Lori Ardovino - President, Higher Education Division
What an incredible conference! Kudos to all of the clinicians, conductors, and performing groups. A very special thanks to Garry Taylor, Executive Director for his outstanding organizational skills and unsurpassed wisdom and to Sara Womack, AMEA President, for her leadership and perseverance. We are fortunate to have such adept leaders in our midst. The Higher Education Division sponsored three clinicians, Dr. Jim Zingara, University of Alabama at Birmingham, who presented an instructive session titled, “Trumpet Chops 101”. Dr. Zingara demonstrated how to recognize poorly formed embouchures and provided some simple and effective ways in which to solve these problems without the invasive “start from the beginning while looking in the mirror” embouchure change process. Dr. William Powell, Auburn University led an engaging session on re-voicing This session focused on re-voicing choral music from mixed voices (SATB) to single-gender voices, primarily SSA(A) and TTBB. Dr. Yasmin Flores presented
“ Little Tweaks for your Budding Clarinetists: A Band Director's Guide to Teaching the Clarinet 5th - 12th Grade”. This session described the basics of clarinet playing with pictures and a trouble-shooting guide for squeaks and other odd problems one may encounter. Each of these clinicians presented material that was informative and practical for the music teacher of any teaching level.
The Poster Session represented three Universities, the University of Alabama, Auburn University and the University of Montevallo. Many thanks to Jane Kuehne, Auburn University for organizing this session. I encourage other universities professors to consider presenting for the next conference.
A wide variety of chamber music from the 19th to the 21st centuries was featured in the Higher Education Division Recital. Universities represented were the University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of Montevallo, Samford
University, Alabama State University, University of Alabama, Troy University, and Auburn University. The recital was well attended received.
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Esteemed conductor Dr. Frank B. Wickes led the 2013 Alabama Intercollegiate Band. Many thanks to Sue Samuels for organizing this event. A fine program was presented, with a variety of impressive music, culminating with the arranged for band, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
As we have just brought this year’s conference to an end, it will be soon time to be thinking about applying for the 2014 AMEA Conference.
I strongly
encourage all higher education professors to consider applying to present a session. Everyone can benefit from your expertise and wisdom. I look forward to a great rest of the school year and to the 2014 AMEA Conference!
Stephanie Pesto - President, Collegiate AMEA
I would like to take this time to share my excitement about the collegiate division of AMEA! During this year, I have seen the entire state become closer and more involved at the collegiate level. It was readily apparent at January’s AMEA Conference that involvement in the program has increased greatly. Over ninety students attended, representing eight colleges and university. The conference was an educational and networking opportunity that I hope everyone will be able to attend next year, either as a student or a teacher.
During our time in Montgomery, the collegiate members attended sessions and concerts with all of the state’s music educators. On Thursday night a casual social event was held for all of the students to mingle and to get to know
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their fellow colleagues from around the state. Times like those are invaluable to pre-service teachers. The colleagues and friends that we meet while in school often will become our lifelong colleagues and resources. At the business luncheon, which was held on Friday, the new Executive Board for Collegiate AMEA was elected.
I am very excited to
announce Ethan Lolley (University of North Alabama), Stacy Daniels (University of Montevallo), and Shuler Sitsch (The University of Alabama) as our new President, Vice President, and Secretary. Dr. Moya Nordlund will be serving her last year as Collegiate Advisor. We welcome Dr. Ted Hoffman onto the Executive Board as Co- Collegiate Advisor to insure a smooth transition in the coming year. No doubt, this will be a successful year with this
team of leaders. I wish them all the best of luck.
At this time I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the entire Alabama Music Educators Association for allowing me to serve you as the collegiate president. It has been an honor and a pleasure to have the opportunity to work with my fellow board members Julia Baxter and Vincent Schneider this year. I am so proud of our collegiate division, and I see growth in numbers, service and camaraderie in the coming year. Congratulations to the new Executive Board, and thank you again for allowing me to serve as this year’s president.
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