 The Mobile Music Teachers Association consists of approximately 40 piano teachers
from the gulf coast as well as
2 organ teachers,
2 voice teachers,
1 keyboard teacher,
4 music theory teachers,
1 woodwinds teacher,
1 violin teacher,
1 cello teacher and
a piano tuner.
 University of Mobile Summer Music Camp
Registration is now open for the University of Mobile Summer Music Camp. During this week children will have classes of theory, technique, and performance. The camp informances this year will be particularly good: Monday: jazz piano performance by Kadisha Onalbayeva; Tuesday: performance on a sitar by prominent Mobile physician who is a native of India; Wednesday: Bob Holm and Enen Yu perform on piano & violin and Thursday is opera day with Joyce Sylvester. Informances are free and open to the public, 11:50 a.m. in Moorer Auditorium. Senior Camp chorus this year will do a musical theatre scene and the students will learn about stage directions, costumes and make-up as well as sing. Should be lots of fun for them.
Camp date: June 14-18, 2010. Closing Ceremony June 18, 12:30 at College Park.
For more information contact
Jessica Henderson secretary in UM Dept of Music in CPA, 251-442-2420,
or Barbara Laurendine, Director of Music Camp phone: 251-442-2402 or 251-661-2475.
 
On Sunday, May 21st, the Mobile Music Teachers Association held its annual honors recital in the Thomas T. Martin Fine Arts Building at the University of Mobile. Piano students representing 14 teaching studios in Mobile and Baldwin counties performed, and each student was presented an engraved medallion.
Senior Division students (grades 8-12) are pictured on the right (L-R)
(Row 1) Luke Lewis, Henry Van Hanegham, Abigail Denton
(Row 2) Rachel Goff, Whitney Myers, Gabriel Tobias
(Row 3) Elizabeth Denton, Trent Kannegieter
(Row 4) Emily Parham, Ashley Showles
(Row 5) Hannah Vanderheiden
Junior Division students (grades 1-7) are pictured on the left (L-R)
(Row 1) John Kyla Mae Pascua, Abrielle Le, Bettina Tobias
(Row 2) Ty Kannegieter, Patrick Howze, Charlai Breeding
(Row 3) Sarah Frances Phillips, Mary Monette Hulbert
(Row 4) Mills Hensley, Carly Byers
(Row 5) Andrew Burleson, Erica Burleson
YOUNG ALABAMA MUSICIANS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR A FELLOWSHIP
TO THE SUMMER MUSIC INSTITUTE
Through an initiative of the National Symphony Orchestra National Trustees, young Alabama musicians are eligible to apply for a National Trustees' fellowship. This program is an extension of the NSO American Residency. One young musician from Alabama will be selected to participate on scholarship for the 2010 Summer Music Institute.
The Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute is a 4-week music summer program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The program is intended for serious music students with the primary acceptance standard being musical talent. The fellowship provides housing, meals, and local transportation during the program. (Financial aid applications are available for air transportation to and from Washington, D.C.) In addition, participants receive
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Private lessons taught by a member of the National Symphony Orchestra
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Chamber music coaching by NSO musicians
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Master classes and seminars
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Attendance at selected rehearsals and performances of the NSO
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Participation in the NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra, conducted by Elizabeth Schulze
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Performance opportunities in DC metropolitan area
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Exposure to internationally-renowned conductors, soloists, and musicians
The Program is open, by recorded audition, to students ages 15 - 20 as of June 28, 2010, who are seriously considering orchestral music as a career and willing to devote themselves to a musical education and who play any of the following: violin, viola, cello, string bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, harp, timpani, percussion. To apply, contact the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education (AAAE) at 410 N. Hull St., Montgomery, AL 36104/ 334-269-1435/ jaredkelley@bellsouth.net/ aaae@bellsouth.net. Materials must be submitted to AAAE by January 22, 2010.
The Summer Music Institute is a continuation of the National Symphony Orchestra American Residencies project of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The student fellowships are made possible by the NSO National Trustees.
2009 Sonata Contest Winners
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| Pictures of the September 2009 meeting of MMTA with the new President, Kassy Wooley and new Secretary, Kelley Burleson officiating. They did a superb job and we had a very large crowd.
The sonatinas for the 2010 Sonata Competition were played. |
For a listing of Upcoming Musical Events in Mobile go to the
Mobile Arts Council
Mobile Music Links
University of South Alabama Department of Music
Spring Hill College Division of Communication, Fine and Performing Arts
Mobile Piano Ensemble
Baldwin Pops Band
Sound of the Bay Chorus, Sweet Adelaines
Mobile Pops
Mobile Opera
Mobile Symphony
Mobile Chamber Music Society
Mobile Saenger Theatre |
