across the US to form the All-National Concert Band and Mixed Choir. Selected students include Carrie Ciecierski (Dothan High School, Steve McLendon, director), Liam Remley (Shades Valley High School, David Allinder, director), Hannah Love (Saraland High School, Christine Breland, director) and Ben Cooper and Devan Payne (Austin High School, John Cooper, director). I hope you will join me in congratulating these students and their directors.
Finally, here is a glimpse of some of the plans we are working on for 2015-2016 and goals we surpassed this summer.
President-elect, Susan Smith, is working on hosting our state’s first Alabama Music Education Advocacy Day in 2016.
The Ala Breve will continue to invite music educators from across the US to write original articles for our journal. To date, we have published 23 original articles in our journal since beginning the initiative.
Garry Taylor has helped increase Industry Membership in the AMEA to 22 members which is a 57% increase over figures from a year ago.
The FJH Music Company Inc. will sponsor the AMEA Reading Band and support a top-notch clinician, Brian Balmages, to direct the group at our state conference in January 2016.
The Governing Board passed a budget to extend the special clinician fund for the AVA, ABA, AOA, and Elementary/ General Music Division. Each group now has the opportunity to invite nationally recognized speakers to present at the 2016 In-Service Conference.
The Governing Board secured support from Jupiter Band Instruments to help bring the Boston Brass to headline the 2016 In-Service Conference.
Dr. Diane Orlofsky from Troy State University was appointed to serve as the 2015-2016 choral music reviewer for the Ala Breve.
Mr. David Raney of Sparkman High School was appointed to serve as the Alabama TI:ME Representative. The Technology Institute for Music Education, also known as TI:ME, has expressed an interest in partnering with the AMEA.
The AMEA website will be restructured, modernized, and rebuilt.
The Outstanding Young Music Teacher Award was officially renamed the Edward H. Cleino Outstanding Young Music Teacher Award in honor of Ed‘s numerous contributions to the AMEA.
Ellis Ludwig-Leone of the San Fermi band with AMEA Leaders and Collegiates at the NAfME National Leadership Assembly in Tysons Corner, VA. San Fermi is the 2015 Stand for Music Award Winner and Ellis is the Alabama Symphony Orchestra’s Sound Investment Composer-in- Residence. From left to right, Carl Hancock (AMEA President), Susan Smith (AMEA President-elect), Sara
Womack (AMEA Past-President, SD President-elect), Ellisa Ludwig-Leone, Allison Glover (Collegiate), Mai Yamane (Collegiate), and Madison Baldwin (Collegiate).
This is only a snapshot of the excellent work your AMEA Officers and Governing Board members have been doing this summer and I am certain their columns will highlight the leadership they bring to Alabama. As you can tell, planning and preparations for the new year are well under way. As your President, I am looking forward to partnering with you to provide the best music education possible to students throughout Alabama. We are here to support you and I welcome your thoughts, ideas, and comments. I wish for you and your students a great new year.
Carl Hancock, President
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