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Deadline for applications for Grants for Professional Development  is June 1st, 2010.  Please click on the link below.  Don’t miss this opportunity!

http://www.ceomta.com/general-information/grants-for-professional-development

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1911 Weber Baby Grand Piano – Serial #66835. 6 ft. Philippine Mahogany, refinished and rebuilt with Renner parts, new hammers. Piano was bought from a family who bought it from the Chicago World’s Fair. Reportedly Paderewski played this instrument at the Fair. Beautiful piano.  $15,000.  Call 614-486-0313 or email at meotr1@aol.com.  Click below for photos:

Weber piano for sale

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This website will be updated in August, along with the publishing of the 2010-11 Activities Guide.  Keep checking back for the latest on our upcoming events next year.  Have a great summer, everyone!

Honors Recital

Graves Piano & Organ

As the final of three Solo & Ensemble Recitals held this year at Graves, the Honors Recital presents the 2010 winners from our most prestigious events: OhioMTA/Graves, Buckeye, and Summer Study Scholarship Competitions.  Come hear the amazing performances by these young artists!

Monday, May 10th, 2010  9:30 a.m.

Board meeting and New Member Luncheon

The Executive Board and Committee Chairmen will meet at Westerville Christian Church.  The meeting will be followed at noon with the New Members Luncheon.

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The 2010 Slate of Officers and Committee Chairmen is very close to completion!  Click below to find out who will be leading our organization for the next two years.  Thank you to everyone who has volunteered!  It is an incredible team of members.

2010-12 officers and chairmen

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Click below to view the list of winners for this year’s Summer Study Scholarship Auditions.  Thanks to everyone who helped on that day and congratulations to these students and their teachers!

SS Scholarships Winners List 2010

Your schedules are full to the brim with  responsibilities for this Passover/Holy Week, to be certain! Set aside

Monday, April 5^th – 9:30 – noonish

to relax and enjoy BRADLEY SOWASH as he presents

“LEARN YOUR CHORDS KID.”

Bradley is Columbus’s own pedagogue/composer/performing artist and has his works published by Kjos Music Company. He gets to the heart of learning points with humor and energy.

With 2010 Scale Olympics just around the corner, you don’t want to miss this inspiring morning with the Master of Chords,

BRADLEY SOWASH.

Graves Piano and Organ Company, Karl Road

This conference will also include a quick Annual Membership Meeting, during which we all vote to approve the 2010-11 burget and the 2010-12 slate of officers!  See you there!!

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Here are a few other announcements:

State Invitation

MEMO-MTNA

Early Interval April 10th

After three years of doctoral studies, Gulimina Mahamuti of Mansfield, Ohio, who comes from Karamay City in northwestern China, will receive her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance on May 8, 2010.  She was selected to attend The Harry S Truman Good Neighbor Award Luncheon on May 6, 2010. 

Recently, her article, “Professional Development Makes You Recession-Resistant,” originally published in the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Clavier Companion, was translated into Italian and appears in Didattica (http://www.aasp.it/Documenti_folder/resistereallarecessione.html).  As a guest artist, Gulimina has accepted the invitation to perform with Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra in November, 2010.

Gulimina will be taking over as Piano Workshop Chairman for the Central East District.  Welcome, Gulimina!

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Coming To Columbus 4-hour Workshop for Piano Teachers Reinvigorate Your Piano Studio! Date: April 3, 2010 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 Place: Columbus, OH Register Now! Date Not Convenient? Call Musikgarten at 1.800.216.6864 to see about additional dates and locations.

Reinvigorate Your Piano Studio This four-hour, hands-on workshop, developed primarily for piano teachers, includes both theory games and lesson planning strategies: Learn new ways to engage your students in theory games. Ideal for your group theory classes, these games are a great way to invigorate your theory lessons, keeping them fun and relevant – and to build the rhythm and pitch reading skills the students need. Start your young beginners on a road to success with a five-week program which will delight them and prepare them for success. Singing and moving tune the ear and refine the body, laying the foundation for success in learning to play the piano. The lesson plans fully explain all the singing and movement activities, as well as the keyboard activities which are layered on at an appropriate time and pace. Cost: $40! Includes: 7 Theory Notation Games Lesson Plans for including games in your teaching Date: April 3, 2010 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 Place: Grave’s Piano and Organ Company           5798 Karl Road           Columbus, OH 43229           Call the Musikgarten office at 1-800-216-6864 or click here to register.

SUMMER PIANO ACADEMY 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
For Serious Young Pianists, Ages 12-18
June 20-July 10, 2010

Dear Teachers, Students, and Parents:

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Piano Academy will celebrate its 25th anniversary this summer! To mark this special event, we are pleased to offer a roster of world-renowned master teachers, who have dedicated their lives to teaching talented young pianists.

GUEST MASTER TEACHERS >> learn more
Read Gainsford | Joseph Kalichstein | Menahem Pressler | Karen Shaw |                         André-Michel Schub | Nelita True |André Watts.

FACULTY >> learn more
Karen Taylor | David Cartledge | Christopher Harding | Ruth Morrow | Alice Rybak |    Daniel Schene |Gregory Sioles.

Students from across the United States and around the world will participate in two private lessons a week,  master classes, daily group classes, theory, ensemble classes, and student performances. In addition, we offer an opportunity to work with a certified Feldenkrais practitioner. The Piano Academy takes place during the IU Summer Music Festival, a spectacular collection of orchestral performances, chamber music concerts and solo recitals.

It all adds up to three weeks in which gifted pianists are immersed in an intensive and inspiring musical environment, and a community that fosters close friendships and memories that last forever.

Click here for more information and application materials:
www.music.indiana.edu/summer/piano-academy

            All good wishes,
   
           Karen Taylor, Founder and Director

Do you have difficulty finding a balance between preparing your students for competitions and festivals and simply having time to learn foundational repertoire and technique? Come to the Spring Conference – Monday, April 6^th, Graves Piano and Organ Company, 9:30 a.m. – to hear Benita Tse Leung! Benita has a home studio as well as a studio at Wright State University where she and her husband, Jackson, teach and have many award winning students. Benita will share with us her secrets to finding that important balance between competition preparation and plain, old lesson time. Don’t miss it!

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Here’s an important announcement about membership and our upcoming new members luncheon:

CEOMTA New Member Luncheon

Our district will hold its annual luncheon for new and prospective members after the May 11th board meeting at Westerville Christian Church, 471 East College Avenue, in Westerville.  If you are a new member this year, you will be receiving an invitation in the mail soon.  I hope you will be able to come join us.   

I would appreciate hearing from our membership about any colleagues they know who are not yet part of our organization – the luncheon is a great way to get introduced to what our district has to offer and to meet other members.   Please forward any names and addresses to Paula O’Green, paulaogreen@columbus.rr.com   (614-836-7753)

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The following is a special concert announcement for members of OMTA:

One of our Central East District members, Michael Davis, passed away on Sunday, March 2. The article below from the Dispatch tells of his musical career and accomplishments.

Publication:The Columbus Dispatch; Date:Mar 4, 2008; Section:Life & Arts; Page:36

MICHAEL DAVIS 1937-2008
Violinist stood out as performer, teacher
By Gary Budzak THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Violinist Michael Davis, concertmaster of the Lancaster Festival Orchestra for all of its 20 seasons, died Sunday at Riverside Methodist Hospital. He was 70.

The cause of death was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease), said his partner, Nelson Harper.

Davis, who was born in Hull, England, was also a professor emeritus of violin in the Ohio State University School of Music, where he taught for many years.

“We were expecting to attend a performance of his in another couple of months, so that’s heartbreaking,” said Mellasenah Morris, director of the school. “Everyone loved him. He was such a fine gentleman and a wonderful artist, great teacher, great colleague.”

Davis was a former concertmaster of the Columbus Symphony, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Columbus Bach Ensemble and Scottish National Orchestra.

A student of noted violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Max Rostal, Davis recorded 12 albums and performed frequently in central Ohio.

He lived in Upper Arlington.

Other colleagues offered e-mail tributes to Davis.

“Our community has lost a deeply caring artist,” wrote Ruth Triplett Haddock, executive director of the Jefferson Academy of Music at OSU. “Michael Davis has been a personal friend for more than 40 years and a friend to the musical arts and music students throughout a life cut too short by a tragic illness.”

“Michael’s extraordinary musical gifts proved to mean something greater than just performing,” wrote Gary Sheldon, conductor of the Lancaster Festival Orchestra. “He showed that music can teach something about humanity, about connecting people with their families and with their communities. . . . He was ultimately an educator who gave something from his heart to every student, every orchestra and every audience.”

“Michael Davis added greatly to the spirit of the Lancaster Festival,” wrote Lou Ross, executive director. “Michael was a joy to be with and to listen to. He will be sorely missed.”

A tribute concert is scheduled for May 5 at OSU. No funeral is planned.

Condolences can be sent to www.schoedinger.com.