FIrst Chapter Meeting ... NEXT WEEK!!

 

Good Luck, Awestruck, Potluck! (Game Day and Meet-and-Greet)

• Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 12:00 PM
• Location: Utah Tech Campus (ECCLES 155)
• Zoom Link: https://teacherscollege.zoom.us/j/8522636179?omn=93040080525
• Description:
  Bring your favorite music game and/or treat to share with everyone. This will be a great opportunity to network, share teaching ideas, and have some fun! We look forward to seeing you there.

What to bring: Bringing a snack and/or a music game you enjoy playing with your students is optional but encouraged. Be prepared to teach us how to play!

Upcoming Announcements and Deadlines:

·       UMTA Performance Evaluations Deadlines
UMTA Performance Evaluations Website (Guidelines)
Registration Form
If you haven't received instructions from Rachel France, please let me know ASAP, and I’ll forward them to you.

·       UMTA State Conference:
Date: November 1-2, 2024
Location: Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, UT
Conference Information

2024 Performance Evaluations

 The 2024 Performance Evaluations are right around the corner!!  Student registrations and payment need to be submitted by our UMTA Chapter meeting on Tuesday, September 10th at noon.  The evaluations will be held on Friday, October 4th in the afternoon and evening.  The Honors Recital(s) will be held Saturday between 12 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.  All events will be held at Utah Tech Eccles Building.

More details will be coming soon.  Or reach out to Rachel France or Patrice Hunt if you have questions.

St. George Chapter Leadership

President:  
Tiffany Barnes Watts

Vice President: 

TBD (I'm open to suggestions whenever.)

Treasurer:  

Carole Terry

Performance Evaluations Committee Head:  

Rachel France

AIM Chair:  

Caroline Jennings

Website/Historian:  

Patrice Hunt*

Cedar City Liaison: 

(Hopeful to have Christian Bohnenstengel) 

President Emeritus:  

Mark Gubler

Local Collegiate Chapters:

SUU Collegiate Chapter President:  TBD

Utah Tech Collegiate Chapter President:  TBD

ENJOY THE SUMMER...

 We had our Closing Social in May at Vernon Worthen Park and enjoyed visiting with many of our music colleagues!

There are several changes taking place, biggest being the changing of "the guard" as Mark Gubler's tenure as president of the St. George UMTA chapter has come to an end.  We appreciate so very much the time and work he has put in, with many others, to keep our chapter moving forward.

Tiffany Barnes Watts has been nominated and elected as the new UMTA - St. George President for the 2024-26 term.  We look forward to her leadership and input.

"Item number next," as Dr. Lynn Dean would say:  Performance Evaluations are coming up so please prepared your students now to be ready to perform the end of September.  More definitive dates will be coming soon.  If you have questions, please reach out to Rachel France.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

Student Registrations are due September 23rd

Evaluations Judging: Saturday October 7th

Honors Recitals: Saturday October 21st, 2pm-6pm

Contact Mark Gubler for more information!

Starting off 2023 WRIGHT!!

 Hey Everyone!

Below is the zoom link for our chapter meeting with Josh Wright this coming Tuesday at noon! You're not going to want to miss it! 

Also, don't forget that the March meeting is a book discussion. You'll want to start reading and implementing that soon if you haven't already. Here's the info:

• March - Book Discussion "The Piano Practice Physician's Handbook: 32 Common Piano Student Ailments and How Piano Teachers Can Cure Them for GOOD" by Nicola Cantan
• Here's a link where you can buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Practice-Physicians-Handbook-Ailments/dp/1527207005
• I highly recommend getting and reading this book early on. Since it's all about practice strategies it would be great for all of us to try some things out with our students and get together to talk about our experiences. 

Here's the zoom link for this Tuesday: Chapter Meeting with Josh Wright

Time: Jan 10, 2023 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

Josh Wright - Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 891 4437 0019

Passcode: 732634

Thanks! Let me know if there's anything more I can do to help!

Mark

UMTA Chapter Meetings Back in Session!

September's chapter meeting took place on campus at Utah Tech University.

Jerald Simon kicked off our year of presentations and did a great job!  If you weren't able to see it, or want to go back through it, you can do so here:

Jerald Simon kicked off our year of presentations and did a great job! If you weren't able to see it, or want to go back through you can view it here: Sept. Chapter Meeting.  The passcode is #q?0V8ky

If you want to contact Jerald with questions you can email him at Jerald M. Simon

For your information:  Performance Evaluations will ONLY be held on Saturday, October 8, 2022.  Due to a few of our teachers being out of state or out of commission, we should be able to handle all of the students on Saturday only.  This will help reduce the cost as well and everyone's time.  

We appreciate the efforts of Emmalee Compass in heading up the Evaluations this year.  Please contact her at 385-222-9279 if you have any questions!

We look forward to getting to know everyone better this year, particularly as we have several new members coming in!

See you in October!

Southern Utah Piano Pedagogy Conference

 Saturday, April 9th, 2022 - SUPPC 2nd Annual Conference was held in Cedar City after a one year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic.  It was great to be back together, and this conference was as great as the first!

2022 Conference Details 

2022 Conference Booklet - you can read through this and see how many great presentations there were.

Some of my take-aways were:

What causes stress???  NUTS!!

N - new things/novelty

U - unpredictable things

T - Threat...whether real or perceived

S - Stress that is toxic...continuous and unsupported.  

We can reduce stress in our students' piano/lesson life by asking the following:

What would you like my help with most today?

What would you like me to hear first?

What do you feel you did really well this week?

Giving our students a bit more autonomy during their lessons will help reduce stress AND help them feel more empowered and motivated.

The different panels were informative.  I especially loved the question asked the 4 University professors:  What do you wish you would have known when you first started out with your collegiate education/career?  There were some great suggestions and it caused me to think about my own...I wish someone would have shaken me by the shoulders and said, "PERFORMANCE ISN'T THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO WITH PIANO!!!"  I might not have wasted 30 years.  However, I AM making up for lost time thanks to UMTA!!!  *_*

I loved that Dr. Allred shared her favorite duets list and Dr. Dean's.  Dr.Dean had the best list of solos and duets.  Here's his list: