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General Information

The purposes of the Music Teachers National Association performance competitions are to provide educational experiences for students and teachers and to recognize exceptionally talented young artists and their teachers in their pursuit of musical excellence.  The Pennsylvania state competition is the first level of the MTNA performance competitions and all state competitions are considered the primary educational level.  Applications for all categories and levels must be submitted online at www.mtna.org prior to the September 9, 2008 deadline.  

The 2008 PMTA/MTNA competitions will take place on Friday, November 7 at Mansfield University in conjunction with the PMTA Conference.  All competitions will take place in the music building. All levels of piano competitions will begin early in the morning so that they may be completed in time for the winners’ recital which generally takes place at 4pm.  Other instrumental and vocal categories may begin later in the day.  Winners are expected to participate in the recital. 

All entrants MUST check-in at the registration table in the main lobby of the Music Building prior to their audition.  The registration table will be open by 5 pm on Thursday, November 6 and throughout the day on Friday, November 7.  Rehearsal time in the competition rooms on Thursday evening will be assigned to each entrant. 

Entrants will receive an email with their assigned Entrant ID # as soon as possible after the application deadline.  At that time competition rooms, rehearsal times and audition times will be listed by level/category and entrant ID # under For Entrants/Parents/Teachers. 

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We look forward to seeing you at Mansfield University and hope that this will be a very positive performance experience for you.   

 For information on the MTNA Composition Competition, visit MTNA.org.

COMPETITION WINNERS

The Pennsylvania state level of the MTNA Performance Competitions were held at Mansfield University on Friday, November 7.  Congratulations to the following teachers and students:

JUNIOR PIANO
Winner: Cathy Li, student of Marina DiPretoro
Alternate: Beatrice Hsieh, student of David Brown
Honorable Mention: Daniel Song, student of Igor Resnianski

JUNIOR STRING
Winner: Elaine Kang, student of Charles Castleman
Alternate: Beatrice Hsieh, student of Sylvia Ahramjian

SENIOR PIANO
Winner: Joyce Xi, student of Cecilia Dunoyer
Alternate: Kevin Zhang, student of Benjamin Whitten
Honorable Mention: Ian Duh, student of Steven Smith
                            David Liu, student of Steven Smith

SENIOR WOODWIND
Representative: Reba Meyers, flute student of Wendy Webb Kumer

SENIOR BRASS
Representative: Elisabeth Shafer, trombone, student of Paul Bryan

YOUNG ARTIST PIANO
Winner: Hyun Joo Park, student of Timothy Shafer
Alternate: Christopher Lin, student of Enrique Graf
Honorable Mention: Erin Behler, student of Carl Cranmer

YOUNG ARTIST WOODWIND
Winner: Matthew Allison, flute, student of David Fedele
Alternate: Christine Douglass, flute, student of Therese Wacker
Honorable Mention: Angela Sollenberger, flute, student of Therese Wacker

YOUNG ARTIST STRING
Representative: Raymond Mallari, viola, student of Sylvia Ahramjian

YOUNG ARTIST BRASS
Gretchen Renshaw, euphonium, student of Velvet Brown

CHAMBER MUSIC
Representative: Mansfield University Woodwind Quintet, coached by Susan Laib
       Emily Kirsch, flute
       Kristi Kaster, oboe
       Ian Miller, clarinet
       Keri Maldonado, horn
       Max Grube, bassoon

Judges for the events were:

Junior Piano - Millie Eben, Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, Joann Kirchner
Senior Piano - Shellie Gregorich, Gerald Lee, Tsukasa Waltich
Young Artist Piano - Nancy Boston, Deborah Martin, Nanette Kaplan Solomon
Junior String - Kenneth Sarch
Young Artist Woodwind - Christine Fish Moulton

COMPOSITION WINNERS*

Elementary
Winner: Benjamin Chu, student of Warren Magid
Honorable Mention:  Ryan Muzzio, student of Warren Magid
                             Jonathan Rothermel, student of Warren Magid

Junior
Winner:  Alison Liu, student of Warren Magid
Honorable Mention:  Joanna Chen, student of Warren Magid
                             Benjamin Litwack, student of Paula Skutnick-Henley

Senior
Winner:  George Woskob, student of James Robinson
Honorable Mention:  Jadcob Coppage-Gross, student of Paula Skutnick-Henley

Young Artist  (College)
Winner:  Nicolas Carter, student of Warren Magid

*MTNA allows for Winners and Honorable Mentions only; there are no second places.

PMTA gratefully acknowledges Mansfield University for hosting the Pennsylvania state MTNA Performance Competitions.  In addition, we thank site coordinator Dr. Nancy Boston, Mansfield professor Dr. Ben Moritz and the student service organizations for their contributions in the organization and running of these competitions.

MTNA/PMTA Performance Competitions Chair
Jacqueline Herbein, NCTM

Competition Coordinators
Junior:  Ben Moritz
Senior: Jack Stevenson
Young Artist: Ellen Flint