Music Teachers Conference Set For Butler
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowButler University is set next week to host the 2013 Indiana Music Teachers Association Conference. The event will feature the premiere of a composition commissioned by the organization, the 2013 Teacher of the Year announcement and instrumental sessions. October 22, 2013
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Butler University will be the site of the annual Indiana Music Teachers Association’s conference Nov. 1-2.
Registration is required to attend. Online registration is available here. Participants may also choose same-day registration at the conference in the lobby of Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall.
The conference will feature the world premiere of the 2013 Music Teachers National Association/Indiana Music Teachers Association-commissioned work by John Berners, a piano solo entitled “Star Harp Tender” that will be performed by Richard Ratliff, a concert by the winners of the Hoosier Auditions and Opus Composition Festival competition, a banquet honoring the 2013 Teacher of the Year and keynote address by Joel Harrison, president and artistic director of the American Pianists Association.
Also scheduled are:
-A performance by Gilbert Kalish at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 in the new Schrott Center for the Arts. The concert will include a Haydn sonata, Brahms Op. 117, and the Ives “Concord” Sonata. Kalish also will offer a master class from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 2 in the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall.
-A talk by renowned musicologist and Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder about the Ives “Concord” Sonata (4:30 p.m. Nov. 1 in Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall).
-Three sessions with Bradley Sowash, educator, jazz musician, and author of “That's Jazz!” These sessions are ideal for those wondering how to include improvisation in the studio, or how to do more with lead sheets besides block chord accompaniments. His final session of the day will be a hands-on, “let's try it!” session in the keyboard lab.
The conference will also feature sessions on baroque articulation, piano works by Scriabin, motivation, piano ensemble strategies, effective practicing, ragtime piano duets, injury prevention, Russian piano methods, the importance of the arts in a digital age, and more.
For full updates, follow the conference on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/IMTAStateConference.
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Butler is a nationally recognized comprehensive university encompassing six colleges: Arts, Business, Communication, Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Together, these colleges offer more than 60 undergraduate areas of study, eight pre-professional programs, and 19 graduate programs. Around 4,700 students are enrolled at Butler, representing 45 states and 49 countries. Ninety-five percent of Butler students will have participated in some form of internship, student teaching, clinical rotation, research, or service learning by the time they graduate. This community-centered immersion is coupled with classroom learning that nurtures critical thinking, effective communication, cooperative teamwork, and ethical decision making to prepare students for both professional success and to have lasting impact in their communities. Butler’s overall placement rate for the class of 2012 was 94 percent, including 19 percent who went on to graduate or professional school.
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