2019 Awards Recipients

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MTNA Achievement Award

• Jane Magrath, Norman, Oklahoma

Distinguished Service Award

• Ann Rivers Witherspoon, Houston, Texas

Teacher of the Year

• Frances H. Larimer, Evanston, Illinois

MTNA-Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award

• University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Video Recording Project; Alan Huckleberry and Jason Sifford, NCTM, Iowa City, Iowa

State Affiliate of the Year

• Utah Music Teachers Association
  Laurisa Cope, NCTM, president

Local Association of the Year

• Central Oklahoma Music Teachers Association (Wyoming)
  Teri Joy Hlubek, NCTM, president

Collegiate Chapter of the Year

• Ohio University
  Elizabeth Jackson, president; Christopher Fisher, NCTM, advisor

Distinguished Composer of the Year

• Benjamin Krause
  Taxonomies of Pulse: Commissioned by the Indiana MTA

Distinguished Composer of the Year Honorable Mention

• Eric Alexander
  Reminiscentia: Commissioned by the Colorado State MTA

• Corey Dundee
  act like you know: Commissioned by the Michigan MTA

• Daniel Temkin
  Dreamed Landscapes: Commissioned by the Pennsylvania MTA

American Music Teacher Article of the Year

• Jessica Johnson, NCTM, Madison, Wisconsin
  “Awakening Rhythmic Intuition And Flow In The Developing Pianist”

MTNA e-Journal Article of the Year

• by Adrienne Wiley, NCTM, Midland, Michigan
  “The Best Of The British: Selected Educational Piano Works By Alec Rowley”

MarySue Harris Studio Teacher Fellowship Award

• Jessica Welsh, NCTM, Dallas, Texas

Piano Technicians Guild Foundation Scholarship

• Aubrey Faith-Slaker, NCTM, Chicago, Illinois

50-Year Members

• Zoe Ann Abrahamson, NCTM, Rochester, Minnesota
• Sue L. Aceves, NCTM, Whispering Pines, North Carolina
• Jan Altemeier, Ft Dodge, Iowa
• Janet C. Ambrose, Gambrills, Maryland
• Ruth V. Anderson, NCTM, New Ulm, Minnesota
• Ann M. Barry, Cedar Falls, Iowa
• Anne Maynard Bowman, Plano, Texas
• Rebecca M. Bradley, NCTM, Raleigh, North Carolina
• David A. Brown, Wilmington, Delaware
• Donald Eugene Clark, Shawnee, Oklahoma
• Carol W. Dennes, NCTM, Louisville, Kentucky
• Elizabeth Riddle Dodd, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Diane R. Eichhorst, NCTM, Zimmerman, Minnesota
• Marianne Gienger, Tillamook, Oregon
• Eileen H. Gregg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Sylvia Hunt, NCTM, Caldwell, Idaho
• Merilyn S. Jacobson, NCTM, Puyallup, Washington
• Anita Juntilla, NCTM, Westfield, New Jersey
• Evelyn Keeton, NCTM, Bethany, Oklahoma
• Katherine Keim, Lyons, Colorado
• Martha A. King, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Donna Bergstrom Kurtz, Bucyrus, Ohio
• Carol Mattison, Lamberton, Minnesota
• Christine A. McCloskey, Wilmington, Delaware
• Doris Meyer, NCTM, Conroe, Texas
• Harriet A. Motter, Mansfield, Texas
• Lois Nassen, NCTM, Hubbard, Iowa
• Carol J. Nelson, NCTM, Oak Brook, Illinois
• Ethelyn Peterson, NCTM, Boulder City, Nevada
• Mary J. Reichling, NCTM, Lafayette, Louisiana
• Audrey Savig, Audubon, Minnesota
• Paula Stephenson, Dallas, Texas
• Elier Suarez, Rochester, New York
• Lyndol R. Taylor, NCTM, Houston, Texas
• Sharon Van Valin, NCTM, Mercer Island, Washington
• Dana Lee Walters, Lancaster, South Carolina