Conference events

American Music Teacher, Feb-March, 2002

Master Classes

Piano Master Class
John Perry
Monday, March 18
9:15-11:15 A.M.

John Perry, professor of keyboard studies at the University of Southern California, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Eastman School of Music. He has won numerous prizes in international competitions and has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America. Perry has attained an international reputation as a teacher, presenting master classes throughout the world. He is a member of the faculty of the Colburn School for Performing Arts, a frequent guest faculty member at the Banff Centre, and an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival, the Sarasota Festival and the Holland Music Sessions.

String Master Class
Richard Aaron and Mimi Zweig
Sunday, March 17
2:00-3:30 P.M.

A former member of several major orchestras in Israel, Switzerland, England and the United States, cellist Richard Aaron will share his expertise with attendees. He is on faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and in 1998 was a visiting professor at the New England Conservatory. He gives solo recitals throughout Europe. Aaron founded the Tre Voce Piano Trio and Moore Quartet and is a current member of the Elysian Trio. He has taught throughout the United States at dozens of universities and music schools in cello pedagogy workshops.

Violinist Mimi Zweig will join Aaron during this string master class and share her experiences working with the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi, a unique collection of thirteen violinists between the ages of 13 and 18 who perform as soloists and as a violin ensemble. They are gifted students who study at the Indiana University (IU) String Academy. Zweig is director of the Academy and is a professor of violin and viola at IU. Her students perform and teach throughout the world.

Voice Master Class
Jerrold Pope
Tuesday, March 19
2:00-3:30 P.M.

Jerrold Pope, baritone, will share his operatic skills during this voice master class. Pope is an associate professor of voice at Florida State University who has performed at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, England's Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Buxton Opera Festival, and the Netherlands Opera Forum and Kiel Opera in Germany. Pope's festival appearances have included the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest and the London BBC Proms with the late Leonard Bernstein, and the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein, among others. Pope also serves on the voice faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Technology in Music Symposium

Friday, March 15-Sunday, March 17

The fifteenth MTNA National Technology in Music Symposium returns this year to its full-featured format with "something for everyone," from computer experts to novices, encompassing learning tools for students of all ages--preschool through the university. The Symposium will focus on topics of importance to today's teaching and learning, including how to develop musical creativity, improvisation and composition skills; how to build music literacy and sight-reading skills; strategies for solo performance with accompaniment disks; successful keyboard ensembles; how to effectively use Internet resources and much more. Each session will include a discussion of teaching strategies, how to integrate the appropriate technology and practical applications for the studio.

The Symposium "kick-off" will be Friday evening at 7:00 P.M. with a keynote address followed by a very special performance. Maud Hickey, assistant professor of music education and technology at Northwestern University, will deliver the keynote: "Creativity, Composition and Computers: The Journey from Chaos to Harmony." Immediately following, the Concert Choir from the University of Campbellsville (Kentucky), accompanied by The Kentucky Music Teachers, a twelve-piece keyboard ensemble, will perform under the direction of Susan Ogilvy.

Symposium sessions will continue all day Saturday and Sunday. The hands-on computer/MIDI lab will be open Sunday through Tuesday. Quick-Start Software Training sessions will be offered in the lab on Monday and Tuesday. These mini-sessions will include introductions to Finale (notation and composition), Cakewalk (sequencing), tours of the software available in the lab, beginning web page building and many others.

Register early. A detailed Symposium schedule will be mailed in advance to those who preregister by March 1.

Pedagogy Saturday VI

Saturday, March 16
8:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.

Exploring Learning Styles: Developing A Flexible Teaching Approach

This sixth day-long event promises to be one of our most exciting yet! We will explore, in depth, the various learning styles and approaches that teachers must be aware of and respond to in each student. We will open with Earl Oremus, the headmaster of Marburn Academy, a school especially designed for children with learning differences such as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Oremus will explain how teachers can use his intuitive/non-intuitive learner concept to create successful learning experiences for their non-intuitive students