& News From Our Division Chairs A special thank you to our evaluators, who worked hard to provide quality and educationally supportive suggestions to the
performing ensembles. The band members, directors and spectators deserve to be proud of both their individual performances and the manner in which they supported each other. Mark your calendars for next year’s festival on Saturday, October 17th, 2014. Sign-ups for the festival begin March 1st, 2014. Please contact Matt Paterno at
mpaterno@wayneschools.com a.s.a.p. after March 1st as space is limited and performance spots fill up quickly!
Seeking all Presenters! If you are interested in presenting a session at next year’s NJEA Conference or if you are a Central or Southern New Jersey Band Director and are interested in hosting a NJMEA Marching Band Festival, please contact me.
Last but not least I am looking for input regarding workshops which any general / classroom music teachers might be inter- ested in attending.
Guitar Education Thomas Amoriello
tom@tomamoriello.com 908-342-7795
Exciting news has arrived for guitar educators and their students here in the Garden State. At the September 10, 2013
NJMEA Executive Board meeting, a proposal was approved for the NJMEA to sponsor the first ever NJMEA Guitar Festival. This event will take place at Wall High School in Wall, NJ, with Keith Calmes as the festival director. Our featured performer for this event is Tali Roth, concert artist and director of The Juilliard Pre-College guitar area. Roth will give a masterclass and con- cert. Other features of this festival will include a concert by outstanding area high school student Joseph Douglass; John Bogan (Cleveland Institute of Music); the Montclair University Guitar Ensemble; a lecture-recital on the Harp Guitar by an expert in the field Mark Farley; and a guitar ensemble showcase recital. I will also host an education roundtable. Details about master class audition requirements and ensemble showcase participation can be found on the registration form in this issue of TEMPO. It is important for music educators to help spread the word. Your participation only strengthens and justifies the guitar’s place within the NJMEA. If you do not get your students and ensembles to participate and attend, these events will not exist. I would like to thank Joe Jacobs and the NJMEA Board for recognizing the guitar as a vital part of music education. I would like to close by bringing attention to a Guitar Educators roundtable that will be held at the February NJMEA Conference. This will give guitar educators a chance to voice their opinion in a public forum on the direction of the guitar in our state. The Topic will be: “What Would A NJ All-State Guitar Ensemble or a NJ Honors Guitar Ensemble Look Like?”
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