Florida State Music Teachers Association

announces

2006 District VII Music Conference

Saturday, August 19, 2006

8:30am - 3:00pm

Florida Gulf Coast University
Black Box Theater

 

Featuring

 

Michael Baron

Rod Chesnutt

Jeannie Darnell

Suzanne Guy

Also featuring Donald Morelock and Evelyn Bliem

 

AGENDA

8:30am - 9:00am 

 Coffee and Registration
9:00am - 12:00pm  Morning Sessions
12:00pm  Lunch, Keynote Speaker,
       Millicent Callobre, FSMTA President
1:00pm - 3:00pm  Afternoon Session
 

COST (Lunch Included)
$35.00  FSMTA Member
$10.00

 Student (ID Required)
$45.00

 Non-Member
$45.00  Late Registration

Registration Deadline: August 1, 2006

2006 District Conference Registration Form PDF

 
 

Artist Clinicians

Michael Baron  
 

"Music of Franz Liszt"

An award-winning concert pianist, Michael Baron performs more than forty concerts each year, including annual tours of Europe and engagements throughout the United States. Equally at home as a recitalist, a soloist with orchestra, and a chamber musician, Baron commands a diverse repertoire, ranging from Baroque compositions to world premieres of contemporary pieces. His virtuosity and musicianship regularly garner the highest critical acclaim. Il Tempo (Rome) praised his "spellbinding recital. Baron kept the audience enthralled with a combination of touching poetry and superhuman virtuosity." Baron received his doctorate in Piano Performance from The Ohio State University where he studied with the legendary American pianist Earl Wild. He also worked extensively in Italy with the renowned pianist Orazio Frugoni.

Dr. Baron has recently been appointed Associate Professor of Music and Head of Keyboard Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, Florida. A distinguished educator, Baron has presented masterclasses and workshops at schools, festivals, and universities across the United States and Europe. He was formerly Artist-in-Residence, Head of Keyboard Studies, and a tenured Associate Professor of Music at Mesa State College. He has previously taught at universities in Colorado, New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio, as well as many institutions throughout Italy. He regularly serves as a jurist on regional, national, and international piano competitions.

An acclaimed master teacher, Dr. Baron's students regularly win competitions throughout the United States and abroad. He is a popular teacher and presenter for teacher groups. Baron co-directs the Corsi Internazionali di Musica summer music festival at the University of Urbino, Italy (www.urbino.beadlam.us) and is Artistic Director of the Rocky Mountain Music Alliance Concert Series in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  Rod Chesnutt
    "Introduction to the World of Instrumental Concerti"

 

Rod M. Chesnutt is associate professor of instrumental music at Florida Gulf Coast University where he is responsible for those components of the university music program while teaching courses in music education, wind literature and conducting. He holds a bachelor's degree in music education from Tennessee Technological University, a master's degree in trombone performance from Arkansas State University, and a Ph.D. in music education with an emphasis in wind conducting from Florida State University. Previously, he served as chair of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting and director of Symphonic and marching bands at the University of Northern Iowa. He was also the director of bands at Mississippi State University and the State University of West Georgia.

Additionally, he served as Music Director/Conductor of the Starkville/MSU Symphony Orchestra and served as the assistant director of bands and the director of the Cornhusker Marching Band at the University of Nebraska. While at the University of Nebraska, the Cornhusker Marching Band received the Sudler Trophy for outstanding contributions among the nation's university bands. Prior to teaching at the university level, Dr. Chesnutt built superior-rated bands in the public schools of Trumann and Blytheville, Arkansas. He was recognized as an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1988, Who's Who in American Education 2006, Who's Who in America 2006 and received the National Music Clubs' Award of Merit in 1991.

As a clinician and adjudicator, Dr. Chesnutt has appeared throughout the United States. He is also an arranger of note having studied with Robert Jager and Jared Spears and his arrangements have been performed by such accomplished ensembles as the New Columbia Wind Band, the U.S. Army Band [Pershing's Own], Florida State University Symphonic Band, Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and the University of Nebraska Wind Ensemble. He has been actively involved in commissioning and premiering new music for winds including works by Michael Colgrass, Eric Ewazen, David Maslanka, Paul Richards, Robert W. Smith, Philip Sparke, and Jack Stamp.

Professionally, he is a member of Music Educators National Conference, College Band Directors National Association, World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Mississippi Bandmasters Association, Phi Beta Mu, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Lambda, and the National Band Association. A past Arkansas State Chairman for the NBA and Mississippi State Chair for the CBDNA, Dr. Chesnutt is a former Midwest and Southeast District Governor for Kappa Kappa Psi and currently serves as its National President. He has conducted ensembles and presented scholarly research at regional, national, and international conventions, and his articles have been published in CBDNA Reports, Journal of Band Research, The Instrumentalist, National Band Association Journal, and Clarino Bläsermusik International. He is a contributing author to the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series.

 

  
  Suzanne Guy
 

 

"How to Practice as Little as Possible and Get Big Results"

"How to Learn a New Piece"

Suzanne Guy is an MTNA certified master teacher of piano with her studio in Norfolk, Virginia. She has authored or co-authored several dozen books of piano literature and pedagogy, including two popular series published by FJH: EXPRESSIVE ETUDES and FOCUS ON MELODY (co-edited with Victoria McArthur). Her children's picture books have been honored in presentations at the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum. Guy's lectures, motivational workshops and master classes for state and local music teachers organizations have taken her to 44 states and overseas.

Extensive study with teachers Dr. Nelita True and Grace McFarlane have inspired Suzanne Guy's entire teaching career. Her enthusiasm for and dedication to music is shared with students of all ages who are noted for their remarkable sensitivity, musicality, maturity and technical mastery. She has had numerous winners and finalists in major competitions at the national and international levels.

A graduate (and recipient of the alumnae award for outstanding career in 2003) of Agnes Scott College, she has taught piano pedagogy at Peabody Conservatory and George Mason University, written a regular column in Clavier Magazine for 21 years, and was one of four piano teachers in the US featured on a Keyboard Teleconference broadcast nationwide in 1988 and a Mobil Ambassador teacher at the ninth (1993) Van Cliburn Competition.

  
     
 

Donald Morelock

    
   

"Concerto Repertoire for Piano Students"

Director of Music Department, Schoolcraft College, Michigan ; Co-Director of American-Russian Piano Institute, St. Petersburg Conservatory (Organized 10 summer trips for students from across the United States including 50 of his own students to study with faculty at St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Moscow Conservatory) ; Recipient of National Teaching Excellence Award, 1999, Austin, TX ; Director/Ann Arbor Bach Association ; Director of MMTA State Concerto Competition (12 years) ; Frequent performer/chamber music and two-piano recitals.

Mr. Morelock's students have won many prestigious awards and distinguished themselves at major competitions and music schools. Some of these achievements include: Honorable mention, second place and first place winners in the MTNA Junior High and High School Piano competitions ; Accepted as performers in the International Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Competition, Tchaikowsky Competition in Moscow, Busoni, Artur Rubenstein, & Van Cliburn Competitions. His students have attended major music schools including: University of Michigan (more than 125 students) ; New England Conservatory ; Julliard School of Music ; Curtis Institute of Music.  His students have also graduated with honors from: Moscow, St. Petersburg and Paris Conservatories

  
     
  Jeannie Darnell  
    "Vocal Literature"

 

  
 

You won't want to miss these sessions on

"Vocal and Instrumental Repertoire"

in preparation for the 2007 FSMTA District VII Concerto Competition 

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2006 District Conference Registration Form PDF

 

 

  
   
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