Foundation Fund: 2007 MTNA Foundation Fellows.

Foundation Fund: 2007 MTNA Foundation Fellows. Editor's Note: This list is the first half of the 2007 MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National AssociationMTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee)FOUNDATION Fellows. The second half will be published in theOctober/November 2007 AMT See vPro. . The MTNA FOUNDATION FUND Fellow Program honors deservingindividuals who have made significant contributions to the music worldand the music teaching profession. In its eighth year, this programsupports the efforts of MTNA through donations to the MTNA FOUNDATIONFUND in an individual's name. Gail Berenson is professor of piano and chair of the keyboarddivision at Ohio University, Athens, where she was awarded the"Distinguished Teacher of the Year" Award for 2000. She iscurrently MTNA president. Berenson's association with MTNA began in1968. Since that time, she has been active on local, state and nationallevels, serving in a variety of offices and on a number of committees.Holding degrees from Northwestern University, Berenson has performed andlectured in more than 25 states, as well as Great Britain, Belgium,Switzerland, Israel and Canada. She is a noted expert on musicianwellness issues. Tinka Knopf de Esteban, MTNA member since 1991, was formerly amember of the piano faculty and associate dean at the PeabodyConservatory at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University,mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. . She has served MTNA aspresident of the Eastern Division and national vice president. She hastwo publications, A Graded List of Suggested Repertoire for thePreparatory Levels and Liszt: Technical Exercises, Abridged andAnnotated for the Young Pianist, and is the author and editor of thePiano Curriculum Guide and its accompanying material. Currently, Knopfserves as a pedagogical ped��a��gog��ic? also ped��a��gog��i��caladj.1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy.2. Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner. consultant to the Conservatori Professional deMusic I Dansa de les Illes Baleares. Susan Duehlmeier is a listed Steinway Artist who has appeared manytimes with the Utah Symphony and with orchestras such as the BostonSymphony, Czech Radio Orchestra, the Armenian Philharmonic, theWestminster Orchestra, the Salt Lake Symphony and the WarsawPhilharmonic Orchestra The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra (Polish: Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie), one of Poland's premier musical institutions, was established in 1901 on the initiative of an assembly of Polish aristocrats and financiers, as well as musicians. . She currently serves as piano area chair at theUniversity of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. , while maintaining a class of private students. Sheis known for her support of the Utah MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system.(2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. competitions and programs. Herown students have won prizes in major state, national and internationalcompetitions and have appeared in the "Salute the Youth"concert series. Priscilla Heard has been an active member of the Texas MusicTeachers Association since 1964, where she has served on the theorytesting committee and has served in various offices and as chairman ofcompetitions for the Central Texas MTA. Heard is author of AmericanMusic, 1698-1800, published in 1976. In 1994, she was recognized by TMTA TMTA Transmeta (stock symbol)TMTA Texas Music Teachers AssociationTMTA Tennessee Mathematics Teachers AssociationTMTA Truro Morlaix Twinning Association (UK)for Outstanding Pre-College Teaching Achievement and in 2005, her churchestablished the Priscilla Heard Scholarship Fund for students majoringin church music. She held piano workshops and competitions at TempleCollege, where she was also director of a summer music camp. Diane Higgins, NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of MathematicsNCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of MusicNCTM North Carolina Transportation MuseumNCTM National Capital Trolley MuseumNCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage , is an independent piano teacher in Charlotte,North Carolina “Charlotte” redirects here. For other uses, see Charlotte (disambiguation).Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the 20th largest city in the United States. . She holds a B.M. degree in piano performance from SalemCollege. Through the North Carolina North Carolina,state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N).Facts and FiguresArea, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. MTA, she has served as president,president-elect/vice president of state conventions, vice president forpublicity and MTNA Scholarship Foundation, treasurer, director of statepiano contests, chair of the state piano teachers section and chair ofjunior high state auditions. Higgins is founder and director of theCharlotte MTA Music Career Fair. She is currently the MTNA SouthernDivision Director and on the MTNA Board of Directors. Laurel Ince, NCTM, is an independent music teacher and churchorganist in Gonzales, Texas. Ince has a bachelor's degree fromTrinity University. She has had articles published in KeyboardCompanion, Junior Keynotes and the National Federation of Music Clubs National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to Music Education and the promotion of creative and performing arts in the United States. magazine. In 1995, Ince was selected the Texas Music TeachersAssociation and Austin District Teacher of the Year. She has served asTMTA technology chairman, exhibit chairman, trustee, trustee chairman,on the board of directors and is the chair of the TMTA/MTNA Foundation.Ince also served as the MTNA Competitions monitor chair for the 2006National Conference. Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, NCTM, is professor of piano at WestminsterChoir College -- Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.Westminster has a choral emphasis that educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for music leadership careers in churches, schools, of Rider University, where she directs the graduateprogram in piano pedagogy. An active performer, lecturer, adjudicator ad��ju��di��cate?v. ad��ju��di��cat��ed, ad��ju��di��cat��ing, ad��ju��di��catesv.tr.1. To hear and settle (a case) by judicial procedure.2. ,author and editor, she contributed to A Symposium for Pianists andTeachers, which was published by Heritage Musc Press. She coauthoredInner Game of Music Piano Workbook, with Barry Green, and co-edited withPaul Sheftel, Debussy. An Album. Lehrer's articles, interviews andreviews on piano pedagogy, music and health have appeared in KeyboardCompanion, Clavier and The European Piano Teachers Journal. Marcile Mack began teaching music at age 16. She earnedbachelor's and master's degrees in music from the ClevelandInstitute of Music The Cleveland Institute of Music is one of the nation's leading independent music conservatories. It is located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States and is overseen by president David Cerone and Catherine Jarjisian, interim dean. in the 1940s. In 1955, she began teaching at SeattlePacific University External linksSeattle Pacific University official web site IMAGE Comes to SPU KSPU College Radio The Falcon Online ••, where she built a strong piano program and becamedean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts. Seattle Pacific honoredher in 1981, naming her Distinguished Professor of the Year. She retired1990. Throughout her time in Washington, Mack was a leader for theWashington State Music Teachers Association for her work on the WSMTA WSMTA Washington State Music Teachers Association education board, giving workshops and serving as an adjudicator. Ellen Masaki of Honolulu, Hawaii, has been teaching for more than50 years and has been an MTNA member for 28 years. She received the 2000MTNA Teacher of the Year Award. Masaki is the owner of Thayer PianoCompany, Ltd., and the Ellen Masaki School of Music, comprising 600students and 20 piano teacher associates. Masaki served as theaccompanist for the Metropolitan Opera finalists from Australia and NewZealand New Zealand(zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and as National Guild of Piano Teachers' Association Hawaiichairperson for more than 30 year. The Masaki Symphony Fund Drive yieldsup to $24,000 annually for the Honolulu Symphony Society. Frank McGinnis, now retired, most recently held the position ofchairman of the keyboard area and professor of piano and theory atCalifornia State University Enrollment at Northridge. McGinnis is a former MTNApresident, was a charter member and two-term president of the CaliforniaAssociation of Professional Music Teachers and was MTNA vice presidentfor conventions in Louisville and Houston. In 1989, he was chosen byPeople to People International to lead fine arts delegations toSoutheast Asia, and then to Eastern Europe and to the TchaikovskyInternational Competition in Moscow. McGinnis has also served asconsultant to Sony-Superscope and Klavier Records. 2008 Grant Guidelines and Forms Available September 4 Guidelines and application forms for the 2008 MTNA FOUNDATION FUNDgrants will be available on the FOUNDATION FUND website atwww.mtnafoundation.org, beginning September 4. Teacher Enrichment Grants are provided to music teachers forprivate study, specific college-level course work or other projects thatwill enhance the performing and teaching skills of the applicant. The MTNA FOUNDATION FUND awards grants to MTNA-affiliated localassociations for projects that provide educational opportunities forstudents and teachers. Grants also are given for projects that supportthe promotion of music in the immediate community. Matching grants areavailable for established associations. Start-up grants are availablefor associations in the process of being formed. The purpose of the State Affiliate Matching Grants is to provideassistance to MTNA-affiliated state associations for professional andeducational development of their state membership, along with thecreation of innovative programs that will promote and enhance music andthe development of music technology throughout the state, and to enhanceand strengthen MTNA membership alliances in state associations. Questions regarding the grants may be directed to the MTNAFOUNDATION FUND at (888) 512-5278 or mtnafoundation@mtna.org.