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Program: Thinking Out of the Box: Adapting Your Lessons to Meet Students Where They Are Speaker: Dr. Sok Hwee Tay Refreshments and fellowship at 9:30, meeting at 10:00 am

The live masterclass will begin at 10:00 am and will be held over Zoom. A shareable link will be emailed to CMTA members the week of the masterclass.

Deadline for submitting student videos for Louise Mathis Scholarship

The meeting will start at 10:00 am, and will be held over Zoom. A shareable link will be emailed to CMTA members the week of the meeting.

Time is TBD. The live masterclass will be held over Zoom. A shareable link will be emailed to CMTA members the week of the masterclass.

Deadline for submitting student videos and materials for Achievement Day.
Achievement Day will be held virtually this year. Questions can be directed to the CoChairs at achieve@cmtachieve.org.

The recital will "start" at 3:00 pm, but will be held virtually.

The meeting will start at 10:00 am. CMTA is monitoring the COVID situation and will determine whether the meeting will be virtual or in person as more information becomes available.

Time is TBD. CMTA is monitoring the COVID situation and will determine whether the meeting will be virtual or in person as more information becomes available.

Introductory Member Meeting to discuss what to expect in this upcoming year, dates, changes/developments, discussions. In Person and on Zoom. In person, please wear a mask regardless of vaccination status. Zoom link will be sent by email a few days

Piano (& now Music Composition) Teacher, Dan McCurry, will be discussing how to introduce teaching music composition from the perspective of having just done so himself in the past 2 years. He will touch on the challenges of teaching music composition

Spencer Myer, conference artist
Kevin Olson, conference clinician

SC MTNA Performance Competitions

Joy Vandervort-Cobb, currently Associate Artistic Director at PURE Theater in Charleston, SC, was the Associate Professor of African American Theatre and Performance at the College of Charleston for 25 years. Joy began her career in theatre more than 50 years

Schedule: - 2:45 – doors to the sanctuary open - 3:00 – Piano Duets Recital starts - 3:45 – Break and Reception in the lobby. During this time, AC and Air Purifiers can circulate in the empty sanctuary. - 4:00 –

Serena Hill-LaRoche, DMA, is an active concert artist having recently been featured in works such as Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Herbert Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi, Poulenc’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Seasons, Brahm’s Requiem, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Vaughan William’s Dona Nobis Pacem and Handel’s Samson.

Steinway Artist, Douglas Weeks, is Babcock Professor Emeritus of Piano at Converse University and Coordinator of Piano Studies at the Brevard Music Center. He has taught at the Cairo Conservatory of Music as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He has performed extensively throughout the Southeast as well as in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia under the sponsorship of the US State Department.

Martial Arts Can Benefit Musicians: Mind, Body, Breathing, Focus and Reducing Injury For Musicians Through the Art of Tai-Chi

Being a musician can be mentally and physically demanding. The martial arts can help musicians through relaxation, centeredness, posture, discipline, cognitive function, endurance, rhythmic flow, and artistic expression.