2026 Awards Recipients
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- Randall and Nancy Faber
- Scott Price, NCTM
- Rebecca Grooms Johnson, NCTM
MTNA-Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award
- Teaching Piano Pedagogy: A Guidebook for Training Effective Teachers
- Courtney Crappell, NCTM, Author
MTNA Advocacy Award for Impact on the Music Teaching Profession
- Helen Walker-Hill
- Judith Anne Still
Gary L. Ingle State Leadership Service Award
- Mark Stevens, NCTM
Stecher & Horowitz Power of Innovation Award
- Brock Chart
Stecher & Horowitz Foundation–MTNA Joyce B. Cowin Career Grant
- Madeline Rogers, NCTM
Stecher & Horowitz Foundation–MTNA Melvin Stecher and Norman Horowitz Career Grant
- Jacob Wang
Stecher & Horowitz Foundation–MTNA Gateway Prize for Advancement in the Arts
- Katherine Benson
- Maine Music Teachers Association
- Amy Irish, NCTM, President
- Des Moines Music Teachers Association
- Mary Beth Shaffer, NCTM, President
Collegiate Chapter of the Year
- Utah State University MTNA Collegiate Chapter
- Ginny G. Bastian, President
- Cahill Smith, Advisor
Distinguished Composer of the Year
- Benjamin Krause
- Spaces Real or Imagined
- Commissioned by the Michigan Music Teachers Association
American Music Teacher Article of the Year
- “Fueling the Flame: Sustaining a Career in Music without Burning Out” by Pamela D. Pike, NCTM
- October/November 2025 Issue
MTNA e-Journal Article of the Year
- “Envisioning a Future Musical Self: Identities of Dropout and Continuing Adolescent Piano Students” by Karen Gerelus
- April 2025 Issue
MarySue Harris Studio Teacher Fellowship Award
- Caelyn Meier, NCTM
- Madelyn Morrell
- Seungkyu Oh
- Renee Sadorf
50-Year Members
- Lynn K. Anders
- Charlotte S. Arnstein, NCTM
- Susanne R. Baker
- Alison S. Barr, NCTM
- Ruth Fay Barss
- Carole Batson
- Marilyn Boston
- Cynthia C. Bristol
- Laurel Benson Brown, NCTM
- Rita Brown
- Jane Bugbee
- Athena Caplanis, NCTM
- Benjamin D. Caton, NCTM
- Lora Lynn Christensen, NCTM
- Sylvia Coats, NCTM
- Deborah Cobb
- Janice M. Cook, NCTM
- Raquel Cortina
- Cynthia D. Curtis
- Carolyn Deuel, NCTM
- Jo Ellen DeVilbiss
- Vicki Duckworth, NCTM
- Barbara L. DuRussel
- Myrna Eppeland, NCTM
- Diana M. Fleming, NCTM
- John Ford
- Debra A. Gamero, NCTM
- Wysor West Gearhart
- Frances M. Gordon
- Kathleen Gray, NCTM
- Remica C. Gray, NCTM
- Helen Grosshans, NCTM
- Celinda Hallbauer, NCTM
- Kathryn R. Hammer, NCTM
- Jesse R. Hankla, NCTM
- Penny Pangburn Hanlon
- Joyce Harwood
- Martha M. Hayes
- Marcy J. Holston
- Shearon Smith Horton, NCTM
- Laurel L. Johnson
- Mary Elizabeth Johnson
- David A. Karp
- Carol S. Kilmer, NCTM
- Paulette I. Kilts, NCTM
- Julie Kirksey
- Robert Koopmann
- Charlotte Kroeker
- Marion Kvamme
- Deborah H. Lamb
- Chiu-Ling Lin, NCTM
- Rizia Hong Lin, NCTM
- Irene Listorti
- Mary A. Lutz
- Malinda J. Lyons, NCTM
- Shirley Maynor, NCTM
- Muriel Merbach, NCTM
- Sandra G. Meyer, NCTM
- Joyce Miller
- Mary Jane Miller
- Barbara J. Mix, NCTM
- Louis B. Nagel
- Susan Embry Naylor
- Leland Peck
- Zina Riches, NCTM
- Emily Sue Robinson, NCTM
- Gary Ruppert
- Karen Chilton Schaefer, NCTM
- Roma G. Scriven, NCTM
- Barbara A. Shinn, NCTM
- Ronald R. Shinn, NCTM
- Timothy Shook, NCTM
- Vivian Wai Siao
- Mary C. Siciliano, NCTM
- Linda Skaret
- Diane M. Smith, NCTM
- Elaine B. Smith, NCTM
- Rosemary A. Solomons-Helmick
- Carol Pitts South, NCTM
- Nancy Pendley Stokes
- Pamela F. Stump, NCTM
- Pat Terrell
- Rory M. Thompson, NCTM
- Terry E. Thompson, NCTM
- Charles Timbrell, NCTM
- Sharla J. Van Cleave, NCTM
- Elizabeth D. VonEnde
- Sharon A. Walker, NCTM
- Karen Wallace
- Margee K. Webster, NCTM
- Rose Weichert, NCTM
- Constance R. White
- Bette Chetwood Wilson, NCTM
- Russell Wilson
- Suzanne Winterhof, NCTM
- Suzanne R. Woodrum
- Victoria Wyatt, NCTM
- Craig J. Young