Sarah Schrader - President, Alabama Orchestra Association
WOW! The AMEA conference this year was AMAZING! Thank you to everyone who made this conference possible. Thank you AOA members for attending this year’s conference, it was especially great to see new faces! Our presenters this year were spectacular! Some of the conference wide highlights included the Boston Brass and Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser. We were especially blessed to have stellar string presentations this year.
Our headline presenter was
nationally renowned composer Soon Hee Newbold. Her sessions and personality were delightful and helped to make the conference exhilarating.
Our string sessions this year
included; selecting the perfect piece, improving ensemble skills, group class teaching techniques, score preparation, the publishing process, classroom management, incorporating strings into your band program, and injury prevention for musicians.
We were lucky to have some of our own state
colleagues present this year. Thank you Dr. Anne Witt, Dr. Daniel Stevens, David Pryor, and Caroline Nordlund for your wonderful sessions. We also enjoyed a spectacular performance by the Shoals Symphony from Florence. They then stayed to provide the instrumentation for our JW Pepper sponsored reading session that was conducted by Soon Hee Newbold. Those in attendance were thrilled to get to perform some great music under Soon Hee’s direction. If you missed it this year, I hope you will make time in your busy schedules to attend next year’s conference in January.
Our next AOA event, The All State Orchestra Festival will be underway or completed when this issue is published. Thank you to all the conductors, judges, sectional coaches, and teachers for taking the time to work with Alabama’s talented young musicians.
This weekend is an amazing
experience for all who attend. I appreciate you sharing your time and talents with the students to make this weekend amazing. Thank you to the University of Alabama for hosting us again this year. It is a blessing to have this venue to hold the festival.
AOA will be hosting our first ever Orchestra Music Performance Assessment (OMPA) at Auburn University, April 22nd
and 23rd . The registration form is now up on our website and must be postmarked by March 4th to not
incur late fees. We are so excited to be offering this! Thank you to our OMPA committee Dr. Guy Harrison, Dr. Anne Witt, Dr. Dan Hornstein, Dr. Katherine King, and Steven Findley for getting everything organized. Your planning efforts have made this event a possibility!
I would also like to thank the AOA Executive Board and district chairs, Sam Nordlund, Felicia Sarubin, Jacob Frank, Lisa Caravan, Julie Hornstein, Matthew Grant, Julianne Odahowski Steele, Eugene Conner, Chin- Mei Li, and Roland Lister for your help this year with all events. These events would not be possible without all your hard work. Thank you for all you do!
In closing, I pray that you can continue to keep your enthusiasm high throughout the end of the school year. Set your goals for your students and stick to them.
I look
forward to hearing your success stories from this year!
Dates:
Orchestra Music Performance Assessment Registration deadline- March 4, 2016
Orchestra Music Performance Assessment- April 22 and 23, 2016
AMEA Presidents - Past to Present
1946 Yale H. Ellis 1948 Walter A. Mason 1950 Vernon Skoog 1952 John J. Hoover 1954 Lamar Triplett 1956 Carleton K. Butler 1958 Mort Glosser 1960 Wilbur Hinton 1962 Lacey Powell, Jr. 1964 G. Truman Welch 1966 Jerry Countryman 1968 Floyd C. McClure
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1970 Jerry Bobo 1972 Frances P. Moss 1974 George Hammett 1975 Frances P. Moss 1976 S. J. Allen 1978 W. Frank McArthur, Jr. 1980 Paul Hall 1982 Lacey Powell, Jr. 1984 Johnny Jacobs 1986 Merilyn Jones 1988 Ronald D. Hooten 1990 Ken Williams
1992 Dianne Johnson 1994 James K. Simpson 1996 Johnnie Vinson 1998 Michael Meeks 2000 John McAphee, Jr. 2002 Tony Pike 2004 Becky Rodgers 2006 John Baker 2008 Pat Stegall 2010 Steve McLendon 2012 Sara Womack 2014 Carl Hancock
February/March 2016
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