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Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico
Newsletter
Winter - Spring 2016 Edition
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: SharonKunitz,NCTM
The year is already busy with PEP, competitions, recitals, classes and adjusting to
the many non-music activities of the season: swimming, gymnastics, dance, orchestra, etc.
to name a few. You are all a very professional and dynamic membership, and I commend all the workers and supporters.
Thanks to Dianne and Douglas for their technical leadership, and
especially formatting this unique SEGUE. We are thankful that they are
recovering well from their horrific car accident while returning from Santa Fe to Albuquerque one day in December.
Our Executive-Secretary Jeanne Grealish knows all the history
and answers to our many questions... Thanks, Jeanne, for your emails
and words of wisdom!
Please note all the activities and highlights of PMTNM in the recent months. After the MTNA conference April 2-7 in San Antonio, we
will report on the state of the music profession. We will be cheering our two MTNA contestants at the competitions. Please let me know if you are planning to attend...
...... and I am off to Iceland and Ireland with daughter Jill and family. Students didn't shed a
tear when I indicated a week of no lessons!
Musically, Sharon Kunitz
About this issue - - We have laid out this issue of
Segue as a pictorial diary of the Student Festival
Weekend’s activities. If you missed it, here’s a glimpse
of what happened. If you attended, we hope you enjoy
the memories.
Inside this Issue —
President’s Message
About this Issue
Joyce Walker Winners
Spotlight on Students
Student Festival Clinician
Friday night
Board Meeting
followed by dinner provided the
prelude for Student Festival Day
on Saturday.
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Composition Winners & Ensemble
Recital
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Teacher of the Year
Weed and Danfelser
Scholarships
Save the Date
PMTNM Voice Honors
Dates and Deadlines
Spotlight on Members
Officers and Chairs
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Joyce Walker Award Winners 2O15
MTNA Junior/Senior Winners
Junior Piano - Andreas Landstedt (Falko Steinbach)
Senior Piano - Sophie Yang (Lawrence Blind)
Young Artist Performance - Saxophone - Matthew Koester
(Eric Lau)
Composition
Elementary -- Simon Lane (Melyssa Garland)
Junior --Liza Cardinale (Melyssa Garland)
Senior -- Nathaniel Filer (Dawn Filer)
PMTNM (State Level) Student Honors Winners
Piano
Level I - Natalie Su (Amy Greer)
Level II - Jane Wei (Tatyana Baylieva)
Level III - Michael Jakische (Tatyana Baylieva)
Level IV - Tony Yan (Doris Tankersley)
Level V - Natalia Kalugina (Tatyana Baylieva)
Voice
Level I - Elizabeth Plis (J. Zander-Wall)
Level II - Allison Lium (J. Zander-Wall)
Level III - Sydney Ruggles (J. Zander-Wall)
Level IV - Matthew Burress ( J. Zander-Wall)
Level V - Sophie Neal* (Donna McRae)
*Did not perform
Spotlight on Students
Southwest MTNA Division Winners—Two New Mexico students will represent the Southwest Division at
the national MTNA Junior/Senior and Young Artist Competitions in San Antonio April 2-7, 2016.
Violinist Natalie Franz, a student of Carmelo de los Santos, will compete in the Junior/Senior Strings
category.
Saxophonist Matthew Koester, a student of Eric Lau, will compete in the Young Artist/Woodwinds
category.
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Pressley Gao wins Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Concerto Competition
Presley Gao, 13, won The Music Guild of New Mexico's Jackie McGehee Young Artists' Competition Feb. 13
at UNM’s Keller Hall.
Gao played the first movement of the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, accompanied by his
teacher, Steinway Artist Jacquelyn Helin, on the second piano.
As the first place winner, Gao received a cash award of $2,000 plus several solo performances with the New
Mexico Philharmonic.
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Marylène Dosse served as guest clinician —
PMTNM Member and Albuquerque resident, Marylène Dosse, served as guest clinician for Student Festival Day. She conducted a master class for selected State Honors competitors. The program for the master
class including the students who participated is listed here. Participants are students of Madeline Williamson
and Falko Steinbach.
Prelude in B minor, BWV 855a J.S. Bach/Arranged by Alexander Siloti
Clavier Büchlein für W. F. Bach 1685-1750)/(1863-1945)
Lenny Svyatsky, Age 11
Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827) Allegro
Nicholas Mozyrsky, Age 12
Leyandas/Asturias, Op. 232, No. 1 Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Sruthi Garimella, Age 13
Impromptu in E-Flat Major, Po. 90, No. 2 Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
Santana Garcia-Alarid, Age 15
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Composition Winners and Ensemble Recital - More Than One is Twice the Fun (or Three Times,
Four Times…)
The 2015 Composition Winners’ and Ensemble Recital highlighted Student Festival Day from 2:15
- 3:30 p.m. in the Gathering Room at St. John’s United Methodist in Santa Fe. The Ensemble
recital is a non-competitive event open to students of ALL ages. Teachers and parents join
their children and students as part of the ensembles. Six duos participated in the program.
The three winners of Student Composition
Competition also performed their original works.
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TEACHER of theYEAR, 2015—Dianne Brehmer Bailey
After accepting the award, Dianne made the following remarks:
Thank you, Sharon, my fellow PMTNM members, friends and guests.
First on the list of people who have supported me along the journey, I want to thank
my husband, Douglas Bailey. Without him, I would not be standing here before you.
Next, I want to thank Jeanne Grealish, my voice teacher, mentor, and dear friend.
Jeanne is a wonderful model of how to serve students, parents, colleagues and stay
human at the same time.
There are many others to whom I owe great debts of gratitude for their support and
belief in me along my professional, musical, personal, and spiritual path. To all I
say thank you from the deepest corners of my soul. I am profoundly humbled by
this award.
As most of you know, I began my professional life as a church musician. While I am
no longer active in that field, I find the poetry of hymn texts expresses thoughts
much more effectively than I can. So I want to close with a hymn-poem which, although it comes out of a specific, denominational tradition, speaks to me of the joy
music can bring to people of all faiths and colors, no matter what their ethnicity, orientation or political, economic, or social
position in life. In short, music brings joy to every human heart.
“When in our music God is glorified, and adoration leaves no room for pride, it is as though the whole creation cried, Alleluia!
Let every instrument be tuned for praise! Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! And may God give us faith to sing always: Alleluia!” text by F. Pratt Green
Thank you!
REMEMBER!! PLEASE SUBMIT APPLICATIONS FOR THE WEED AND DANFELSER SCHOLARSHIPS BY OCTOBER 5, 2016. Forms are on the PMTNM Website. Note to teachers: the Weed Scholarship is open to all performers, both vocal
and instrumental. The application for this scholarship involves three parts: one
for the student, one for the music teacher, and one for the school teacher. The
Danfelser Scholarship is for pianists only and the application requires two parts,
one each from student and music teachers. If you have questions or need forms,
please contact Heather Nasi at 505-863-5039 or [email protected].
SAVE the DATE:
Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival to mark seventh edition of event—April 22-24, 2016 at
Albuquerque Academy.
Application deadline for this year’s edition of the Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival is April 1.
The theme for this year is Canciones Españolas. Featured faculty will include Benita Valente and Guillermo Figueroa, along with pianist Debra Ayers. New to the program this year
is an Adult Division for singers over 30. For additional information contact Jacqueline Zander-Wall at [email protected] or 505-610-2989.
Colorado State Music Teachers Association Conference, June 2-4, 2016
Joan Sawyer, president of Colorado Music Teachers Association, invites PMTNM members to attend the CSMTA Conference in Pueblo at CSU-Pueblo, June 2-4. Information about the conference, including a preliminary schedule and registration form, can be found at the end of this newsletter. Or you may go to comusicteachers.net and click on the Conference tab for all the details.
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PMTNM Voice Honors Auditions
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*****Dates and Deadlines*****
• Colorado State Music Teachers Association
Conference, June 2-4, 2016
• The 2016 PMTNM State Honors Auditions will
be posted at a later date on the PNTNM web
page http://pmtnm.net
• MTNA NATIONAL CONFERENCE March 1822, 2017 in Baltimore, Md.
Spotlight on Members —
Eunice Schumpert Honored
The 48th annual Friends of Music Concert at
Eastern New Mexico University in November
honored Eunice Schumpert, a life member of
PMTNM. At age 94, Eunice has taught piano
and voice in eastern New Mexico for 70 years.
Over the course of her career, she has taught
more than 1,000 students. Currently she
teaches only 12 or 13 students, a much smaller
teaching load than the 50-60 students she welcomed weekly in the past. Congratulations,
Eunice!
(Thanks to Ferrell Roberts for submitting this
item.)
Rest in Peace, Evelyn Losack,
Longtime PMTNM member Evelyn Losack died
January 10, 2016. Evelyn will be remembered
by her many musical friends as a hard-working
supporter of the arts, locally and around the
state. Evelyn earned a degree in music from
UNM and taught independently for 62 years. In
addition, she supervised music programs at
five elementary schools and helped to found a number of community organizations involving both the arts
and culture and agriculture and community development. A funeral mass was held on January 13 at San
Ysidro Church in Corrales.
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Officers and Chairs
Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico
PRESIDENT - Sharon Lohse Kunitz, NCTM
VICE - PRESIDENT - Jan King
DISTRICT VICE - PRESIDENTS
Central - Tatyana Bayliyeva
Northeast I - Melissa Toedtman
Northeast II - Doris Tankersley
Northwest - Heather Nasi, NCTM
Southeast - Michelle Walton
Southwest - Patricia Hamilton-Brown, NCTM
State Certification Chair - Linda King, NCTM
Performance Evaluation Program Chair - Janna Warren
State Honors Chair - Melissa Toedtman and Jan King NCTM
Scholarship Chair - Heather Nasi, NCTM
Executive Secretary / Treasure / Dues - Jeanne Grealish,
NCTM
Student Activities Chair - Lauryn Bomse
Segue News Letter Editor - Dianne Brehmer Bailey, NCTM