New Jersey Music Teachers Association
Affiliated with the Music Teachers National Association

Conference

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NJMTA 2009 State Conference:

“Pathways to Romanticism ”

 

The Bart Luedeke Center of Rider University

2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 20-22, 2009

 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: NOV.01, 2009

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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VIEW DRIVING DIRECTIONS

 

Dear Members of NJMTA,

Mark your calendars for November 21 and 22. The conference will begin on Friday evening Nov. 20 with a student winners recital. The location will be at Rider University 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. 20!

Diane Hou, President Elect

 

2009 Conference Intermediate Piano Master Class
Saturday November 21 at 9:45am
 

We are pleased to announce this year’s Conference Intermediate Master Class to take place on Saturday November 21 at 9:45 am at Bart Luedeke Student Center of Rider University. Dennis Alexander, our Master Teacher, will coach four intermediate level piano students.
Please contact Grace Chang if you have any questions.  Thank you.

 

NJMTA 2009 CONFERENCE ARTISTS

2009 NJMTA Conference – Guest Artists

James Tocco

 

Italian-American virtuoso James Tocco enjoys international renown as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. Beyond his vast repertoire of virtually the entire standard piano literature, he is widely regarded as among the foremost interpreters of American masterworks, including Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety, which he recently recorded with Leonard Slatkin and the BBC London Symphony and performed with Marin Alsop and the New World Symphony; and the Corigliano Piano Concerto, of which he is acknowledged the definitive interpreter by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer. He has performed this spectacular work to great acclaim with the Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, San Diego, Kansas City and Phoenix Symphonies and with the Louisville Orchestra – with which he recorded the work – as well as with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center. The pianist’s recent seasons included his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra debut, performing the MacDowell Concerto and Gershwin’s

Rhapsody in Blue , both conducted by Leonard Slatkin, and his debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev. An especially accomplished recitalist, Mr. Tocco has been widely praised for his interpretations of Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt, as well as 20th-century composers, and he among the very few pianists to regularly program the keyboard works of Handel.

Born of Italian parents in Detroit, Mr. Tocco’s love of music – especially opera – began in early childhood. At six he started studying piano and at twelve he made his orchestral debut, performing Beethoven’s Second Concerto. Among the countless awards that followed were a scholarship to the Salzburg Mozarteum and a French government grant to study with Magda Tagliaferro in Paris. His musical education was completed with Claudio Arrau in New York. International prominence came with his First Prize victory in the International ARD Competition in Munich, followed by a major triumph as a last-minute replacement for Arturo

Benedetti Michelangeli as guest soloist for the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto at the Vienna Festival. In the years since then he has performed literally around the world: throughout North and South America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East.

In addition to his rigorous international performing itinerary, Mr. Tocco is Eminent Scholar/Artist-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and Professor of Piano at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Mr. Tocco is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

 

Dennis Alexander

Dennis Alexander began his affiliation with Alfred Publishing in 1986. Mr. Alexander's 240 publications and recordings created with Alfred have earned him an international reputation as one of North America's most prolific and popular composers of educational piano music for students at all levels.

Professor Alexander retired from his position at the University of Montana in May 1996, where he had taught piano and piano pedagogy for 24 years. After moving to California, he taught piano privately and served on the faculties of Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Northridge. He currently maintains an active composing and touring schedule for Alfred.

A native of Kansas, Mr. Alexander graduated from the University of Kansas, where he studied with Richard Reber. In 1987 Mr. Alexander made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall with violinist Walter Olivares, and continues to be active as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. A former president of the Montana State Music Teachers Association, he is a popular clinician at state conventions. Mr. Alexander has recently returned from presenting a workshop tour in Australia, and he has toured twice in the Far East, where he performed recitals and workshops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Numerous organizations and state associations have commissioned him to write compositions. In addition, he has numerous pieces that are included on the National Federation of Music Clubs Festivals Bulletin and his music is being performed by students throughout the world. A co-author of Alfred's all-new Premier Piano Course, Dennis Alexander just released Books 1 and 2 of his new Especially for Adults series.

 

Beata Moon

Korean-American composer/pianist/educator Beata Moon was born in North Dakota and raised in Indiana where she began studying piano at five years of age. She made her orchestral début at age eight and concertized throughout the Midwest, giving recitals and appearing with orchestras throughout the region. After graduating from the Juilliard School with a degree in piano performance in 1990 where she was a student of Adele Marcus, she took a break from playing to reassess the role of music in her life. It was at this time that she discovered her passion for composing and teaching, which in turn, led her back to her performing career. She was hailed by the New York Times as one of today’s “established new music pianists”.

The last fifteen years have seen Beata Moon produce works in a variety of genres, including solo, chamber and voice. Her CDs of chamber music, Perigee & Apogee and Earthshine were enthusiastically received by press and public alike and continue to be broadcast on radio stations throughout the world. Her works have been widely performed by ensembles and soloists across the nation, including the Barbad Chamber Orchestra, Cantori New York, the Corigliano String Quartet and Ensemble Solage. She has received a number of commissions from many renowned instrumentalists, among them Patricia Davis, Kevin R. Gallagher, Thomas Rosenzkranz, and Brian Sacawa. Her collaboration with the modern dance company, SENSEDANCE, under artistic director and choreographer Henning Rübsam resulted in many commissioned works, including the piano trios Moonpaths and Dinner is West.