2003 National Conference Music Teachers National Association. Salt Lake City, Utah March 15-19, 2003

American Music Teacher, Dec, 2002

March 15-19, 2003 * Salt Palace Convention Center * Salt Lake City, Utah

Register by February 7, 2003, for a Special Discounted Registration Price www.mtna.org * (888) 512-5278

Dear MTNA Member:

Let me be the first to officially invite you to join your colleagues, distinguished clinicians and artists in the music-teaching profession at the 2003 MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City, March 15-19. MTNA has a proud tradition presenting one of the finest annual conferences for the independent and collegiate music-teaching professional, and this year is no exception.

The 2003 National Conference will include more than eighty sessions and industry showcases, and a 160-booth exhibit hall presenting the latest insights and products for music professionals. Pedagogy Saturday VII, Professional Studio Saturday and the Technology in Music Symposium will enrich your knowledge and emphasize new trends. This year, you will have the opportunity to attend the National Association of Teachers of Singing Spring Workshop, open to all registered attendees. Appearances by Conductor Keith Lockhart, Pianists Misha and Cipa Dichter, Soprano Sari Gruber, Jazz Pianist Aaron Parks, Juilliard's Five Browns and Tenor Neal Boyd highlight the program.

The Conference Planning Committee has been working diligently to ensure the 2003 MTNA National Conference is the most educational, exciting and productive in MTNA's history. The 2003 program will provide attendees with opportunities to increase their knowledge, learn innovative teaching techniques, develop new relationships, greet old friends and return to their studios rejuvenated and inspired.

As you look over this preliminary program, you will find we have scheduled some of the most widely respected individuals in our profession and beyond to share their insight and expertise on a variety of topics that will address your challenges as a music-teaching professional. We've also set aside time for you to take in sights and sounds of our host city; be sure to review the tour section of this insert.

Please join us in Salt Lake City this March. I believe you will find that the 2003 MTNA National Conference will be an unforgettable week.

Gary L. Ingle Executive Director

CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE

Gail Berenson, NCTM, Chair, Ohio University

Timothy Caldwell, Central Michigan University

Kenneth Guilmartin, Founder/Director, Music Together

James Przygocki, University of Wyoming

Kenon Renfrow, University of Miami

Martin Schuring, Arizona State University

CONFERENCE TASK FORCE

Yu-Jane Yang, NCTM, Task Force Chair, Utah MTA President

Geri Cheney, NCTM, Competitions Monitor Chair

Lezlee Bishop, Sessions Monitor Chair

Conference Artist

VOICE

SARI GRUBER, soprano Tuesday, March 18 8:00 P.M.

Hailed as "nothing short of sensational" by Opera magazine, Soprano Sari Gruber has rapidly established herself as an exciting and moving interpreter of a variety of musical styles. She has won praise for her warm, "gleaming soprano" (Opera News), her "direct musicality" (New York Times), as well as her "detailed, charming, resourceful and sympathetic" characterizations (Boston Herald).

Gruber has appeared with numerous major opera companies nationwide including New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, San Francisco Opera Center and Los Angeles Opera, as well as the Aspen Music Festival.

She also has appeared across the country in recital under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, at New York's Alice Tully and Weill Recital Halls, with the New York Festival of Song, at New York's 92nd Street Y and Miller Theatre, and on the San Francisco Opera Schwabacher Debut Recital Series.

Gruber is accompanied by Cameron Stowe, a Danville, Virginia, native who is a candidate for a D.M.A. degree at the Juilliard School.

PIANO

MISHA AND CIPA DICHTER Monday, March 17 8:00 P.M.

Internationally renowned Misha Dicter and his wife Cipa frequently perform duo piano recitals throughout North America. Misha and Cipa, who met at the Juilliard School as students of the legendary Rosina Lhevinne, made their first joint appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972.

Since then, the Dichters have performed in recital and with orchestras throughout the world and have brought to the concert stage many previously neglected works of the two-piano and piano-four-hand repertoires.

Misha began piano lessons at age 6, studying keyboard with Aube Tzerko, and studying composition and analysis with Leonard Stein. He subsequently came to New York to work with Lhevinne at the Juilliard School. Cipa made her debut as a professional pianist at age 16 with the Symphony Orchestra of Brazil.

RISING STARS CONCERT

Saturday, March 15 8:00 P.M.

Neal Boyd, tenor Winner of the 2000 MTNA Collegiate Artist Voice Competition, Neal Boyd is making a name for himself, having debuted at Carnegie Hall in March 2001. Neal has performed in a number of musicals including The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd. In addition, he has performed in several operas, including Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus and L'Elisir d'amore. Boyd graduated from Southeast Missouri State University, where he was a student of Christopher Gocke, and the University of Missouri, where he studied under Ann Harrell. He is pursuing a master's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.