2019 Webinars

Music in Every Child: Strategies for Success
Presented by: Rebecca Mergen Pennington and Amy Glennon
January 25, 2019

This webinar focuses on teaching strategies designed to help with attention and focus, resulting in increased student engagement, joy-filled music making and success.

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Ready to Launch: Entrepreneurial Tools for Your Studio
Presented by: Jonathan Kuuskoski
February 15, 2019

Whether you are a new teacher eager for resources to launch your career or a seasoned professional looking for fresh ideas, join us for some practical information you can use to frame your work effectively to various stakeholders, imagine audacious projects that leverage your strengths and implement strategies for growing your practice.

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Do These Five Things... Always And Forever
Presented by: Veda Zuponcic
March 29, 2019

Artistry is a process! Veda Zuponcic will guide you through the use of exceptional materials for the youngest, newest pianist that present artistic gestures that become the basis for artistry at the most advanced levels. Zuponcic will share her approach to the development of good sound, with a proven curricular plan that builds technique, layer by layer, and provides the student with a broad repertoire of many styles. This patient work through the years ultimately leads the young musician to the highest level of pianism.

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Edwin E. Gordon's Music Learning Theory and Piano Instruction
Presented by: Marilyn Lowe
April 26, 2019

This webinar focuses on teaching strategies designed to help with attention and focus, resulting in increased student engagement, joy-filled music making and success.

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Transforming Elementary-Level Music Instruction
Presented by: Lori Rhoden
May 24, 2019

This session presents practical methods for developing musicians who read and perform notation fluidly, transpose, improvise, and play by ear.

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The Art of the Phrase
Presented by: Peter Mack
June 28, 2019

It's easy to teach our students to play more musically, once we understand the basic principles of phrasing. In this entertaining and illuminating presentation, Peter Mack teaches us how to recognize the basic phrase types and how best to interpret them. Everyone can sound better, once they understand the art of the phrase!

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What Lies Beneath: What About That Bass?
Presented by: Deborah Rambo Sinn
July 19, 2019

What Lies Beneath is about bass lines. Discovering what notes are truly important in the left hand can be transformational. Sometimes, it is clear what notes stand out, but most of the time, we performers and teachers need to take time to choose the fenceposts that will support and clarify the entire texture and rhythmic impulse.

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Listening to the Long Notes: Skill That Leads to Musical Artistry
Presented by: Veda Zuponcic
August 23, 2019

Veda Zuponcic will use examples from late-elementary, intermediate and advanced repertoire to identify the idiosyncratic pianistic problem of sustaining—or creating the illusion of sustaining—a long note on an instrument that doesn't have the capacity to sustain long sounds.

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Useful Sight-Reading Strategies for Developing Piano Students’ Skills
Presented by: Pamela D. Pike
September 27, 2019

Explore effective ideas and strategies for incorporating useful and enjoyable sight-reading activities into beginning and intermediate piano lessons with Pamela Pike.

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A Preview of the 2020 MTNA National Conference
Presented by: E. L. Lancaster
October 25, 2019

It's easy to teach our students to play more musically, once we understand the basic principles of phrasing. In this entertaining and illuminating presentation, Peter Mack teaches us how to recognize the basic phrase types and how best to interpret them. Everyone can sound better, once they understand the art of the phrase!

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Memorization Techniques for Performers, Teachers and Students
Presented by: Theresa Bogard, NCTM
November 15, 2019

Playing from memory in public doesn't come easily for most people. For some, it is enough to end a burgeoning career. However, with careful preparation and consistent memorization techniques, public performance can become less frightening. This webinar will focus on teaching the process of memorization. In addition to memorization techniques, creating a time frame for performance preparation and performance anxiety will be discussed.

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