Musical Innovations Ad . 30 Master of Music Education Coker College Ad . 31 Columbia Music Teachers Association Ad . 31 Greenville Music Teachers Association Ad . .31 Clemson University Ad . 32 For more information contact: College of Charleston Ad . .33 Donald Rogers, Chair • Department of Music Converse College Ad . 34 Winthrop University • 129 Conservatory of Music University of South Carolina Ad . .35 Rock Hill, SC 29733 • 803/323-2255 Steinway Piano Gallery Ad . .36 Furman University Ad . 37 Certification Renewal Credit Form . 38 Greetings and welcome to Winthrop University! Dear Colleagues: The Department of Music and the College of Visual and It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 57th Annual SCMTA Performing Arts are honored to host the 57th Annual Conference hosted by Winthrop University . Our colleagues Conference of the South Carolina Music Teachers here, Matt Manwarren and Lannia Bronola-Dickert, and their Association at Winthrop! chair, Donald Rogers, have been very generous with their resources, their time, and their facility . The Department of Music enjoys a long and distinguished history as an outstanding music program . The Depart- We are eager to meet in an official way the members of the “. your work ment boasts a strong faculty of dedicated and caring new local association here in the Rock Hill area, the Upper “We are eager professors who deliver a quality and varied curriculum . Palmetto MTA with Nanette Baltz serving as president . They is extremely Students have an opportunity to perform as a soloist or have graciously offered to help with hospitality during our to meet in an in many renowned ensembles, to teach music incor- time here at Winthrop . official way important porating the latest methodologies, to study music to us as we theory and music history in depth, to compose music, Our Vice President for Conferences, Lannia Bronola-Dickert, the members and to study the latest trends in music technology in has packaged for us wonderful sessions and a master class prepare our state-of-the-art Computer Music Laboratory and with clinician and well-known pedagogue Diane Hidy as well of the our future Studio . Our location next to a major metropolitan area as a master class and conference concert with the esteemed new local also provides students with extensive opportunities to Anton Nel . Other highlights of this year’s conference are the generations experience a wide variety of performances and master premier of the intermediate duet work with narrator “Three association of performers classes by major national and international artists both Tales for Four Hands” by our commissioned composer Daniel here in the on and off campus . Musselman and the Collegiate Chapter Poster Session given and teachers. by college students from across South Carolina . Rock Hill . .” On behalf of our students, faculty, and staff I thank area . .” you for attending this year’s SCMTA Conference on Running concurrently with the conference are the MTNA our campus . As professionals in your field, your work State Competitions . We thank Dr . Eunjung Choi and her team is extremely important to us as we prepare our future of competition chairs for organizing this event and we wish generations of performers and teachers . We are proud all the competitors strong performances! to be in partnership with your organization in this lofty goal . It is my hope that you enjoy your activities on our Take time this weekend to connect with your colleagues campus, and that the sessions and performances you across the state by sharing ideas and by encouraging each attend are both inspirational and invigorating . Please other’s callings thereby strengthening our mission in SCMTA let us know if there is anything we can do to make your to further the art of music! stay with us more pleasant . Thank you for seeing the importance of supporting this Donald M . Rogers, Ph .D . event and we know you will glean much from the sessions, Chair, Department of Music master classes, and performances! Enjoy your time here in Winthrop University Rock Hill! Deanna C . Moore, DMA President South Carolina Music Teachers Association 4 — 57th Annual Conference 57th Annual Conference — 5 Dear Colleagues: Dear South Carolina MTA Members: I am pleased to bring you greetings from Southern Division and On behalf of your 22,000 MTNA colleagues across the welcome you to your 57th annual conference at Winthrop Uni- country, we want to add our welcome to the South versity, and I know you will be inspired by Diane Hidy’s insight- Carolina state conference . The chance to gather with your ful sessions as well as the beautiful performance by Anton Nel . friends and colleagues from around the state is always a special occasion, and we hope you enjoy your experience . The South Carolina MTA has a long history of excellence, and Your state conference committee has planned a terrific this past year has again proven to be outstanding . What an event, so have a wonderful time networking, sharing, extraordinary experience the students and teachers in Southern learning, listening and broadening your horizons . Please Division had last January when we visited your state for the be sure to take a moment to thank your colleagues for 2017 Southern Division Competitions at the University of South their time and work in making this a successful event . “. I thank Carolina . The warm hospitality was noted by everyone! Also, I each of you wish to sincerely thank Deanna Moore with whom I have been Conferences offer the opportunity for continuing education honored to work closely during her presidency . with the very best in the profession . Certainly, you will be for the work rewarded with multiple new ideas and terrific insights by I hope that your future plans will include the 2018 Southern being here . But, more than that, your students will be the Division competitions at Liberty University in Virginia, January you to do ultimate beneficiaries of what you learn and experience at 13-15, where the best of Southern Division talent will be this conference . Please share with them your rich brighten the showcased in a very exciting weekend of performances . experiences within the MTNA triangle: local associations, “ . reach In addition, the MTNA conference in Lake Buena Vista, FL, lives of so state associations, and national association, all of which March 17-21, will prove to be another great investment in out to support, mentor and nurture us as teachers . Also, please many young professional development! I hope you will make the short trip to the Orlando area to be inspired by the wonderful do not be afraid to reach out to those in your state those in musicians recitals and sessions planned for this year’s conference . association and volunteer to help in whatever way you can . Our members are our life blood! your state each day Throughout my time as Southern Division Director, I have association We also invite you to attend the upcoming 2018 MTNA in your had the opportunity to visit many state and local associations both in our division and nationwide . Without fail, I have left National Conference in Orlando, Florida . The dates are and studios. ” feeling grateful to be a part of the fabric of our organization . March 17-21 and the venue is Disney’s Coronado Springs We have a tremendous membership of dedicated, hardwork- Resort . The Opening Session on Saturday evening will volunteer ing teachers, and I thank each of you for the work you do to feature an encore performance by Time for Three, a to help in brighten the lives of so many young musicians each day in dynamic trio who bring fantastic arrangements and life to your studios . While instant gratification is not always part of classic pieces . Tuesday night’s recital features acclaimed whatever our lives as music teachers, music and art thrive in our com- pianist Jeremy Denk . Also on the program are an outstanding munities thanks to each of us, and I challenge us to continue array of informative sessions, inspiring master classes, and way you to find ways to reach out to bring the beauty of music to an exhibit hall with the latest music, products and can.” every corner of our communities .
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