1 Convention Schedule Friday, July 3, 2015

Music Teachers’ Association of California Convention 2015

Convention SChedule

Friday, July 3, 2015

8:30-9:45 Ensemble Recital Club Regent9:00-9:50 Opening Ceremony with Keynote Address Regency Joy in Music, Hans Boepple Amy Chen-Huey Martin, presiding

10:00-11:00 Practical Piano Teaching for Children with Special Needs Club Regent Annie Wang & Maggie Wang Madeline Miller, presiding

This presentation will focus on teaching piano to children with autism and Down syndrome. Method books that can be modified in order to fit music teaching into a student’s developmental stage/musical needs will be addressed. Insightful tips and musical interventions will be presented for teachers to use as a guide during lessons.

11:00-12:00 CelloRecital(BonhoefferPianoTrio) Regency Joseph Lee assisted by Doori Na, Violin Ariel Witbeck, presiding

11:15-12:15 Seven Basic Needs of Pianists Club Regent Hans Boepple Ellen Tyrba Chen, presiding

How do pianists become better pianists? Needed is a balance of a number of elements, every one of which is absolutely necessary, and the lack of any one of them is a significant problem.

1:00-2:00 PianoRecital(BonhoefferPianoTrio) Regency Sean Kennard Edward Francis, presiding

1:00-1:50 Showcase: Neil A. Kjos Music Co. Crystal Bradley Sowash Creative Chords Keyboard Improvisation Method Showcase

Eye players read music. Ear players improvise. Both are essential for playing today’s music. Learn easy ways to integrate off-page creativity alongside a traditional piano curriculum using time-tested techniques developed by a master improvisation teacher.

1:15-2:15 AMASE Recital Club Regent Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education Peter Thompson, presiding

AMASE Choir Group (ACG) and AMASE Chamber Ensemble (ACE) are two performance groups within Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education (AMASE). These two groups are comprised of high school students with special needs and high school volunteers.

2:00-2:50 Showcase: JoyTunes Crystal Make Practicing Time Fun and Engaging: Piano Maestro for the teacher and student! Linda Christensen

Piano Maestro is a powerful tool for teachers and students, and is the only app in the world that “hears” multiple notes simultaneously. Come and learn how students use their real, acoustic piano to combine the fun of games with various practice options, and teachers receive valuable assessment data on their students’ weekly practice!

2:15-3:30 Piano Demonstration Lesson: Four Arts Regency Forrest Kinney Peggy Taylor, presiding

“Four Arts” features an MTAC piano student. Someone with command of a language can talk, tell stories, read, and write. Likewise, a whole musician can improvise (speak spontaneously), arrange (restate traditional themes in a personal way), read and interpret the compositions of others, and compose (write musical essays). These are the Four Arts of Music. Forrest will teach a 60-minute lesson to an intermediate-level student followed by a 15-minute Q and A session.

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2:30-3:45 NeuroMovement® Club Regent Anat Baniel & Dr. Neil Sharp Peter Thompson, presiding

Harnessing the power of the brain to change itself (neuroplasticity) in helping the musician overcome pain, avoid injury and reach reliable peak performance using the Anat Baniel Method.

3:00-4:00 Panel Cello Master Class Gold JosephLee(BonhoefferPianoTrio) Cheri Hutchison-Dierl, presiding

3:00-3:50 Showcase: Alfred Music Crystal Visual Imagery: A Tool for Teaching Technique and Interpretation Catherine Rollin

Explore how works of art can help elicit creative and imaginative responses to the music in Catherine Rollin’s newest collections, Museum Masterpieces, Books 1-4. Catherine will also present successful teaching strategies that she uses with students when teaching other Rollin publications.

3:45-4:45 Piano Lecture Recital “Woman Alive!” Regency Dr. Victoria Neve Ruth Ann Schwan, presiding

Lecture recital on living women composers. Dr. Neve performs each of five complete works, with brief commentary on the composers, their lives, and their own elucidations on the pieces themselves, interesting compositional techniques employed in the works, and commentary on images or effects the composers say they hope to conjure from their compositions.

4:00-5:30 Small Group Coaching Session: Neuro & Physical Therapy Piedmont Dr.NeilSharp(AnatBanielMethodAssociate) Nancy Woo, presiding

For MTAC members wishing to find out how to overcome any injuries and or tensions developed in their playing. Separate pre-registration is required for this limited attendance session.

5:00-6:00 BranchOfficers’Meeting Empire Amy Chen-Huey Martin, presiding

5:00-6:30 Piano Panel Honors Recital I Crystal Lauren Goodall, presiding

6:30-7:30 Friday Night Social Club Regent Hosted by MTAC Board of Directors8:30-10:30 Young Artist Guild Recital Regency Nicole Burns, presiding

Saturday, July 4, 2015

8:30-9:30 Debussy Piano Lecture Recital Regency Debussy Preludes Bk. 2: Creating the Illusion of Orchestral Color Dr. Douglas Weeks Karen Peng, presiding

Creating the illusion of orchestral color in Book 2 of Debussy’s Preludes can be achieved not only through differentiation of dynamic planes, but also through the simultaneous execution of sustained notes/chords against articulated elements such as staccati. Such problematic passages will be examined and demonstrated with and without sostenuto pedal, and with careful attention paid to the resulting changes in articulation and color.

9:00-9:50 Showcase: Frederick Harris Music Co. Crystal Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition – Inspiring Students with Outstanding Repertoire and Etudes Elaine Rusk & Jennifer Snow

Join us as we celebrate the newest edition of the outstanding Celebration Series®—the repertoire series of choice for preparing for Certificate of Merit. Come and be inspired by a wealth of “new” repertoire and etudes from all style periods, including contemporary selections by today’s best-loved composers.

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10:00-11:30 Violin Panel Master Class Club Regent DooriNa,Violin(BonhoefferPianoTrio) Janice Luna, presiding

10:00-12:00 Piano Panel Master Class Regency Jerome Lowenthal Sue-Hayes Dearing presiding

10:00-10:50 Showcase: Neil A. Kjos Crystal Diane Hidy & Keith Snell New Releases Diane Hidy & Keith Snell

Diane’s groundbreaking Attention Grabbers series expands with Book Three! Keith will introduce his newest editions of the Master Composer Library with three intermediate-level etude collections.

11:00-12:00 iPad iDeas: Teaching Music with Apps Crystal Michelle Sisler Susan High, presiding

Discover how to easily incorporate your iPad, iPhone or Android phone or tablet in your teaching. Learn how teachers are creatively using mobile apps to engage their students, address multiple learning styles and make their teaching more effective. (Any technology skill level)

12:00-1:00 Joyful Music for Early Childhood Gold The Impact of Movement and Multi-sensory Experiences Jan Keyser Nancy Woo, presiding

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of our students by the age of five already had a strong feeling and understanding of meters, inner hearing for melodic patterns and harmonic movement, and could feel and respond to phrasing, dynamics, and timbre? This session will provide research-based information on how children (2 to 6) develop musically with age-appropriate musical experiences.

1:00-2:00 ViolinRecital(BonhoefferPianoTrio) ClubRegent Doori Na, Violin, assisted by Joseph Lee, Cello Gloria Ho, presiding

1:00-1:50 Showcase: Frederick Harris Music Co. Crystal PatternPlay® and Chord Play®—Teaching Improvising and Arranging in Every Lesson Forrest Kinney

Students want to improvise their own music and make arrangements of popular songs. Can we teach it? Can we fit it in? Forrest Kinney will show you how, using the Pattern Play® and Chord Play® books.

2:00-2:50 Showcase: Frederick Harris Music Co. Crystal Four Star® Sight Reading and Ear Tests—A new approach for the 21st century Deborah How

Join us to discover how using the updated Four Star® series can inspire your students. With enriched ear-training activities delivered online and creative reading activities, pianists are sure to make reading and aural skills an engaging part of every practice session.

2:00-3:00 BranchOfficers’Meeting Empire Verna Balch, presiding

2:00-4:00 Piano Solo Competition Regency Anna Lin & Kristi Lobitz, presiding

3:00-4:00 Crowdsourcing Your Studio Club Regent Susan Bruckner Heidi Williams, presiding

Have you ever experimented with using ‘groupthink’ to influence the level of artistry and motivation in your studio? Have you ever noticed that some skills are more effectively achieved in a group? This workshop will help you discover and put into practice a variety of specific techniques to foster individual students in a group that becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

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3:00-3:50 Showcase: Alfred Music Crystal A New Music Review—What Have Your Favorite Composers Been Writing? E.L. Lancaster

This fast-paced review of new music will feature publications of favorite Alfred authors including Dennis Alexander, Melody Bober, Ton Gerou, Joyce Grill, Martha Mier, Wynn-Anne Rossi, and Robert Vandall. Solos, duets, and other instructional material will be featured.

4:00-4:50 Showcase: Piano Marvel Sight Reading Crystal Aaron Garner

Sight reading is a skill for which your students will thank you! Join us to see how to 1) Create great sight readers, 2) Motivate students to read more, 3) Receive thousands of graded sight reading excerpts for practice.

4:30-6:00 Small Group Coaching Session: Piano Concertos Piedmont Jerome Lowenthal Gwen Churchill, presiding

Separate pre-registration is required for this limited attendance session.

6:00-7:30 Piano Panel Honors Recital II Crystal Natsuki Fukasawa, presiding

6:00-7:30 Adult Performance Recital Club Regent Alison Edwards and Jennifer Griest, presiding

7:45-10:45 Piano Concerto Competition Regency Anna Lin & Kristi Lobitz, presiding

Sunday, July 5, 2015

8:00-8:30 DelegatesMeeting(AllBranchDelegatesshouldattend) Regency Amy Chen-Huey Martin, presiding

8:45-9:45 Romantic Piano Literature Regency Jerome Lowenthal Kristi Lobitz presiding

9:00-9:50 Showcase: Musicopolis Crystal Creative Piano Improvisation For All: An Authentic Approach Lyndel Kennedy

Creative playing—musically self-expressed and loving it! The joy of just sitting at the piano and creating right in the moment. Some say it’s just for the ‘gifted’. We say it’s for everyone. Come and discover your own musical personality using dynamic multi-media tools. No matter where you or your students are on the journey, we invite you to explore creative pathways that inspire spontaneity, freshness and energy into your playing.

10:00-11:00 Flute Recital Club Regent MichelleCaimotto Emily Senchuk, presiding

10:00-10:50 Showcase: Faber Crystal Piano Adventures® at the Intermediate Level Elizabeth Guiterrez

Join us to explore the 2nd Editions for Level 3A and 3B of Piano Adventures®, including the new Sightreading Books through Level 4. Propel your students to the intermediate stage with this integrated blend of pianistic repertoire, theory, technique and artistry

10:15-11:45 Intermediate Piano Master Class Regency Hans Boepple Peggy Taylor, presiding

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11:00-12:00 Beethoven the Businessman Crystal Chris Hepp Kerstin Stone, presiding

Beethoven is a member of the pantheon of artistic geniuses who were also ingenious businessmen, including Titian and Picasso in the visual arts, Shakespeare in the dramatic arts, Chaplin in the cinematic arts, and Handel and Verdi in the musical arts. His career as a musical entrepreneur contains many invaluable lessons for music educators and performers living today.

11:00-12:15 PanelHonorsRecital(Strings,Winds&Voice) Gold Sarah Sandvig, presiding

11:20-12:40 VOCE Chamber Music Master Class Club Regent BonhoefferPianoTrio Joyce Osborn, presiding

1:00-2:30 Piano Recital Regency Jerome Lowenthal Madeline Miller, presiding

1:00-1:50 Showcase: Truluck Music Crystal Truly Delightful New Music from Truluck Music CarlaBartlett

Composer Dr. Carla K. Bartlett will play from her new piano collection, Inspirations in C. Inspired by Terry Riley’s seminal minimalist masterpiece, In C, this series of pieces is built around the key of C and its modes across a number of contemporary styles. Carla discusses ways to use her music to promote and encourage student composition and analysis of compositional devices. Free sheet music and discount coupon for book purchase at the Truluck Music booth in the Exhibit Hall.

1:30-2:30 Flute Panel Master Class Club Regent MichelleCaimotto Emily Senchuk, presiding

2:00-2:50 Showcase: Meludia Crystal TheBetterYourEar,theBetterYouCanPlayandCreateMusic Bastien Sannac3:00-4:00 BranchOfficers’Meeting Empire Gwen Churchill, presiding

3:00-4:00 ChamberMusicConcert:BonhoefferPianoTrio Regency Sean Kennard, Piano, Doori Na, Violin, Joseph Lee, Cello Joyce Osborn, presiding

3:00-4:30 FriendsofToday’sMusic,WorldPremiere ClubRegent Joan Tower Catherine O’Connor, presiding

Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today. During a career spanning more than 50 years, she has made lasting contributions to musical life in the United States as a composer, performer, conductor, and educator.

3:00-4:30 Small Group Coaching Session: Creative Practicing for All Instruments Piedmont Forrest Kinney Nancy Woo, presiding

Separate pre-registration is required for this limited attendance session.

3:00-3:50 Showcase: McCarthy Music Corp Crystal The Latest in Piano Instruction Technology Kevin McCarthy

Come get a fascinating look into the latest piano instruction technology with McCarthy Music, makes of the Illuminating Piano and McCarthy Music Software. See why teachers AND students are raving about our breakthrough products!

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4:00-4:50 Introducing...The All-In-One Approach to Succeeding at the Piano® Crystal The FJH Music Company Inc. Dr. Helen Marlais

Come join Dr. Helen Marlais as she introduces this new approach which is sure to help your students learn the essentials of piano playing: theory, musicianship, reading, correct and healthy technique, and creativity—all in one book! This method is perfect for a 30-minute lesson and for the next beginner that walks through your door! Dr. Marlais will show you how students who enjoy piano are successful.

5:00-6:00 Baroque Performance Practice for Winds Crystal Dr. Kris Palmer Susan Clark, presiding

This 50-minute session will present a broad overview of Baroque performance practices for instructors and intermediate to advanced performers: Interpreting written ornamentation symbols such as trill signs and appoggiaturas using harmonic analysis; determining when to add extempore variations and diminutions; deciphering tempo markings; applying notes inégales; basic differences in performance practice between the French Baroque and the Italian Baroque; and the use of dynamics and vibrato.

6:00-7:30 Teachers’PerformanceRecital ClubRegent Allison Edwards and Jennifer Griest, presiding

7:45-10:00 VOCE Recital Regency Jane Masur and Grace Yu, presiding

Monday, July 6, 2015

8:00-9:30 Annual Business Meeting Regency Amy Chen-Huey Martin, presiding

10:00-11:30 Voice Master Class Crystal Sandra and Christopher Bengochea Sharlae Jenkins, presiding

10:00-12:00 Composers Today State Contest Student Winners Recital Club Regent Su-Shing Chiu, presiding

11:00-12:00 SamuelBarber’sStylisticTraits Regency Dr. Emily Lu Carol Wood Herndon, presiding

The goal of this presentation is to explore Barber’s stylistic traits, ranging from counterpoint, ostinato, rhythm, lyricism, to drama through an overview of his piano works. Drawing from her previous doctoral thesis, “The Piano Concerto of Samuel Barber”, the presenter will focus mainly on analysis of the larger Concerto and Piano Sonata, with the hope of increasing further understanding and appreciation of Barber’s music.

11:30-12:15 Voice Pedagogy Session Q & A for teachers and students Crystal Sandra and Christopher Bengochea 1:00-2:00 Voice Recital Regency Sandra and Christopher Bengochea Sarah Sandvig, presiding

1:00-2:15 Improvisation Master Class Crystal Forrest Kinney Dorothy Burgess, presiding

1:00-2:30 Contemporary Music Seminar Club Regent Catherine O’Connor, presiding

3:00-4:00 Teaching Total Technique Club Regent Developing Healthy Habits at the Piano from the Beginning Dr. Stephen Pierce Heather Morris, presiding

All piano students would benefit from a healthy and holistic approach to piano technique from the outset of their studies. Unfortunately, many students are injured due to unhealthy habits formed during their early lessons.

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3:30-5:00 Young Composers Guild Recital Regency Elizabeth Lucus, presiding

3:30-5:00 Panel Piano Honors Recital III Crystal Marie Kaneta, presiding

5:00-6:15 Composers Today State Contest Adult Winners Recital Gold Su-Shing Chiu, presiding

5:15-6:25 Improvisation Honors Recital Crystal Deborah Sanfilippo, presiding

6:00-6:30 No Host Reception Club Regent6:30-8:00 New Board Installation Banquet Club Regent Amy Chen-Huey Martin, presiding

8:30-10:30 Piano Artist Recital Regency Andrew von Oeyen Amy Chen-Huey Martin, presiding

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

8:30-9:30 Documentary Film “TheBuddhaofthePiano:LeopoldGodowsky”(RevisedVersion) ClubRegent Antonio Iturrioz Gwen Churchill, presiding

Antonio Iturrioz’s 57-minute film, “The Buddha of the Piano: Leopold Godowsky” is the first and only documentary about the legendary musician, considered by many to be the greatest pianist and arranger of all time.

10:00-12:00 Piano Panel Master Class Regency Andrew von Oeyen Amy Chen-Huey Martin, presiding

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