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NJMTA 2008 State Conference: Artistry through the Ages

Gill Chapel & The Bart Luedeke Center of Rider University

2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 21-23, 2008

 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: NOV.01, 2008

TO REGISTER:

1. DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM (PDF)

2. TYPE IN DIRECTLY OR PRINT A COPY

3. SEND THE PRINTOUT ALONG WITH CHECK (MAILING INFORMATION ON THE BOTTOM OF THE REGISTRATION FORM)

4. SEE YOU AT THE CONFERENCE

 

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Dear Members of NJMTA,

Mark your calendars for November 22 and 23. The conference will begin on Friday evening Nov. 21 with a student winners recital. The location will be at Rider University at Gill Chapel and Bart Luedeke Student Center this year. Once again, it promises to be another invigorating, inspiring and motivating conference that you don’t want to miss.
See you on Nov. 21!

Chiu-Ling Lin, President Elect

 

2008 Conference Intermediate Piano Master Class
Saturday November 22 at 10:00am
 

We are pleased to announce this year’s Conference Intermediate Master Class to take place on Saturday November 22 at 10:00 am at Gill Chapel of Rider University. Randall Faber (one of the editors of Piano Adventures Method Books), our Master Teacher, will coach four intermediate level piano students.

For this year's program, click here!

Please contact Bing-Bing Chang if you have any questions.  Thank you.
 

 

 

NJMTA 2009 CONFERENCE ARTISTS

LECTURE RECITAL
A ROMANTIC AFFAIR
ANN SCHEIN

Ann Schein, who has made the Romantic literature the centerpiece of her repertoire, will delight us by performing Chopin’s B Minor Sonata and Schumann’s Davidsbundlertanz with her fluent keyboard technique, poetic imagination and romantic flair.

About Ann Schein, the Washington Post has written “Thank heaven for Ann Schein……what a relief it is to hear a pianist who, with no muss or fuss, simply reaches right into the heart of whatever she is playing – and creates music so powerful you cannot tear yourself away.”

From her first recordings for Kapp Records, and her highly acclaimed Carnegie Hall recital debut as an artist on the Sol Hurok roster, Ann Schein’s amazing career has earned her high praise in major American and European cities and in more than 50 countries around the world.

She has performed with conductors including George Szell, James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, James dePreist, David Zinman, Stanislaw Skrowacewski, and Sir Colin Davis, and with major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the Washington National Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has performed at the White House during the Kennedy administration.

In 1980-81, Ann Schein extended the legacy of her teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Arthur Rubinstein, and Dame Myra Hess performing 6 concerts of the major Chopin repertoire in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall throughout an entire season to outstanding reviews and sold-out houses, the first Chopin cycle presented in New York in 35 years.

With the great soprano, Jessye Norman, she has appeared in cities across the United States, as well as a tour in Brazil. The artists are featured in songs of Alban Berg on Sony Classical.

She is one of an exclusive roster of pianists chose to present piano recitals in new venues in American cities and communities under the auspices of the Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series. By the end of the 2007 season, the series will have sponsored 103 recitals in 25 communities in 19 states.

From 1980 to 2000, she was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1984. Her performance of the Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto during the 2006 season with conductor Joseph Silverstein was one of the most recent of over 100 performances of this work since the beginning of her career. She has been chosen to hold the Victoria and Ronald Simms Chair, awarded to a member of the Aspen piano faculty for two years, for the summers of 2006 and 2007, now extended to 2008 in special recognition of her teaching prominence.

Recent recordings include a Schumann album of solo works on Ivory Classics, a Chopin CD including the 24 Preludes and the Sonata in b minor on MSR Classics, and a recording of the Walton Violin and Piano Sonata with violinist Herbert Greenberg on the Delos label.

During the 2006-07 season she has performed concertos of Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Brahms in major cities across the United States in a continuing series of appearances. During the summer of 2007 she has appeared in the Great Lakes Festival, the Indiana Piano Festival, the Kent-Blossom Festival, and the Eastern Festival as well as the Aspen Festival, in a combination of solo recitals, chamber music, and master classes. In December 2007, she performed Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No 3 in Bloomington, IN with Lawrence Leighton Smith conductor.

She is married to Earl Carlyss who for over 20 years, was the second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. He is currently in charge of the freshman String Quartet Survey Course at the Juilliard School, and has served as Director of the Aspen Center for Advanced Quartet Studies since 1984. Earl Carlyss and Ann Schein often perform as a Duo, and in many chamber music appearances throughout each season.

 

 

INTERMIDIATE MASTER CLASS
ABCs OF ARTISTRY
RANDALL FABER

In this lecture-performance, Randall Faber addresses musical  expression and interpretation with demonstrations from standard intermediate  to advanced repertoire.

Bio
In recent seasons, Randall Faber toured Taiwan, Korea, the U.S.,Canada, Australia and New Zealand and was a master teacher for the World Conference on Piano Pedagogy, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and the National Piano Teachers Institute. He gave recent recitals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, St. Louis, Ann Arbor, Dallas, and Austin and performed as Visiting Artist at the Hoff-Barthelson School in
New York, University of Michigan, University of Southern Mississippi, Saginaw State University, Southern Methodist University and universities throughout South Korea. In the previous season, Dr. Faber toured England and Scotland and presented his academic research at the 9th International Conference on Motivation in Lisbon, Portugal.

This year, Randall Faber performed as Convention Artist for the California Music Teachers, the South Carolina Music Teachers and the Wisconsin Music Teachers Associations. Upcoming appearances include the Portland International Music Festival, the Gilmore Festival, the Wasserman Festival, the Korean Piano Adventures Convention in Seoul, and a tour of Southeast Asia.

Randall Faber holds three degrees from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Education and Human Development from Vanderbilt University. Randall and his wife Nancy are authors of the Piano Adventures® teaching method and nearly two hundred publications for the piano. They recently founded the Faber Piano Institute, which hosts their teacher support website PianoTeaching.com, and reside in Ann Arbor with their daughter Vivian.

 

 

MEET COMMISSIONED COMPOSER
PAUL MORAVEC

Paul Moravec, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has composed over ninety orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film, and electro-acoustic compositions. His music has been described as “tuneful, ebullient and wonderfully energetic” (San Francisco Chronicle), “riveting and fascinating” (NPR), and “assured, virtuosic” (Wall Street Journal). The New York Times recently praised his quartet, Vince & Jan: 1945, with, “This masterly miniature conveyed warm nostalgia, buoyant swing and wartime unease.”

For the 2007-2008 season, he will be the Artist-in-Residence with the Institute for Advanced Study, while continuing his tenure as University Professor at Adelphi University. Both positions are unique to their respective institutions.

Mr. Moravec has been commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera to compose an opera entitled The Letter, with libretto by Terry Teachout, for premiere in July, 2009. He is also composing a commissioned work entitled Brandenburg Gate for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to be premiered in fall 2008 at Carnegie Hall. In September, 2008, Mr. Moravec’s evening-length oratorio, The Blizzard Voices, about the Great Plains blizzard of 1888, with text by Ted Koozer, will be premiered at Opera Omaha.

Among Paul Moravec’s numerous awards are the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, a Fellowship in Music Composition from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, two fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as many commissions. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Hunter College, as well as Adelphi University.

Mr. Moravec is regularly sought out by leading performing artists and ensembles. Performance highlights this season include Songs of Love and War with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, The Time Gallery at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and Tempest Fantasy with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Recent world premieres include Anniversary Dances with the Ying Quartet; Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia with the Lark Quartet; Mark Twain Sez with cellist Matt Haimovitz; Cornopean Airs with the American Brass Quintet; The Time Gallery with eighth blackbird at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Morph with the String Orchestra of New York (SONYC); Cool Fire and Chamber Symphony for the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival; Capital Unknowns for the Albany Symphony; Everyone Sang for Troy Cook and the Marilyn Horne Foundation; Parables for the New York Festival of Song, Vita Brevis, a song cycle for tenor Paul Sperry; Useful Knowledge, a cantata commissioned by the American Philosophical Society for Ben Franklin’s tercentenary; No Words, commissioned by Concert Artist Guild for pianist James Lent and the Gay Gotham Chorus; and two works for the Elements String Quartet.

Paul Moravec’s discography includes Tempest Fantasy, performed by Trio Solisti with clarinetist David Krakauer, on Naxos American Classics; The Time Gallery, performed by eighth blackbird also on Naxos; Songs of Love and War for Chorus and Orchestra on a CD featuring The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra; Sonata for Violin and Piano performed by the Bachmann/Klibonoff Duo for BMG/RCA Red Seal; Double Action, Evermore, and Ariel Fantasy, performed by the Bachmann/Klibonoff Duo on an Endeavour Classics CD entitled “The Red Violin.”; Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia and Vince & Jan , performed by the Lark Quartet on an Endeavour Classics CD entitled “Klap Ur Handz”; Morph, performed by the String Orchestra of New York on an Albany disc, Spiritdance, an orchestral work on the Vienna Modern Masters label; an album of chamber compositions titled Circular Dreams on CRI; and Vita Brevis, with Paul Sperry, tenor, and the composer at the piano, on Albany Records.

 

 

GROWING UP WITH EXCELLENCE THROUGH MUSIC
JULIA LAM

As music teachers, we are in a unique position to be able to grow with many of our students as they mature from a very young age to adulthood.  We are a constant presence, sharing their smiles, tears, frustration, joy, and pride as they journey through the different stages of musical education.  Is it possible to expect excellence right from the beginning of their study?   How do we help them appreciate music strongly enough so that even if they do not make a career out of music, they will become lovers and supporters of the music profession?

Dr. Julia Lam, pianist and pedagogue, presently teaches in her studio in Bridgewater, New Jersey.  Previously, she has been a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Assistant Professor at Malone College in Ohio and Wingate College in North Carolina. 

In the summer, she has been on the faculty at the Northern Lights Music Festival and the Indiana University Piano Academy.  Her extensive training includes a  Ph.D. in piano, music theory and music history from Michigan State University, Master of Music in piano from the Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music in piano from Oberlin Conservatory of Music.  Among her distinguished teachers are Menahem Pressler, John Perry, and Ralph Votapek.

Dr. Lam served as the President of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association from 1998-2000.

 

 

INTRODUCING TAUBMAN TECHNIQUE TO CHILDREN, USING SUZUKI AND TRADITIONAL REPERTOIRE
MARIA BOTELHO HUBLER

How to introduce the basic concepts of the Taubman Technique to children and beginning students. How to identify when the student is ready to learn these technical concepts. Using age appropriate Suzuki and traditional repertoire.

Bio
           
MM Temple University
BM FAAM (Facultad de Artes Alcantara Machado), SP, Brazil.
 

A pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, adjudicator and choir director active in the Philadelphia area. She performed in Brazil, United States and Spain as a soloist, accompanist and with Orchestra. She earned her master degree with a full scholarship from the Brazilian Government. She studied in Santiago, Spain with a partial scholarship from the Spanish Government at Musica en Compostela. She has been teaching piano for more than twenty-five years in Brazil and the USA. In the Philadelphia area, she taught at Temple Preparatory Division, Academy of Community Music and Haddonfield School of Performing Arts. Her students have won competitions in North and South Jersey area and have performed at Ethical Society, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. Presently, she maintains a large studio in Cherry Hill. She has been studying the Taubman Technique with Professor Maria del Pico Taylor since 1988.

 

 

THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC
SCOTT HOERL AND CHIU-TZE LIN

“I didn’t know that I have to deal with parents, students, other teachers, and even the IRS for teaching?!”  An easily forgotten, yet extremely important area for all teachers, is the “Business of Music.”  Scott Hoerl and Chiu-Tze Lin will discuss the organization and ethics required for teachers working in an institution as well as operating an independent studio.  They include policies observed as an employee and policies issued as a sole owner of a studio.  The record keeping required for tax preparation will be discussed.  After all, it’s our business!

Scott Hoerl is the director of the Westminster Conservatory of Music, the Community Music School division of the Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and the Westminster Choir College’s Continuing Education programs.  Prior to Westminster, Scott worked as Marketing Director for the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware, and Artist Manager for Joanne Rile Artists Management in Philadelphia. Scott is a native of Delaware, and majored in voice at the University of Delaware. He also studied voice at the Vienna Conservatory of Music in Vienna, Austria, and a summer institute at the Britten/Pears School of Music in England. Pianist and Conductor Chiu-Tze Lin is a  Steinway artist, has performed in numerous Asian and European countries as well as across the United States.  She has appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony, and orchestras in Europe and the Midwestern United States.    Chiu-Tze has also given numerous solo recitals in New York City, performing in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and the Merkin Concert Hall.   Her CD Works of J. S. Bach has received recognition as a “Recommended CD” by the Bravo Baroque, and it has been broadcasted on classical music stations across the  United States.   Ms. Lin is the Music Director and Conductor of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.  She was the conductor of the Manalapan Symphony, and received an award for Innovative Programming. As Music Director of the Northeastern American Art Troupe, Chiu-Tze conducted the Shanghai Chamber Musicians Orchestra, with its performance being broadcasted by China Central TV across China.  Chiu-Tze Lin also serves as a treasurer for the NJMTA.

 

 

MTNA CERTIFICATION: UPHOLDING STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONALISM?
MARY LYNNE BENNETT

Dr. Bennett will talk about the 5 standards that NCTM's are expected to meet and the fact that we are, through this certification program, trying to establish music teaching as a profession in our society.  So often, the general public sees private music teachers in the same light as their son's volunteer soccer coach or their swim class teacher, but usually, music teachers are much more highly trained, many times on the level of doctors, pharmacists, and lawyers.  They are also more professional, running their own businesses, coordinating large studios, etc.

Bio

Dr. Mary Lynne Bennett, NCTM, is Assistant Professor of Piano and Music Education at Fairmont State University in Fairmont, WV.  Her research on continuing education of private piano teachers and how it correlates with teaching toward the National Standards for Music Education has been presented at several state and national conferences.  She currently serves as president-elect for WVMTA and as the Eastern Division Certification Commissioner for MTNA.

 

 

PFINESSING FRANCIS - POLISHING YOUR POULENC FOR REGIONAL AUDITIONS
DEBORAH GERS

Join Deborah Gers for a Clarinet Master Class so that you will attain what the French call “savoir faire” and we call “savvy” for your upcoming audition.  This workshop will include learning about Poulenc himself, French musical terms, how to practice and prepare for all aspects of your audition, clarinet wellness and dealing with audition anxiety while we delve into this work in detail.  We will finish with a mock audition and a performance of the entire work with Dr. Chiu-Ling Lin joining us on piano for a rousing finale!  Bring your clarinet and score with you.  If you would like to perform during the master class please send an email to: debgers@embarqmail.com with your name, contact info and which movement you’d like to play.

Bio

Clarinetist Deborah Gers received her M.M. from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she was a student of Thomas LeGrand, Emil Schmachtenberg and Carmine Campione; and her B.M. from Eastern Kentucky University where she studied with Earl M. Thomas. She was also a student of the late Joe Allard. An active performer and teacher, she won her first orchestral position at the age of 19.  Ms. Gers has performed and recorded with such groups as the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Network for New Music, Lexington Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony, Delaware Valley Philharmonic, Trenton Symphony, Riverside Symphonia, Pennsylvania Sinfonia and is Principal Clarinetist of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.  She has performed with such artists as Dave Brubeck, Henry Mancini, Dinah Shore, Mitch Miller, Lionel Hampton, Eric Kunzel, Gunther Schuller and Michael Gielen. She also has an extensive chamber music background and has performed and taught extensively in the Pennsylvania/New Jersey region including the University of Pennsylvania and Westminster Conservatory, and maintains a private studios in Flemington, NJ.  Her students have been selected to All-State Bands in all 4 states she has taught in: Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.