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13 unusual facts about Music Teachers National Association


American Musicological Society

The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly, the New York Musicological Society (1930-1934).

Dennis Kamakahi

He also joined the Music Teachers National Association that year to continue the teaching and advancement of music composition to students.

Edna Golandsky

She has also presented at the Music Teacher’s National Association, World Piano Pedagogy Conference, and the European Piano Teacher’s Association.

Eileen Strempel

Strempel has affiliations with the following organizations: American Musicological Society, College Music Society, International Alliance for Women in Music, Lyrica Society, Margaret Atwood Society, Music Teachers National Association, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Central New York Music Teachers Association, Sigma Alpha Iota, Rebecca Clarke Society, Society for New Music (Board of Directors).

Frederic Chiu

During his formative years, he won numerous piano competitions, including the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition and the Music Teachers National Association Competition, both in 1984.

Haewon Song

Haewon Song is a South Korean pianist and pedagogue who was awarded many przies at the World and Oberlin International Piano Competitions as well as Music Teachers National Association award.

Jack Winerock

His students have won prizes in national and international competitions, including the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA).

Joan Lippincott

She has been a featured recitalist at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, at the Spoleto Festival USA, at the American Bach Society Biennial, at the Dublin (Ireland) International Organ Festival, and at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, and the Music Teachers National Association.

Michael Hennagin

He was named National Composer of the Year in 1975 by the Music Teachers National Association.

Peter W. Dykema

Dykema was also active in the Music Teachers National Association and the National Education Association Department of Music Education.

Through his involvement with the Music Teachers National Association and the National Association of Schools of Music, the Fraternity came into close collaboration with these organizations, which had a lasting influence on the Fraternity's focus on music advocacy for decades.

Stephen Beus

He won the MTNA National Competition at the high school level at age 17, and later won the same competition again at age 21 at the collegiate level.

Susan Kempter

She is the director of String Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, as well as a frequent speaker and workshop specialist for the American String Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association, and the Suzuki Association of the Americas.