THE NEW JERSEY MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION a federated state association of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION News From Our Division Chairs


Guitar Education Thomas Amoriello


tom@tomamoriello.com


Happy 2019! Mark your calendars for Saturday May 4, 2019 as this will be the 6th annual NJMEA Honors Guitar Festival


at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ. The recital will feature the chosen 2019 NJMEA Honors Guitar Ensemble students conducted by Jayson Martinez as well as a featured guest artist recital from China, classical guitarist Tengyue (TY) Zhang who was the first prize winner in the 2017 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition. This will be the fourth year of the NJMEA Honors Guitar Ensemble. Please see the October issue of TEMPO or visit the Guitars in the Classroom Portal at njmea.org for more information about the 2019 NJMEA Honors Guitar Ensemble Auditions. In the October issue only the first page of the Carcassi Etude appeared. Please visit th NJMEA.org web portal or email tom@tomamoriello.com for the corrected version.


2019 NJMEA Honors Guitar Ensemble Audition


Auditions Saturday, February 9, 2019 at The College of New Jersey (music dept), 2000 Pennington Rd.


Ewing, NJ 08628 Ewing, NJ 9:00-1:00 pm (snow date Sunday, Feb. 10th @ Bayonne High School Time TBA)


Orchestra Performance Susan Meuse


susanmeuse@gmail.com


I am very happy to announce that there is a new All-State Orchestra Procedures Chair. Thank you to Justin Louie for step- ping up to take on this huge responsibility. I wish him luck as a I step down from this position, remaining as Performance Chair. Congratulations to the 2018 All-State Orchestra and Mixed Chorus for two great concerts in November! Both concerts were inspiring, and I hope that many of you had a chance to attend. The Orchestra Procedures Committee would like to congratulate all of the students involved in the All State Orchestra, as well as thank all of the volunteers who worked very hard to make both concerts possible. First, we would like to thank our conductor, Timothy Dixon from Messiah College. We would also like to thank our two Managers, Sarah Donatelli and Deb Knisely, as well as our Percus-


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