I wrote an article for the July edition of The Piano Bench Mag called…
“32 Ways to Market Your Studio.”
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Thanks to Leila Viss and Marie Lee for the excellent review of the session I presented at the 2016 MTNA Conference in San Antonio!
View the post on 88 Piano Keys: Wild West of Marketing: Marie’s MTNA 2016 Report Part 3
As I am making preparations to adjudicate tomorrow at one of our Indiana districts for our state competition, Hoosier Auditions, I thought I would briefly share some tips on how to prepare.
If possible, request ahead of time, a list of the repertoire entered. If you have a little heads-up, it’s nice to be able to jump online and your memory on the pieces ahead of time.
As your watching and listening, try to think through specifics regarding the piece and elements you may look for when the student performs. To me, this is simply being mindful of what’s to come.
Read through a few articles online on what it means to be a good judge.
Marcia Vahl wrote three excellent articles on Compose Create:
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The 2016 MTNA National Conference in San Antonio will go down in the books! The location was perfect, the weather was perfect, and the sessions were, as always, applicable and rejuvenating.
The long days (generally up by 5:45 am and not back until 10:30 pm!) were made more manageable by walking outside and soaking up some vitamin D3 at any given moment.
In this post, I will share a quick rundown of all the sessions I attended each day. However, more than sharing my notes and information, I especially wanted to share the people I came into contact with and the memories that impacted me the most. I always walk away with tons of extra applicable knowledge, but I feel even more blessed to walk away with more colleagues whom I can now call friends.
Also, because good food brings me joy, you’ll have to put up with seeing photos of all the food I ate!
My friend Joy and I were blessed to be able to stay with Susan Hong, a teacher in San Antonio, for the week. Getting to know her and seeing her experience an MTNA conference for the first time was fun! She was an excellent host and knew all the hot spots!
