2009 MTNA National Awards
Presented at the Annual Conference
Atlanta, Georgia

Achievement Award
Marvin Blickenstaff, NCTM
Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Distinguished Service Award
Wayne Gibson, NCTM
Atlanta, Georgia

Teacher of the Year
Marie Burnette, NCTM
High Point, North Carolina

State Affiliate of the Year
Washington State MTA
Mary Kaye Owen, NCTM, president

Local Association of the Year
Lafayette Area MTA (Louisiana)
Sarah Roy, president
 
Benjamin Whitten Collegiate Chapter of the Year
University of Oklahoma Collegiate Chapter (Oklahoma)
Rachel Schmoyer, president

Benjamin Whitten Collegiate Chapter Advisor of the Year
Barbara Fast, NCTM (University of Oklahoma Collegiate Chapter)
Jane Magrath, NCTM (University of Oklahoma Collegiate Chapter)

Distinguished Composer of the Year
William Price
Birmingham, Alabama
Hardboiled
Commissioned by the Alabama MTA

Distinguished Composer Honorable Mention
Christopher Biggs
Kansas City, Missouri
10-33
Commissioned by Missouri MTA

Distinguished Composer Honorable Mention
Jonathan McNair
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Digressions
Commissioned by Tennessee MTA

American Music Teacher Article of the Year
Judith Lang Zaimont
Maricopa, Arizona
"Embracing New Music"
August/September 2008 AMT

StAR/Studio Teacher Fellowship Award
Ivy Jo Andreasen
Brigham City, Utah

Frances Clark Pedagogy Award  
Two-and Three-part Inventions (Sinfonia) and
Well-tempered Clavier by Bach
by Willard Palmer

MTNA-Piano Technicians Guild Scholarship
Recreational Music Making Workshop
Judith Torigoe, NCTM
Sedona, Arizona

MTNA-Piano Technicians Guild Scholarship
Teacher Continuing Education and/or Performance Study
Marguerite Munoz, NCTM
Atlanta, Georgia