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QUAVERS - Page 1 - May, 2016 From the President May flowers, finally! Congratulations to all who were involved in the Carnival on April 23rd, I heard some amaz- ing feedback from parents and students. One of my new families went for the first time, and the mother was so im- pressed with how easy it was to figure out what to do and where to go. She couldn't stop raving about what a fun event it was, and how great it was to see how much the kids had learned. Another mother was a first-time parent vol- unteer, and had so much fun that she committed to helping again next year! I am sure you all have your own stories of the success of the Carnival for your own studio. Special thanks to Debbie Florian and Dianne Johnston for their fearless leadership! We are coming up on my favorite meeting of the year! Diane will have more specifics in her article, but if there is one meeting you make it to all year, it should be this one. This is where you make your voice heard on what you love about our programs, and what you would like to see hap- pen in the future. During the business meeting, we will also be voting on the slate of new board members, and showing our appreciation for this year's board and commit- tee chairs. Please make sure to come vote. We are blessed to have such an active membership, but only the voices that speak are heard! Melanie Harris, President From the Vice President Happy May Everyone! The end of the program year is upon us. May 13 is our End-Of-Year Program/Events Re- view. This is our opportunity to celebrate the successes of the year AND make suggestions for improving programs/ events for next year. It's also a good time to recommend new KMTA programs/events for next year. So please come with your ideas, recommendations, and especially praises to the meeting on May 13, 2016. Let's celebrate together! As usual, we will meet at Ted Brown Music in Silverdale - 10:00 a.m. General Business Meeting and 10:30 a.m Year In Review. See you all there! Diane Layton, President-Elect BRAVO! Dianne Johnston MTNA Fellow Our own Dianne Johnston was in- ducted as an MT- NA Fellow at the MTNA Gala cere- monies during the MTNA Confer- ence in San An- tonio last month. Congratulations Dianne. 2016 KMTA Music Carnival a Great Success! The fifth annual KMTA Music Carnival was a resound- ing success! I heard great things from students, parents and teachers alike throughout the day—many already looking forward to next year’s Carnival. J The Carnival and Musi- cianship Exams required a great effort on the part of our teachers, and the teamwork was exhilarating. The mood of the day was one of fun and camaraderie. Personally I think you all look absolutely fabulous in your festive Carnival attire! (see top of page 2) We had 225 students registered this year, representing 21 studios! So many teachers, parents and students pitched in to make the day run smoothly. A quick rundown of our wonderful team with our huge heartfelt thanks to: *Jane Melin (and her husband, Glen) for creating and constructing the “Carnival” with even more fun games and awesome decorations. (Did you check out those Crabby Birds??) Jane also designed the publicity posters and some on-site signage, and hand-crafted the colorful student name badges and lanyards. * Mary Grant and Gary Hind for quick and reliable re- sponses in putting out group email communications, and publishing our articles in the Quavers. May, 2016 QUAVERS Issue No. 228 Kitsap Music Teachers Association Newsletter Happy Mother’ s Day!
Transcript of May, 2016 QUAVERS Issue No. 228
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From the President
! May flowers, finally! Congratulations to all who were involved in the Carnival on April 23rd, I heard some amaz-ing feedback from parents and students. One of my new families went for the first time, and the mother was so im-pressed with how easy it was to figure out what to do and where to go. She couldn't stop raving about what a fun event it was, and how great it was to see how much the kids had learned. Another mother was a first-time parent vol-unteer, and had so much fun that she committed to helping again next year! I am sure you all have your own stories of the success of the Carnival for your own studio. Special thanks to Debbie Florian and Dianne Johnston for their fearless leadership! ! We are coming up on my favorite meeting of the year! Diane will have more specifics in her article, but if there is one meeting you make it to all year, it should be this one. This is where you make your voice heard on what you love about our programs, and what you would like to see hap-pen in the future. During the business meeting, we will also be voting on the slate of new board members, and showing our appreciation for this year's board and commit-tee chairs. Please make sure to come vote. We are blessed to have such an active membership, but only the voices that speak are heard!
Melanie Harris, President
From the Vice President
! Happy May Everyone! The end of the program year is upon us. May 13 is our End-Of-Year Program/Events Re-view. This is our opportunity to celebrate the successes of the year AND make suggestions for improving programs/events for next year. It's also a good time to recommend new KMTA programs/events for next year. So please come with your ideas, recommendations, and especially praises to the meeting on May 13, 2016. Let's celebrate together! As usual, we will meet at Ted Brown Music in Silverdale - 10:00 a.m. General Business Meeting and 10:30 a.m Year In Review. See you all there!
Diane Layton, President-Elect
BRAVO!
DianneJohnston
MTNAFellow
! Our own Dianne Johnston was in-ducted as an MT-NA Fellow at the MTNA Gala cere-monies during the MTNA Confer-ence in San An-tonio last month. ! Congratulations Dianne.
2016 KMTA Music Carnivala Great Success!
! The fifth annual KMTA Music Carnival was a resound-ing success! I heard great things from students, parents and teachers alike throughout the day—many already looking forward to next year’s Carnival. J The Carnival and Musi-cianship Exams required a great effort on the part of our teachers, and the teamwork was exhilarating. The mood of the day was one of fun and camaraderie. Personally I think you all look absolutely fabulous in your festive Carnival attire! (see top of page 2)! We had 225 students registered this year, representing 21 studios! So many teachers, parents and students pitched in to make the day run smoothly. A quick rundown of our wonderful team with our huge heartfelt thanks to: *Jane Melin (and her husband, Glen) for creating and constructing the “Carnival” with even more fun games and awesome decorations. (Did you check out those Crabby Birds??) Jane also designed the publicity posters and some on-site signage, and hand-crafted the colorful student name badges and lanyards.! * Mary Grant and Gary Hind for quick and reliable re-sponses in putting out group email communications, and publishing our articles in the Quavers.
May, 2016 QUAVERS Issue No. 228
Kitsap Music Teachers Association Newsletter
Happy Mother’s Day!
! *Parent volunteer Tess Doornink for organizing our lunch and snack program. With the help of parent volun-teer Laurene Ross, their cheerful demeanor kept the lunch line flowing. Thanks to Patti Ray for arranging for face-painting—a big hit with the kids and such fun. Leslie De-vine again provided very welcome and necessary technical support preparing registration cards, master lists and scoring sheets. Thanks to Marilyn Karr for ordering and organizing ribbons. Our appreciation again to Dianne Johnston as our liaison with Gateway. Thanks to Diane Layton for organizing and supervising all of our student volunteers, and to Ginni Hodder for her welcoming smile and supervision at Registration.
!The lunch-t i m e i m -provisation activity was very well re-ceived. It ran for a full 60 m i n u t e s w i t h s t u -dents taking advantage of the oppor-tunity to im-provise on stage with a
teacher. They loved it! I personally spoke to 3 different stu-dents who, after being strongly encouraged to give it a try, came away from the experience with triumphant smiles.
One even asked if it was okay to do it again, and proceeded to give an encore performance! Many thanks to Leslie De-vine and Melanie Harris for facilitating.! All of our teachers who worked the different events and exams did a tremendous job, getting all those students through efficiently and in a cheerful manner. Huge thanks to Jane Melin, Marilyn Karr, Leslie Devine, Diana Lund-gaard, Cynthia Rose, Rachel Steinlicht, Mary Grant, Dianne Johnston, Krista Seely, Julie Mandery, Megan Hennings, Joann Richardson, Sarah Silvia, Daphne Blan-chard, Sally Carey, Sarah McGrath, Melanie Harris, Laura Meredith, Melanie Kurtzbein, Diane Layton, and Carmen Gorak. Our wonderful parent/adult volunteers ran registration and assisted checking students in for exams and writing the ribbons. Tremendous gratitude to Michelle Knott, Tarra Forsythe, Kathy Gallagher, Julia Reydell, Lucia Lara, Samara Stageberg, Brian Vaught, Luy Rash, Wanda Faber and Carol McClung. Also special thanks to Bruce Grant, our official photographer; Mike Florian and Jim Johnston for help with setup, cleanup and keyboard transportation (and Mike for pizza delivery J).! Kudos and thanks to our many student volunteers who ran the Carnival games, Theory games, assisted with the lunch line and ribbon writing: Lydia Sedy, Hannah Meehan, Natalie Haws, Greta Reydell, Matthew Door-nink, Daniel Kelley, Maddison Gallagher, Seth English, Jared Cordell, Sam Ross, Anna Jett, Annika Hald, Meghan Schmidt, Rachel Doornink, Elizabeth Simmons, Akio Hansen, Cora White, Maddison Hennings, Matthew Hen-nings, Serena Stageberg, Christina Lara, Luke Arnold, Seth Huschka, Blake Ross, Claire Ross, Hannah Knott,
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Megan McClung, Alyson McClung, Sharaia Stageberg, Natalie Sokol, Abby Peterson, Hailey Knott, and Nicole Forsythe.
! There was a lot of setup and decorating to do on Friday—special thanks to those who came out and made quick work of transforming the Gateway School Gym for our Carnival. We also appreciated everyone who pitched in to take down decorations and put everything back to order. So many hands, so many smiling, cheerful faces—it was great to have so many actively involved, and definitely lightened the load for all of us. I apologize if I have over-looked anyone who helped out!! We are most sincerely and deeply grateful to Gateway Fellowship for opening their facility for our use for this event. The staff were so gracious and helpful, and gener-ously willing to accommodate our needs.! Tests will be available at the May 13 KMTA meeting. Teachers will be able to take them home and go over them with their students. All tests will need to be returned to Dianne Johnston by May 30 to be shredded, but that will hopefully provide ample time. The WSMTA Musicianship Examinations certificates and honors seals will hopefully also be available at that meeting so teachers will have them in time for recitals. We plan to have a debrief session with opportunity for suggesting further changes or additions for next year’s Carnival, so please jot down your thoughts in preparation for that meeting.! To sum up, Dianne and I are so thankful for our KMTA colleagues, for your willing, helpful attitudes and profes-sionalism. We are blessed to have each other! We hope you all had as much fun as we did! If you weren’t involved this year, we encourage you to check out the handbook on the WSMTA website and consider participating next year. The more the merrier!!
Debra Florian, NCTM Dianne Johnston, SCTM KMTA Music Carnival Chair KMTA Musicianship Exams Chair
Washington State MTNACompetition Winners
The MTNA Performance Competition took place April 2-6 in San Antonio, Texas, in conjunction with the MTNA Conference. WSMTA is proud of the winners for their ded-ication and artistry and also proud of their teachers for their diligence, expertise and professionalism in educating these young musicians.Janet Phang (Teacher: Peter Mack), 3rd Place Winner, JuniorPiano.Janet Phang and Justin Cal (Teachers: Peter Mack and KarlynBrett), 1st Place Winners, Senior Piano Duet.Minsoo Kim (Teacher: Bonnie Blanchard), Junior Woodwind. Zoe Schill (Teacher: Bonnie Blanchard), Senior Woodwind.Soren Hamm (Teacher: Fred Winkler), Young Artist Wood-wind.
Teachers Accepting Students
! KMTA members are free to advertise their services in this column. We only ask that you notify the editor when you no longer wish to advertise here.
Bowling Music Studios: private & group piano; Dr. Irene Bowling, Karina Gordievich & Heather White; openings for all ages & levels; 34 years in Silverdale; www.bowlingmusic studios.com 360-692-7419.Georgene Corey, NCTM: Suzuki Piano; openings especially for 3-9 year olds; 360-697-6766.Renee Marie Hart: Piano, Guitar, Voice; located on Bain-bridge Island and Poulsbo; (360) 649-0296 [email protected]. www.reneemariehart.com
Megan Hennings: piano & music theory; Poulsbo Parks & Recreation Center; Bainbridge Island; 360-551-6402 or [email protected] Alan Hind - Basin Road Music Studios: piano, applied theory, improvisation, composition, recording; all levels & ages; 360-697-2591 or [email protected] Jordan: piano & music education; Kingston; 360-638- 2869 or [email protected].
Melanie Kurtzbein Violin Studio: Silverdale/East Bremerton; 360-865-0038; [email protected].
Diane Layton: piano & flute; all ages; Bremerton/Silver-dale area; 360-613-2917.Diana Lundgaard - Miller Bay Piano Studio: 360-297-2781.
Claire Marshall, NCTM: piano; Bainbridge Island; 206- 842-8143 or [email protected].
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Jane Melin, NCTM: violin; ages 4 to adult; Poulsbo/North Kitsap; 360-394-2086 or [email protected] or web-site: www.melinmusicstudio.com.
Laura Meredith: Piano, theory, sight singing; 2692 NollValley Loop, Poulsbo; [email protected] or 904-525-6636.Joann Richardson, MA, NCTM: piano and organ; open-ings for beginners through advanced; adult students wel-come; Silverdale; 360-692-7628; www.jrichardsonmusic.com; [email protected] Rose Music Studio: Piano and Voice, Theory,Composition; www.anitarosemusic.com or 360-440-5822
Talman Welle, NCTM: piano; all ages and levels, also jazz & improvisation; Poulsbo; 206-850-8530 [email protected].
Bulletin Board
Events & Deadlines CalendarMay 13: KMTA general business meeting at Ted Brown in Silverdale. (see VP article)
June 21-24: WSMTA State Conference in Walla Walla. (see your CLARION for details)
Other Music Events
Bremerton SymphonyYoung Artists Competition
WinnersStudent (Teacher) Adrian King (Dr. Peter Mack)Caleb Winslow (Dr. Irene Bowling)
Honorable MentionStudent (Teacher) Henry Brown (Chris Thomas)Raymond Doerr; Mai Frey (Gwendolyn Taylor)David Forman (Jan Coleman)Sarah Jung (Ron Patterson)Lucinda King; Mya King (Mack)Grace Winslow & Caleb Winslow Duo (Bowling)! Adrian King, Grace and Caleb Winslow, and Henry Brown will perform with Bremerton Symphony Orchestra on May 22 at 4:00 p.m., at Bremerton Performing Arts Cen-ter. Details and infomation are available at bremerton symphony.org or by calling (360) 373-1722.
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