Things really pick up during the next few months in our district.  Below is a calendar of events and deadlines for this month: 

January 6 – Deadline for OhioMTA/Graves Piano Solo & Ensemble Contest Registration (postmark is strictly enforced)  

 http://www.ceomta.com/student-competitions/omta-graves-piano-solo-ensemble-contest

January 9 – Winter Executive Board Meeting

January 16 – Piano Workshop II Master Class – click below for a copy of the program.  Bring your scores! 

 2011-12 CEOMTA Piano Workshop II, master class

 http://www.ceomta.com/conferences-workshops/piano-workshop-ii

January 26 – Deadline for Solo & Ensemble Registration  http://www.ceomta.com/student-events/recitals-solo-ensemble

January 28 – Deadline for District Festival Registration  http://www.ceomta.com/student-events/district-festival

January 29 – Deadline for Out & About Registration http://www.ceomta.com/student-events/out-and-about

January 30 – Deadline for Monday Morning Musicales Registration

 http://www.ceomta.com/conferences-workshops/monday-morning-musicales

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Bruce Piper, fundraising chair, is  looking for volunteers to help assemble flower bouquets in the afternoon of November 5th as well as distributing them at the 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. concerts.

Preferably, this should be people who are not involved with the concert itself.  Parent volunteers would be great.

They can e-mail Bruce at bpiper0378@gmail.com or phone at 740-967-0378.   Teachers, thank you for your help with this!

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Deadline Monday!

For now, put the following on your calendar so you won’t miss a thing!

CALENDAR OVERVIEW

Fall 2011

September, 2011

Monday, 12          Fall District Conference

                                9:30 AM, Graves Piano & Organ Company

                                Dr. Courtney Crappell, NCTM

                                Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Texas at San Antonio

                                “Technology and the Teaching Profession in the 21^st Century”

Monday, 19          Fall Board Meeting

                                9:30 AM, Fireside Room at Westerville Christian Church

October, 2011

Sunday, 2              An Evening of Music with the CEOMTA

                                5 PM, Graves Piano & Organ Company

                                A Concert by Our Members

Friday, 7                Independent Music Teachers Forum

                                10 AM – 12 PM, The Old Worthington Library, Meeting Room

                                “Technology Treasures for the Studio Teacher”

                                Kick-off Presentation:  Liz Atkinson

Sunday, 23           Solo & Ensemble Recital

                                2 PM – 5 PM

                                Graves Piano & Organ Company

These recitals are an opportunity for students of all instruments and voice to gain additional performance experience in a non-competitive setting.

November, 2011

                Saturday, 5           Pianorama Concert at Gahanna Middle School West

Pianorama is a multi-piano ensemble in which elementary through advanced students perform duets in groups conducted by an OhioMTA teacher/conductor.  Concerts at 6 and 8 PM

Monday, 7            Monday Morning Musicales

                                10 AM – 12 PM

                                Graves Piano & Organ Company

                                Our teachers perform for each other.

Friday, 11              Piano Workshop I

                                                10 AM – 12 PM

                                                Graves Piano & Organ Company

                                                Reena Berger Natenberg, Pianist

                                                Ms. Natenberg has performed as a soloist and chamber musician  throughout North America, South America, Asia, and in Europe.

                                                “Musical and Extra Musical Inspirations in the Compositions of  Sergei Rachmaninoff: Lecture and Performance of Rachmaninoff’s  Second Sonata for Piano”

Please print out the following letter and read carefully, if you are considering participating in this event.  If you have problems opening these files, please contact the webmaster at snewcomb@columbus.rr.com.

Pianorama mailing 2011

Here’s a link to the registration form, which will also be available on the Piano page on this website.

Pianorama Registration Form 2011

We are excited as we gear up for this wonderful piano event!!

To view information about next Monday’s conference, click below:

http://www.ceomta.com/spring-district-conference-and-annual-membership-meeting

We’d love to see you there!

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Here’s a list of winners from last week’s Summer Study Scholarship Auditions.  Thanks go to Meredith Needham and Karen Hittepole, co-chairs, and their volunteers for a successful event!

Scholarship Winners List 2011

Congratulations to our scholarship recipients!!

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Other upcoming events:

May 1       Solo & Ensemble and Honors Recitals.  Registration due April 21st

May 1      Out & About.  Registration due April 24th

May 2    Spring Board Meeting & New Member Luncheon

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Here are two other non-OhioMTA events that involve some of our members!

Click below for poster:

AN EVENING OF SONG

more information about this concert:

Allan Roth is a Suzuki piano teacher living in Bexley and a member and former officer of CEOMTA. Allan also sings bass in The Sherwoods of Cornell, a men’s a cappella singing group from Cornell University comprised of Cornell alumni from the classes of 1958 to 1974. This group, containing many of the original founding members, will continue over 50 years of delighting audiences when they present An Evening of Song-The best in traditional and contemporary college a cappella in Columbus at and for the benefit of the Jewish Community Center on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in the Roth-Resler Auditorium at 7:30 PM. Appearing with the Sherwoods will be Philomel, the vocal chamber ensemble from the Capital University Conservatory of Music. Philomel, which translated means Nightingale, lives up to its namesake. They sing a little bit of everything, specializing in the broad range of repertoire that distinguishes vocal music at Capital. Their performances include music from the Renaissance period to contemporary jazz and popular music styles. 

The Sherwood repertoire includes beautiful ballads, rousing spirituals, original close-harmony arrangements, show tunes, pop covers, and spirited Cornell songs well seasoned with humor. The Sherwoods were founded at Cornell in 1956 as a triple quartet. They performed extensively on campus and in the east, and traveled the world to perform on USO and numerous other tours.  Starting in 1983, alumni from that group, which disbanded in 1974, have been performing at the annual Cornell reunions and also in the Bahamas and all over the country, from Palm Springs, San Luis Obispo and Cambria, California to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Vero Beach, Florida; Columbus, Ohio; and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, to name just a few of  the group’s performance venues. The best selections from their seven LP records have been remastered and collected on two CDs. 

Tickets are $10 ($5 for students, seniors over 60, and JCC members) at the door or by calling The Jewish Center at 614-559-6276 or 614-231-2731. The Jewish Center address is 1125 College Avenue, Columbus, OH 43209.

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Another concert announcement:

There will be two piano recitals coming up at Capital University. 

1. Power and Poetry – A Tribute to Franz Liszt (Piano Recital from Dr. Wang Tianshu’s Studio), Sunday, April 10, 2011, at 7:30 pm at Huntington Recital Hall (Admission: $10, fundraising for scholarship, “buy one and get one free”)

2. Dr. Gulimina Mahamuti Faculty Solo Piano Recital, Sunday, May 1, 2011, at 3:00 pm at Huntington Recital Hall (Admission is free)

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January brings many exciting events to the Central East District!

Dr. Jerry Wong will give a piano master class as our second Piano Workshop on Monday, January 17, 2011 (MLK day) at Graves.  Please click on the link below to view the outstanding program of student participants.  Bring your scores for a very insightful class!

Piano Workshop II, master class

The Winter Board Meeting takes place on Monday, January 10th, for board members, who have already received a call letter by email.

There are many other important deadlines:

January 7  OhioMTA/Graves Competition Registration

January 14  Evening Musicales Registration

January 27  Solo & Ensemble Recital Registration

January 29  District Festival Registration

January 30  Out & About Registration

Please visit our website, www.ceomta.org, for more information about any of these events.

I am also thrilled to report that the level of mastery was so high this year, we ran out of Blue Rosettes!  I am sorry that happened.  But let’s be happy it was the Blue Rosettes and not the White Ribbons.

On my list of teachers needing Blue Rosettes are Atkinson, Bradshaw, Gleissner, Haertling-Lint, Lusch, Piper, Robol, Rudy, Sadoff, Suhovecky, Walton and Wynia.  Please let me know right away if you need a Blue Rosette and your name isn’t on this list.

LOST & FOUND

The following items were left behind.  Please contact me to make arrangements to pick them up.

1)      a dark gray ski hat with skull and crossbones

2)      the book “Piano Playing Made Easy”

3)      Nintendo DS game card/chip (you tell me the game to confirm J

Thank you again!

Cynthia Adams, Chairman of Scale Olympics

AdamsPiano@sbcglobal.net

(614) 327-1395

Monday, October 11th – last day to register for the OhioMTA conference in Cleveland without a late fee.   Click below for more information and to print out the registration form.  It needs to be postmarked by the 11th! 

http://www.ohiomta.org/files/2010%20Conference%20and%20Hotel%20Information.pdf

Thursday, October 21st – deadline for Solo & Ensemble Registration for the 10/31 recital.

Tuesday, October 26th – deadline for Monday Morning Musicales and Out & About Registrations.

Thursday, November 4th – deadline for Scale Olympics Registration.

Upcoming Events:

Monday, November 1st – Monday Morning Musicale, 10 am at Graves

Friday, November 5th – Piano Workshop I

The CEOhioMTA will have its first Piano Workshop on Humanizing the Teaching of Bach’s Keyboard Music by Professor Robert Weirich from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.  The Workshop will take place at the Graves Piano & Organ Company in Columbus, Ohio on Friday, November 5, 2010, at 10:00 am.  No fee for OhioMTA members or non-members.  For a detailed information, please visit Conferences & Workshops at http://www.ceomta.com.

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The district is mourning the loss of one of our esteemed members, George Haddad, who passed away on September 27th.  Please click below for details of Mr. Haddad’s amazing contribution to the piano teaching profession until the age of 92!    The district will make a contribution to the State Scholarship Fund and establish a future district scholarship in his name.  We will miss you, George!

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2010/10/02/pianist-educator-influenced-generations-of-musicians.html

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Other concert announcements: