2009 Awards Recipients
MTNA Achievement Award
Marvin Blickenstaff, NCTM
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Teacher of the Year
Marie Burnette, NCTM
High Point, North Carolina
Distinguished Service Award
Wayne Gibson, NCTM
Atlanta, Georgia
Frances Clark Pedagogy Award
Two-and Three-part Inventions (Sinfonia) and
Well-tempered Clavier by Bach
by Willard Palmer
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
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)
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
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