NJMTA HISTORY

In January of 1954, Frances Clark and Louise Goss organized the first committee of music educators interested in founding a state chapter of MTNA. Frances Clark was the Founding President and Louise Goss chaired the first nominating committee. In the fall of 1954, the first elected president was installed at the first Conference.

PAST PRESIDENTS

Listed below are the past presidents of NJMTA who have volunteered their time and their expertise on behalf of the music profession.

2022 – 2024 Wendy Wu
2020 – 2022 Tomoko Harada
2017 – 2019 Ting Ting Lien
2015 – 2017 Hendry Wijaya
2013 – 2015 Wei-Yuh Christina Xie
2011 – 2013 Diane Hou
2009 – 2011 Chiu-Ling Lin
2007 – 2009 Lillian Livingston
2005 – 2007 Betty Stoloff
2003 – 2005 Deborah Gers
2002 – 2003 Miriam Eley
2000 – 2002 Marianne Lauffer
1998 – 2000 Julia Lam
1996 – 1998 Yining Wang
1994 – 1996 Rachel Heard
1992 – 1994 Margaret Knight

TEACHER OF THE YEAR

NJMTA has established a special award to recognize an outstanding teacher in teaching, character, and service, to be in line with MTNA’s Teacher of the Year Award given at the annual National Conference. Listed below are the recipients of this award.

2024 Amy I-Yun Tu
2023 Stella Xu
2022 Veda Zuponcic
2021 Marianne Lauffer
2020 Tomoko Harada
2019 Julia Lam
2018 Sondra Tammam
2017 Yang Yi

SERVICE AWARD

Every year, NJMTA presents a Service Award acknowledging a member who has contributed much time and effort to NJMTA and its vision. The awardee is selected by the NJMTA Nomination Committee.

2024 Wennie Nae-Yueh Niu
2023 Mi-Young Kim
2022 Richard Woo
2021 Cyenny Pesik & Shuling Juan
2020 Julia Kovalev
2019 Ingrid Tang
2018 Chiu-Ling Lin
2017 Marianne Lauffer

MTNA FOUNDATION FELLOWS

The following teachers are MTNA Foundation Fellows in recognition of their extraordinary contribution to NJMTA.

2023 Julia Lam
2022 Yining Wang
2021 Ting Ting Lien
2020 Tomoko Harada
2019 Hendry Wijaya
2018 Marvin Blickenstaff
2017 Wei-Yuh Christina Xie
2016 Chiu-Tze Lin
2015 Deborah Gers