Thank you for your cooperation and continued support.

Saturday, May 12^th
Calvary Korean United Methodist Church, 572 Riders Lane
East Brunswick, NJ  08816

Sunday, 5/13
Rider University, Bart Luedeke Student Center
Lawrenceville, NJ
If you have any questions that are not answered in this post, please contact your teacher before the administrator of this website as the admin does not have any information regarding location or times of recitals.

Please vote on line, mail, or fax, according to the instructions below, before March 4th, 2012. Let’s put NJMTA member on the list of the MTNA Board of Directors for 2014 – 2016. The direct link to vote is: http://www.mtna.org/about-mtna/elections/eastern-division/

Thank you for your active participation in exercising your membership privilege. Together let’s make NJMTA a better organization to serve us all.

As we sent off Year of 2011,  I would like to take the opportunity to thank the NJMTA Board members for all their effort and support to NJMTA through out the year. We are very fortunate to have a group of music teachers who dedicate their time and energy voluntarily to serve the NJMTA community. In 2011, all NJMTA events were run smoothly with outstanding results. Congratulations to your accomplishments and achievements. I am very proud to be part of the team.

The NJMTA’s fall events came to a strong conclusion at the State Conference which was held at Rider University from 11/18 to 11/20. It was a memorable conference for NJMTA this year with the special guest – MTNA President Dr. Caton joined in commemorating our 50th Anniversary of affiliation. A beautiful plaque from MTNA was presented to NJMTA at the cake cutting ceremony for this semi-centennial celebration.

The conference was highlighted with sessions conducted by our featured artists: Eduardus Harlim’ s lecture recital with all Liszt Transcendental Etudes, and the inspiring advanced master class; Jennifer Linn’s informative Intermediate master class and her “Young and Impressionable” presentation; commissioned composer Vivian Fung’s compositions performance at winners recital; our own member Prof. Veda Zuponcic’s presentation on “Competitions” that provided in-depth insights we all took to heart; Prof. Phyllis Lehrer’s College Faculty panel discussion presented  multidisciplinary perspectives from faculty members of several NJ universities; the Independent Music Teachers Forum’s presentations and performances led by Dr. Hendry Wijaya with the repertoire for “Four Hands and More”; and the MTNA Certification’s session led by Ting Ting Lien, with the experiences sharing from NJMTA certified members Chiu-Ling Lin, Marcia Yurko, Christina Xie, and Rose McCathran. A jam-packed intellectual and stimulating program indeed!

For a great Conference, there is much “labor of love” behind the success. All the credit go to conference planning committee led by NJMTA’s President Elect and Conference Chair – Christina Xie, and the planning committee members including Chiu-Ling Lin, Lillian Livingston, Chiu-Tze Lin, Grace Chang, Hendry Wijaya, Betty Stoloff, Phyllis Lehrer, and Phemie Chien. Thanks so much for all of your effort that made this exceptional conference possible.

During the conference, NJMTA also presented a number of awards to recognize those individuals who have contributed and accomplished significantly to the organization and the music teaching profession. Congratulations goes to Chiu-Tze Lin who is our “Teacher of the Year” recipient for 2011. In addition to her outstanding teaching, Chiu-Tze also serves as the music director and conductor of Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.

We want to congratulate both Christina Xie and Jessica Tsai for receiving the 2011 NJMTA Service Award. They have served as Co-Chair of the Recital Auditions in Princeton area for the past 7 years, contributed countless hours of hard work and handled over thousand of registrants annually. What a task! NJMTA is very thankful to have both of them for all they have done. With their accomplishments, Christina is moving on as NJMTA President-Elect, Jessica will continue to serve as the Recital Audition Chair for Princeton area.

Three winner recitals of Young Musician Competitions, MTNA Competitions, Commissioned Composer Competitions, were outstanding at the conference. Thanks goes to all the event chairs – Grace Chang, Deborah Gers , Tomoko Harada, Margaret Knight, Hwei-Lan Luo, Kyun-Jung Rhee, Eunju Joung Kim, Yi Yang, Ingrid Tang, Renae Block, and Li-Chan Chen-Maxham, as well as all the teachers who had volunteer their time and effort to host and to help at the recitals. Congratulations to all the winners and their superb performances. Job well done!

Special thanks to Megan Register for the tremendous work and hours she provided to put together our new 2012 yearbook, to Yvonne Chin’s effort in keeping the NJMTA quarterly newsletter published on time, and being our web coordinator, to Victoria Chow’s coordination effort on the advertisements for the yearbook and the conference, to Phemie Chien and Sandra Lippman for their effort in taking care of the conference registration desk during the conference.

We also want to express our appreciation to Chiu-Tze Lin and Linda Fields, who are leaving their posts of NJMTA Treasurer, for their outstanding services to NJMTA community. Chiu-Tze has served as NJMTA Treasurer for more than a decade, and Linda as Co-Chair for 5 years. Both together had provided a secure and stable financial environment for NJMTA to grow and to serve the greater music community. They have contributed tremendously to the organization and we will truly miss them. Best wishes to them for their future endeavors.

There are two major upcoming events to be noted at this time – The MTNA competitions of the Eastern Division will be held on January 6 & 7, 2012 at West Chester, PA. NJMTA has many Winners who will be there to compete at the division level. Our winners list can be found at njmta.com. Stay tune for the updates!

Mark your calendars for the MTNA National Conference in New York, NY on March 24-28, 2012! It is practically at our “back yard”. I encourage you to register for the event, especially for those who have not attended the National Conference before. It is a great opportunity!

Wishing a healthy and prosperous new year to all NJMTA members! The Board is looking forward to work with you. Your constructive suggestions and new ideas will be most welcome. Together let’s make NJMTA an outstanding organization to provide excellent music environment for the teachers and students in NJ!

Diane Hou
President, NJMTA

Click here to access the newsletters page and the Winter 2012 newsletter.

Here are the direct links to the registration forms for the following events:

There will be NO Online Registration for 2012 events. Please download the respective form, filled in either electronically or manually, and mail to the respective event Chair along with the check(s) .

PLEASE NOTE: Internet Explorer users should disable pop-up blockers before downloading forms, or hold down the “CTRL” key while clicking the links.

Spring Piano Festival

• Downloadable Registration Form
• Event Information Page

Children Helping Children Performathon

• Downloadable Registration Form
• Event Information Page

Spring Recital – Auditions and Concerts

• Downloadable Registration Form
• Event Information Page

New Jersey Composer Commission Competition – Score Samples

NOT YET AVAILABLE

NJMTA Sponsored Fall Events

There is only one downloadable registration form for for ALL 2012 NJMTA sponsored Fall Events that can be downloaded HERE. It should be noted that a separate form and a separate check are required for each event category. These events include:

• Young Musicians Competition – Piano, Winds/Brass/Percussion, Chinese Instruments, Voice and Strings
• Conference Master Class
• New Jersey Composer Commission Competition
• High School Scholarship

Please read the “General Information” page in the Yearbook or the information on these web pages:

• Participating Teachers Requirements

• Audition and Competition Guidelines

Guidelines for Educational Uses of Music

The following guidelines were developed and approved in April 1976 by the Music Publishers’ Association of the United States, Inc., the National Music Publishers’ Association, Inc., the Music Teachers National Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the National Association of Schools of Music, and the Ad Hoc Committee on Copyright Law Revision.

The purpose of the following guidelines is to state the minimum and not the maximum standards of educational fair use under Section 107 of HR 2223. The parties agree that the conditions determining the extent of permissible copying for educational purposes may change in the future; that certain types of copying permitted under these guidelines may not be permissible in the future, and conversely that in the future other types of copying not permitted under these guidelines may be permissible under revised guidelines.

Moreover, the following statement of guidelines is not intended to limit the types of copying permitted under the standards of fair use under judicial decision and which are stated in Section 107 of the Copyright Revision Bill. There may be instances in which copying which does not fall within the guidelines stated below may nonetheless be permitted under the criteria of fair use.

A. Permissible Uses

1. Emergency copying to replace purchased copies which for any reason are not available for an imminent performance provided purchased replacement copies shall be substituted in due course.
2. For academic purposes other than performance, single or multiple copies of excerpts of works may be made, provided that the excerpts do not comprise a part of the whole which would constitute a performable unit such as a section, movement or aria, but in no case more than 10 percent of the whole work. The number of copies shall not exceed one copy per pupil.
3. Printed copies which have been purchased may be edited or simplified provided that the fundamental character of the work is not distorted or the lyrics, if any, altered or lyrics added if none exist.
4. A single copy of recordings of performances by students may be made for evaluation or rehearsal purposes and may be retained by the educational institution or individual teacher.
5. A single copy of a sound recording (such as a tape, disc or cassette) of copyrighted music may be made from sound recordings owned by an educational institution or an individual teacher for the purpose of constructing aural exercises or examinations and may be retained by the educational institution or individual teacher. (This pertains only to the copyright of the music itself and not to any copyright which may exist in the sound recording.)

B. Prohibitions

1. Copying to create or replace or substitute for anthologies, compilations or collective works.
2. Copying of or from works intended to he “consumable” in the course of study or of teaching such as workbooks, exercises, standardized tests and answer sheets and like material.
3. Copying for the purpose of performance, except as in A (1) above.
4. Copying for the purpose of substituting for the purchase of music, except as in A(1) and A(2) above.
5. Copying without inclusion of the copyright notice which appears on the printed copy.

Click here to download the MTNA Competitions Music Release form.

Baroque (B); Classical (C); Romantic (R); Impressionistic (I); Contemporary (Con)